Fitness… Hard to Get, Easy to Lose
November 02, 2009

Fitness is like going to Vegas with a pocketful of cash. It probably took you a while to get it, but you can sure lose it in a hurry.
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Time to Start Bike Commuting
November 04, 2009

Commuting to work, school or anywhere [...]

GRAND JUNCTION, November 4, 2009: With the list of cross country championships piling up from the 2009 season, MRP is proud to announce 3 new versions of the ultra popular 1.X chainguide.
1.X MTB Clamp On: For those riders who have been excluded from the 1.X movement due to their press-in bottom brackets like [...]

Everyone knows November = Christmas.

Shanaze Reade has teamed up with Ready Brek to support the Department for Transport’s ‘Be Bright Be Seen’ campaign.

We went for a brief but extremely slithery session with Nigel Page yesterday.

Altura are giving away £150 worth of gear every month to 1 lucky photographer or filmmaker.

WTB previously launched their Dissent tire as “the official tire of Whistler Mountain Bike Park”, and boy did it work good on that “A-Line” style of terrain. The Dissent 2.5 was very predictable on dry dirt, but it was a disaster when it touched wet. The Dissent 2.5 was designed with a small channel, which ejects packed up dirt in your tire and so forth, which caused it to pack up in wet conditions.

This season WTB took the Dissent one step further with the Dissent 2.3. They made the profile slightly thinner, and made the channel slightly larger, and in turn created a wicked tire for the opposite side of the scale as its bigger brother, the soft/wet side!

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Source: Brett Hornfelt

Home Sweet Home part 2 – The DH Story

Well now that you have seen some of our local XC trails here in Quesnel BC, it is time to get into the nitty gritty of the trails around here. The local DH trails are amazing. The ones that are shown in this article are definitely a couple of my favorite trails. If you like to be challenged to go fast in some tight, technical and extremely rough terrain than these trails are for you. If you like big rock lines than once again this is place for you.

Just got this sweet web edit from Cam Zink. He talks about his Mavic wheels, but you won’t hear that as you’ll be too focused on the bad ass riding going on in the video.

Enjoy!

Source: Sombrio

Looking for new riding gear and live in the Greater Vancouver area, come see us?

The second weekend of November (6th to 8th) – Sombrio is hosting our on premise 2009 Sample / Warehouse Sale and are inviting ALL Y’ALL over to indulge in huge savings on guy’s and girl’s Apparel, Outerwear and Streetwear. Whether it’s doing some early Holiday shopping, getting set for winter riding season, or perusing some wild fashions – Sombrio is the place to take advantage of some rare deals on samples and one off prototypes as well as a great selection of production items in ALL sizes.