Earlier this year while cleaning up my Chromag Stylus frame which as we know had been stripped for the mistress build. It was put aside for a future rebuild as there is just something special about it. It can do DH, ride xc, hit the pump tracks and berms on the same day. So while […]

We all love our bikes, but you can take care of the bike until the cows come home and it will still have issues once in a while. Some things are easy to diagnose and easy to fix (flat tires), some are easy to diagnose and hard to fix (seized forks) and others take more […]

The Nomad was a lot to adjust to for me. In my deranged push for this bike I prematurely sold my Ibis HD leaving me with but a single horse in the barn. My Independent Fabrication Deluxe singlespeed is a very capable machine and it rides great anywhere I’d care to take it. Colorado can […]

We’ve all seen it, and most of us envy it. The perfect four legged friend that follows right behind their pack leader (also known as human/master/mom/dad). Never straying from the designated trail, except to let other traffic pass, no time to concentrate on squirrels or interesting smells, but focused and happy to move their legs […]

I have been avidly mountain biking for some time now, it’s a passion to say the least. And as some of you may have noticed, while riding bicycles out in the mountains we tend to get some time to think. I can’t say that I am normal by any accord but I have noted a […]

Countless pedal strokes, sweat dripping from every crevice of my body, a pain from each and every muscle, and a back pack full of warm water. Rocks trudging under my tires as I spin through the grit on my way to the top of the mountain… For what? One measly run down the mountain, not […]

I have been riding the Trace for over a year now, in that time I have ridden this fork on everything from long XC rides to DH runs at bike parks and everything in between. It’s been a while since I wrote up the product preview and I thought it was time to spill the […]

I close my eyes and I see the flashes of afternoon sun through the tremendous douglas firs. I feel the sharp, cold alpine breeze, uncontested by trees on my sun-fired skin. The smell of juniper and fire in my nostrils. The soft delicate crush of heroically damp dirt beneath my tires. The baking warmth of […]

Having not yet mastered the craft of changing a tube using the ‘hands-only’ method, tire levers come in handy when a tire goes flat. I never leave home without them…until a few weeks ago when on a morning bike commute to work I got a flat and discovered my tire levers were not in my […]

There are few component manufacturers more iconic than Chris King. For over 35 years King has been manufacturing the gold standard in high-end cycling gear. From their introduction of the first sealed bearing headset, to their recent innovations in XD compatible driveshells and Press-fit bottom brackets that actually work, Chris King continues to push the […]