What’s better than sitting down with your friends around the fire and sharing stories, after a long Freeride session filled with music from a Mariachi band? Johny Salido, the new face of Mexican mountain biking achieved his dream early this year by making Freeride Fiesta a reality and he’s bringing it back on 17-24 January 2022! In February 2021 Johny and his friend Oscar Toboganster, a professional trail builder, organized one of the biggest “Fiestas” of the Freeride scene. The jam style gathering brought together some of the world’s best freeride men and to Mexico with just one objective: Help to grow the sport in Mexico and Latin America by having…
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The event win. The Crankworx FMBA Slopestyle World Championship. The Triple Crown. Never in mountain bike history have they all been claimed by one rider in a season. Today, that changed. With his win in the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza, Emil Johansson carves his mark even deeper into mountain bike history. Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza Speechless. This will have to settle for a bit. I can’t even put it into words. I just at the moment can reflect on the past and how much stuff that needed to be put in place to get this far.…
It started with Pump Track in the sun and ended with Dual Slalom in the sludge and athletes grinning ear to ear. The second day of live action from Crankworx Rotorua saw a mix of DH specialists, freeriders, multi-disciplinarians, BMX Olympians, and enduro specialists stake their claim on the festival and step up onto two podiums. At the end of it all, four winners stepped up to the top steps. Brook Macdonald earns his first win since his devastating back injury in 2019. His win in today’s Dual Slalom is also his first podium in the discipline at Crankworx. Alongside…
The first victors of Crankworx Rotorua 2021 have been rewarded, the first Southern-Hemisphere champagne sprayed, and the first King and Queen points doled out to finishers. Competitors took on the CLIF Speed & Style presented by Mons Royale, followed by the Crankworx Rotorua Downhill presented by Gull. CLIF Speed & Style presented by Mons Royale Harriet Burbidge-Smith (AUS) // Billy Meaclem (NZL)Vaea Verbeeck (CAN) // Tomas Lemoine (FRA)Ronja Hill-Wright (AUS) // Bas van Steenbergen (CAN) Kicking off the day, the Speed & Style challenged competitors on all fronts, with riders pushing through and throwing down amidst: wind, rain, delays, and…
Whether you’re staring down from the top of a run or staring back up wondering how you made it, your shoes play a huge part in the process. That might be in transferring your power to the pedals or traction on the trail, or simply keeping your feet and ankles safe and supported. Either way your choice of footwear can have a huge impact on your run time, your speed and your enjoyment. And with that in mind, new Gravity models and All-Mountain models coming from Shimano this autumn, are packed with features to keep you shredding hard and fast.…
Leatt announced launch of all-new Leatt Natural range of apparel and replacement of all plastic packaging with biodegradable, plastic free packaging on its entire range of Moto and MTB products. After over 16 years since the creation of the Leatt neck brace, the South African brand known for problem-solving and innovation is taking strides to #SaveOurPlanet. For years, scientists and ecologists have warned about the effects of climate change and industrial pollution. While change cannot be done overnight, 2022 is another milestone year for Leatt as it introduces biodegradable, plastic free packaging with soy inks on its entire 2022 range…
The BIKE REPUBLIC SÖLDEN reports a record-breaking year in 2021! With a 12% increase in ticket sales between June and October 2021 compared to 2020, the BIKE REPUBLIC SÖLDEN celebrates its most successful summer to date – and demonstrates the growing popularity of mountain biking with guests and locals alike. In the flow nation, the riders can spread out wide in the midst of the jaw-dropping alpine scenery with a network of 11 perfectly shaped and maintained LINES and 17 natural trails as well as 2 pump tracks. The BIKE REPUBLIC SÖLDEN started in 2015 with the objective to create a home…
TCS Tubeless Tire Sealant is a dependable, thoroughly-tested sealant formula that completes WTB’s patented TCS system of tubeless tires, rims, wheels, valves, tape and sealant. WTB’s proprietary formula quickly repairs ¼” (6mm) punctures by encapsulating fibers and crystalline particles within the puncture to create a flexible, long-lasting repair. TCS Tubeless Tire Sealant uses an ammonia-free tackifying process to seal punctures rather than the evaporative effects of many ammonia-based formulas. As a result, our sealant performs better in wet, unforgiving conditions where other sealants have trouble clotting due to minimal evaporation. WTB sealant also features synthetic latex to reduce the risk…
WTB has updated its beloved Vigilante 2.5 and Verdict 2.5 treads while also expanding SG2 puncture protection to its entire line of mountain tires. Vigilante and Verdict are WTB’s most aggressive enduro tires designed to excel in loose conditions ranging from mid-summer dust to late-winter mud. Updated versions of both treads now feature improved knob shapes and updating siping to prevent knob flex and increase cornering support while also extending tread life. The tread profiles have also been updated to achieve a smoother transition from center to side knobs and improve predictability while cornering. The combined tread changes improve overall…
Piotrek Krajewski has been slaying big jumps for over 15 years all around the world under Dartmoor Bikes banner. Yet, it took some time to have a bike, which pushed harder and felt just right to send it. Piotrek and his new teammate Antek Faszczewski know each other from digging and riding the dirt jump paradise of Bike Park Kazoora, Poland. Still, they went to test a big bike like Thunderbird FR for a trip to the French’s Bike Park Chatel. Chatel is a world-class place to hit freeride lines of Nico Vink creations and feel if the bikes are…
Emil Johansson won his first Slopestyle competition at Crankworx. Two years and four Slopestyle World Championship competitions later, he hasn’t stopped. His win today in the Title Slopestyle presented by CLIF at SilverStar Bike Park, the closing event of Crankworx B.C., marks his fifth win in a row at the highest level of Slopestyle mountain biking. “It felt amazing to pull that run off and to get some of the tricks in which I had never been able to do in a contest run before,” said the Swede, who pulled off three first-ever tricks in a comp: a switch truck…
Day Two of Crankworx B.C. racing at SilverStar Mountain Resort, with one competitor on a solid gold streak, and another earning his first Crankworx top of the box. Niels Bensink (NED) earns his first Crankworx gold with a near-flawless performance in finals to take the win in today’s RockShox Pump Track Challenge SilverStar, and Kialani Hines (USA) earns her second gold medal in two days after winning the Dual Slalom yesterday. It was great. I qualified first, so I just wanted to keep it going throughout the day. All the girls started to get faster, so it was definitely a…
In the first day of Crankworx B.C. competition at SilverStar Mountain Resort, Jackson Frew has earned his second Crankworx gold of the series, while Kialani Hines claims her first career Crankworx Dual Slalom win. The Specialized Dual Slalom SilverStar kicked off the action at the third stop of the series, on a track built by Bas van Steenbergen for Crankworx in 2020. We pulled up and the dirt was perfect. We had a bunch of rain overnight. I started gelling with the track really early and felt really good. I think I had an early practice run against Tomas [Slavik]…
Riders new to its hallowed ground, keen to test their mettle. Repeat racers, hungry for more. Redemption-seekers, looking to take back what Mt7 took from them. And local shredders, stoked to get amongst the action and share their epic backyard with the best in the world. This morning, they all stood shoulder-to-shoulder at the top of the Mt7 in Golden, B.C., peering down the steep chute that would be the beginning of their 1200 vertical meter, 7.3 kilometer, 11 and a half minute+ race run. And then one by one, they dropped in. The 12th running of Mt7 Psychosis saw a…