Happy Holidays from the crew over at Mountain Biking by 198 (soon to be Bike198). It has been an incredible year thanks to your support. Hopefully, you are finding the time to spend with family, friends and your bike this holiday season as we get ready to get things rolling for 2010. The best to you and yours this holiday season and happy new year! Keep the rubber side...

I am going to use this Monday morning to tell on myself a little bit. Two weekends ago, after my great road ride in the mountains Saturday morning, I hit the lake for some watercraft and wake boarding action. Now…it had been YEARS since I had strapped in behind a boat, but I hit it balls to the wall without a care in sight. The result…fell hard several times...

As the blog continues to grow, navigation across the posts and the site becomes increasingly harder. In an attempt to make this easier for you guys, I have created some new categories and created a listing that you will now find at the bottom of the page. Each category has the number of posts listed. Once you get into the category page with the post listings, you will...

I think I have mentioned this before, but from time to time…I am going to post up the blogs that I read on a daily basis. These are some of the ones that I have found that have really caught my interest. BICYCLE DESIGN With almost 1,400 subscribers and even more daily readers, I am not the only web surfer that has found James’ site incredibly interesting....

SingletrackWorld.com took a look at a couple of new things out of Magura for 2008. Full article on singletrackworld.com. We’ve brought you word of Magura’s new shock, so here is news of the new, super-lightweight Marta and the return of the never-released Thor fork… MAGURA MARTA DISC BRAKES Here’s the new Magura Marta SL Magnesium. For the first...

So “the other half” was pouring hydrogen peroxide on the back of my leg from a pedal stabbing incident at Windrock when she looked at me and said “can’t you ever not get hurt?” I don’t know about you guys…but I thought it was hilarious.  There is some truth to her statement, at least in her eyes.  I do come home with at least...

Honestly…how many different wheels sizes do we need? With the introduction of the 650B (27.5″) wheel size, we are now up to 3 different available wheel sizes for mountain bikes if you don’t include the 24″ variety. The idea is that you get the same rolling power seen in 29″ wheels with the agility of 26″. I am not jumping on the bandwagon...