Well, its been a while I suppose!! Summer went by w/o a hitch. Did not get DH MTB in much this summer as an early season bear scare stopped that. Did get some road trips in, a flaot trip on the Salt river and a few camping trips. My kinda summer!!! It is starting to cool down and its balloon fiesta here in New Mexico. Winter is around the corner soon!!!
What's new for the upcoming season? Well.......we have the new 3 skis from New Zealand coming to the US this season. Great bikes that truly blend biking and skiing together! We should have them available by mid November 2010. We will post info once we have them. The Sledgehammer continues to get better. The Sledgehammer #3 debuts this season and its beefed up and improved just for the US market. More travel, beefier frameset and a redesign give the bike a familiar look with greatly improved ride characteristics. Lastly, we have decided to keep our demo events exclusive to Sipapu Ski area here in New Mexico. We have also added Sundays to our demo weekend to allow other people to get an opportunity to try skibiking. SkiBike demo weekends are:
Jan 8/9, Feb 5/6 and March 5/6 2011.
http://www.3ski.com/
http://www.sledgehammer.at/
http://www.sipapunm.com/
Both Saturdays and Sundays on demo weekends and all people who participate in the skibike demos will be entered for a drawing for a free skibike!!! Great stuff for the upcoming season!!
Randy
SkiBikeFun.com
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Monday, June 7, 2010
Closing the Winter Depression Summer Play Day #1
Well, I was able to get new wheels laced up, new rubber, new derailleur, shifter etc completed prior to my first ride on Memorial Day 2010 on my DH machine. I had poked at Krusty, calling him out to play with me but he came up with some lame excuse that the bike shop was not able to get his wheels done in time. Funny, they got mine done in time. ??? My first ride of the DH season was at Sandia Ski area on Memorial Day 2010. I was able to get my Azonic some new blood, parts and maintaince completed before the big day. Got out of the house a bit later then I intended but hit Sandia lift by about 10:40 am after getting a season pass for mountain biking.
I came across 2 people hiking on the trail as I made my crazy decent, its always funny to watch them scramble out of the trail after the get the idea you are flying down the hill behind them at mach speed. While it was warm, it was not NM hot. Just cool enough to stop you from sweating up a storm but still had enough moisture on the mountain to clay track my ride down.
I got a few moments of bliss zipping at ultra speed between the trees in the single track. Stopped at my favorite spot on the mountain to listen to the wind howel down different runs. I was a little better after the day.
Randy
I came across 2 people hiking on the trail as I made my crazy decent, its always funny to watch them scramble out of the trail after the get the idea you are flying down the hill behind them at mach speed. While it was warm, it was not NM hot. Just cool enough to stop you from sweating up a storm but still had enough moisture on the mountain to clay track my ride down.
I got a few moments of bliss zipping at ultra speed between the trees in the single track. Stopped at my favorite spot on the mountain to listen to the wind howel down different runs. I was a little better after the day.
Randy
Monday, April 19, 2010
End Of The Season Depression Starts!!
Now starts my 9 month long depression. I still have the feeling of the elements on my face from my last few days on the hill at Hoodoo Ski area in Oregon. I've blogged on this subject before, living in the Southwest, my ski seasons are very short. If I'm lucky, I get between the 1st of January until about the middle of March with a huge finisher at Hoodoo on the first weekend of April. This season has been no different.
I was able to get 14 full play days on the snow before the fun meter was shut down. Only 14 days due to poor snow and this pesky day job that eats up my time during the week. I started my season on Dec 11, 2009 at Angel Fire Ski resort. One of my only game-over days at 11:30am when I caught a down hill edge and was thrown to the ground faster then a run-away skier from Texas, cost me a bunch of bruised ribs down my right side and kept me from peek playing performance for several weekends. I was able to complete 3 trips to Hoodoo this season and had 2 incredible powder days. Was not able to get anywhere new to play this season except Elk Ridge in AZ this season but we didn't really play there as much as we planted a seed for future growth. The day job kept me close to Abq this season and the snow overall was not that great. We completed 4 demo days at our favorite local area Sipapu Ski area and spent some really great time on the hill with some really great friends.
