Mountain Bike Review

Monday, November 7, 2011

Extended holiday hours at Rays Indoor Bike Park!

Rays Indoor Bike Park module be unstoppered for long pass hours! What better way to impact soured that tryptophan silence than an long mate conference at RaysMTB? You crapper avoid that ‘Black Friday’ abstract everyone seems to speech about. Heck, you crapper even do your shopping at RaysMTB and pick up whatever gift cards!

Does pass movement have you temporary digit of our park locations? Are some of your friends and relatives attractive a trip nearby our parks? Either way, head on over and impact soured some of that pass forcefulness at the cycle park!

Remember, RaysMTB has you covered with rental bikes and liberated country equipment…so don’t vexation if the bikes didn’t sound in the kinsfolk truckster. See you there!

Please visit www.raysmtb.com or call the parks with some questions.

Source: Rays MTB

 


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Sunday, November 6, 2011

Mount Bachelor Village Resort in Bend, OR is a great place for Mountain Bikers

Mount Bachelor Village

Bend, Oregon is a enthusiastic lowercase municipality that is quickly decent a hub of exterior activities. Whether it is skiing, snowboarding, and snowshoeing in the season or elevation biking, hiking, and kayaking during the summer, Bend is a enthusiastic locate to be anytime of the year. If you are hunt a instruction that crapper fulfill your exterior sports dreams, Bend is the locate to be for season and season sports and the Mount Bachelor Village Resort (MBVR) is an ideal locate to stay when temporary Bend.

Located on the west side of Bend, minutes from downtown Bend and the Old Mill District, and exclusive a some miles away from the Deschutes National Forest, Mount Bachelor Village Resort is dead located for accessing a world-class runner instruction during the season and relaxing at digit of several superior breweries in Bend afterwards. Additionally, MBVR offers a free 30-minute shuttle ride to and from Mount Bachelor runner use on weekends.

 

The sunrise view from our exterior patio:

Sunrise over Bend, OR

With sextet assorted choices of hotel rooms, condominiums and wealth homes acquirable at MBVR, there are a sort of options to fit every budget. Our assemble stayed in digit of the River Ridge Suites which had an awing view of the Deschutes River, a rattling hearty and homey atmosphere inside, full kitchen, private hot tubs, tone fireplace, and free wi-fi. Unexpected support included a washer/dryer and exterior tone grill. Large picture windows covering easterly had us waking up to a impressive sunrise with the reddened of dawn revealing a lush naif depression and the Deschutes River liquid below.

Our farewell started with a power breakfast of food and granola, scrambled eggs, a potato/mushroom/onion/pepper medley, bacon, and a strong prize of coffee. Stocking the kitchen with ice cream and IPAs is an cushy task with digit grocery stores exclusive threesome miles from the resort. Everyday at 10 AM, Cog Wild Bicycle Tours was at our entranceway primed to shuttle our assemble for a period of sport on awing singletrack that never ceased to amaze us. Our 30+ knot trail rides ended on the cycle paths of Bend and an cushy tone backwards to the condo.

Cog Wild Bicycle Tours offers door-to-trail service no doubt

After spending sextet hours sport the fun singletrack trails outside of Bend led by our guides at Cog Wild Bicycle Tours, it was enthusiastic to come backwards to our flat and share our trail stories of adventure and nearby misses with disaster.  A hot shower, sampling a some IPAs, and uploading our photos and videos to Facebook was the daytime usage before way out to digit of Bend’s surpassing restaurants or intoxicant unstoppered houses â€" which were exclusive a some minutes away by cycle or car.  The exclusive difficult selection was whether to stay in the home and blast up the frame or to explore the wonderful breweries and restaurants of Bend.

Kyle, Francis, Aaron, and Andy primed for a bounteous daymount bachelor community use home interior

Travelers not hunting for a full home crapper opt for a hotel-style executive room. The hotel-style flat feature an ultra-comfy mattress to crash on after an active period elevation biking or snowboarding, a TV/DVD contestant if you crapper ready your eyes unstoppered a lowercase longer, and a mini-fridge for scary your favorite intoxicant at the amend temperature. Free wi-fi is also conception of the package.


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Friday, November 4, 2011

Best Mountain Bike Gifts: POV Cameras

Welcome to the Mtbr Holiday Gift Guide! In this economy, money is tight so you will poverty to be sure that you pay wisely. Our suggestions below are designed to spend you time and permit you undergo everything you requirement to about the assorted products on the mart vying for your hornlike earned cash. Below is today’s list of crowning rated picks, and be sure to nous backwards to the Mtbr Holiday Gift Guide important tender to wager the rest of the gift suggestions to support you this holiday season.

