17
Jul
2008
Summer Compilation / Off-line for Two Weeks
Posted by Janne as Other Cool Stuff, Summer Sports
Time to take some time off the internet and blogging.
While preparing for the holidays and free time, check these posts older from this summer:
Marko wrote an excellent article (with videos) about B.A.S.E jumping icon Jeb Corliss a while ago, read it HERE.
Mountain biking is clearly our number one summer activity, so we’ve made quite a [...]
12
Jul
2008
Mountain Biking Pics from Today’s Ride
Posted by Janne as Photos and Videos, Summer Sports
This post will be kind of exception for us.
Usually we like to try write something valuable, not just send pictures .
Anyway, my last mountain biking related article got this comment from Carl of Made-to-Order Bikes, Atlanta:
“Would love to have you write a guest post on our blog about this…contact me if interested!”
Pretty cool. So, we [...]
10
Jul
2008
Going Fully Rigid (Mountain Biking Related)
Posted by Janne as Summer Sports
Now this is going to be interesting.
I converted my Singular hard tail 29er to a fully rigid single speed. (See the earlier set-up here). While I was totally happy with the bike e.g. in the Tahko MTB endurance race a few weeks ago I thought it is time to test something totally new.
I practically learned [...]
01
Jul
2008
Tahko MTB Event 2008
Posted by Janne as News, Summer Sports
On last saturday, 28th of June, I participated in the biggest mountain biking event in Finland, Tahko MTB.
The race was my first big “marathon” event. I took part on the 60km (just over 37 miles) route, the most popular class. Other classes/routes were 25km, 45km, 120km (75miles) and 180km (112miles). (Btw. on the longest race, [...]
27
Jun
2008
Red Bull Dirt Half Pipe
Posted by Janne as Other Cool Stuff, Photos and Videos, Summer Sports
While on the subject of newschool skiing and freeride mountain biking…this cool feature combines quite nicely the elements of biking and snow sports: a half-pipe made of dirt!
(Image source: www.pinkbike.com via www.tetongravity.com/forums)
The feature is built in San Jose, California and sponsored/promoted by the energy-drink mega corporate Red Bull it self.(By the way - do you [...]
23
Jun
2008
Crazy Mountain Biking “Trail” on Bowen Island, Vancouver
Posted by Janne as Summer Sports
Last week I posted some pictures from mellow trail rides in our home country. I was riding solo, so I concentrated on enjoying the outdoors, getting a workout and taking pictures of the local nature.
What you could call a “trail” has some variety though. Quite alot of the riders in the several locations around the [...]
14
Jun
2008
Interesting Document of a Base Jumping Icon Jeb Corliss
Posted by marko as Other Cool Stuff, Summer Sports
Last time I wrote about El Caminito del Ray - The King’s Pathway and I embedded a video which shows how scary it is to walk El Caminito del Ray. Later that day I found myself watching base jump videos in YouTube. Few years ago I was riding bike with my friend in Wengen, Switzerland [...]
10
Jun
2008
El Caminito Del Ray - The King’s Pathway
Posted by marko as Summer Sports
Earth is an amazing place to live and explore. Our blue planet is filled with truly amazing places and beautiful landscapes. Do you ever feel like your world is boring and it is just circulating between your job, shop and home? Well, as a father of our three-kid family I sometimes feel exactly like that. [...]
04
Jun
2008
How about Windsurfing this time!
Posted by andreas.kavalieros as Other Cool Stuff, Summer Sports
Nop, we are not all gone..Here I am again to write about alternative sports for the summer season, for those of you that sadly are packing your ski equipment and left to wait patiently for next season!
In my previous article I wrote about mountain biking in Rhodos Island (Greece). And I mentioned that I [...]
26
Apr
2008
Bobby Root Riding Wheelie Makes Me Feel Like Riding My Bike
Posted by marko as Summer Sports
It is easy to see that summer is coming here on northern hemisphere, because the traffic to our humble ski blog is decreasing. Skiers are looking forward to do summer activities, such as mountain biking. Just like many other skiers, we also go riding bikes, surfing, trekking, paddling and doing many other summer sports. [...]