Racing
Pro road and mountain bike racing, as well as slopestyle and other bike competition
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2009
The 2009 lineup is out, kicking off April 3 through 5 in Port Angeles. To get a feel join the Fluidride Forum and start planning! See y’all there! Be sure to check out the rockin’ vids (scroll down the first link)!
Posted in Mountain Biking, Racing | Tagged Fluidride, Fluidride Cup series, mountain bike racing, Mountain Biking, PinkBike, Port Angeles
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2009
True to forecast there was fluffy white stuff all round this morning. I guess in Seattle we still consider it a novelty, although we’ve gotten mercilessly dumped on this winter. Hopefully today’s spritz will quickly disappear. But having promised to get out and ride, and having a rep to uphold, and not wanting to disappoint [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride | Tagged intense bicycles, lower woodland park, Maggie the Bichon, Mountain Biking, seattle, snow, snow biking
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2009
Anyone who has spent time in Portland marvels at how bike-friendly the place is. For all its bike-worthiness, however, it has been surprisingly stingy with singletrack for mountain bikes. This is even more curious when you consider one of the great bike shops on the West Coast, Fat Tire Farm, lies within the shadow of [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Trail Access | Tagged Fat Tire Farm, Forest Park, Mountain Biking, Portland, Trail Access
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 26, 2009
A recent Bike Intelligencer posting on Tiger Mountain access has generated a lively if not acrimonious discussion on the Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance Yahoo! forum. It seems there’s lots of energy to talk. Why not siphon that energy into action as well? As I posted to the list: A simple proposal: Whenever one of the [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Mountain Biking, Trail Access | Tagged EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Mountain Biking, Tiger Mountain Issaquah, Trail Access
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
David Zabriskie, who finished second, that’s right, No. 2, in the recent Tour of California, obviously does a lot of traveling that takes him away from home. So it’s understandable that thieves would have an unattended house to target. What’s hard to believe is that they could take everything — cars, bikes, personal items, collector’s [...]
Posted in Racing | Tagged bike theft, burglary, david zabriskie, road racer, tour of california
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 24, 2009
Mountain Biking by 198, a ripping bike blog, has a detailed review of the 2009 RockShox Reba Team fork. I ride a RockShox Lyrik on my Intense 6.6 which I’ll be reviewing soon, but the quick take on RockShox is that the forks really rock. In my sojourns around the West Coast I run into [...]
Posted in Accessories, Mountain Biking | Tagged bike fork, lyrik, Mountain Biking, reba, robb sutton, rockshox
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 23, 2009
I started out today on my Ridge-to-Ridge ride. Despite the exotic name, it’s totally in town (Seattle). I go from Phinney Ridge near my house to View Ridge via the Burke-Gilman Trail and North 65th St., then back around Green Lake to home. It’s a good workout, scaling three major rises from the BGT to [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Transportation | Tagged Mountain Biking, Phinney Ridge, Road Cycling, Transportation
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 22, 2009
I’m fortunate enough to live close to Green Lake and Woodland Park, so ride time is just about any time. When the weather is threatening, I stay fairly close to home and practice stuff. Lower Woodland Park, with some rollicking trails, a jump strip and log rolls, is a good place to get in a [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged bike jumps, intense bicycles, lower woodland park, Mountain Biking, seattle, transition bikes
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
Jim and I went to the annual Seattle Bike Swap this a.m. and scored big-time. The opening line was incredibly long, wrapping all the way around the yard outside the Magnuson Park hangar entrance, wrapping back into the yard and then snaking back out again. There were probably 500 people waiting to get in by [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Transportation | Tagged bike swap meet, Magnuson Park, Mountain Biking, road cyclist, seattle, Seattle International Bike Expo
By Paul Andrews, BI editor on February 21, 2009
It was a gorgeous day and the tail end of a fantastic sunny week in the soggy Northwest, so I made the trek for a second time in 4 days to Black Diamond. It’s funny and ironic, but “black diamond” in this case refers to coal, which was mined heavily in this area’s past — [...]
Posted in Mountain Biking, Tales from the Trail, Today's Ride | Tagged black diamond, Bob Hollander, EMBA, Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, Jim Hendricks, Lake Sawyer, Mountain Biking, Today's Ride, Turtle
