Bell Helmets, in conjunction with IMBA is giving away $100,000 to be divided up between three trail building projects spread across the US. As west coast dwellers, we’re happy to see three projects near and dear to us have made it as finalists, and are now up for voting on BellHelmets.com. The west coast finalists […]
Demo Flow Trail Construction in Progress
Soquel Demonstration State Forest, AKA Demo, is by far our favorite Bay Area riding destination. Located just north of Santa Cruz, Demo is a local draw that features challenging, flowy descents, and a few technical sections worthy of longer travel trail bikes. On any given Sunday you’ll come across riders ranging from the weekender looking […]
BTCEB + MBOSC = Big Group Ride
Recently Inga invited a lot of riders to come out and ride bikes on some of our favorite trails in the extended Bay Area. Specifically, the trail network near Santa Cruz known as Demonstration Forest. To her surprise, nearly everyone she invited came out. We had over 20 riders in the group made up of […]
Riding the 2011 Trek Scratch- first look
Last year I did a post on the release of the Trek Scratch. A cross between the popular Remedy and the Session 88 down hill machine, the Scratch is a curious mix between an aggressive all mountain bike, and light freeride bike. In many ways, the Scratch is Trek’s answer to the popular SX Trail […]
Bionicon Demo at Syncline Sunday January 31st
Bionicon’s Mobile Shredquarters is in the NW with a small fleet of demo bikes. Come out to Syncline this Sunday to meet Ryan and Val from Bionicon for a ride and check out what they are all about. Bionicon bikes have a unique suspension design that allow riders to adapt the bike’s geometry on the […]