Our good buddy Nick Braun set over this video of some seriously old school DHing. Its unbelievable how much the technology has changed. This video is definitely good for a laugh.

The design that pioneered the way to todays DH scene

The all new TR450

While many riders are no doubt anxiously waiting for the snow to melt and the trails to dry out, down here in the Phoenix valley we're right in the middle of peak riding season: Sunny and 70 degrees nearly every day, a light layer of green covering the desert floor, it's the time of year when you can throw your freeride gear on without dying of heat stroke. Equipped with a new GoPro helmet cam that I scored for Christmas, I've been making the best of the weather by getting out to my favorite spot outside of Mesa. It's called "NRA", named for all the bullet casings left by gun-toting hillbillies before the bikers took over. A handful of guys have put in a ton of work out here and there are some great lines through the desert. The Bottlerocket is the perfect bike for this place. Here are a couple vids of a couple lines, one of which I just did for the first time. If you're ever in the neighborhood, hit up the Arizona forum on MTBR. The locals would be glad to show you around.

Check out this review on Bike Radar. A UK tester ripped around the Alps on a new Covert...

Bike Radar Covert Review

This month Kyle and I decided to visit LA and San Diego CA. The goal was to visit shops, eat plenty of authentic tacos, ride, and utimately get a mountain bikers perspective on So Cal. So we flew to LAX and rented a phat whip to get us around in style. The 2009 Kia Rio!

  I've never seen Kyle exude so much confidence since rallying this 110 HP beast around all the famous streets of LA.  All you BMW, Audi, and Mercadies owners look out.

  Our best meal all trip was the first Taco Truck we spotted right before entering Cycle World in Northridge.

  The guys at Cycle World are super cool.  They even have PBR Jump saddles in stock!

  Beach break. You can't visit CA without hitting the beach.

   The next day in Cali we spent shuttling the local DH trails with Tani at The Path.  The Path is one of the coolest shops I've ever been to.  Tani is the owner and an absolute shredder on a bike. Tani devoted a whole day to showing us around.  Thanks Tani!

   Kyle and Tani riding toward the trail head.

  Tani pointing out the features.

  A glimpse of the 4000 + vertical decent.

     Tani and Brian back at the shop.

That evening we ate dinner at a brew pub where Tani used to bar tend.  That led to meeting up with our friend Jason with Crankbrothers. Let's just say "California knows how to party..."

The next day we made our way to San Diego to visit a few more shops.  We found Bike Bling there and decided they could be a great fit for us.  The owner Kerry gave us the grand tour then sent us off in the direction for more tacos.  All in all, our So Cal trip was short and sweet. Thanks to everyone we met along the way!

BIKE magazine has just put out their annual bible of bike tests issue and the Covert and Blindside got in. The Blindside grabbed honors for most versatile freeride bike and Covert was regarded as "A solid and well-balanced jack-of-all-trades".

We call the covert the quiver killing bike around here, and here's the proof. Last weekend I piloted My ultra dialed covert to podiums in the super d, mountain cross, and downhill events at the Fontana winter series.

 I placed 2^nd in the expert super d, 2^nd beginner downhill, and 2^nd beginner mountain cross. This bike is super versatile. I built up to 28lbs so it kills the super D but its burly enough for downhill.

For the mountain cross race I pumped up the shock pressure and set the fork to four inches and it worked pretty well.

My bike is sporting all the top shelf components from Shimano, Fox, Easton, Sunline, and Twenty6. I purchased my bike from AZ Bikes, my local Transition dealer in Flagstaff AZ.

Today was a big day here at Transition Bikes, our long awaited production TR450 downhill frames have arrived and are shipping NOW on a first come, first serve basis.

Our first graphics scheme paint job turned out really nice and shows off the racing roots of the frame.  The red and yellow frames are all paint, no stickers on these beauties.  The white frame does have removable decals and comes with our standard packet of optional frame decals.

The TR450's feature our freshly designed bolt-on seatpost collar in black that we also now offer as an aftermarket part with color options of blue, red, black, silver, and gold.  These are super smooth, light, and guaranteed to add some bling to your steed!

Team Wolf Visits from Casey Groves on Vimeo.

We here at Transition Bikes like to ride bikes of all kinds, it is just plain fun! Getting out in the woods, hitting some corners, riding some steeps... But for a lot of people, catching air is one of their favorite things.

A while back Glenn sent us an e-mail from the UK saying he was interested in our bikes. We thought Glenn's story was pretty inspirational, you see... Glenn is an above the knee amputee. Which means he has to rely on an artificial leg and knee in order to even get out and ride a bike. But now, due to some new technology, he is able to start pushing his comfort zone and start working on the jumps. Pretty inspirational!

Casey is really looking to step it up this year. Looks like hes got a new trick jumps spot, and is waisting no time in breaking it in.

Training Session from Casey Groves on Vimeo.

Thanks to this video I know that when something explodes the more I ignore it the cooler I look!

We are expecting our first production run of TR450 frames to arrive in our USA warehouse very soon. However some of our international distributors took their orders directly from Taiwan. In fact, some of those customers are already out racing, and winning, on their new bikes.

In Hong Kong, Mr. Yip Kim Fung raced his new red TR450 to first place in the Elite category at the Ho Pui DH race. He is sponsored by our distributor Gravity Reaction Cycles. Check out the pictures below, nice work!

For those of you who dont know about the fail blog, its basically a collection of the funniest pics and vids found on the internet. If you havent checked it out before, you need to! I saw this one and it was just too funny to not post. So next time your rocking out in your girlfriends car while she runs in to grab something, be careful to not turn the volume past 11 ;)

We had our sponsored trail building day last Sunday on Galbraith Mt. and we had a record of over 65 people show. This was the biggest trail building day on Galbraith and we were stoked to be a part of it. With that many people we were able to bust out the entire trail top to bottom. We will be sponsoring another day coming up to go through and buff it out and add features. Thanks to Eric Brown and the WMBC for helping to organize it.

The group getting some food (We actually ran out because we didn't expect such a huge group)

Kevin, Bobby and Lars working on their buttery section.