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…
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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…
Today Red Bull Media House releases “Danny MacAskill’s Wee Day Out” – the next fascinating and entertaining riding clip from Danny MacAskill. The latest blockbuster clip sees the world-renowned street trials rider take a rare day off and go for a spin on his mountain bike in the glorious Scottish countryside. Only two weeks after launching his first autobiography, Danny is already adding to his legacy with his next unreal two-wheeled expedition. Unique from anything he’s released before, Danny jumps on his Santa Cruz 5010 CC this time and takes mountain biking to another level. This time the 30-year-old takes…
This weekend in Istria, Croatia: sixth and final round of SloEnduro mountain bike series. Only 70 points between top five for the overall title. The SloEnduro final is coming up this weekend, the last round of international enduro series uniting events in Italy, Slovenia and Croatia. For third year in a row the venue of the last confrontation of the year will be the old and scenic town of Grožnjan in the hills of Istria peninsula in Croatia. The Enduro Grozni event is organized by BBK Grožnjan. It is also the last round of the inaugural season of EndCro series.…
The last race of the season and being back in Italy is always a great place to finish the series. The Italian atmosphere, top notch trails, summer like weather combined with the food and coffee really make it a riders favorite for sure. Arriving a few days before practice kicked off we were able to walk a few of the stages and get an idea of the terrain for this years race. The quality of the stages was great, I have to credit the effort by the trail builders. The trails were freshly prepared and covering a lot of virgin…
The 2016 Enduro World Series drew to a close in its traditional home of Finale Ligure – and the Bluegrass Finale Enduro powered by SRAM will go down in the history books for a myriad of reasons. Cecile Ravanel (Commencal Vallnord Enduro) won her first Enduro World Champion title, Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Shox) became the first man to be crowned World Champion back to back and two legends of the sport Nico Vouilloz (Lapierre Gravity Republic) and Anne Caroline Chausson (Ibis Cycles Enduro Race Team) announced their retirement from the sport. And if that wasn’t enough, Martin Maes (GT Factory…
The Enduro World Series will crown its World Champions in Finale this weekend at the last race of the year, the Bluegrass Finale Enduro powered by SRAM. Finale Outdoor Resort will once again host the closing race of the season, as 500 riders take to the iconic trails of this Italian resort against the backdrop of the Mediterranean sea. Starting high in the Ligurian mountains, competitors will encounter the region’s famously diverse trails as they tackle seven stages over two days of racing. With 3250m of climbing and descent taking place over 100km, racers are in for long days in…
With just six months to go until Crankworx unleashes nine days of mountain biking madness on Rotorua, organizers of the Crankworx World Tour can confirm the festival will run March 25 – April 2, 2017. Two weeks later than the dates for 2016, and a full nine days in length, the festival is expected to transform the first few weeks of fall in Rotorua to make mountain biking the focal point of the season. Tak Mutu, event organizer: Having nine days of Crankworx Rotorua in 2017 is massive. We will still have five days of ticketed operations on site at…