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Portland Snow Day at Gateway Green Park

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  For how close Portland is to the mountain, it’s amazing how a few inches of snow essentially shuts down the entire city. During what now seems to be a yearly snowpocalypse, Portlanders did get to enjoy 4 inches of snow recently – and it effectively shut down the city. We took it as an opportunity […]

Inga Beck Joins Nau Marketing Team

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PORTLAND, OR. — Nau welcomes Inga Beck to the team. Beck joins the marketing department of sustainable clothing brand Nau to focus on digital marketing efforts for the Portland based brand. “Nau is a brand whose values strongly align with my own, and I’m thrilled to be working as part of an all-star marketing team,” Beck […]

Inspiration: 50to01 and the Return to Raditude

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The boys of 50 to 01 recently posted a new edit, this time in our very own backyards of the west coast. A road trip from Norcal to Portland and back, the latest edit is filled with shenanigans that are not only fun to watch but display a massive amount of creativity on a bike. It’s […]

The Closest of Calls

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One time, I was riding my bike home from work in Portland, when a tree fell on me. I remember it like it was yesterday. Actually, it was yesterday. It was a very large tree. It all happened very quickly, though looking back, it was as if it was happening in slow motion. Like the […]

The Inga Chronicles: LUNA Chix MTB Clinic with LUNA Pro Catharine Pendrel

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On October 13th, the Bay Area LUNA Chix Team hosted an advanced women’s only mountain bike skills clinic with LUNA Pro Catharine Pedrel at Camp Tamrancho. Rated intermediate, Tamarancho is a 10 mile loop of fun technical single track, littered with switch backs. It’s currently one of the Bay Area’s hottest destinations thanks to the […]

I h8 Bikes is dead — Introducing… Bermstyle.com

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After eight years of messing about on my little corner of the web, it’s time for a long overdue change. Before I go into it more, here’s a walk down memory lane. It was sometime in 2003 or 2004, and I was learning this thing called HTML so I could put together a website to […]

Shredding on Trail Bikes

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Just came across this sweet video edit put together by Connor Rickey of his buddies Alex Chamberlin and Chris Jones shredding the trails in our backyard here in the East Bay. I’ve been thinking about filming a similar edit myself- there is something even more rad about shredding on a trail bike with an XC […]

Beaten Tracks: UK Trail Riding Edit

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Sometimes I forget that it is wintertime at the moment. Although our rainy season (and therefore trail building season- I’m actually looking forward to it this year) is supposedly still on its way, in other places riders are riding in the wet stuff. I can’t say I miss doing my laundry or all the required bike […]

Technical Trail riding with Lars

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Just about everyone has posted links to the latest edit from Transition Bikes, but it contains so much awesome it would be wrong not share it here as well. Lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with cranking faster lap times at the local spots, but that isn’t what riding is supposed to be about. Burly […]

SF Bike Expo Scene: Part 2

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I ride my bike around the city a lot more than I get to ride it in the dirt. It is a sad reality of life in the city, but what can you do? Since I’m a big gear head with a fashionista girlfriend, it stands to reason I’d eventually become intrigued with gear that works for […]

Fresh Gear: Shimano M530 Trail Pedals

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It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a new set of clip-in pedals. I’ve tried a number of different pedals in the past, but for some reason I always come back to Shimano SPDs. Having one cleat to fit all the different pedals on all the bikes I own (not to mention the shoes) […]

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