Handbuilt to help you get lost
I started riding mountain bikes with these guys when there were fewer than a handful of bike brands all with no suspension, only one wheel size, and three-finger moto-style Diacomp brake levers were needed to slow you down but left fewer fingers on the bars to keep you from getting rattled off. But we did... Continue Reading →
I'm not sure why i didn't write this up back in 2017, just for simplicity I'll just add captions to the photos. Bones to Blue is a bikepacking event/race that starts in Truckee, CA and rides up and over Donner Pass, than around Lake Tahoe on the bike-accessible sections of the Tahoe Rim Trail, and... Continue Reading →
That's short for "Old Guy's All-Terrain-Bicycle"...or Old n Grumpy ATB, or Original Gangsta ATB. Being almost 50 now and riding bikes for most of those years I've seen mountain bikes go from my first mountain bike - a 1984 Schwinn High Sierra with bull-moose bars, to what i thought was the peak of engineering with... Continue Reading →
I don't travel often anymore but each fall i feel a draw to see the changing colors of the aspens and visit the place i lived for the entirety of my adult life until about 6 years ago. The family of friends there has proved hard to beat and i've never felt more welcome and... Continue Reading →
Got up to Truckee to partake in their weekly fatbike ride Wednesday night at Scott's house. Thanks to Doug for the invite I headed up through sheets rain on the west side of Donner to reach a pretty much dry and absent of much snow Truckee. Scott has a sick house at the end of... Continue Reading →
We got a bunch of nice dirt roads around here, and they're all pretty nice for riding the cross bike. Especially with some 40mm tires. Other than a quick dip in a bigass puddle, we had a great ride yesterday covering 52 miles and 5600ft elevation, with maybe 1/4 of those miles on pavement. A... Continue Reading →
I joined the Nevada Fatbike group's ride today to celebrate GLOBAL fatbike day outside Reno on some trails around Dry Pond and Whites Creek. About 15 or so showed up on a balmy 55-degree mostly sunny day, most of us overdressed...at least I was. I think snow when I fatbike so dress appropriately. But today... Continue Reading →
Sean led me on a big sweet loop from his house in Foresthill down to Auburn and back up home. He calls it the Tour de Trash because the middle portion of the ride, which follows the train tracks and parallel frontage roads, passes by some "interesting" houses and lots of scattered trash from hobo... Continue Reading →
Isaac's 3rd fall classic called the Chillbilly was yesterday, starting and ending at his house outside of the small Sierra Foothills town of Georgetown. The 40-mile loop is a mix of hardly used curvaceous paved and dirt roads rolling through huge trees and benching in and out of cold drainages. Twenty or thirty riders showed... Continue Reading →
Some photos of riding in Truckee and Auburn with my 'real' camera (not the iphone). The extended fall for Auburn is nice, leaves just starting to change! Tahoe got some snow last week but...it's gone except for the highest elevations. Trails are so damn nice right now up there.
More to come with further riding and testing but I just received a pair of the newest 29+ tire and they look like the best option out there, in my honest opinion. I reviewed a few other Bontrager tires earlier this year. The Chupacabra's are in the same vein as their other TLR (tubeless ready)... Continue Reading →
Last Saturday my significant other out of the blue suggested we pack up and drive to our old town in Colorado...sure, why not? It was a short but sweet trip to where we moved from 2 years ago, Nederland, Colorado. Fall had fallen for the most part, but the things we missed were all still... Continue Reading →
Matt and I have been trying to meet up on a fatbike ride for a couple years now so I was psyched when he invited me on a 70+ mile dirt ride from Truckee to Nevada City. He sold his dually for a fatbike and only rides tires wider than 3.8" now. Although I love... Continue Reading →
Mt. Rose to Mr. Toads is a classic Tahoe route. It follows the Tahoe Rim trail from the Tahoe Meadows trailhead above Incline village and ends up dropping down Mr. Toads Wild Ride (Saxon Creek) into South Lake Tahoe 62-ish miles of mostly singletrack later and climbing over 8,000ft. Oh, and there's over 10,000ft of... Continue Reading →
Last week Tim came out from Colorado for a bikepacking tour on the Tahoe Rim Trail (TRT). We wanted to do this ride last summer but we both had some creaks in the knees and spent a lot of time rebuilding our fitness. But we weren't trying to set any land speed records on this... Continue Reading →
The last time I had ridden the Downieville Downhill course was in 1993 with Nate. There was no Downieville Classic at that time, I think Ferrentino had mentioned how sweet it was in a Bike Mag article so we made the trip. At the time I was on a Klein Pinnacle with a Manitou 1... Continue Reading →
Stickman was the name that a friend in Colorado gave to those-that-try-to-obscure-trail-entrances-&-exits-with-slash. It's funny to see that these methods are pretty much universal in mountain biking for keeping secret trails hidden. Ironically, my eyes tend to see the trail through these attempts because I used to do it myself. I really don't know if the... Continue Reading →
Some pics of two recent rides. Not much to report from the shop but should have some fabrication shots soon. The greenery of the area around my house is at its max with poison oak making up a big portion of it especially on the Foresthill Divide loop and the drop out of Deadwood on... Continue Reading →
