We Know Extreme

Introduction

Early 2019, after many years on 300’s, I decided to change a little bit, and bought XCW150 2019 model.

Tiny little bike, very light, very nimble and VERY fast when ride as it should be.  All 150’s (and 200’s in the time) frames used to be identical to the 12...

This article refers to the use of Garmin Etrex 20/20x/30/30x as this is the most common GPS used on the Extreme racing scene, but the principals work for all other Garmin devices, with minor changes.

General recommendations and GPS setup:

If you can, run 2 GPS’s at the s...

Adjusting drive chain slack is a very important maintenance work, but it's rarely done properly.

Why does the chain need to have slack at all?

As the rear suspension compresses, the drive shaft and the rear axle move away from each other.

A chain that's too tight could ca...

2017 Kenda Tennessee Knockout Extreme Enduro - TKO is in the books and we are now halfway across the country on our way back to Washington. I feel the race promoters upped the ante this year and in combination with heavy rainfall prior to race weekend the creek beds th...

I have created all of my parts out of necessity. Items that I couldn’t find on the market, or that of what was available didn’t fit my needs for either two reasons; price, design, and fit.

I went from realizing what I needed, to the design of what I wanted, then creatin...