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Sacred Rides the worlds best Mountain Biking Adventures

October 28, 2009 By RIP3D Leave a Comment

Every Mountain Biker knows the feeling of wanting to experience NEW rides in NEW places but we also all know that planning these trips can be a nightmare, and work out to be very expensive. There are numerous companies that organize Mountain Biking trips, but NO company offers unique and affordable Mountain Biking Trips / Adventures like Sacred Rides . Sacred Rides has been the undisputed leader in Mountain Biking Trips Worldwide for over 13 years, and are the singletrack specialists … [Read more...]

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Single Tracks Bike Shop Mountain Bikers Favorite Fruita Bike Shop

October 7, 2009 By RIP3D Leave a Comment

Walk into Single Tracks in the heart of Fruita, and you will immediately notice how well stocked the shop is, not just with some really niffty looking bikes, but a huge selection of everything you will need and more. Single Tracks is the kind of shop, that once you are in there, you just don't want to leave. Usually I ask for peoples recommendations about bike shops on various Mtb forums, but I had not got around to doing this for Fruita. In this case, I approached actuall riders on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Colorado, Other Reviews Tagged With: aspen, bike shop, bike shops, bikes, bikeshop, doubt, few minutes, fruita area, fruita colorado, grand junction trails and camping guide, heart, mountain biker, south park, south park square, stop sign, time chris

Redstone Cyclery Lyons Colorado much more than a good Reputation

September 15, 2009 By RIP3D 1 Comment

The most important thing when running a small personal business, is having a good reputation, it is this that will keep a small business healthy. Anyone can sell products, even good products but that alone does nothing for a reputation, a reputation is based on how happy and satisfied your customers are with your services, the happier and more satisfied the customers are, the better the reputation. In real life it takes years to gain an excellent reputation, and a lot of hard word to keep … [Read more...]

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Hall Ranch Lyons Colorado

September 12, 2009 By RIP3D 4 Comments

Hall Ranch Another highly recommended trail in the Boulder area, just outside Lyons. There was no doubt in my mind that I was going to enjoy this trail more than my previous one (Sourdough). I was praying that this trail was not recommended by the same people that recommended Sourdough. Well I had surprise coming my way.. a very pleasant surprise. Trail Stats & Information Nearby City: Lyons Length: 10 total miles Trail Type: Loop Skill Level: Aerobically: moderate. … [Read more...]

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Tsali North Carolina Left Loop and Right Loop

July 27, 2009 By RIP3D Leave a Comment

The first time I started on the Tsali Loops was the "perfect storm" for a mountain biker's nightmare, within 15 min. I got stung just above the knee by a hornet that got caught under my shorts, stung like hell, but I pushed on. I just passed the 6 mile marker, when on a slight downhill I got a bit carried away, and on a minor jump, I blew both my inner-tubes and had to walk 5 miles back to the trail head, I always carry 2 spare tubes on a trail, but 2 weeks ago i gave one away to a fellow biker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MTB Trails, North Carolina Tagged With: bike shop, bikers, carte blanche, clue, code of ethics, hell, hornet, inner tubes, marker, mile marker, mountain biker, mountain biking, nightmare, perfect storm, prince of the deep water, rear tire, snake bite, spare tubes

Black Mountain Trail Pisgah State Forest

July 10, 2009 By RIP3D Leave a Comment

The notorious Black Mountain Trail in the Pisgah state Forest North Carolina. Ask any mountain biker what is the "must do trail " in NC and they will all say "Black Mountain" with a smile on their face, I didn't know if it is an evil smile, like wrapping up a Pork Chop and giving it to a vegetarian for a gift kinda smile, or a Oooh yeah that brings back fond memories kinda smile! So it was time to find out what all the fuss is about, and the only way to do that was to put the rubber to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MTB Trails, North Carolina Tagged With: bike maintenance, blubber, car park, cars, clawhammer, climbing, clock, evil smile, fond memories, forest north carolina, gap, gravel path, grunt, heavy rain, log bridge, mountain biker, pisgah, pork chop, ranger station, state forest, thrift cove, time 3, vegitarian

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