MB3
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MB3 ifhtfilms's article
Mar 19, 2024 at 13:14
Mar 19, 2024
Video: Kids React to Mountain Biking
Part Two: Your Medical Insurance Provider Reacts to Videos of Mountain Biking
MB3 henryquinney's article
Mar 10, 2024 at 9:56
Mar 10, 2024
The Pinkbike Podcast: What Makes Your Bike YOURS
Customized stem top caps. My bike, my wife’s, and my kid’s all have different coloured donuts (artwork) printed on them, which is colour matched to our assorted colour anodized titanium bolts. :)
It’s a small detail, doesn’t cost that much, but it adds a fair bit of personality to our bikes.
MB3 henryquinney's article
Mar 10, 2024 at 9:52
Mar 10, 2024
The Pinkbike Podcast: What Makes Your Bike YOURS
Narrow bars are why bar ends were so popular back in the early nineties. An additional, wider hand position for extra oomph on the climbs and sprints.
Also, it seemed like the trails were MUCH narrower (ie trees were closer) back in those days.
MB3 henryquinney's article
Feb 2, 2024 at 7:07
Feb 2, 2024
The Pinkbike Podcast: Our Teenage Fantasy Bikes That We Dreamed of Owning
Anything in titanium was the dream back when I was first getting into mountain biking in the early 90s. Litespeed and Merlins were lusted after like Ferraris and Lambos, whereas many other brands would reserve ti for their top end crown jewel bikes.
That being said, brightly painted aluminum Kleins were guaranteed to turn heads at the trail. Gorgeous bikes.
I got pretty close to my own dream bike by buying a Cannondale F700, back when the Volvo-Cannondale team was huge. Although it was specced with only mid tier parts, at least it had the exact same frame as what Alison Sydor was riding at the time. For a young kid who used to cut out pages from all his Mountain Bike Action magazines and post them all over his apartment, that bike made me feel fast.
MB3 henryquinney's article
Feb 2, 2024 at 6:59
Feb 2, 2024
The Pinkbike Podcast: Our Teenage Fantasy Bikes That We Dreamed of Owning
I have fond memories of mountain biking around southern Vancouver Island in the early nineties, when it seemed everyone was riding Konas, Brodies, Rocky Mountains, Norcos, etc. And then there was me, on a lugged steel frame Japanese made Bridgestone…
MB3 henryquinney's article
Jan 9, 2024 at 22:51
Jan 9, 2024
Reviewed: 6 of the Best Lightweight Elbow Pads for 2024
If they made those today, but with D30 padding instead, I’d buy them in a heartbeat. I love my Roach armour.
MB3 henryquinney's article
Jan 9, 2024 at 22:48
Jan 9, 2024
Reviewed: 6 of the Best Lightweight Elbow Pads for 2024
I still have the set I bought nearly 3 decades ago.
MB3 henryquinney's article
Jan 9, 2024 at 22:46
Jan 9, 2024
Reviewed: 6 of the Best Lightweight Elbow Pads for 2024
@woofer2609: I still have a set of Roach pads I bought in the mid nineties. Saved my elbows and forearms during a few spills, and other than some fraying near the pull straps, are still in reasonably good shape. My teenage son now wears them, although I just bought a set of those G-forms for him to try out.
MB3 jessiemaymorgan's article
Jan 9, 2024 at 17:32
Jan 9, 2024
18 Bikes That Could Be Updated in 2024
I picked up a Core 3 Izzo recently, and am loving it. That being said, I do wish the shock mount didn’t catch mud and dirt like a cup, that it had in frame storage, better bb and downtube protection, and somehow kept the remote lockouts from earlier years.
MB3 mikekazimer's article
Oct 30, 2023 at 20:10
Oct 30, 2023
PNW Components Releases New Loam Carbon Handlebar
Ever since I broke my bike bucked me off and I broke my wrist in the fall, I found that “normal” amounts of backsweep on handlebars (around 8 degrees) cause me a fair amount of pain while riding. I swapped out my stock handlebar for the aluminum PNW bar with the 10 degree backsweep and that bit extra angle made a dramatic difference for me. Had there been a carbon version at the time I made the switch, I probably would have picked that one up instead (although I admit the price on the alloy version was very reasonable).
Everyone’s body is slightly different, so I guess it stands to reason that we might all prefer different setups. I just went from one set of preferences to another after the doctors upgraded my wrist with titanium bits.