Video cameras for mountain bikers (aka “helmet cams” or P.oint O.f V.iew cameras) are ontogeny in popularity and profession nearly monthly! Just a year ago, there were exclusive 2 or 3 earnest brands in the game. Now, there are whatever proven contenders and the features (HD, GPS, 3D, slo-mo, separate mode…) meet intend meliorate and better.

These cameras wage a way to re-live and deal your selection rides. With a little taste of creativity, maybe YOU could be a YouTube grapheme (or break dummy!)

Cameras crapper also be mounted on your bars, on your helmet or modify on your dresser (with harness). Some riders modify intend fictive with placements on their bikes, including from behindhand the rear suspension/linkage or my favorite, nearby the face fork. You should try discover multiple positions, as each positioning provides a unequalled “perspective”.

GoPro HD HERO2 Announced meet a pair of weeks ago, the GoPro HD HERO2 is backed flooded of features and is twice as coercive as GoPro’s original HD HERO camera. GoPro is digit of the body in the industry and it is easy to wager why. As an additional bonus, with the promulgation of this latest model, every the senior models got a price decrease to further support for those “budget-minded” shoppers. Mtbr got an advance look at the GoPro HD HERO2 and we have a rank write-up with distribution videos, specs, photos and product psychotherapy here>>

Key Features: -11MP Sensor -2X faster ikon processor -Supports SD cards up to 32GB -3.5mm Stereo Mic Input -Wi-Fi BacPac + Wi-Fi Remote Compatible

MSRP: $299.99

Website: http://gopro.com/

Contour GPS While GoPro offers whatever models with whatever features, there is digit feature that they don’t offer….GPS This is where the Contour GPS camera rattling shines. By adding GPS to your videos, it opens up a whole newborn dimension of fun and sharing. And for every you tech geeks discover there, you crapper actually user your sharp phone as a view finder with the Contour GPS via Bluetooth…how cool is that? http://reviews.mtbr.com/contour-unlocks-bluetooth-chip-in-contourgps

Key Features: -Built-in GPS functionality to getting your location, speed, and elevation -Full HD 1080p (1920 x1080 @ 30 fps) recording -4.3 ounces, the smallest and lightest safekeeping liberated recording camera in the world -Interactive transpose and recording contestant that allows you to wager and control the action as it happens -Omni-directional microphone using AAC Audio Compression -Use your sharp phone as a springy viewfinder via bluetooth

MSRP: $299.99

Website: http://contour.com/

Drift HD Drift (aka Drift Innovation) is additional solidified contestant in the POV camera game. The have recently released a new, small edition of their substantially regarded HD170 model. The newborn Drift HD has the aforementioned enthusiastic features and estimation as the 170 but it comes in a more auto design with whatever additional improvements. Like the GoPro, the promulgation of the newborn help has created a flow downbound gist and the senior 170 is also today a taste cheaper. We haven’t still got our safekeeping on the newborn Drift HD, but we have TWO reviews of the Drift HD 170. Read Lee Lau’s analyse here and feature Brian Mullin’s analyse here.

Key Features: -Full HD for creating crystal clear footage -More auto housing, 4.1 inches and 4.23 oz., 25 proportionality small that its predecessor -Replaceable lens -A playback LCD concealment for covering up shots and the knowledge to play backwards the footage correct away -A remote control to enable you to flick what you poverty to record, not the dull clog in between

MSRP: $369.00

Website: http://driftinnovation.com/


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Thursday, November 3, 2011

Santa Cruz Bicycles – A Guide to Fall Colors!

Okay, we adjudge it right soured the bat: that is a hokey title and we’re really likewise New to essay using it. According to our friends at The Weather Channel, we’ve missed the peak. But that has never obstructed us from kicking a paronomasia until it begs us to stop, and in this housing the title does actually hit whatever direction on our content. As in, we hit a whole clump of newborn colours to exhibit off.

We pronounceable discover whatever newborn graphics and colours on the Tallboy Carbon in our last newsletter, and since then hit been stealthily transfer in newborn colours and graphics crossways whatever another models. We’ve been trying to instance each newborn countenance to coincide with the foliage extreme in a different location of the country, but it’s been a fickle autumn, and in spite of what they’d same you to believe on teevee, this whole forecasting lance is not rattling predictable…

But the change is happening, with the same inexorable petition that care nature exhibits as she slips discover of that season outfit into something more seasonally appropriate. Check these out:

There’s a new Superlight (above)

And a new Juliana

The Jackal gets a bit brash

And the same communication carries over with whatever tweaks on the Butcher

As well as the Nickel

Plus, we’ve got a stripped downbound and badass newborn countenance for the Tallboy Al

All of which countenance pretty shucks hot on our new revamped, every singing, every dancing, slicing, dicing Bike Builder.

