A group of passionate riders and engineers have turned the bike rack on its head with a simple yet ingenious idea. Meet the Upside Rack. This innovative design fixes all bike types on normal roof racks in just seconds, with no pre-assembly required and no need to leave it on your car between rides. It’s so small and portable that you can even ride to work with it in your pack (or strapped to your bike frame) and catch a lift home. In seconds, the Upside Rack is open and on your bike. From there, it’s onto your roof racks.…
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It’s official: Red Bull District Ride is back! The legendary event will be returning to Nuremberg, Germany, on 1st September. The unique slopestyle event will see the world’s best mountain bike athletes competing on a highly demanding urban course in the heart of the Franconian city. The competitors will be sending their best tricks in five different districts, in which the audience lining the streets will be right up close. Due to this FMB Diamond Series Event, Nuremberg is going to be a mountain biking hotspot in Germany and Red Bull District Ride is certainly a highlight in next year’s…
The world’s best slopestyle athletes and mountain bike fans around the globe are looking forward to the eleventh edition of White Style. The unique event set in the Austrian Alps of Leogang welcomes the FMB World Tour on January 27th and the riders will be battling it out on snow for the first win at the first FMB event of the year. 20 athletes will be showing off all they have worked on during the winter break and sending their biggest tricks on the snowy alpine course. You cannot wait for all the action? Then check out the highlight clip…
The Canyon Factory Freeride Team finished the season with a bang, bringing home gold with the 2016 FMB Factory Team World Championship Title. Factory teams must register a minimum of 2 athletes. Each athlete can contribute a maximum of 3 results and the final team score is the total of the best six results. This year, Thomas Genon (BEL) and Tomas Lemoine (FRA) each secured top ranks at different FMB Events and showcased their top level riding as well as unified team spirit. Thomas Genon / photo: Christoph Laue Thanks to top performances by Thomas Genon and Tomas Lemoine for…
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA: Trailcraft Cycles launched in November 2014 to answer the need for a high performance, lightweight, 24-inch XC kids bicycle ready out of the box seizing on an untapped market opportunity. Trailcraft Cycles launches today its Timber 26 mountain bike – a new school geometry for an old school wheel size for kids coming off a 24″ bike and still too small to jump straight on the small sizes of 27.5″ wheel size. The Timber 26 is aptly named after a popular local trail around Fort Collins, Colorado where Trailcraft was founded. Ginger Rosenbauer, Traicraft Cycles founder:…
Our Land – Traversing Oregon is a story of an overland journey across Oregon’s highly varied public lands, to highlight the qualitative and quantitative value of such areas, in light of recent political developments that are threatening to take them away. From west to east, wildlife biologist and outdoor addict Jason Fitzgibbon, set out with cinematographer Octave Zangs to sample some of the state’s most rugged coastlines, its finest trails, and its wildest rivers, in an effort to enjoy and share some of the ecological resources, recreational opportunities, and priceless experiences that can be found in our threatened federal lands.…
The MRP Ramp Control Cartridge provides an upgrade for air-sprung, 35mm Rock Shox forks. Now you can add speed-sensitive ending-stroke control and bottom-out force adjustability to your current-gen Pike, Lyrik, Yari, or Boxxer World Cup! Fox 32 and 34 on are the way soon. What MRP Ramp Control Catridge do? Adds speed-sensitive ending-stroke control and bottom-out force adjustability to compatible Rock Shox forks Just 55g! Lighter than most air-spring assemblies with more than two tokens Isolate and tune bottom-out with minimal changes to initial and mid-stroke Bring your tuning to the trail and out of the workshop! Easy installation requires…
Swedish slopestyle athlete Emil Johansson finishes his successful 2016 season and signs with rasoulution. The 17-year old rider from Trollhättan, Sweden will face the new season with the help of Munich based sports marketing and communication agency, rasoulution. 2016 was Emil´s first year at the FMB World Tour, and also his first year competing outside of Sweden. He managed to finish in top five at four of the biggest slopestyle competitions of the season: 5th at 26TRIX, 5th at Swatch Prime Line, 3rd at Colorado Freeride Festival and 4th at Red Bull Joyride at Crankworx Whistler. Emil´s story is a…
The season 2016 is in the books and the off-season is slowly but surely approaching. Although the next season still seems to be far away, it is time to have a look at next year’s agenda. The dates for our 15th season have been fixed just in time, so here is the iXS Downhill Cup calendar 2017. One thing to begin with, it won’t get boring. The iXS race calendar contains 23 races. This year a total of 6.029 participations means, that 2.352 different riders from 42 nations took to the start. The interest for the races shows no signs…
Richie Rude isn’t the type of person that seeks the spotlight, but thanks to his amazing skills and determination on a bicycle he has quickly become the most dominant Enduro rider on the planet. Richie has been riding on Shimano since he was 15 years old and has grow up developing his stellar skills on Shimano components for the past 6 years, including his victories in the 2013 National Downhill Junior Championship and the 2015 Enduro World Series. — Photos: Paris Gore Source: bike.shimano.com
The FMB World Tour has come to a close this weekend with the final Gold Event of the 2016 season. Overall this year, 32 events in 15 nations and on 3 continents hosted more than 300 athletes. For the last time this year athletes dropped into a slopestyle course at FISE Chengdu in China, trying to improve their standings in the FMB World Tour Ranking and secure glory for one last time in 2016. This weekend it was FMB World Champ Nicholi Rogatkin, who impressed a huge crowed and the judges. The American scored 93.66 in the FISE super final,…
Days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping – no doubt: winter is on our door step! The good thing is: it won’t be long until the new edition of White Style 2017 in Saalfelden Leogang, the first event of the FMB World Tour 2017! Who is going to climb the podium next year, after Szymon Godziek (POL), Matt Jones (GBR) und Pavel Alekhin (RUS) wowed the audience during the anniversary edition of White Style early this year? More information coming soon! — Official website: bike.saalfelden-leogang.com/en/events/2017/white-style-2017
Slovenian international enduro series finished in Istria, Croatia. Vid Peršak and Yana Dobnig win overall, Petra Bernhardt and Peršak fastest in Grožnjan. After Saturday’s prologue and Sunday’s five special stages on trails near the town of Grožnjan in Istria, Croatia, Slovenian Vid Peršak (Gaes Orbea Enduro Crew) emerged as winner of Enduro Grozni, the final round of SloEnduro international series. Peršak won with just over 14 seconds of advantage over Austrian Gerd Skant (Giant Stattegg). This duel also decided the overall title winner and Vid became the series champion for second year in a row. Italian Luca Braidot, better known…
Semenuk joins Kyle Strait and Kurt Sorge as the only three riders to win two Red Bull Rampage events in their careers. Brandon Semenuk Stringing together highly technical tricks in a near-flawless run, Brandon Semenuk claimed victory in the 11th edition of Red Bull Rampage. Joining Semenuk on the podium was Antoine Bizet, coming in at a close second, and Carson Storch, landing on the podium for first time, rounded out third. Twenty-one of the world’s top riders participated in the premier freeride mountain biking competition as thousands of fans across the globe tuned in to watch on Red Bull…