Tag: Mountain Biking

You Have Reached the Final Page of the Internet…

…Now go out and play!
I just recently bumped into that slogan, as a “signature” of a bike event organizer (in an internet discussion forum, suprise). I liked it so much that I selfishly stole it for my own purposes here; writing about outdoor sports in the internet can feel pretty stupid at times… What the [...]

Pivot Cycles Mach 4 Review – Four Inch Travel Cross Country Machine

About a week ago we published a review of the “Dream Bike”, Pivot Cycles Mach 5.
That bike really felt like a very well thought-out piece of engineering. So, I was quite stoked to get to test another bike from the same manufacturer; Pivot Cycles Mach 4 -  their four inch travel cross country weapon. Big [...]

Review / Test Ride of the “Dream Bike” – Pivot Cycles Mach 5

Well, this is our first mountain bike product review ever. I think soon it will going to be time for us to write some more skiing content again. But before that I will do some more mountain bike reviews as I got some super good opportunity to test a few very nice and interesting bikes. [...]

Mountain Biking Pics from Today’s Ride

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 [...]

Going Fully Rigid (Mountain Biking Related)

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 [...]

Tahko MTB Event 2008

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, [...]

Bobby Root Riding Wheelie Makes Me Feel Like Riding My Bike

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. [...]



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