ROUGH GO CREATIVE

Santa Rosa has its first pump track.

Hey, guess what? Winter is here. That means we usually have to swap out our trusty mountain machines for road or cross bikes, give the trails a break (and hopefully a hand too), and get a ride in when it’s not dumping rain or snow on us. The hardcore among us won’t stop altogether, but motivation drops like a thermometer’s mercury when we have to get out of a cozy, warm house to go suck freezing air up a slippery, mud-covered ascent. Our minds tend to drift to other places, distant lands and exotic locales where the skies are [...]Read More

Santa Rosa Cyclocross at the SR Cup

Mary Bardell has her hands full. When she’s not the High Priestess of Product Management here at Kitsbow HQ, this hardworking mom is busy raising two girls. So where does she find the time to get out on her bike for a leg-burning, lung-busting, mind-clearing ride on her favorite trails? Early. Very, very early. Mary is up and out before sunrise. While most of us are still sawing logs, she’s out pedaling in the woods on a Remedy. She begins with lights ablaze, fully layered to brave the morning frost. The forest comes alive as the sun begins its [...]Read More

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.” William Shakespeare There are rare moments in life when we find ourselves in the company of a group of total strangers who are cut from the same cloth. Last week in Moab, a group of #obsessives gathered for an unforgettable weekend of extraordinary sandstone singletrack, meatballs, Mag 7, pumptracks and pinot noir, at the first-ever Kitsbow Slickrock Social. A kinship was forged in the red desert. Many of the Kitsbow Ambassadors, hailing from different corners of the country, had never met before. Bear and Leg, the winners of the [...]Read More

We at Kitsbow get to work and ride with a lot of incredible gear and sometimes we can’t help but share with our fellow #obsessives. Meet Stinner Frameworks. Stinner Frameworks is a Santa Barbara-based bicycle fabrication house that has been getting some well-deserved attention in recent years. Whether they’re crafted from steel or titanium, nimble road racing machines or knobby-tired, slack-angled bruisers, every Stinner bicycle is made to precise standards and their fine quality is immediately apparent. Every detail has been considered, from fit to finish, and every step of the process – design, machining, welding, paint, assembly – is executed by [...]Read More

The Dirt Crits, Santa Rosa’s longest running mountain bike race series, are in full swing.

Adventure and the appreciation of quality products lives in all of us.