Park Tweets FR TweetsOur Colorado rider, Tom Leahy spent an afternoon product testing with Mountain Flyer Magazine. Which, by the way is an awesome magazine (and web site) depicting the mountain biking way of life in Colorado. Lot’s of great stories, industry news, and product reviews. Check em’ out.
http://www.mountainflyermagazine.com/
Photos by B.Riepe
A group of us went out to ride the White Rim trail in early June 2010, just outside of Moab UT. It’s one of those “must do” rides in your lifetime. An Epic.
It’s approximately 100 miles along the junction of the Colorado and Green rivers that can be ridden in a single day or, like we did ,in a few days camping along the way.
My trip from Santa Barbara was made much easier thanks to the guys over at Mountain Flyer Magazine who loaned me a Specialized S-Works carbon Epic, which was quite possibly the most perfect bike ever for this ride. The large geometry was a great fit for me and the 29″ wheels made the ride all that much smoother.
After more than twenty years of staring at pavement while cycling and running over 5,000 miles annually and soaring through three Hawaii Ironman competitions where she captured three podium finishes… Laurie Sigloch of PowerBar and Team Foundation Roots, Santa Barbara, trades her tri-bike for dual suspension and hasn’t looked back. She is loving the trails, both on foot and on mountain bike.
She began racing XC MTB in the beginner class-Cat 3 last year on her city bike, complete with reflectors, blinkies, head lamp, and no suspension or disk brakes. When friends encouraged her to come race a local, Santa Ynez mt. bike race. “I showed up for the first race assuming I’d learn a lot from watching the others from behind – while getting my butt kicked by experience women.” She won that race in the second 9 mile loop and went on to win cat 3 women, age 40-49 at the 2009 Sea Otter Classic the next weekend. After winning all 8 XC races she entered in 2009 she upgraded to Category 2, Sport Class and is ripping up the trails this season.
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