The winter holidays came and went all too quickly for me, without enough of a break from the last race I did in November. I had dreams of an off-season three months long. The 1st race of the 2010 winter series was approaching quickly and I decided to treat this as training for the bigger races from March to May.
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On Jan 10th I headed out to Fontana for one last practice run and my first DH race in the sport category. After a few mishaps in my first couple races, I managed to finish out 2009 with some success in the beginner group and decided it was time to move into sport.
When I heard the final race in the Rock Shox Golden State series would be in Mammoth, I knew I just had to get there. Fortunately, so did the rest of the Mtnbikeriders team! Wednesday night I headed over to the Finch’s (Kim & Tony), loaded up the truck and took off at midnight. Plan…
Editorial by David Sanderson Team racer extraordinaire Kim Finch qualified for Nationals this year, so a support squad formed and we were off to beautiful Colorado! I’ll let Kim re-tell the story from here… I finally qualified for the US Cycling Nationals, to be held at Sol Vista Bike Park in Granby, Colorado! I was…
Editorial by David Sanderson, As Team MtnBikeRiders prepares for the Golden State Series Finale at Mammoth Mountain this coming weekend, we found that Kim’s report from race #3 had gone missing. So I dug through the archives and found it. The following is Kim Finch’s race report from #3 of the Golden State series, better…
July 11-12th (2009) several members of the Mtnbikeriders.com team made it out to Southridge Park for the third installment of the California Golden State presented by Rock Shox. The fourth and final round will be in Mammoth(!) Sep 4th-5th, hopefully we’ll see you there! It was sweltering hot weekend, with temps in the nineties and…