Entries by leelikesbikes

Drive, drive, drive

Still wrung out from the Otter. 10 muddy bikes stewing in the back of the Brick. Heading east. Yesterday taught three Reno firefighters how to corner. Today a speaker started popping then spouted acrid smoke out of my dashboard. Whoa — pull off I-80, tear it all apart and disconnect. Just got an assignment to […]

And another Sea Otter is in the books

I’ll rock the full report in the next few days, but briefly: MUD: Heavy rains turned DS, DH and 4X practice into something other than mountain biking. Lots of sliding. Lots of flopping over handlebars. Lots of scootering with your feet. Not mountain biking — more like sliding-flopping-scootering. The dual slalom was as rutted and […]

Yeti Spring Series : Nathrop, CO

It’s time for mountain cross, cross country and short track action at Camp Darner. XC on Saturdays; 4X action on Sundays. April 1-2, April 22- 23, May 13-14. Get the scoop at www.rpmcycling.org

Adjust your seatpost on the fly

If your riding combines seated pedaling with out-of-the saddle ripping — XC, all mountain, freeride, self-propelled DH, even riding to jump spots — you need an on-the-fly-adjustable seatpost. Here’s the scoop on two contenders: the GravityDropper and Maverick SpeedBall.

Clinics at Sea Otter

Clay hones his kung fu in hardcore clinic action. This dude was fast to start with — now he’s retarded-fast. Hi all. If any of you want to rock some skills while you’re at the Sea Otter, email me and let’s set something up during a break. We can work on position, cornering, pump or […]

Manuals: Get it up

Hello Lee. my son is 9 and at the stage where he needs to learn how to manual so he can hit the rythym sections on the bmx track/mountain trails. Do you have any tips to begin developing the skill of manualling? If my memory serves me you had an article on this in the […]