Monday

I know this vid is a bit old....but I love it....check it out!



To check out a higher rez version...click here!

Interview with The Collective

riptv.com has an interview with the The Collective, check it out by clicking here!

Blackrock Video

I gotta ride this place one day, looks like a ton of fun with trails for all levels...maybe next years road trip?

Formula Oro K24 Brake Review

asilvertouch.com just put up a long term review of the Formula Oro K24 Brakes and they look good. If I sound surprised...well I am, I remember Formula from when disk brakes first came out and they left me less than impressed....sound like that has changed with their new brakes.


To read the complete review click here!

Check out what Santa Cruz is working on for oh nine!

Singletrackworld has these undercover photos of some of Santa Cruz's 2009 offerings....all I have to say is wow...sign me up. I am happy to see progress like this in this industry...kudos....


To see more from the Singrackworld.com article, click here!

Vancouver Island Seasons Premeir, BE THERE!

The ALL AGES event will be a TRAIL TOOLS FUND RAISER for The Sooke Bike Club, with all profits going towards outfitting a TRAILBUILDING CORPS for the Sooke area.

There is an unconfirmed LARGE QUANTITY OF SCHWAG, available from some of your favorite MTB COMPANIES, slated to accompany the movie and fall into your hot little hands, should you be lucky enough to win a door prize.

There is a mystery raffle prize, which will blow your mind!

There is also a possibility that certain, known MTB personalities may be in attendance.

Get your tickets at Sooke Cycles, and Marty's Mountain Cycle.

Click here for more information.

Upper Oasis in Rossland BC

Looking around on youtube and I found this video....no sound but the trail looks like fun!

Removing people from their cars....

So I was checking out one of my favourite enviro blogs and saw a post from a site called Carectomy, they have an article called "Eight Ways to Overcome Excuses and Start Cycling"....basically it's to help people overcome their excuses and get riding their bikes to work...here is a sample:

You haven’t yet begun bike commuting, but you’ve considered it. What’s putting the brakes on your brilliant plans? A handful of good excuses that have made cycling to work a mere pipe dream. But, whatever your reason for continuing to take the car, there’s likely a simple means to make bike commuting an efficient, reliable, and sustainable way to get to work. Here are eight common (however, lame) excuses—and how to overcome them with chutzpah. Prepare to dust off your helmet.

A good article for those of us that may have issues getting our asses out of our comfy, easy cars....click here to read the rest of the article.

There are some really good articles there that I am going to read later...give it a read and leave your comments here for us to read.

Ryan Leech is cool!

I was going to post up a story about Ryan Leech and the press release that I have been reading on a few sites today that talk about how he has signed to be the first pro mountain biker to align themselves with the Suzuki Foundation's 'Play it Cool' program and how he is carbon neutral....so I go to his site and in his blog he posted this video and I thought I would share:




To Check out Ryan's site click here.

To read the press release click here.

Seven Summits trail Vid...

To keep the stoke up for our summer trip here is a vid I found on the Kootany Mountain Biking site...enjoy:

Another day....another cold ride.

As no one in my usual group could make it out today I headed up to hartland for a solo ride.

It was another beautiful day....but from what I read on VIMB.com it was nasty up there yesterday and guessed that today was not going to be a lot better.

As I pull into the parking lot I notice that it is FULL...who knew there were this many crazy people wanting to get cold and muddy on a Sunday. :)

I headed out and kept on running into the same group...and just as I was going up Switchbacks...there they were again, going the same route I was going to take, so I joined them...up top it was messy, snowy and icy. We rode champs cafe, southridge, fun trail...down to the new ride around trail...and well, my not knowing trail names...lets just say in a round about way I made my way to two trees, then out of the park via the shock treatment trails...my bottom half covered in mud, my toes numb from all of the snow, ice and slush...and a big frikkin grin on my face.

I didn't get to take too many pics..but here is the slideshow for the days ride. I hope you got out on some great rides this weekend as well.