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I h8 Bikes is dead — Introducing… Bermstyle.com

After eight years of messing about on my little corner of the web, it’s time for a long overdue change. Before I go into it more, here’s a walk down memory lane. It was sometime in 2003 or 2004, and I was learning this thing called HTML so I could put together a website to [...]

08.31.2012 Blog Read the full story →

Shredding on Trail Bikes

Just came across this sweet video edit put together by Connor Rickey of his buddies Alex Chamberlin and Chris Jones shredding the trails in our backyard here in the East Bay. I’ve been thinking about filming a similar edit myself- there is something even more rad about shredding on a trail bike with an XC [...]

03.01.2012 Blog Read the full story →

Beaten Tracks: UK Trail Riding Edit

Sometimes I forget that it is wintertime at the moment. Although our rainy season (and therefore trail building season- I’m actually looking forward to it this year) is supposedly still on its way, in other places riders are riding in the wet stuff. I can’t say I miss doing my laundry or all the required bike [...]

02.09.2012 Blog Read the full story →

Technical Trail riding with Lars

Just about everyone has posted links to the latest edit from Transition Bikes, but it contains so much awesome it would be wrong not share it here as well. Lately I’ve been a bit obsessed with cranking faster lap times at the local spots, but that isn’t what riding is supposed to be about. Burly [...]

01.20.2012 Blog Read the full story →

SF Bike Expo Scene: Part 2

I ride my bike around the city a lot more than I get to ride it in the dirt. It is a sad reality of life in the city, but what can you do? Since I’m a big gear head with a fashionista girlfriend, it stands to reason I’d eventually become intrigued with gear that works for [...]

12.13.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Fresh Gear: Shimano M530 Trail Pedals

It’s been a while since I’ve picked up a new set of clip-in pedals. I’ve tried a number of different pedals in the past, but for some reason I always come back to Shimano SPDs. Having one cleat to fit all the different pedals on all the bikes I own (not to mention the shoes) [...]

09.25.2011 Blog Read the full story →

San Francisco Bike Park Community Design Meeting this Saturday

The Valmont Park in Boulder Colorado opened this weekend after years in development. Boulder already had some good riding locally on the dirt jump side of the spectrum, and the addition of a world class public bike park that is free to the public makes Boulder a seriously rad place to consider relocating to! Why [...]

06.16.2011 Blog Read the full story →

RIP: the Harvest Trails

Trails in the BMX/ dirt jump world seem to come and go, often times leaving behind only memories and photos. In this instance, when we referring to trails, it is in the BMX context, where the definition of trails is significantly different from the MTB definition. BMX bikes are designed to jump dirt, and a [...]

06.15.2011 Blog Read the full story →

Poor Trail Marketing at Annadel?

The Sonoma Trails Council is promoting a trail work day that is coming up on April 30th at Annadel (in the Northern Bay Area). In an effort to get more volunteers out to help with the work day they posted the following images with some almost ironic captions: Do you want your trails to look [...]

04.20.2011 Blog Read the full story →

The Trial of Mike Vandeman

Mike Vandeman is a name that floats around mountain bike circles with more than a hint of distaste. A long standing anti-mountain bike crusader, Vandeman has made it his life’s mission to oppose any mountain bike access to single track in the Bay Area and beyond. Although he is anti-car and utilizes a bicycle for [...]

03.08.2011 Blog Read the full story →

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