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California has been full of good finds. Before heading out here a local guy, Joshua, responded to my MTBR post and gave me all the info I needed, RV spot, local shop, trails, safe road routes, etc.

The first day in town I ran into some friendly roadies from SC Velo/Incycle and downhillers from Incycle/Cannondale, more good info and they verified that Incycle was the shop to hit. Incyle is a big store that has everything, I broke my seatpost and they had a great selection to choose from. They really support the local racers. I even had a few fans at the race, some of the Incycle crew cheering for me, that was really nice. If in San Dimas, CA see LaLa at Incycle Bicycles.

The tools required (in addition to allen wrenches): cheater bar and hammer
(rubber mallet to be nice to your bike). In this case I was just changing pedals.