How to sell a bike:

You are looking at a great cross country mountain bike that is ready to humiliate your friends with its stiff pedaling platform and climbing prowess, while also providing comfortable and confidence inspiring geometry that will have you flowing downhill with speed that your friends won't believe! What could be better than that you ask? (As if you need a better reason than those two in order to buy this rad bike!).

How about doing all of the above activities while perched on a bike that is unique and few other riders have. Yup, in a sea of Special-Ed-Ized, Tiny, and Santa Crutch you can be ripping by on a mythical beast that eats those others bikes for lunch and still has room to conquer the meanest climbs you can throw at her! Where do you ride? Fort Ord, Santa Cruz, Toro Park, maybe the bike path...you may have to tame her down a bit for that, but she will mind a confident owner.

If you have the desire to own a super cool bike that Santa himself wishes he could deliver Christmas cheer on, then get yourself over here and check this sucker out! Here's what she's rollin': Fox Suspension (the best!) F100x Fork and RP2 Shock XT Crankset SRAM X9 Shifters Avid Juicy 5 brakes SIZE LARGE - I am 6'1"...if you are a few inches on either side of that it should work well. The way the cool frame is built allows a nice, low stand over height.

THIS BIKE IS EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO MAKE YOUR FRIENDS WISH THEY STAYED HOME! What could be better? NOTHING. A full price purchase gets a new set of Kenda tires and Crankbrother Candy C pedals. As if that wasn't enough, the festive red color is PERFECT FOR SITTING UNDER YOUR CHRISTMAS TREE! YES!!!! BUY THIS BIKE! Email or call Brian at: 831.241.4259 Thanks for reading and happy pedaling!

PS: This bike has been ridden. It has some scratches. It has some character. If you are looking for some brand new bike that the other bikes will laugh at because they know it never sees the dirt, then look elsewhere. But if you are looking for a bike that the other bikes will be like "Whoa, Sam, do you see that sucker, watch out, she means business!" then that's what you get. Sissies need not apply. If you are not a sissie, come take a look.

Bobble-Head

Last night's group ride was an interesting one to say the least. Trying to fight off my periodic lock up of my shoulder muscles, I stretched the wrong way and BAAMMMOOO! My shoulder and neck locked up tighter than Eric's grip on a pre-ride whopper! In great agony, I still wanted to do the group ride so I scoured the house and doug out some old pain killers (Thanks Doctor Dean Edell for letting me know that those pills never really expire!). After doubling the prescribed dossage I felt more more loopy than Goofy at Six Flaggs but the shoulder was pretty much non-existant so I thought I was ready! I showed up ready to ride and I'm not sure if me or the pace was more high than usual, but I think it was a combination of the two...we ended up riding for almost 2 hours so it was a great ride. I have noticed that the rides are increasingly becoming faster and faster...perhaps it's time for 2 groups on these rides? The Hammer us senselsess group and then another brisk group that doesn't quite have the kick of the first group, but is still plenty fast and wants to get a ride in as well. What do ya'll think?

MOOSH!

Typically, for me, writing is something that I enjoy. However, when I am pummeled into the ground and suffering from dehydration and exhaustion it makes the fingers tough to move along the key board. However, I am feeling like if I can make it another day or so, I will be getting recovered enough to put something new up. Until then, maybe YOU could think of a reason as to why the federal government should fork over $25M to you...I'm sure you could do better than the Big Three Stooges...

Thursday Night Ride Recap

Nearly perfect conditions greeted us this evening as the moon hung above like a well fed honors student...full and bright! Perfect for Ninja Mountain biking! Even though everyone decided to ride with lights (don't forget rule #1), challenges still emerged as last weeks primo trail conditions (read: wet sand = no crashing) gave way to trails that had dried up and the mild return of the sand traps. Fortunately, there were no major casualties. The awards for the ride break down like this:
Best Pre Ride Meal: Whopper. Greg: "What did you have Eric?" Eric: "I had a whopper dusch bag!"
Best Save: Chris M. I don't think I have ever seen a ninja in training pull off a save of this proportion! It was a full speed, sand pit grabber that ripped him 15 feet clear across one side of the sand pit to the other. He handled it like a true ninja MTB'r though...which is to say "That t'wast shiaaat biaatches!" Nice once CM.
Best Crash: Hmmm, Brett and Eric were dueling for this one, but since Eric's crash landed him in a ferocious bush, I think we have to give him the nod.
Best Brakes: Some annoying mother trucker had the squekiest FREAKIN brakes of all time. It was only trumped by Eric (do we see a pattern here?) basically exploding and blowing his breaks to bits and pieces. Nice. You know what I say. Single Speed. Single Brake.
Best Light: I am pretty sure that most women agree that bigger is better. In that case Ryan kicks all of our butts. He had a battery that would make Ron Jeremy proud!
Best Race: Apparently, I didn't get the TPS report indicating that each incline is a flat out race. I am pretty sure CB and Mark were the primary winners of most of these battles. It's a good thing no Belgian posers were here, because CB and Mark would have put the hurt on that Boonen guy...
Riders we missed...Fast Frank, Shelly, Bri, Nathan, Travis...see you guys Sunday hopefully!
Until next time...do a skid for me.

Thanks Fast Frank.....

for talking about spiders and making my significant other paranoid as all hell!! This is what you get when Brian is holding the bowl of Salsa and thinks that there is a spider in his shirt. He hit his chest to kill the "spider" that was in his shirt and salsa went flying EVERYWHERE!! I have never seen anything like it. He still thought there was a spider under his shirt so he ripped off his sweatshirt all in a frenzy and was trying to rip his tshirt off too, all the while I was like there is NO SPIDER IN YOUR SHIRT!!!! Anyway, our kitchen had salsa everywhere.... so thanks Fast Frank!!!

Drilled...

Sometimes you run into the strangest people on your rides. Today, I had put in my "time" and was really looking forward to getting home and stepping into the HOT shower in order to thaw all of my frozen fingers, toes, and face. When along comes a smurf who used his subtle song to lure me into riding with him. "Come on, it will be fun, you can ride with me..." Conceeding, I proceed with caution. However, the ride seems pleasant. The smurf is kind and I think to myself "This was a great idea!"

And then out it came...the DRILL. Try as I may to keep up, I huffed and I puffed and I tried to blow the hill down...all to no avail. As I wheezed over the top I thought "Ah-ha! Fooled!" You would think I would have known better, since I am normally the kind hearted soul suckering other, poor, unsuspecting riders into this uncomfortable position!!!

I guess the cosmic "pay-backs" can be a bitch! Oh well, like I tell my poor suckers "It's good for you!" And I have to admit, it was.

Sunday Morning Group Ride

Here is a picture of Travis Brian and I in our Hammer gear, notice mine is pink. :) So yesterday morning was my (Bri's) first group ride with the Joselyn's crew. I thought that it would be like our Thursday night ride that was about 15 miles, longer than I normally go, but it wasn't too bad. Well I WAS TOTALLY WRONG! It was 2 1/2 hours, 22.6 miles of pain!! It was a lot of climbing and I had to try to keep up with those expert and solid sport riders. Don't forget that I am just a BEGINNER! Well I don't think that I will be a beginner for very long if I train with the smurfs (aka the Joselyn's team with blue kits and helmets) :) I ran out of water and I totally bonked, luckily thanks to Alex, he gave me some juice that helped get me back to the trucks. I was spent, it was the longest ride that I have ever done on a mountain bike ride before. I guess it is time to step it up. Look out Sport riders!