Hey just had another thought right after I made that last post! Iwanted to say the colours are changing with the leaves so it makes for an extra bonus when biking the trails. Everything looks different than it does in summer and it's so beautiful.
Just a reminder to put on some extra layers and get out to enjoy this time of the year - it's the best for Mountain Biking!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Mountain Biking at Mountain Washington
Hey I discovered this site for Bike Club Info and it turned me on to some clubs and trails here on Vancouver Island. So, we went up to Mount Washington which is north of Nanaimo and Parksville. They have some killer downhill mountain biking trails. By the way it's also a great spot for skiing in the winter and gets more natural snow than Whistler.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Used Mountain Bikes
I was surfing around and came across a couple of new sites offering tons of Used Mountain Bikes for sale. You need to click around a bit to find what you are looking for but I've always had good luck with shopping these kinds of sites - takes time but there are deals to be found. I was searching specifically for Giant Mountain Bikes and Specialized Mountain Bikes. Both came up - both the same kind of shopping site but it made it quick and easy to find what I was looking for. Hope this helps anyone shopping for a cool mountain bike!
Monday, July 13, 2009
See Some Cool Mountain Bikes as Waterbury Hosts Mountain Bike Festival
Waterbury, Vermont - July 10, 2009
Mountain bikers from all over Vermont and surrounding states will descend on Waterbury this weekend.
They're coming for the second annual Vermont Mountain Bike Festival. The Vermont Mountain Biking Association hosts the event as a way to showcase a variety of trails in the central part of the state, as well as to raise awareness for its mission to create a system of interconnected trails across Vermont. The festival includes skills clinics, demo bikes, food, music and group rides.
"There's going to be rides for all levels. We've got ride leaders that are going to bring folks out to the different trail systems and we're going to make sure that we cater for all different rider levels," said Patrick Kell of the Vermont Mountain Bike Association. "So we're going to have kids group rides, we're going to have women's group rides, intermediate rides, and longer advanced rides."
Click here to visit the Mountain Bike Festival website for more information.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Nathaniel Thompson (Rocky Mountain Bikes) at 50
Rocky Mountain Bikes not contenders
Tour of Arkansas - NE
USA, May 15-18, 2008Chadwick takes two on key climb
By Kirsten Robbins in Russellville, Arkansas
Glen Chadwick (Team Type 1) continued his strong form with a second consecutive stage at the Tour of Arkansas today. This time the New Zealander took a gratifying victory atop the queen stage's Mount Nebo ahead of Predrag Prokic (Toshiba-Santo) and Michael Lang (Jelly Belly).
Chadwick furthered his overall lead in the Tour with an additional five seconds in time bonuses picked up on the line.
"It was a lot harder than I thought it would be," said Chadwick of Mount Nebo's 18 percent average gradient and more than 20 switchbacks. "I thought it was just a couple of switch back followed by some flatter bits and then a couple more switch backs. But it was just switchback after switchback. It was a nasty little climb and I know what to expect next time I'm here that's for sure."
Team Type 1 began the 160 kilometre stage with the intention of controlling the race from start-to-finish, to bring race leader Chadwick into Mount Nebo with fresh legs. But the responsibility transferred over to Toshiba-Santo after it failed to take part in an early break of 12 riders who rode away over Mount Petite Jean, the first of the three climbs.
Meanwhile our guys riding Rocky Mountain Bikes have the following placements -50 Nathaniel Thompson (Rocky Mountain Bikes/STOK) 4.16The men will be challenged to a second mountain-top finish at the end of tomorrow's
90 Courtney Guck (Rocky Mountain Bikes/STOK) 36.13
160 kilometre Stage 3. Prokic hopes to challenge Chadwick for the leader's jersey
on tomorrow's 16 kilometre ascent of Mount Magazine. "I know it is going to
be difficult but we hope to be able to move up one more place on GC after tomorrow's
stage," he said.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
A Specialized Goal!
OK, I need to get a picture of this bike Alex is so hot on. It's a Specialized Mountain Bike. I think it's a dirt jumper - I'll have to verify that with Alex. Next time we are up on the avenue I'll get a shot of it.
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