Richmond, VA.  February, 2014.  The ground has been wet since June.  It has been one of the wettest years in recent history and that’s not just me pulling figures out of the back pocket of my jersey.  You can look it up too!  Some figures from an old article on Earthsky put this region over the […]

Heidelberg’s Finest Mountainbike Trails is a collective of riders from Southern Germany. We are all around thirty and we spend a lot of time on our mountain bikes. And we spend too much time in front of our computers. Back in 2011 we’ve seen this video of Max Schuhmann riding in the Karwendel, a northern […]

Winter can be a difficult time for us mountain bikers. There is limited daylight, it is cold, and the weather rarely cooperates. Unless you have a fat bike, you could potentially be looking at trails under two feet of fresh unrideable snow or trails covered in a mud bog that you would need a raft […]

Modern day studies have proven what Luther knew instinctively in his day: flowers make people happy. It doesn’t matter if you are a man or a woman, young or old, rich or poor – flowers will make you smile, elicit ‘oohs and aahs’ and just make your day more enjoyable. It’s no different for us […]

For the last few months I have seen quite a few posts outlining how to make it through the winter. I have seen posts on how to ride in the snow, how to maintain fitness and how deal with the looming winter. Well, this post is no different, we are going to address the winter […]

Here is a question that I commonly see at MTB forums: “I am trying to drop 45 Lbs to get down to 200 Lbs. I just joined planet fitness today and I want to lose weight but would also like to strengthen my legs and upper body for those challenging obstacles. Any ideas on how […]

Winter on Colorado’s Front Range is traditionally mild. The vast rolling fields of the Republic incline ever so slightly for 850 miles westward from the Mississippi River that one wouldn’t notice they are already a mile high when the Rockies burst from the depths and attack the sky. Here, between mountains and plains, we live […]

It is 2014 and as previously stated about the found wanting Kaffenback, it was time for the Gravel Grinder/ Monstercross project. This involved careful timing and OCD levels of cyber stalking the Planet X and On One web pages. Waiting for that special deal which in this case was the Planet X Boxing Day pricing. […]

My first project was lacing up my new 650b wheels here, but now I am moving on to finishing up my next project. Every year Nashbar has a frame sale and blows out a bunch of GT frames at fantastic prices. Two years ago I picked up and Carbon Force and built it up, but […]

As some of you may know I was without a bike for quite some time because of mechanical issues with my rear wheel. You may have also seen how I can get when I don’t get to ride, it’s not a pretty sight. So when I went to Sooke Mountain Cycle to talk bikes and […]