MERRY CHRISTMAS

CLIMB THE LEMMON!

Wednesday 12/21/11 10am Knox and McLovin are going to Ride the Lemmon. Everyone is welcome. We will be on Road Bikes but if you can make it all types of bikes are welcome. Meet in the Safeway Parking Lot.

PIRATES UNITE! LETS RIDE

The Holidays are here and we all need to ride. Everyone in the Tucson or surrounding area lets ride Fantasy Island Thursday 12/22/11 12pm Houghton Side. Sound off via comment to this post if you are interested. I will be riding regardless. Your fellow Pirate Derek (aka McLovin)

Knox boys to race Iron Horse Bicycle Classic.

The race is at the end of May in Durango, Colorado.  The race course climbs from Durango to Silverton, races the train, and goes over two 10k foot peaks.  The boys are locos.

McLovin Runs 1st Marathon

Senior McLovin "The Wolf" Regan (aka Son-Rat Derek) completed the Dallas White Rock Marathon in 4 hrs 27 minutes today.  This is his 1st marathon and a milestone on his Ironman training plan. What a sexy beast.  Credit to Ky for the photo.

Links...
Results
White Rock Marathon

Son-Rats Duo Dawn To Dusk

T-Bone Knox & El La Anderson braved hail & freezing cold temps (well, freezing for us desert rats) in the mixed duo category today @ the Dawn to Dusk mnt bike race at McDowell Mountain Park (outside Phoenix). 3 x 15.5 mile laps each earned them 18th of 29 mixed duo teams (even after bailing out w/ plenty of time on the clock due to the cruddy weather). Congrats!

T-Bone lap times... 
1:07 / 1:01 / 1:04

El La lap times...
1:22 / 1:26 / 1:32



Links...
Results
Dawn to Dusk Race
McDowell Mountain Park

Open Now: Ben's Bikes in Rita Ranch (Tucson, AZ)

Ben Chandler has opened up a new bike shop in South East Tucson (near Rita Ranch & Fantasy Island).

The shop is called "Ben's Bikes" has a service area and carries mountain bikes, road bikes, bmx bikes, kids bikes, cruisers, and skateboards.  Along with the supporting components, accessories, and gear.

The store has a really cool shop dog and a very friendly vibe.  Check out Ben's shop and support our local businesses and bike scene.




location: 7431 S. Houghton, Tucson, AZ.
website: www.bensbikestucson.com (currently under construction)
email: ben@bensbikestucson.com
phone: (520) 574-2453
hours: M-F: 10-6pm / Sat: 9-6pm / Sun: 11-4pm

Here are some of the brands we noticed while walking around Ben's shop... Giant, Redline, Park Tools, Stans No Tubes, Honey Stinger, Sock Guy, Geax, Maxxis, Kenda, We The People, S&M, Fit, Intense BMX, Royal, 661/One Industries, & Five Ten

improve your mountain bike technique...

I opted to torture myself and read/watch "all things mountain bike" during my recovery.  I stumbled across a series of 15 mountain bike technique videos.  They were created to help promote tourism in the Austrian State of Tirol.  The area is magnificent.  Unfortunately, I've never rode a mountain bike there but we did spend a day in the capital city of Innsbruck learning how to snowboard.

The videos are short, relevant, seem fairly accurate (besides maybe the cockpit setup recommendations), and dubbed over in English. Enjoy.






Tirol Tourism Mountain Bike Technique Videos
01. Bike Equipment
02. Basic Riding Position
03. Braking Techniques
04. Riding Uphill
05. Fast Cornering
06. Obstacles
07. Jumps (pre-loading)
08. Step Downs
09. Steeps
10. Switchbacks
11. Jumps
12. Drop offs
13. Switchbacks with a Rear Wheel Hop
14. Wheelie Drops
15. Bunny Hops

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