Yesterday I went to Owenhouse Bike Shop in Bozeman for a $12 spare derailleur hanger and left the shop with a brand new bike.. a bit impulsive? maybe!… a necessity?… No!.. But it sure feels good. So now my big problem is I have to decide which bike to take on which trail!!… man, life [...]

A day before I did one of my rides in Bozeman, I went through my camelbak to check all my spare parts. I have made it a habit to carry 2 of everything I might need to at least get me off the trail if anything happens to my bike. I noticed that I only [...]

I am really happy I found this product, and would like to share it with the MTB community. I myself am lucky, I do not have think twice about what I take with me to eat or drink when I shred the trails, and yes, like most riders I take high energy drinks and Energy [...]

Hopefully 2010 will be as good as 2009, and the Trails I will be testing will be as good or better than the trails I tested in 2009. I will continue posting all my trail experiences on this site, but I have launched a new site for my 2010 Tour of the USA and it’s [...]

The best trail in 2008 was a battle between various trails in  Moab Utah and Bend Oregon, but the clear winner was the Porcupine Trail in Moab. In 2009, trails in Moab Utah were again in the finals, but this time they were up against Colorado. The 5 finalists of the 2009 Mountain Bike Mayhem [...]

On this 2009 Tour, I took my bike / visited 17 bike shops, out of those 17 only 4 passed my very basic test to qualify for a recommendation article on mountainbikemayhem.com, that is quite shocking, because I was really expecting more than 90% to pass with flying colors. Other than the obvious being polite [...]

From May 2009 through October 2009 I tested more than 1800 miles of pure Mountain Biking Trails, in search of the Best Mountain Biking Trail the USA has to offer. My search is no where near finished, and as in May 2010 I will yet again take to the trails, this time however I will [...]

The 4th Annual   Moab Ho-Down Bike Festival October 30th, 31st and November 1st, 2009 Mark your calendar for the 4th Annual Moab Ho-Down Festival, happening the last weekend in October 2009. Moab’s original fat tire festival has changed and evolved over the past few decades into what is now being presented by Chile Pepper Bike [...]

  – A – acro-brat n. little kids who use their bikes like pogo sticks, with pegs coming out of the front axle. Should be confined to the circus or other freak show reviews. air n. space between the tires and the ground. (Both tires must be off the ground or it isn’t “air”.) Said [...]

Today 1 year ago, I did my first ride on the Giant Yukon FX, since then we have had many adventures and many hours of trails throughout the USA, all in all we have done more than 1600 miles of Mountain Biking Trails. Our first trail together was a disaster, it was the Walker Ranch [...]