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Mountain Biking Section:

My Travels......
Washington - Oregon trip:
July-August 2002 Traveled to Washington and Oregon to ride in the Mt. St. Helens and Umpqua River areas.

Brian Head/Crested Butte:
Auguset 2000 I went to Brian Head Utah and Crested Butte Colorado. Unfortunately, I did not get any pictures from Utah. I manged to get very few pictures from the Crested Butte portion. Check them out below. I'm still hopeing to get more and even portions of a video that we were shooting. Until then standby.

Whistler trip:
In August of 1999, I took my annual mountain biking trip to Whistler B.C.

New Zealand trip:
In November 1998, I went to New Zealand. Check out some of cool pictures and descriptions.

My current bike - 2005 Turner 5-Spot:

(Bike is now a 2007 Turner Spot) - Assembled April 2007

Some pictures and spec of my Spot: Build Sheet.

2005 Juicy Worm Gear "install" :
My 2005 Avid Juicy 7 brake lever needed to have its worm gear drive assembly
replaced. This is procedure on how to do it.

Rock Shox Pike Maxle:
I wanted to have the QR lever pointed rear-ward at the 9:00 position.
Here's how to do it.

"Old Bike" - 1998 Psycle Werks Wild Hare

1998 Psycle Werks XC. The frame is a 14.5"
and features custom blue anodizing by Psycle Werks. The
bike was assembled at BC USA (CBC USA) in Redondo Beach.

Unfortunately, they are no longer around. It's been an awesome bike
which has taken me to a lot of great adventures.

Build Sheet.

Psycle Werks atop Mauna Kea 1998

Psycle Werks circa December 2003

            To see more pictures of my bike as well as other awesome
            Psycle Werks bikes, take a look at: Psycle Werks and click
            on "Album" at the top. Email Roy at Pscyle Werks with any
            questions you may have, he was very helpful in getting this
            "small" frame built just for us "little people".
            Check out a lot of rave reviews of the Psycle Werks bikes
            at MTB Review-Psycle Werks.

            I also have a build sheet of my old bike, a 1994
           Mongoose AMP, also built at BC USA.

How about some mountain biking pictures of some of my travels?

Pictures from Crested Butte Colorado
    Pearl Pass - 12,705 feet. 18 miles to Aspen, 19 to Crested Butte.
    Pearl Pass going down the Aspen side through the snow.
    401 Trail - I kept imagining I'd see Maria Von-Trap come around the corner.
    The gang on 401 trail.
    Tim and I on the 401 trail.
    Tim-o crossing the stream with Troy and Bob right behind.
Pictures from Hawaii
    Pololu Valley - Trail cut right out of the face of a 1000' cliff with
                             a water fall falling from above. Breath taking to ride on.
    Ditch Trail -     An irrigation ditch constructed back in the plantation days to
                            supply water to the cane fields. This is in back of my house and
                            leads to the back side of Waipio Valley.
    Lake Waiau - This is an arctic lake on the mountain Mauna Kea. The lake is
                            more then 12,000 feet up. In the back ground is "Poliahu", where
                            the goddes of snow lives. "Pele", to goddess of fire lives out in
                            Kilauea, the volcanic crater.

Many thanks to those people who provided images for this part of my page. I'm new to this
so people have been archiving images of our travels for years. Luckily, some of them even
have them on the web. MANY MAHALOS!!

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