High points of the season where my new Brawler. While the Brawler is an incredible bike, it rides very different than most other skibikes. Took me most of the season but really started to connect with the bike. Another high point was meeting new friends from New Zealand and ridding their new equipment the 3ski. I was not sure how I would like the equipment. I typically find the Trike style skibikes not in my favor but only after 15 feet on the 3ski, I had grown man giggling coming out of my mouth!!! On my 3rd run, I was taking the 3ski down stuff I was not comfortable ridding on my own equipment on.Great piece of equipment, can not wait to get additional ones in and work them in our demo fleet. Lastly, finishing up the season at Hoodoo has become one of my bitter-sweet events of the season. First, I love heading up to Hoodoo for a visit. The folks at Hoodoo are fantastic and the owners and employees are even better. I am hugely excited to head up there but very sad knowing the last Sunday we are there, its all going to be over very shortly!!! Sunday April 4, 2010 was no different.
There was my season in a nut-shell. Time to get grieving and start the healing process. Only 9 months until I get to do it all over again. I really need to find a place with more winter!!!
Come on 2010/2011 season...just got excited about the new DH bikes on the front cover
of Mountain Bike Action. There is a little life after skibiking.
My name is Randy, and I am a Skibike junkie!!!!
I was able to get 14 full play days on the snow before the fun meter was shut down. Only 14 days due to poor snow and this pesky day job that eats up my time during the week. I started my season on Dec 11, 2009 at Angel Fire Ski resort. One of my only game-over days at 11:30am when I caught a down hill edge and was thrown to the ground faster then a run-away skier from Texas, cost me a bunch of bruised ribs down my right side and kept me from peek playing performance for several weekends. I was able to complete 3 trips to Hoodoo this season and had 2 incredible powder days. Was not able to get anywhere new to play this season except Elk Ridge in AZ this season but we didn't really play there as much as we planted a seed for future growth. The day job kept me close to Abq this season and the snow overall was not that great. We completed 4 demo days at our favorite local area Sipapu Ski area and spent some really great time on the hill with some really great friends.
High points of the season where my new Brawler. While the Brawler is an incredible bike, it rides very different than most other skibikes. Took me most of the season but really started to connect with the bike. Another high point was meeting new friends from New Zealand and ridding their new equipment the 3ski. I was not sure how I would like the equipment. I typically find the Trike style skibikes not in my favor but only after 15 feet on the 3ski, I had grown man giggling coming out of my mouth!!! On my 3rd run, I was taking the 3ski down stuff I was not comfortable ridding on my own equipment on.Great piece of equipment, can not wait to get additional ones in and work them in our demo fleet. Lastly, finishing up the season at Hoodoo has become one of my bitter-sweet events of the season. First, I love heading up to Hoodoo for a visit. The folks at Hoodoo are fantastic and the owners and employees are even better. I am hugely excited to head up there but very sad knowing the last Sunday we are there, its all going to be over very shortly!!! Sunday April 4, 2010 was no different.
There was my season in a nut-shell. Time to get grieving and start the healing process. Only 9 months until I get to do it all over again. I really need to find a place with more winter!!!
Come on 2010/2011 season...just got excited about the new DH bikes on the front cover
of Mountain Bike Action. There is a little life after skibiking.
My name is Randy, and I am a Skibike junkie!!!!
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Day 9.5 through 14 OTS
Let me get caught up.....day 9.5 OTS, we completed another SkiBike demo day at Sipapu Ski area on 3/6/10. Another great turn out and another hand full of people on the hill ridding bikes again. 50 degree day..sun on my face. Sure hoped we got snow soon because it was a bit sketchy and icy under the snow to say the least.
Day 10, I went to Sandia Ski area here in Albuquerque on 3/12/10 to try to get my snowboard back underneath me again. Only spent a 1/2 day on the hill. Thank heavens it was a very deep powder day as I spent a good part of the first 3 runs, "Cart Wheeling" down the mountain with my snowboard attached. Incredible day at Sandia and the weather and snow as incredible. After about 4 runs, started to get my board back under me but my legs were cramping so bad, the fun had been removed. Mental note...need to spend some time on my board next season.
