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The dark side of the sport

There is a dark side to the lifestyle many of us love and enjoy— the injuries. Like it or not, when we’re flying down the trail pushing personal limits or launching ourselves skyward, crashing is part of the game. Unless you shy away from challenging yourself, we all fall down eventually, and for many of [...]

02.22.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Fixed gear SF streetstyle clip

Fixed gear freestyle continues to evolve in this video from iMinusD shot here in SF. I’ve ridden most of these spots on my Black Market Riot, and admittedly not half as well as these guys. Turns out my favorite treeride line in Golden Gate park is a lot more popular than I had imagined. To [...]

02.07.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Midpeninsula Session Edit

More Mid-Pen action with an edit from a Midpeninsula downhill single track session by the SF Dirtlab crew.

01.17.2011 Blog Read the full story →

The Ribbon Trail/ Free Lunch in Grand Junction, Colorado

One of the highlights from the summer of 2010 was our trip to Grand Junction, Colorado to attend the Ranchstyle Grass Roots slopestyle put on by Grassroots Cycles. When we weren’t hanging out at the private bikepark, we were a few miles away having a blast on the local trails. Moab, Utah, and now Fruita, [...]

01.16.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Dialing in new lines in the Mid-Penn; Bay Area, CA

It doesn’t feel like there is a lot of new single track trail action going on here in the Bay Area, so in moving back here I haven’t had my hopes up. With that said, you can imagine that when I met up with the local homies at their spot in we now refer to [...]

01.14.2011 Bay Area Read the full story →

What was your favorite gear from 2010?

2010 is now a memory, and looking back, it was an interesting year, filled with lots of change, and a few great adventures. Looking back over the last year and the gear I was running, I sat down to think of all the gear I have accumulated and use on a regular basis. As a [...]

01.11.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Flashback to sunnier days: summer pump track party at Paddy’s

The location: Northeast Portland, Oregon. We’re visiting our friend Paddy C’s backyard for what has become a 4th of July tradition, the yearly pump track party. The barbeque has been fired up, beers are flowing, and we are ripping circles over and over on the backyard track. Back yard pump tracks are still a new [...]

12.28.2010 Blog Read the full story →

Dedicated to making it awesome

21st Avenue Bicycles is one of those bike shops that simply rock. We’ve all been to the shop where you roll in, and maybe you’re greeted, and maybe you’re not. A gang of dudes are hanging around the till, and as you wander through displays, and while they continue their conversation with each other, their [...]

12.18.2010 Blog Read the full story →

Is this the perfect All Mountain / Freeride Trail System? Squamish, BC

The Half Nelson Mountain Bike Trail in Squamish, BC is the jewell of a trail system that adrenaline seeking mountain bikers here in Nor-Cal can only dream of. Often likened to a downhill pump track, the riding experience is similar to the intermediate level jump/ flow trail Crank it Up in Whistler. Sadly, there aren’t [...]

12.17.2010 Blog Read the full story →

Building up the Wolfhound Retrosled 29″ Mountain Cruiser

It has been a while since I’ve spent time on a hardtail. A few buddies and myself put in a number of rides last winter on the NW Oregon coast rolling fully rigid single speeds, and it was a pretty good time. Sandy trails with short climbs and zero bike maintenance equals lots of fun [...]

12.14.2010 Blog Read the full story →

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