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.
Kailey Kornhauser and Marley Blonsky are bike riders on a mission – a mission to change the perception of who rides bikes. All Bodies on Bikes, a Shimano Originals film.
Our “Jersey of the Month” is not a race jersey, but one from the Penticton Triathlon Club in British Columbia. The PTC jersey is hanging proudly at MMC thanks to one of our many Canadian friends.
The year 2020, was a year of cancelled and postponed races. One race that organizers were able to pull off in 2020 after a six month delay, was the “Gravel Nationals” hosted by the city of Lawrence, Kansas and presented by United States Endurance Cycling.