Park Tool Celebrates 50th Anniversary
By Gregg Kato April 30, 2013
Company Spotlight Feature Articles Gear/Apparel Press and News Video
Park Tool is a brand name well known in the bike industry for quality and durability. Walk into ANY bike shop and you will find Park Tools. Check out this cool company retrospective for their 50th anniversary.
Read More »Easton Bell Hosts a Party for IMBA – Bell Office Mini Tour
By Gregg Kato February 15, 2013
Company Spotlight Feature Articles Gear/Apparel
Easton-Bell Sports held a party last week for IMBA and it’s board members. Mtbr was invited to join the festivities and we enjoyed chatting with several important members of IMBA’s board of directors as well as employees from Bell, Easton, Jenson USA, Fox Racing Shox, SRAM and more! We have a few pix from the
Read More »Video: Specialized Engineers Spotlight
By Francis Cebedo June 12, 2012
Company Spotlight Feature Articles
Every week, the Specialized mtb development crew scrambles to get their office work done early so they can run to the forest and do some trail testing. Here is a great glimpse into their test rides. I’ve had the opportunity to ride and hang out with this Specialized engineering crew and this video really shows
Read More »Mtbr Rides Mammoth Mountain Bike Park
By Kurt Gensheimer August 31, 2011
Company Spotlight Feature Articles
(all photos courtesy of Mammoth Mountain Bike Park) Mammoth Mountain Bike Park – Pumice Riders Unite Pumice is a solidified piece of frothy lava that’s formed through rapid cooling and depressurization, usually right after it’s violently ejected from a volcanic explosion. And if you aren’t used to riding on pumice, you’ll quickly figure out it’s
Read More »Sunrace components – Derailleurs and cassettes
By Lee Lau April 06, 2011
Company Spotlight Feature Articles Pro Reviews
Sunrace components – derailleurs and cassette alternatives Review by Lee Lau I saw an ad for Sunrace components in some magazine in the newstand. What initially caught my eye was the reference to Sturmey-Archer (the 100 year old company) which I found also distributed Sunrace components. In my mind, anyone associated with that lineage of
Read More »Ray’s MTB Indoor Bike Park – Milwaukee, WI
By Gregg Kato February 16, 2011
Company Spotlight Feature Articles
Mtbr Rides Ray’s I have to admit that I was a little intimidated when I first got the invitation to come and ride Ray’s new indoor MTB park for the Grand Opening of their new location in Milwaukee, WI (the original Ray’s MTB park has been located in Cleveland, OH since 2004). I had seen
Read More »Trek Bicycles Factory Tour
By Gregg Kato February 07, 2011
Company Spotlight Feature Articles
Here are a variety of pictures from Mtbr’s recent tour of the Trek Factory. Although we were disappointed at the last minute decision to not allow us to take photos of the actual fabrication of their carbon road and mountain bikes, we were still stoked to see the inner workings of such an innovative, iconic
Read More »
