Monthly Archives: February 2010

Stolen Trek 5100

Copied from Philmofo.org by the owner, Miker:
Dear Friends, my bike has just been stolen inside my garage. Here are the pics and specifications: Trek 5100 frame small, Fox F80 remote, Magura Marta SL brake set, Easton carbon straight bar handle, FSA 100mm stem, XTR crank, pedal, shifter, FD, RD, cogs. KMC Gold chain, Crossmax XL [...]

Call of the wind(ing tracks)

This is a delayed post, and just a short video of a part of our ride last Feb. 7, 2010 (video at the bottom of this post). It was an easy and light ride, but the call of the winding single track that leads to the “Puno ng Malipay” (“Tree of Malipay”) was just too [...]

Couldn’t… shouldn’t… wouldn’t say NO!

Yesterday, I wanted to ride, but felt lazy.
Today, I wanted to ride, but felt lazy.
The reason stems from the thought of riding solo. Weekday rides are usually quick solo rides. Quick because I take advantage of the time when the kids are in school. I start the ride after my youngest has left for school [...]

“Compensating”?

The day my wife finally rode with me on a loaned mountain bike (thanks Bong!) was the first time I’ve ridden the Nuvali mountain bike tracks, though I’m pretty sure we weren’t able to ride the complete tracks as we were adjusting to match my wife’s riding level.
But as we were done with the first [...]

Nuvali, Nuvali batchu! Double date ride!

This was on Valentine’s Day 2010, the first time my wife, Jam, tried mountain biking (on a loaned mountain bike; thanks Bong!). With us on this ride were Ian (fellow Backout Boys member) and his wife.
Ian knew we had to adjust to make this day’s ride enjoyable for my wife. Lei, his wife, was just [...]

I-on Extreme track reading

The day before the just-concluded I-on Bike Extreme Games I was able to squeeze some time to do a short track reading. I sent a text out to Boomie asking if he wanted to meet me there and ride together. He did meet me there but decided on just bringing his motorbike, instead [...]

Nema’s 2010 Contingency Program!

Nema just announced their 2010 contingency program recently. From one tweet they sent me I got the impression I’m tasked to do the first step in extending that program here.
Here’s what they told me:
@TheMTBJunkie get the team going out there and let’s see what we can do!
Cool! Anyway, here are the rules:

New riders must register [...]

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