This past weekend our fearless leader Rivers, the founder and head of awesome things on this blog and the man whose passion has engaged nine other blog contributors, over 1,000 followers on google plus, and many more on Facebook and Twitter, celebrated a milestone birthday. He’s also my sweetheart. So what do you do when […]

Camp Mountain Lookout It’s less than six kilometres from the middle of the third largest city in Australia to one of the most spectacular national parks in the country. D’Aguilar National Park stretches north-west from Brisbane’s doorstep in a seemingly endless network of trails that can keep the most avid Mountain Biker pedaling for weeks. […]

Biking with your dog is great! It’s exercise for you, exercise for you dog, and bonding for the both of you. Sometimes, though, you need to haul a bit of extra stuff, more stuff than you can stuff into your pack. That’s where dog packs come in: quit letting that little bugger get away with […]

This past weekend was my 40th birthday, and what a great time it was. Shannon surprised me big time with great friends and family in a beautiful Chalet up at Mt. Washington. She posted about that part of the weekend yesterday, so I want to talk about another surprise I had. I really didn’t know […]

And without further ado, my submission to last year’s DirtRag Literature Contest: As my housemates fumble out of bed on a lazy Sunday morning, I stand clad in bike shorts, filling my CamelBak in the sink. I’m leading a planned mountain bike trip to some local trails for my school’s outing club. With the excursion […]

“You guys should put on a mountain bike race”. This simple phrase was the genesis for the original Sea Otter Classic. Hosted at Laguna Seca Recreation Area in Monterey County, California, the Sea Otter Classic is one of the largest cycling events in North America. Sea Otter has been running annually since 1991. The original […]

So remember when I sold my Carbon Force and said I wasn’t going to do a 650b this year. I Lied! It was killing me so it dawned on me I have a couple of extra frames laying around and why not use one of them as the 650b frame. This lead to me trolling […]

Lets start with a thankfully brief history lesson. I’ll keep it brief for several reasons. A – History is not my strongest subject. B – A great deal of our readership at The Mountain Bike Life, is American and as such think history is stuff that happened in the eighties. C – The Canadian readers […]

OK so my plan was to use my GT Carbon Force Pro to do a 650b conversion this year and then review a 29er/650b/26er.  Well that isn’t going to happen.  I have been honest and upfront with my conflicting obsessions of bike and cars right?  Sometimes they collide in ways you wouldn’t expect.  So in […]

I know that some are either expecting some elaborate bicycle industry hoax or some UCI convulated conspiracy. But alas I shall avoid all that. So instead I dug into my archives for a few pic’s instead to share. And I say to all with the coming of warmer weather. Exit the cave and ride your […]