Day 11 was the day directly after the snowboard trip above. Man did I feel like and old guy that day. We completed another SkiBike demo day at Sipapu Ski area on 3/13/10. We had lots of friends and guests that came up just for the event. We had over 20 bikes on the mountain at one time and fun being had by all. This was our final demo of the season at Sipapu and we offered up the bikes for sale. We managed to sell 3 bikes before we even left the hill. Spent the day with our buddy Patrick from Stalmach and his new girlfriend. Finished up the day with a beer and a big green chile burger before we hit the road. Kinda sad...we have a very good time doing demos at Sipapu and they are some of the best folks we come to know through the years. It’s a lot of work doing demos but it is also very rewarding word. Please watch our site next season for demo dates at Sipapu Ski area. The following Sunday...I felt like an old beat up dude!!
Day 12, 13 and 14. Spent my last 3 days OTS at Hoodoo Ski area in Oregon. This event has become a bitter-sweet one for me. 1st, I look forward to it all year but know it is most likely the last of my days on the snow every season. Also, I only get to see some of my friends at this event...1x a year. This years Hoodoo event was no downer. 1st we started out Friday 4/2/10 with snow that never stopped all day. It was wet..heavy..nasty and the light was awful...but I was in fresh snow.....always a good day for me. Due to the flat light and wet heavy snow, I only completed about 10 runs during sun breaks. Saturday 4/3/10 was a different day all together. Yes it continued to snow but the temp had dropped and the snow had dried out a bit more and was becoming very nice. Later that afternoon, the snow had warmed and mixed nicely and I hammered my Brawler and my body for several...several runs. I rode until I was plan wore out for the day. Sunday 4/4/10 the last day was a bit different. It finally quit snowing but I had sold my bike to a fellow by the name of Jeff out of Salem. Funny, I ride all types of bikes and rotate several bikes through my own inventory but was absolutely sad to see my personal Brawler go. I can go home today and build an exact copy out of my new stock but I had some how gotten connected to that big white brawler. Jeff purchased it and got his first full day on the bike on Sunday. He connected with the bike very quickly and is on his personal way to finding a good 12 step program to help him with his new bike addiction. I was able to get on the 3 ski brought in by Jason and Bruno. (Kiwi's) What a great machine and I was able to own this thing in about 15 feet. By my 3rd run, I was ridding expert terrain I am not even comfortable on my own bike on. There was grown man giggling coming out of me on that bike. I love going to Hoodoo but its very hard to leave the place after ridding tons of great snow, sharing the slopes with lots of very cool fellow riders..new and old and its also very hard to leave the hospitality of that little place called Hoodoo no matter where you are from.
Now starts my long depression until I can be on the snow again. Good thing mountain biking will be here soon enough!!!
Randy
Confessions of a bike junkie.
Day 10, I went to Sandia Ski area here in Albuquerque on 3/12/10 to try to get my snowboard back underneath me again. Only spent a 1/2 day on the hill. Thank heavens it was a very deep powder day as I spent a good part of the first 3 runs, "Cart Wheeling" down the mountain with my snowboard attached. Incredible day at Sandia and the weather and snow as incredible. After about 4 runs, started to get my board back under me but my legs were cramping so bad, the fun had been removed. Mental note...need to spend some time on my board next season.
Day 11 was the day directly after the snowboard trip above. Man did I feel like and old guy that day. We completed another SkiBike demo day at Sipapu Ski area on 3/13/10. We had lots of friends and guests that came up just for the event. We had over 20 bikes on the mountain at one time and fun being had by all. This was our final demo of the season at Sipapu and we offered up the bikes for sale. We managed to sell 3 bikes before we even left the hill. Spent the day with our buddy Patrick from Stalmach and his new girlfriend. Finished up the day with a beer and a big green chile burger before we hit the road. Kinda sad...we have a very good time doing demos at Sipapu and they are some of the best folks we come to know through the years. It’s a lot of work doing demos but it is also very rewarding word. Please watch our site next season for demo dates at Sipapu Ski area. The following Sunday...I felt like an old beat up dude!!
