Posted by Patty
Wed, 17 Oct 2007 18:47:00 GMT
You know who you are. You’re the one who turns the porch light out on Halloween. Or maybe not, but you’ve wondered if you could get away with it. Well this year, you have a great excuse. You’re going to be at Passion, hanging out in your own comfortable clothes, or maybe somebody else’s, pretending to be dead, or very scarily alive. You’ll get to look your worst and act like a kid and everybody is going to wonder who you really are.
So come on down. There will be a basket of treats at the door but instead of some fattening candy, maybe you’ll get a patch kit, or a chain pin, or a tube, or not-yet bloody bandaids, or who knows what kinda trick the shop boys might play with you. Click below for details and to RSVP.
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Posted by PeterD
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 02:33:00 GMT
This month’s build of the month is a Surly Karate Monkey. It is a cyclocross bike, but one of the “monster cross” versions which are made to fit 29 inch mountain bike width tires.
“I have always wanted a “swiss army knife†bike that could do anything. The 29er movement had me curious, as did the tiny “monster cross†subculture. So, the Karate Monkey was a cost-effective way to experiment with all these things.“
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Posted by tom
Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:20:00 GMT
Initial Impressions (before mounting):
This tire looks like a rear to me but I’m mounting it on the front because that’s what I was to told to do with it. The tire is lightweight and the sidewalls are very supple and flexible so I’m somewhat suspicious of its suitability for my 170mm (6.7 inch) travel Versus Blitz II. The knobs look like they’ll provide good traction but, as there are no ramps I don’t expect a fast roller. The tread is also not particularly deep so I don’t expect much in loose conditions. My initial expectations have been set low.
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Posted by Patty
Fri, 05 Oct 2007 23:41:00 GMT
This Saturday, October 6th, is “Take a Kid Mountain Biking Day.” So, go find yourself a kid and go riding, or if you don’t have one handy, BE a kid!
Personally, I enjoy being 12 years old again, every time I get on my bike.
Next year on October 4th, 2008, Passion Trail Bikes will be hosting a TAKMTBD event at Waterdog, when we will ride around the lake on a kid-friendly trail.
Good places to take a kid:
Arastradero Preserve, Palo Alto
Shoreline Park, Mountain View (Bay Trail access)
Wilder Ranch State Park, Santa Cruz
DeLaveaga Park, Santa Cruz.
This year MBOSC is hosting an event at DeLaveaga. Check out their website for more info:
http://mbosc.org/events/takmtbd.html
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Posted by Charles
Wed, 03 Oct 2007 18:57:00 GMT
Of all the cool new things we saw at Interbike, one of the hottest was the new 29” Float fork from Fox. Trek is supplying them on a number of their new models, and bought just about all of Fox’s production, at least for the short term. A couple of them did escape the mass purchase, and one or two of them ended up at Passion, yesterday in fact. If you have a 29er project in the works, or will in the near future, you may want to snap this up now, or risk waiting until Spring to have the chance to get another one.
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Posted by PeterD
Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:24:00 GMT
San Francisco weirdness for a good cause. Involves trikes and drinking. What more could you want…
Take me to the site for this craziness…
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Posted by Patty
Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:19:00 GMT
Actually, Berry sampled Bikes at the Dirt Demo at Interbike. Here’s his cool report:
On Tuesday I rode the Dirt Demo at InterBike, actually out at Bootleg Canyon. Great weather, not too hot. Plenty of bikes, trails & other entertaining riders.
My main goal was to ride the three main 29rs I was interested in to compare them, & also ride whatever else Charles wanted me to, or was available.
I went for the Specialized Stumpy 29r first, as I felt that would make a good baseline; I was familiar with that suspension & ride quality.
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Posted by Patty
Tue, 25 Sep 2007 18:17:00 GMT
This week the shop will be shorthanded while most of the staff is at
Interbike test riding cool new bikes for 2008, and wandering through a tradeshow with over 3000 vendors of bike goodies.
Bret, Sterling and Peter will be here to assist customers as best they can, while Charles, Berry, John and Patty are in Vegas. If the phone rings and goes to voice mail, or you come in and find your self in line for customer service, please accept our apologies. We considered being closed during the week but decided open and shorthanded would be better.
If you’re curious about interbike, you can check out the link above, or check out
MTBR’s photos from the show. On Monday and Tuesday, the boys will be riding in
Bootleg Canyon where there is some awesome rocky technical goodness to put bikes through a real trail test. Between the three of them, they should be able to ride about 15 different 2008 bikes.
Wednesday thru Friday they do the indoor part of the trade show. Wandering through the conference center, they get to pick up and fondle new parts, ask questions and try to stump the techs, and meet up with other movers and shakers in the bike industry.
Look forward to a couple writeups after the boys return. Until then, happy trails, and enjoy the lovely California weather.
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Posted by Patty
Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:55:00 GMT
I got this info from one of the club email lists I’m on, and it makes me think we ought to take a train, and make the trip up to the city for a special shop ride to watch Klunkerz which is playing Saturday at 7pm. Rumor has it you can take the 5:48 train from Belmont, transfer to the 6:11 BART at Milbrae, and get off at 16th & Mission at 6:41.
The Bicycle Film Festival will be playing from September 19th through the 22nd in San Francisco. Along with our 8 different programs of shorts, full-length features, documentaries, animations and creative endeavors, we will also be hosting several live music events, a street party and a bicycle scavenger hunt. Tickets and specific information about the San Francisco event are at this location: http://bicyclefilmfestival.com/2007_site/sf/
We’re quite proud of the selection of films that we’re screening this year, and we’re especially excited about Klunkerz. Klunkerz is the history of the modern mountain bike. This film documents the rise of a huge cultural movement that was pioneered in Marin County on the trails of Mt. Tamalpais. Mountain Biking was born out of the creative scene surrounding the San Francisco Bay Area hippy and rock world of the sixties and seventies.
This film features the characters of this day such as Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze, Charlie Kelly and Alan Bonds. The races began amongst friends getting stoned and partying and flying down the mountain on their pre forties bikes with fat tires: “Klunkerz.” These fun escapades turned into a sport that changed and maybe even saved the bike industry.
The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it, we’ve probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance? We bring together all aspects of bicycling to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways.
www.bicyclefilmfestival.com
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Posted by Charles
Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:28:00 GMT
“Where on the Tahoe Rim Trail is a good place to land a helicopter?”
ANSWER:
“Nowhere”
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