Heidi Johnson-Fry and Kim Greene, two of our MMC family recently finished the Croatian mountain bike stage race, 4 Islands. We thought it would be fun to have Heidi tell us about their race.
ProPower Coaching is led by USAC Certified Coach Larry Towner, an elite masters road, MTB and cyclocross racer. His mission is to provide professional cycling coaching to riders of all levels.
At MMC, we love Electric Pedal Assist bikes, or more commonly, E-Bikes. In fact, several of our own staff ride E-Bikes for the fun they deliver in keeping up with faster friends and family, riding longer and farther, having a little extra boost up our hills, going to the grocery store or any number or other reasons to get out and have fun on our bikes.
RAGBRAI L, the 50th anniversary of the “Register’s Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa” got it’s namesake when “in 1973 two columnists at the Des Moines Register, Donald Kahl and John Karras, got the idea to ride across Iowa on their bikes.
MMC and FHB are two of the very best bike shops in Arizona. With that in mind, we are combining our two shops. Same two locations, same staff, one name, McDowell Mountain Cycles.
March is filled with great opportunities of volunteering and being outside. There will be an aide/support station at Belgium Waffle. Then, we have the Kid’s events at the Cactus Cup.
If you have been by MMC lately, you may have noticed someone was missing……and a big someone at that. Rob Brown retired in May and he and his wife Dee have moved up to the Prescott area.
The Chino Grinder is considered Arizona’s premier gravel bike event and for great reason. The event just celebrated its tenth year of gravel racing and almost 400 racers attended the 110 mile, 60 mile and 40 mile races.
Named in tribute to the nickname, The Last Best Place, for the State of Montana, TLBR is a gravel race of 90 miles and over 8,000 feet of elevation gain.
A few months ago, Craig Swetel, the founder/director of the Chino Grinder Race envisioned a bike ride across our beautiful state utilizing almost exclusively dirt and gravel backroads.