Mountain Biking
Pro slalom, downhill, slopestyle, cross-country and other mountain biking competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 19, 2009
Because only slackers need the support of a whole team… Registration opens Feb. 24th for this exercise in self-punishment. Only 400 spots open, so you’d better jump on it fast. I’ve never raced this event but have a friend whose friend did it practically solo when the rest of the team disintegrated on her. That […]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing, Road Trips | Tagged BC Bike Race, British Columbia, mountain bike racing, Mountain Biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
I go just about everywhere in Seattle by bike, even in the rain. So for today’s downtown meeting I’ll be riding my trusty Titus titanium hardtail down Aurora, across the Aurora Bridge, then dropping to Dexter and making my way through the trecherous one-way maze of downtown Seattle. Yes I ride Aurora (Hwy. 99) because […]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 18, 2009
Bike magazine updates previously reported intervention by Obama administration to stop oil drilling plans near Moab, Utah. Moab, an acronym for “mountain on a bike,” is one of the known galaxy’s premier mountain biking meccas, of course. Somehow riding around oil derricks might detract from its allure. You have to love the monkeywrencher who put […]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged bike magazine, edward abbey, Moab, monkeywrench, Mountain Biking, obama administration, oil drilling, Utah
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 17, 2009
Went out into the woods for a ride Jim likes to call “classic Northwest urban winter trail, where you go round in circles for hours.” Lake Sawyer is just outside of Black Diamond on the Maple Valley-Black Diamond road. We got completely lost but spent 3 hours in the saddle having a great time trying […]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 15, 2009
Just a week to go to the annual swap-o-rama on Saturday (Feb. 21) at Magnuson Park, sponsored this year by Seattle’s marvelous Cascade Bicycle Club. Come early (doors open around 9 a.m., I say “around” because they never seem to be quite on time), because there’s always a long loonnnnggggg line. (Or come around 9:30 […]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged bike swap, cascade bicycle club, Mountain Biking, mtb, Road Cycling, seattle
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 15, 2009
LA Times: “Although cyclists are known for staying on top of their training heart rate zones and pedal cadence, increasing research suggests they should also pay attention to their risk of thinning bones.” Add osteopenia to the list of reasons to mountain bike instead of road ride. (I took up mountain biking partly because road […]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged bone density, hike-a-bike, Mountain Biking, mtb, mtber, osteopenia, Road Cycling
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 13, 2009
Check it out: guy has a home-made boom cam attached in front of his helmet with wide-angle lens on camcorder/camera. It’s interesting largely because it’s different, I think. Wouldn’t want to watch many videos this way but it is a unique (!) perspective. Thanks to BikeRadar.com. For my mountain biking videos, go to YouTube here.
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged Bi, dirt merchant, helmet cam, Mountain Biking, paulandrewsvideos, video, whistler, YouTube
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 13, 2009
Marzocchi is recalling a run of their 888 downhill fork series, about 70 RC3 and RC3 WC in all. If you’ve got an 888 fork be sure to check this out — the fork can compress without rebounding on a hard hit. That could throw you off for a nasty face plant (so far the […]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged 888, bike fork, Bike Intelligencer, Marzocchi, Mountain Biking, recall, suspension
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 12, 2009
I’m in the camp that believes Lance benefitted from a lax and easily defeatable drug monitoring era in professional cycling. Since everyone else was doping too I’m not convinced he would not have won all those Tours anyway. But he should come clean. And now we get word that his deal with the renowned anti-doping […]
Posted in Mountain Biking | Tagged anti-doping, Bike Intelligencer, doping, lance armstrong, Mountain Biking, mtb, paul andrews, Tour de France
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