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What I learned from Mike Janelle is that you could win a mtn bike race using road tatics. 🙂 Thank you Mike! Ride in peace.

Here is a pict of Tim Barnes throwing some sand at a cross race in Boulder! Way to stay on your bike Timbra!

While the rest of us were working hard on Halloween, Team Bikeparts.com Pro racer Colin Osborn spend the day on his bike in Durango! Check out the video proof here!

These two tricked out rides will smoke your lame sh!t anyday. betta recognize.

A man in England was caught “riding” his bike… check this link out!

It’s a fact that Gallup, NM has a ton of sweet riding open just about all year around. Located on I40 on the eastern side of the Navajo Rez ,Gallup’s mild climate makes it a sweet spot for high desert riding. The pic below is from the Mentmore trail about 1.1 miles into the ride.

Before you head out be sure and pick up a copy of the Gallup Waypoints riding guide. Go to  http://www.gallupwaypoints.com/ to see where to pick up a copy. "Gallup Waypoints is a 60 page full color book with 20 detailed ride descriptions. We have good desert terrain, forested trails, and some high country smooth red-rock “slick rock”… It, also, c ontains some hiking recommendations and has a list of all the best restaurants in Gallup to refuel. Discover all the local trail knowledge around the Gallup area." We stayed at the Hampton Inn (aka Compton Inn) off of exit 22 and it was actually very nice.

Back to the Mentmore trail…basically the best ride we did in the three days we were there. Fast, hard pack singletrack. Its like riding on a sidewalk at times. Roll with some semi-slicks and you can really haul.

The Mentmore trail is where they hold the Dawn-till-Dusk 12-hour mtb fest in the spring.

Link to the Gallup Chamber of Commerce website: http://www.gallupnm.org/

We ate at the Coal Street Pub one night. It was ok grub for the region. High Mesa Bikes and Gear, www.highmesabikes.com, is a local shop located on Coal Street. We swung by Monday but they were closed.

Click here for the Gallup MTB Photo Album

My old college roomate sent me this photo of his Halloween costume this year!!! Way to keep it real Biff!!!

Alright, I have been playing that new song called “Black Mags” by the Cool Kids non stop! So, Click sent me this photo of him circa ’85!!!!!

Check out Charlie’s little toy for getting into the back country this winter…

Team bikeparts.com has joined the “i have friends and can prove it” revolution with a myspace page. check it out!

So unless you have been living under a large rock for the past two years you have heard about all of the doping going on and more specifically “Operation Puerto”. Well the head guy behind this is named Dr. Eufemio Fuentes and these socks commemerate his life long contributions to the destruction of cycling…… – Tyler

So, I was awkened at 6:00 this morning by a phone call from Charlie. We had planned a ride on Monarch Crest today with a crew of other guys. He says that highway 285 was closed, it has snowed and only 15 deg on the top of Monarch. So, much to my dismay, we cancelled the ride and planned to head up to Buffalo Creek instead and ride the Colorado Trail there. My head hit the pillow and we followed through with Plan B later today. It ended up being a wonderful fall day in Colorado! Here are some picts of Lake Wellington and the CO Trail. – jesse

A little tease of the sweet enduro cross races that came to Denver this weekend!

I was lucky enough to be invited to Interbike in Las Vegas this year. I had lots of work to take care of, but I didnt let that deter me from the trip. I landed at 9:00pm on Wednesday, watched some buddies gamble, had some drinks (coke a cola), got very little sleep, woke up and walked around and left 5:00pm on Thursday. As always, the show was over whelming. Here are some picts of the things that I left me with impressions…

A Cycling Team in Cali named Rock Racing has this as their team car…

Schwalbe has a new tire called the Nobby Nic I cant wait to try out…

The new SID is no longer anorexic and got fatter…

But, so the Maverick DUC did too… as well as some new flashy carbon legs…

Speaking of carbon, check out the seatpost on the new Yeti ASR frames…

More cabron from DT Swiss! They are making some pretty carbon mtn rims that can be setup tubeles…

Hey, that new seatpost from Crank Brothers looks familiar….

Crank Brothers is also doing wheels and headsets…

SPOT is doing a belt drive for single speeds which is pretty creative! I wonder what it will be like in the mud and snow…