Chickleta - My SBRing and other Adventures

For Part I of this post click here . Over dinner we were told that we had two options for tomorrow's ride. The first would be to ride the course of the Long Samarthon which is about 100 km (62 miles) or the Medium Samarathon which is "only" 75 km (about 47 miles) and skips the first climb. Ignoring the growing pain in my thigh, the result of a close encounter with a rock and the ground, I committed to ride the former (after making sure that some of the guys were planning on an easy ride and not racing it).  We would have an early wake up to be followed by an early start and we was time to get some sleep. The new BikePanel kit in it's virgin ride Friday Luckily when I got up my leg was just a little sore and very black and blue, but I was able to ride. We started riding north in a big group on a wide flatish gravel road. A nice warm-up for the long day ahead of us.   Flatish warm up start (Photo: Guy Halamish) After about 10 km (6 miles) we entered into...

It's been over 2 weeks since my magical weekend of mountain biking in the Israeli desert. It was basically one of the best weekend that I had in a long time, here is why. Desert View How it all started  I was invited to celebrate with the rest of  BikePanel  magazine staff for the 4 year anniversary of the magazine in a most appropriate way - a weekend of mountain biking. When Guy the editor emailed me with the invite and dates I have to admit I hesitated. It's a long trip from Chicago to Israel and the timing wasn't 100% right for me. It was however a very short debate and very quickly I came to my senses. Thinking to myself, what is wrong with you Sharon - it's a mountain biking weekend in one of the best places to do that with a group of amazing riders. About 2 second later I bought my plane ticket scheduled to arrived 1 day before the ride. The Set Up Samar Sunrize The Rooms The plan for the weekend was to ride the course of the Samarat...

Happy Thanksgiving all Betty has another 10% off discount code for the coming weekend. It's never too early to start with the holiday shopping and get some badass gear that not only look great but also fits well. See my review here on BikePanel (English version coming soon).