Author: Bikergrl

Mountain biking, like any activity that requires vast amounts of effort and planning, is overly susceptible to excuses. I am as guilty as anyone. I love to ride, I pretty much live for it. Catch me on a lazy day, a rainy day or in the wrong frame of mind however, and I will undoubtedly offer an excuse as to why I can't. Every aspect of mountain biking, from putting on appropriate clothing, to loading up the car, to doing the ride to unloading the car, washing the bike and putting stuff away again becomes a breeding ground for "aliblies"... excuses bordering on fib.

Posted by bikergrl at 06:56 PM

Author: Mark "Marko" Canning

My beloved freestyle bike creeps ever closer to a disasterous failure as my rear tire is now threadbare in at least one spot. A threadbare tire on a rim that is quite untrue. An untrue rim laced to a hub with a broken axle. A broken axle attached to a badly worn cog. A badly worn cog pulled by a cracked chain. A cracked chain that leads to a bent chainring. A bent chainring bolted to a bent crank. Also: a flared headtube, crushed bearings galore, abundant rust, rounded wheelnuts, a creaky seatpost, and lots of other little difficulties.

The brakes work perfectly.

"Marko," you ask, "how do you ride that poor swaybacked creature?"

Posted by bikergrl at 07:14 PM

Author: Bikergrl

People think mountain biking is dangerous. When I tell people that I mountain bike they say "Ooooh, aren't you afraid you'll get hurt?" I reply that in over 14 years of riding I've had cuts and bruises but nothing more serious (except a broken wrist from snowboarding, but that's a whole other ball of wax). Inevitably I get the old "I don't believe you" head shake. Mountain biking is a sport, an XTREME sport, none-the-less. If I haven't been hurt yet, it's only a matter of time.

Posted by bikergrl at 02:08 AM