Posted by PeterD
Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:42:00 GMT
Yes, you are reading the scale correctly!
This bike was built for adventure race use. The growing sport of Adventure Racing combines several different outdoor challenges into one full day, or longer, event. A competitor needs to arrive geared up for known events like mountain bike racing and rock climbing, and then be prepared to have a couple surprise events like kayaking or orienteering thrown in to round out the race.
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Posted by PeterD
Fri, 07 Dec 2007 18:48:00 GMT
A piece of good advice I once heard was that you should avoid debating about religion and politics, as people hold strong feelings on these that they rarely will change. I think that Mountain Bike Suspension design could be a third area to add to the list.
That being said, here is the second part of Berry’s report from the Giant Training he and John went to a few weeks back. This will be on various suspension designs…
The most interesting part of the talk was given by Andrew Justaitis (sp?), which contained a lot of basic and useful info on all the various kinds of rear suspension designs, how they work and their characteristics, both good & bad. He called it a Suspension Rating Report Card, giving ratings for Activity, Efficiency and Independence; how well the rear suspension works separately from the rear brake, whether they influence each other or not. Below is his Report Card, which I found very informative. He went to great lengths to be fair and neutral and didn’t bad mouth any other brand or design type.
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Posted by PeterD
Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:16:00 GMT
John and Berry went to Santa Cruz a few weeks back to attend the Giant Maestro Suspension training event. Here is what Berry had to say about the event:
They had sales and tech info in the morning, the lunch & dirt demo in the PM at DeLaveaga Park, where they had Anthems (3 1/2” Race bike), Trance Xs (5” trail bike), and Reign Xs (6.7” freeride bike) available to ride. I rode a Trance X and a Reign X. Loved the Trance X, the rear suspension truly worked very well; if it had had a Vanilla RLC on it, would have tried to take it home. It weighed 26lbs.
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Posted by Patty
Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:39:29 GMT
Did you, or a friend, leave a wheel behind after your ride at Waterdog on Thankgiving? Well, Sterling found it and brought it here. Give us a call and provide a description and we will get it back to you.
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Posted by Patty
Tue, 20 Nov 2007 20:23:00 GMT
The Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District is preparing a master plan for La Honda Creek Open Space Preserve.
This public land includes both the La Honda Creek section as well as the recently acquired Driscoll Ranch Addition, and covers NINE square miles of breathtaking terrain south of Sky Londa and Alices’ Restaurant at the intersection of Hwys 84 and 35. This is more than TWICE the size of El Corte de Madera Creek OSP (Skeggs).
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Our espresso machine guru, Jim Sullivan, is an active member of ROMP’s board of directors and has been attending meetings regarding this plan for several years. He recently wrote us, asking mountain bikers to attend an upcoming meeting about the DRAFT MASTER PLAN:
“Please attend an upcoming open house public meeting for La Honda Creek
open space preserve scheduled for Dec 4th, 4-7pm @ The Mountain
Terrace. Located across Skyline blvd from Alice’s Resturaunt at 17285 Skyline blvd, 94062
Presently the “plan” has ZERO access for bicycles on this 5,759 acre
preserve, with a very open ended “once a safe through trail connection
is secured” statment suggesting bike access on the Ridge Trail alignment might someday be allowed. No acess within Driscoll Ranch, even though this has been an historically shared use area popular with the pedaling residents of La
Honda.
Midpen is promoting this acreage as “the Gateway to the San Mateo Coastal area.” Looks like the gate’s closed as far as cyclists are concerned.”
Jim S.
We will certainly be attending, and encourage YOU to go too. We need cyclists to speak up about getting shut out of this important open space area. Here is MROSD’s website about the plan, and a link to some maps http://openspace.org/plans_projects/la_honda_creek.asp
http://www.openspace.org/plans_projects/downloads/2007_winternewsletter.pdf
Also, please sign this petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/lahonda/petition.html
And let anyone you know who lives near La Honda or on the San Mateo coast know about this issue.
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Posted by Patty
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:15:00 GMT
Marilyn Price is a finalist in $25,000 Volvo for Life Award
Your vote online may help Trips for Kids receive $25,000!
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Marilyn Price of Trips for Kids writes:
I am honored to be a finalist for the national Volvo for Life Award. Your vote of confidence will help Trips for Kids win $25,000 – a huge boost for our youth cycling programs! ”
Please take a moment to vote for Marilyn on-line and spread the word to your friends and colleagues.
THANK YOU for supporting Trips for Kids.
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Posted by Patty
Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:28:00 GMT
Meet Joe Breeze – designer of the world’s first mountain bike & join us for our annual ROMP holiday festivities on Friday night, November 30th, for a fun & entertaining evening.
Many attendees bring their spouse, partner, cycling friends, dad, mom & children to this annual Mountain Bikers Party. Non ROMP members & folks new to cycling are highly encouraged to join us!
For the highlight of the evening: Joe Breeze, producer of Breezer
transportation bikes, will give an illustrated presentation entitled,
“What’s So Great About Bikes?”, spanning the history and future of what he calls
“the most efficient tool of transport ever devised.” No doubt, Joe will
include many first-hand accounts of being a nationally ranked Category 1
road racer, a pioneer of mountain biking (he built the first modern mountain
bikes in 1977), and an advocate for everyday riding as tonic for great
living. Joe was recently named among the top 25 most influential people in
American bicycle history, and is featured in the recently released film
“Klunkerz” about the birth of mountain biking. Click below for more details.
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Posted by PeterD
Thu, 08 Nov 2007 04:56:00 GMT
Ok, we are going to try to confuse you this month. We sold 2 similar bikes to the same family, and are doing them both as this month’s Build of the Month.
Here is what Charles said about what they were looking for:
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Posted by Patty
Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:55:00 GMT
Trailwork season has begun!
Here at Passion Trail Bikes, we are just as passionate about trails as we are bikes. Collectively, Charles, Patty and Berry have been doing trailwork and advocacy for mountain biking for over 39 years! And we still love it.
Patty has put together a Google Calendar with the latest news from the trailwork gnomes. Check it out!
This weekend we will begin work on the trails in Waterdog Park in Belmont. On Saturday we will gather up a bunch of pruning equipment and tackle the vegetation on the Berry Trail and the John Brooks Trail, clearing back
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Posted by PeterD
Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:34:00 GMT
This month’s bike of the month is an Ibis Mojo, one of the new lines we are carrying.
I guess you could say that the owner of this bike is a connoisseur of bikes. He has a couple of other bikes (including the Maverick ML-8 we featured last year), and gets to choose the one that best suits the riding he is going to do. Below are some of his comments comparing the two bikes…
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