Congratulations on choosing mountain biking from a wide variety of summer sports! It is among the fastest-paced, fun-filled, and rewarding of athletic challenges. You might be so excited about digging those new treads into dirt that reading up on a lot of guidelines doesn’t seem important.

Are you getting the new bike “I wants?” Everyone gets these from time to time and some of us get it more than others! It is a natural occurrence with cyclists as new products come to the market with the promise of being the next great design that will make you that great rider you have always wanted to be.

As you guys already know, I was not able to make it out to Interbike this year because I was in Maui on my honeymoon. My good friends over at MTBR.com made the trip over and have provided some great coverage of the show.

For Interbike 2008, Cane Creek released some new models for their line of 110 headsets. The Zero Stack and XX (1.5 heatube) round out their line of 110’s. This is great news for 1.5″ headtube owners as the options for your application continue to grow.

I have been involved in the product development end of a new tread design out of one of the major tire manufacturers for several months now. After several sets…I can say that these are probably the best cross country tires that I have ever ridden.

We had over 350 tickets in our first ever giveaway on Mountain Biking by 198! Thank you guys for the support and we are really looking forward to our GIGANTIC GIVEAWAY later THIS MONTH! Guess what? By being involved in this giveaway…you are automatically enrolled with 1 ticket for the future giveaways!

On my ride to work today, a thought occurred to me…”There is no other group of people like the cycling community.” This very tight knit group has very diverse backgrounds, views, opinions and ages but in the end…they all get along great together with their common passion…biking. Every weekend there are large numbers of these groups getting together and sharing their love of the outdoors and their hobby.

When I returned from Maui this week, I received my samples from Julbo USA. Julbo manufactures high end sports glasses and goggles for numersous uses from water sports to mountain excursions. These two new pair, the Run and Dirt (not on website yet), are stylish adventure sport models that feature their Zebra lens technology.

As you guys saw in an earlier post…I got married to the woman of my dreams on the 20th of September and the day afterward we headed to Maui for seven full days of honeymoon bliss. Maui is incredible. I could not have asked for a better wedding, honeymoon or new bride…everything was perfect.