California Rocky Mountain High
Bad news first, then the good (not much ugly around here) California Rocky Mountain high… I’ve seen it raining ashes in the sky The season for people to drop cigarette butts into the dry forest is upon us, and as such, a few fires have already sprouted here in Sunny Southern California. It is also [...]
Happy July 4th, America!
Independence is liberating, no? Regardless of who is running this country, whether or not I agree with the majority, and in spite of the fact I spent my formative years in Europe, I still love living in the United States of America. I’ve lived in enough places to know there is no perfect place to [...]
Le Tour de France: mtbchick goes Road Bike Action
I know. It seems heretical of me to write for a magazine called “Road Bike Action”. The bottom line is, I know road bikes well, I know the road well, and I have been following Le Tour for quite a few years. When I lived in Mammoth back in 2000 and trained indoors from time [...]
Girls Ride :: Been a while!
As all women who mountain bike are well aware, a solid all girls ride is hard to come by. We’re clearly accustomed to riding with the guys, pretend we can’t hear the locker room talk (it can be sometimes successfully halted with an “ahem”, by the way), and actually benefit from these rides by becoming [...]
Spring on Brown Mountain and El Prieto
For the first time since the closure of the forest, I finally took the opportunity to ride my old friend El Prieto. The Station Fire of 2009 destroyed the Angles Forest, closing thousands, tens of thousands, of acres of forest and mountain bike trails. While many ventured on to the closed trails, I have restrained [...]
Decompression Sequence Ending
Hello *mtbchick* friends, family and fans! The decompression is all but complete as the final details, press, photos, videos and shout outs are in the finishing stages. I am so blown away by all the showing of mountain bikers and cyclists in general who showed up to share an evening of girls and mountain biking [...]
Even a Bad Day in the Dirt…
Cliche. I know, but truly, in spite of adversity, discomfort and other atrocities to the modern woman, a bad day mountain biking is still a spectacular day in the life, and better than a great day “in the office”, as it were. Having been “busy” working and making a living, my time on the bike [...]
