Articles Archive for 1 June 2009
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Have a look at Greg Minaar’s helmet cam footage of this weekend’s Fort William World Cup DH run. Complete with very casual sounding commentary…
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
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X-Fusion/ Intense attended the 2009 US Open of Mountain Biking last weekend and had a very eventful weekend. There were lots of highs and lows this weekend. One of the lows being Ryan Condrashoff, one of the team leaders suffered a crash in DH practice leaving him with a busted collarbone [...]
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Ausbike Australia Trade Expo 2009 – Update
29 May, 2009
Welcome aboard
We’d like to welcome aboard these new Exhibitors to the Expo:
- XRated Helmets
- De Grandi Cycle & Sport
- Aussie Butt Cream
- Tredley WORX
- Pyramid Imports
- Diggari Pty Ltd
- Gemini Bicycle Centres P/L
- Topace P/L(WileyX)
- Luescher Teknik P/L
- Hot Designs
- [...]
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Duncan, BC – Renegade Cycle Solutions (RCS) is proud to announce the re-introduction of Chumba Racing to Canada.
Absent for the last few years, this boutique brand is back with a vengeance befitting it’s years of racing heritage.
“Despite small companies often being overshadowed by larger ones. Chumba savors its role as a small [...]
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Some of you have been asking how far is the black top road section of the marathon race to Fisher Farm Park; it is 6.25 miles to the dirt trails. The course: once inside the park will be about 9.25 miles of a race loop to do 5 times for a total [...]
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Watch out for lots of horse riders if you’re going to be near Wharncliffe Woods this weekend. Or aim to steer clear and visit next weekend instead. If we’re nice to the horse riders, they’ll be nice to us…
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Even though I spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday messing about on two wheels under scorching sunshine I still felt the urge to “play out” on Sunday afternoon.
Under the pretense of “just popping out to the corner shop”, I pulled out the Diamondback Bandito playbike from the cellar and went the “long way round”.
On my explore [...]
Competition, Cycling Culture, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
As you may recall, awhile back the ironically-named author of the Fat Cyclist blog, Fat Cyclist, raffled off an opportunity to travel to New York City to meet me, and this past Saturday that meeting in fact took place. Of course, the real fruit on the…
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
O.K where to start, the big question is why? Well why not? I’ve made downhill frames before using t45 steel so I thought if I was going to build a gearbox DH bike then I may as well do something special. There is probably no advantage in having titanium over alloy but if you’re only going to do it once then why not make it different?
Competition, Downhill, Freeride, Mountainbiking, Singeltrack »
Standing in the queue for the bike-park gondola I compared my Solo Air to a triple-clamp fork on someone else’s late 90’s downhill bike. With 35mm stanchions the single crown Lyric made the other fork look weedy. To have a fork that is as strong as Popeye, literally bulging in the fork lowers to accommodate big bushings, while staying relatively light (2313g) is just fantastic.