While we’re talking most newborn graphics and slippy into something a little more seasonally appropriate, we’d also same to saucer discover that we’re selling whatever fresh race kits on our webstore.

This stylishly revilement and right priced vesture is made for us by Champ-sys, and patch whatever strength discourse the thinking behindhand offering brief arm jerseys and bib pants patch winter is staked discover just over the horizon, we would same to feature digit things:

1. Cyclocross. Harden up and see how to hurt, and do it patch hunting awesome in your Santa Cruz vie duds.

2. Think of this as rousing for incoming year, as a accelerator for your New Year’s resolutions. A present to yourself predicated on a promise to take the same saucer to harden up. Buy everything a filler likewise small, and wear it in face of the mirror erst a hebdomad every winter long. If you intend fatter, that’s on you. We’ve fashioned in plumb stripes, which hit whatever honor of slimming effect, but if you turn into the Sausage Creature from binge-eating your way finished the holidays, the stripes aren’t going to do such to change the hammer-blow to your consciousness honour when you catch a hunting of yourself motion corpulent. When thought of in that light, and compared in price to threesome period CrossFit commitment (to feature null of the resultant chiropractic bills), this kit is incoming to free!

See? We’re hunting discover for your prizewinning interests here. And if racing isn’t your thing, we’ll blithely candid you toward the amend counter to that style. EVERYBODY looks good in this, consortium us.

Source: Santa Cruz Bicycles www.santacruzbicycles.com

Santa Cruz Superlight Santa Cruz Juliana Santa Cruz Jackal Santa Cruz Butcher Santa Cruz Nickel Santa Cruz XC Kit Santa Cruz Tallboy

 


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New CLIF SHOT BLOKS Citrus Flavor

 

New CLIF SHOT BLOKS® Citrus Flavor Now Available Nationwide

EMERYVILLE, Calif., Nov 1, 2011 â€" CLIF SHOT BLOKS®, the best-selling forcefulness cud for performance athletes announces a newborn decent and concise savor â€" Citrus â€"available now, only in sports retail stores.

Made with 95 proportionality nonsynthetic ingredients, CLIF SHOT BLOKS wage an best combining of carbohydrates and electrolytes for essential forcefulness and proper hooligan function. Shaped same small cubes, CLIF SHOT BLOKS taste great and are cushy to chew. Plus they’re simple to appendage mid-run or mid-ride with their performance-friendly FASTPAK® packaging that makes one-handed, on-the-go practice a breeze.

New Citrus CLIF SHOT BLOKS adds a new lemon-lime flavor to the BLOKS line that’s crafted especially for hornlike upbringing and races. “Athletes hit a heightened sense to taste when they’re upbringing and racing,” said Chris Randall, CLIF SHOT® sort manager. “As with every CLIF SHOT products we made trusty that Citrus SHOT BLOKS would taste meet correct during activity.”

Each CLIF SHOT BLOKS FASTPAK (SRP: $1.99) contains sextet forcefulness chews. With 33 calories per chew, it’s simple for athletes to make and road caloric intake during long outings.

CLIF SHOT BLOKS come in eight flavors, including three with green tea extract as a natural source of caffeine, which studies hit institute improves endurance capacity.

In constituent to Citrus, CLIF SHOT BLOKS are available in Negroid Cherry (50 mg caffeine), Cran-Razz®, Margarita (with 3X the sodium), Mountain Berry, Orange (25 mg caffeine), Strawberry and Tropical Punch (25 mg caffeine).

About Clif Bar & Company Clif Bar & Company is a directive maker of nutritious and nonsynthetic foods and drinks, including CLIF® BAR forcefulness bar, LUNA®, The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women®; and CLIF Kid®, Nourishing Kids in Motion®. Focused on sports nutrition and flourishing snacks, the employee and family-owned consort is sworn to sustaining its people, brands, business, accord and planet. For more aggregation on Clif Bar & Company, gratify visit www.clifbar.com, check discover our Facebook tender at www.facebook.com/clifbar or follow us on Twitter at: www.twitter.com/clifbar.

Recently Clif Bar & Company was hierarchical the No. 1 sort in the Forbes Breakaway Brands survey, conducted by Landor Associates using Young & Rubicam’s BrandAsset Valuator database activity sort strength from 2006 to 2009. (Forbes.com)

Source: Eden Rothwell


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

NiteRider Launches Lights4Lives Campaign

NiteRider Technical Lighting Systems Launches Lights4Lives Campaign Company promotes accumulated period cycling saliency and safety

November 2, 2011 (San Diego, CA) â€" NiteRider Technical Lighting Systems declared its newborn “Lights4Lives” campaign to promote the grandness of period saliency for cyclists.

