SUV Driver Chasing Bike Rider Hit With Serious Charges
Click Orlando.com is reporting that an SUV driver, who felt a cyclists was riding too fast on a bike path, entered the bike path in her vehicle and came within feet of bumping into the…
Category: Mountain Biking
Another Prestige E-Bike Brand Recalls Bikes Due To Fire Concern
While battery “experts” and e-bike retailers continue to deflect blame of e-bike battery fires to low-quality batteries imported from China, another recall clearly contradicts their assertions. The latest recall is from Santa Cruz Bicycles, hardly…
Happy Camp’s Rogue Motocross Track
Got a sneaky feeling that this motocross track tucked into the middle of Happy Camp Canyon Regional Park in Moorpark, California, was not sanctioned. The track crosses the main path leading from the western entrance…
Switching To The Dark Side
We lost the war. “We” being the purist mountain bikers who wanted to keep motorized recreational vehicles off trails developed for hikers, runners, mountain bikers and equestrians. “No E-Bikes” signs still pop up at trailheads…
Countdown To Destruction Starts On Somis Road Today
Just shy of three months since an out-of-control driver demolished the Armco Crash Barrier on Somis Road’s Dead Man’s Curve, an all-new replacement guardrail stands strong. A CalTrans crew installed the new barrier today. The…
Donate To The Burner Memorial Fund
A promised follow-up to our posting on the sudden passing of Scott Burnworth. Friends of the Burnworth Family have set up a Gofundme account for the family. Its goal is to raise $88,888 and through…
Newton-Rider Struggles To Make Their N1 Helmet A Reality
It has been five years since Newton-Rider started taking deposits for their N1 helmet. Wait, is it really a “deposit” if the amount paid is the full price? No. So it has been five years…
Grinch Attacks Somis Road’s Dead Man’s Curve
Caltrans' delay in replacing the destroyed guardrail on Somis' infamous Dead Man's Curve just saved tax payers some bucks but could have cost unsuspecting Christmas Tree shoppers their lives. The guardrail was recently taken out…
Somis Road’s Dead Man’s Curve
Somis Road, that runs between Las Posas Road in Camarillo to East Los Angeles Avenue (the 118) in Somis, California, is a two-mile stretch of two-lane blacktop. It is relatively flat and straight with a…
America’s Side-By-Side Catastrophe
In 1973 The National Lampoon ran an ad for the fictitious DOA Deerslayer Motorhiker Side-by-Side. The ad copy explained that the Deerslayer “lets you and your family have all the fun and freedom of the…