USA Cycling announces roster for 2009 Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships
Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 20, 2009) – USA Cycling announced today the roster of athletes that will represent the U.S. at the 2009 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in Stattegg, Austria on August 23.
Earning and accepting automatic [...]

Snowshoe Mountain Hosts 2nd Powerade Mountain Bike Race

SECOND OF FOUR LEGS OF SNOWSHOE’S
POWERADE $25,000 RACE SERIES SET FOR JULY 25-26
Competitors look to gain points in overall standings and a piece of the $25,000 purse
Snowshoe, W.Va. –After an action-packed first weekend of mountain bike racing in June, Snowshoe Mountain is ready for [...]

Pink is the new Crank
Auctioning Ultra-Rare Custom Pink Cranks to Raise Money for Dirt Series Scholarships
VANCOUVER – July 21, 2009 – We’re too busy building and riding the most stealth bike parts on the planet to really know, or care what colour Paris Hilton is rocking this year. We [...]

This past weekend was the National Championships for most northern hemisphere countries.
With the National Champs this year on Ruaridh’s home track at Innerleithen, we were expecting good results. The building crew at Inners had changed a few sections to keep the locals on their toes but even with that, our local boy was feeling confident.
Ruaridh [...]

The format is similar to the Kona Bristol Bikefest but adjusted to the time of year. For the 2009 event there will be the 10 hour enduro on Saturday followed by the 5 hour event on the Sunday. As an extra for the newcomers to endurance racing there will be the 3 hour long ‘Novice’ Endurance event which will also run on Sunday.

The early arrival of this issue came as something of a surprise. A most welcome surprise though. Here’s what it looks like and what’s inside…

A brand new event will be hitting the Scottish Borders this year on 19th and 20th September. The event is set up in a spectator-friendly format and involves a sensational day of Slopestyle competition, culminating in a floodlit grand finale followed by a day of Enduro riding on the famous trails of Glentress.

In the heart of the 2010 range is the RC3 cartridge that provides the damping for the 888 (EVO), 66, 55, 44 & 4X models. The Italian made, open bath RC3 cartridge gives a wide and usable range of rebound and both high and low speed compression adjustment. The High and low compression is adjusted from just one dial.

(A fixed-gear cyclist sets an example we’d all do well to follow.)While I try not to trouble readers with the mundane workings of this blog, some of you may have noticed the sudden appearance of advertisements on the right side of the page. (There are…

For years the Wisconsin Off-Road Series (WORS) has been the largest cross country mountain bike race series in the United States. Bigger than the NMBS, US Cup, SoCal series, you name it the WORS crushes it in number of participants. Each weekend the Wi…