Although cycling lights are ordinary at night and the law, the consort is promoting period safety. The communication has embellish an essential digit for the company. VP of Sales and Marketing Mike Ely stated, “After many of our customers hit shared stories of near calls or accidents with cars during the day, we started noticing the few cyclists using lights on the favourite period change routes were much more visible.” The consort researched and realized that both automobiles and motorcycles ingest period streaming lights and there has been a modification in accidents. “Cyclists equip in country items much as helmets and bright blackamoor jerseys, but often don’t possess lights because they don’t mate at night. We want to support alter awareness to the grandness of having lights even if you never mate after the sun sets.” Ely added.

Current advances in diode illumination profession has brought downbound the toll of sport illumination dramatically while increasing output. “Our content is to encourage riders to turn on the lights they hit during the day, and if they don’t hit lights to attain a diminutive investment in their coverall cycling safety.”

NiteRider module be gift absent front and rear lamp combo packs every hebdomad from the prototypal hebdomad of November until March 1st, congruent with the instance change. Log on to NiteRider.com or NiteRider’s Facebook tender for more details.

Source: Emily Miller


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Tuesday, November 1, 2011

Ride With Brian Lopes at Punta San Carlos, Baja CA Nov 12-19

Hone Your MTB Skills with Multi-World Champ Brian Lopes Nov 12-19th Eat Fresh Lobster From Right in Front of Camp, Learn to Surf and Stand-Up Paddle Board Find Out Why “You Just Don’t Know Until You Go!”

Punta San Carolos, Baja, CA (CFEpr+) - Come on downbound to the prizewinning trails and tent South of the Border to mate and see from 4-time World Champion Brian Lopes.

Brian will take the instance to support you improve your riding skills as you explore every that Punta San Carlos (PSC) has to offer. The Campo at PSC is 50 miles from the nearest town, and is as peaceful as crapper be.

Ride over 100 miles of sweet singletrack above the ocean, consequence up to the waves crashing on the beach, do a stand-up beat session to get your murder flowing, then nous discover to the Badlands for some of the prizewinning dawdle riding on the planet.

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Baja Bici Adventura w/ Brian Lopes

Fly into our clannish landing strip only 2 hours from San Diego, or intend downbound in the camper with the gathering and supplies. It’s a band on wheels!

Once at camp, you’ll be greeted with our mode drink the “Baja Fog” and superior your possess wealth tent on a carpeted macadam with a analyse of the ocean meet feet from the camp.

You’ll consequence up to a fabulous breakfast cooked by our Mexican chef, and be aerated to party delicacies including Lobster RIGHT from the ocean in face of you. Talk about fresh!

And patch you crapper bring your possess cycle downbound with you, we hit a complete fleet of top-of-the-line Santa Cruz and Cannondale bikes in every sizes for you to ride, as substantially as top-shelf surf and stand-up beat boards.

Guests hit oceanic access to matter from the stowage and libations from the cantina. We hit a mettlesome room and limited Internet access if you’d same to say hi! to the kids…

The soil at PSC has been titled “magical” by the prizewinning riders in the world, and has been featured in the movie “Follow Me” by Anthill Films, and in the pages of BIKE Magazine, Decline, iMBike.com and more.

The awing single-track dawdle meshwork has expanded from cardinal miles to digit cardinal in the last few months. Construction has meet been complete on a mini pump-track correct above the ocean for you to shred patch your buddies are suiting up, or after party before the fireworks start!

Costs for this all-inclusive eight-day trip arrange from $1950-2550. Call Kevin Trejo at 949.289.7799 or email at baja@solosports.net to aggregation your trip today!

About SoloSports Adventure Holidays: SoloSports offers every inclusive weeklong Adventure Holidays attractive Mountain Bikers, Surfers, Kayakers, Wind Surfers, Geologists, Hikers and more to the fabulously far instruction of Punta San Carlos, roughly threesome cardinal miles south of San Diego, Calif. on the Pacific Ocean.

SoloSports’ client itemize includes – Quiksilver, Rusty Surfboards, Oakley, Gotcha, O’Neill, Surfer Magazine, Surfing Magazine, WindSurfing Magazine and more.

About CFEpr+: Industry body including Shimano, RockShox, Giant, WTB, Ergon, adidas eyewear, Red Bull, Nike Cycling, GU, Brave Soldier, and morehave utilized Steve Boehmke’s proven Public Relations, Marketing, Copywriting, Business and Product Development skills to take their businesses to newborn levels of success.

Source: Steve Boehmke www.solosports.net

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