Review: 2009 Kona King Kahuna
Who: The Kona Bicycle Company designs, manufacturers and distributes more than 60 models of purpose-built, high-performance mountain, road and urban bicycles. Founded in 1988 and headquartered in Ferndale, Washington, USA, Kona bicycles are distributed…
Eric Hunner: SRC #4 and a training ride to follow. A long day in the saddle
RL Policar-Eric never stops to amaze me. Not only did he race, but he went on a training ride right after the event! My race prep started days before the actual race, this included shopping for healthy food, riding my local spots, and making a trip to…
Shimano Winter Series #4: RL’s Downhill Report
This was race #4 of a 6 part series at Fontana. What’s neat is we’re starting to see familiar faces of other racers and we’ve made a few friends here and there. On Friday I was able to take one practice run right after the marked the DH course. One…
Helmet Cam view of the Southridge DH course
Sunday morning I left my home at 6am to hopefully get a few practice runs in before race time. During my practice, I took it pretty easy since it started to rain. You’ll even see drops on the lens. Anyhow, watch it and you’ll what kind of…
Eric “The Animal” Hunner’s Southridge Winter Series Race Report
RL Policar-Eric “The Animal” Hunner is our BIGGEST racer on the team. Not only does he stand at a towering 6′ 24″ tall, he also weighs somewhere around 240-900 lbs, and that’s ALL MUSCLE. This guy is so powerful, his torque…
Joe’s Race Report: Southridge Winter Series #1 – Super D
Back to the grind! After about a month break with plenty of eating through the Holidays I opted to skip the XC race for the Southridge WS #1. There to meet me at Fontana Saturday morning were team mates RL, Priscilla, Kim, Tony, Moe, Eric, David and…
The Moe’s race report part 2
After my lovely wife cleaned my battle wounds, I quickly suited up to do my first ever Downhill practice. Joe, RL and I took the shuttle to the top and waited for our turn to ride. I was really nervous because I’d seen a few riders really eat it on…
The Moe’s race report part I
I arrived at Southridge with trailer in tow, Eric, David, Tony and Kim were already there. We formed a little caravan circle with our cars to block some of those fierce Santa Ana winds that plagued us the entire weekend. Registration lines were really…
Weekend Ride Report – Southridge and The Luge
We recently received the Epic Stealth Camera from GSM. We met the folks of GSM at Interbike in September and they had agreed to send us a unit for testing.  Since RL and I had planned on doing some practice downhill runs, I decided to put it to use.…
Priscilla’s Southridge Race Report
In case you didn’t see the video yet, I just want to say that “YEEEEA, YEEEEA, YEEEAH…I WOOOOONNNN!!!!!!!!” 😀 I am so excited about this weekends race. Southridge is one of the most technical and difficult trails for me to ride so…