Day 12, 13 and 14. Spent my last 3 days OTS at Hoodoo Ski area in Oregon. This event has become a bitter-sweet one for me. 1st, I look forward to it all year but know it is most likely the last of my days on the snow every season. Also, I only get to see some of my friends at this event...1x a year. This years Hoodoo event was no downer. 1st we started out Friday 4/2/10 with snow that never stopped all day. It was wet..heavy..nasty and the light was awful...but I was in fresh snow.....always a good day for me. Due to the flat light and wet heavy snow, I only completed about 10 runs during sun breaks. Saturday 4/3/10 was a different day all together. Yes it continued to snow but the temp had dropped and the snow had dried out a bit more and was becoming very nice. Later that afternoon, the snow had warmed and mixed nicely and I hammered my Brawler and my body for several...several runs. I rode until I was plan wore out for the day. Sunday 4/4/10 the last day was a bit different. It finally quit snowing but I had sold my bike to a fellow by the name of Jeff out of Salem. Funny, I ride all types of bikes and rotate several bikes through my own inventory but was absolutely sad to see my personal Brawler go. I can go home today and build an exact copy out of my new stock but I had some how gotten connected to that big white brawler. Jeff purchased it and got his first full day on the bike on Sunday. He connected with the bike very quickly and is on his personal way to finding a good 12 step program to help him with his new bike addiction. I was able to get on the 3 ski brought in by Jason and Bruno. (Kiwi's) What a great machine and I was able to own this thing in about 15 feet. By my 3rd run, I was ridding expert terrain I am not even comfortable on my own bike on. There was grown man giggling coming out of me on that bike. I love going to Hoodoo but its very hard to leave the place after ridding tons of great snow, sharing the slopes with lots of very cool fellow riders..new and old and its also very hard to leave the hospitality of that little place called Hoodoo no matter where you are from.
Now starts my long depression until I can be on the snow again. Good thing mountain biking will be here soon enough!!!
Randy
Confessions of a bike junkie.
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Day 8.5 OTS
Soo...probably was wondering what ".5" of a day is on the snow??
I spent day 8.5 on the snow with my sister and her kids in Flagstaff at a snow play area for sleds. My sister dropped me a call and said she and the family would be in Flagstaff, Az the past weekend. Not having spent any real time with my kid sister in a lot of years, I welcomed the opportunity to meet up with a drive in from Albuquerque, NM.
Knowing my sister and family was from Phoenix, I signed up to bring up some snow toys for all to play on. I loaded up several SkiBikes and sleds and met up with her and the family in Flagstaff. We found a neat little snow play area outside of the flag staff area and had a blast with her and her family of a husband and 4 kids for about 3 hours until everyone in her family was wet and cold (not us..we all had snow clothes) and we called it a day. We had a blast hiking up the sleds and Skibikes and ridding them down through the trees. I hiked up my bike several times..100's of feet up the hill for some really cool rides down some at a minute to almost 2 minutes down. The hill was terraced and made it easier to hike up. Great exercise, lots of fun...best of all free!! We finished up the afternoon in the bar back at the Hotel and finally a dinner with her and her husband.
On the way out of town on Sunday, we stopped at a neat little local ski area I had never heard of called Elk Ridge Ski outside of Williams, Az. Tiny little area, with a rope tow and 1 Poma lift and about 6 runs. Williams is the train station depot for the Grand Canyon Railroad. I have to come back in the summer to see more of this place. We chatted with them on getting access to the area for our bikes and was very well received. We pulled out one of the Metalworx bikes and let them take a few runs. Boy was that a mistake!!! All we heard was grown man giggling from that point forward!! We decided to leave the bike with them and let the manager we chatted with, show his other partners. As we headed down into the parking lot, we continued to hear them giggling and laughing while trying to get that Metalworx up the rope tow lift!! Wish I could have captured it on film!!
That’s what I consider my day 8.5 OTS (on The Snow!!)
Peace, love and SkiBikes.
