Source: Kathy Sessler
Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar (SRAM/RockShox) places 2nd overall in the UCI World Cup Series with a 2nd place race finish today as he and Gee Atherton took their tightly fought season to the finale with Gee emerging victorious on the day in a nail biter all the way down to the finish line.
Source: Nigel Page
The team has done it.... we won the World Cup overall no.1 Team title at the UCI world cup finals in Windham, USA!
Source: Bill Phillips
After a nail biting season which has seen Commencal rider Gee Atherton and Santa Cruz Syndicates Greg Minnaar scrapping over tenths seconds all year, we finally crowned a World Cup Champion at the final round today at Windham Mountain, New York.
Thredbo is famous for the legendary Thredbo Downhill. In summer Thredbo's long ski runs get transformed into downhill heaven. The downhill runs are accessed by the Kosciusko Chairlift every day from November 13th to May.
Source: MTBA
The 2009 UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Championships has just been announced as a finalist in Australia’s Best Sporting Event at this years Australian Event Awards (www.eventawards.com.au). The World Championships are the only Canberra event announced as a finalist in any of the awards categories.
Source: Joe Rolle
A simple concept - nip over to france on the ferry, get a lift to the top of the mountain and get back home, by bike, as fast as possible. James Ioannou and Harry Steele feature in Red Bike Blue Bike had a race, our take on the classic commercial.....
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Source: 23degrees
The final race at the Kokanee Crankworx in Whistler saw Trek World Racing take 2 top fives in the Pro Men's Canadian Open Downhill yesterday, with Justin Leov (NZL) securing 3rd place on the podium and teammate, Andrew Neethling (RSA), just tenths behind in 5th.
Source: Ilana Taub
Red Bull Rampage will be open to additional spectators in 2010, making it a more fan-friendly experience. Tickets are free and available now. Details are available online at www.redbullusa.com/rampage and tickets will be awarded on a first come, first serve basis to the first 1,000 fans.
The action was fast and furious on the Double Vision course at the Giant Slalom, presented by Giant Bicycles, with Michal Prokop (CZE) whipping into first place for the Pro Men and Emmeline Ragot (FRA) adding more hardware to her pile with another first place win in the Pro Women’s category.
by Crankworx
Greg Watts (USA) and Darren Berrecloth (CAN) took home $3,000 each at tonight's VW Trick Showdown after battling it out against 24 of the top slopestyle athletes in the world in the peer-judged, two session best trick jam...
by Crankworx
20 year old Dennis Dertell from Osmo, Sweden, took a solid 4th place at the European Championships last weekend ahead of many top level World Cup riders, and missing the medals by less than half a second..
Source: Freeride Mountain Bike Association
All GOLD events went off with great success, Brandon Semenuk leads the world ranking in front of Martin Soderstrom and Yannick Granieri, 3 events left, world ranking can still change a lot since riders can score highest FMB World Tour points in Whistler and at Rampage, World’s toughest rider line up is fixed for Monster Slopestyle in Whistler.....
Chris Kovarik (AUS) maintained a blistering pace in today’s Monster Energy Garbanzo DH to take home first with a time of 13:22.99, knocking last year’s winner Justin Leov (NZL) into second place with a time of 13:29.85. Dry course conditions for the first time in the event’s history allowed Kovarik to shave off over 22 seconds from Leov’s 2009 winning time.
