It’s that time of year again where one looks at the future and comes up with a fantasy list of things for the year. Delusions of frames, events, ride, and filling what you say you will do before the 80 car freight train of reality with Murphy as the Engineer laughing evilly comes screaming into […]

If you ride your bike on a regular basis over the course of several years of ownership, it is almost inevitable that your favorite ride is not going to stay in the pristine condition that you bought it in. Scratches seem to naturally accumulate, even if you try as hard as you might to stand […]

I have been riding with Shimano shoes for years but when my DX shoes started falling apart (after 4 years of beating on them) I started looking at some of the newer, sexier shoes in the shops. There is a lot of great competition in the shoe market right now, with Five Ten leading the […]

I gotta start this off by saying that it’s a stem. It does its job. It holds my bars to my steerer. There are tons of options out there so, why should anyone look at the Renthal Duo stem over something like the old guard of Thomson? First off, I really like having something a […]

I have been riding WTB saddles as long as I can remember … and loving them, except that lately I have been bending the rails – I have had to buy two new saddles this year. Since most good saddles are not cheap, I started looking at alternatives. One that really caught my attention was […]

With so many different types of mountain bikes, it can get pretty overwhelming for a beginner to choose the right bike. This guide is for the rider who has decided to purchase a downhill mountain bike that wont break the bank, but needs some quick tips. If you are considering getting into the downhill game, […]

I picked this little guy up last year when I took my bike to the shop and my “awesome” home made inner tube fender mysteriously disappeared between the time I dropped it off and when I picked it up. Being the cheap guy that I am I thought about just making another inner tube fender but […]

OK  I have a confession to make.  Mountain biking is not my only hobby.  My bike addiction has to share time with my car addiction.  I think it is more about wheels than anything, but I love cars as much as bikes.  I have probably had close to 40 cars since I turned 16.  I know […]

It’s a funny thing, this mountain bike life. To choose to love a mountain biker is to choose to love this crazy life. It became very quickly apparent when I met Rivers that he has a passion for mountain biking that was completely missing in my life. And I was pretty sure that if I […]

I have had the KS i950-r in my possession for quite some time now. Notice that I did not say I have been using this post for quite some time now, and there is a reason for that. In the one and a half years I have had this post I have probably been able […]