Randy
SkiBikeFun.com
I spent day 8.5 on the snow with my sister and her kids in Flagstaff at a snow play area for sleds. My sister dropped me a call and said she and the family would be in Flagstaff, Az the past weekend. Not having spent any real time with my kid sister in a lot of years, I welcomed the opportunity to meet up with a drive in from Albuquerque, NM.
Knowing my sister and family was from Phoenix, I signed up to bring up some snow toys for all to play on. I loaded up several SkiBikes and sleds and met up with her and the family in Flagstaff. We found a neat little snow play area outside of the flag staff area and had a blast with her and her family of a husband and 4 kids for about 3 hours until everyone in her family was wet and cold (not us..we all had snow clothes) and we called it a day. We had a blast hiking up the sleds and Skibikes and ridding them down through the trees. I hiked up my bike several times..100's of feet up the hill for some really cool rides down some at a minute to almost 2 minutes down. The hill was terraced and made it easier to hike up. Great exercise, lots of fun...best of all free!! We finished up the afternoon in the bar back at the Hotel and finally a dinner with her and her husband.
On the way out of town on Sunday, we stopped at a neat little local ski area I had never heard of called Elk Ridge Ski outside of Williams, Az. Tiny little area, with a rope tow and 1 Poma lift and about 6 runs. Williams is the train station depot for the Grand Canyon Railroad. I have to come back in the summer to see more of this place. We chatted with them on getting access to the area for our bikes and was very well received. We pulled out one of the Metalworx bikes and let them take a few runs. Boy was that a mistake!!! All we heard was grown man giggling from that point forward!! We decided to leave the bike with them and let the manager we chatted with, show his other partners. As we headed down into the parking lot, we continued to hear them giggling and laughing while trying to get that Metalworx up the rope tow lift!! Wish I could have captured it on film!!
That’s what I consider my day 8.5 OTS (on The Snow!!)
Peace, love and SkiBikes.
Randy
SkiBikeFun.com
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Monday, February 15, 2010
Brenter Trade In at SkiBikeFun.com
At least till the end of the season and possibly beyond, we will offer a 25% trade in value/discount of any "Complete" Brenter adult bike with skis towards a new bike purchase here at SkiBikeFun.com. If you have the Brenter footskis also, we will offer an additional 2% for a grand total of 27% trade in/discount towards a new bike purchase at SkiBikeFun.com!!
Example- New Sledgehammer Full Suspension Purchase, $695 USD. Send us a complete Adult Brenter Bike, any model and receive 25% ($173.75 USD off) if you had the foot skis, it would be a total of $187.65 USD off the list price on the bike above. Do this same trade in on a New Alpine Brawler Worx and save a whooping $745.20 USD (27% with foot skis)!!!
The Brenter does not need to be serviceable, just have “All” the parts. If the bike is 95-100% complete we should be good.
This is good on any New SkiBike Purchase at SkiBikeFun.com, at any price!! Get a new Sledgehammer or a new Brawler…. Maybe a great Stalmach!!!! How about a new Venom or a Metalworx!!! Your Choice.
Go dig around and find some of those Brenters laying around and give us a call!!! If we don’t accept your trade in, we might be interested in buying your parts!!! Please drop us a note or a call.
We will be posting this info on our site very soon. Please stop by.
Randy
SkiBikeFun.com
Example- New Sledgehammer Full Suspension Purchase, $695 USD. Send us a complete Adult Brenter Bike, any model and receive 25% ($173.75 USD off) if you had the foot skis, it would be a total of $187.65 USD off the list price on the bike above. Do this same trade in on a New Alpine Brawler Worx and save a whooping $745.20 USD (27% with foot skis)!!!
The Brenter does not need to be serviceable, just have “All” the parts. If the bike is 95-100% complete we should be good.
This is good on any New SkiBike Purchase at SkiBikeFun.com, at any price!! Get a new Sledgehammer or a new Brawler…. Maybe a great Stalmach!!!! How about a new Venom or a Metalworx!!! Your Choice.
Go dig around and find some of those Brenters laying around and give us a call!!! If we don’t accept your trade in, we might be interested in buying your parts!!! Please drop us a note or a call.
We will be posting this info on our site very soon. Please stop by.
Randy
SkiBikeFun.com
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