Whistler, B.C., April 15, 2016 — Crankworx will open registration for its Crankworx Les Gets Downhill presented by iXS today in the town where Fabien Barel created history. Barel is one of only three riders to win a World Championship on home soil and his 2004 victory over dominant downhill race-force Steve Peat (GBR) is the stuff of legends, films and videos. “It was massive… I can’t imagine where (his mind) was at when he was at the start gate,” says Dirt Magazine’s Steve Jones in MTBcut’s recent retrospective on Barel’s career, My Way – the Story of His World…
Author: Tomasz Profic
The winners of first event of this year’s SloEnduro series, the Enduro 3 Camini in San Dorligo della Vale near Trieste, Italy, are Austrians Birgit Braumann (Trek Gravity Girls) and Daniel Schemmel (Cube Action Team). Birgit Braumann / photo: Nejc Bole Last year’s winner, Italian Giulia Albanese (UC Caprivesi) finished in second and Austrian junior Yana Dobnig (RLM Mondraker Racing Team) in third place of women’s race. Daniel was followed by Peter Mlinar (KK Črn trn) in second and last year’s race and series winner Vid Peršak (Gaes Orbea Enduro Crew) in third place, both from Slovenia. Slovenian Matjaž Istenič…
Eliot Jackson from the Pivot Factory Racing team, preparing for the World Cup DH series on his favorite New Zealand trails on his Pivot Phoenix DH Carbon. Eliot Jackson: I wanted to do an edit that captured why I love riding here so much, and this accomplishes that perfectly. Longer shots, no music, a lot of different trails and all of my favourite things to ride. — pivotcycles.com/bike/Phoenix-DH-Carbon pivotcycles.com/team/pivotfactoryracing
Friedrichshafen/Taichung – By bike experts for bike experts: The Eurobike flagship trade show and the organizers of Taichung Bike Week will work side by side in the future. The seventh edition of the well-established OEM event in Taiwan’s bike metropolis from October 18 to 21, 2016, will be organized as a joint effort. Plans envision an event that will stretch across several exhibition areas and utilize a new matchmaking tool. Stefan Reisinger, Eurobike Head: Taichung is considered the Silicon Valley of the international bicycle industry. With Taichung Bike Week, the metropolis in central Taiwan has a high-level OEM platform for…
Saalfelden Leogang in Salzburger Land, Austria, April 7th 2016 – A new trail will be flowing through Bikepark Leogang this year: “HOT SHOTS – fired by GoPro”. The new flow trail with its easy to ride tables provides pure pleasure for all bikers, from beginners to pro shredders. Capture its 3.5 kilometers / 2.17 miles of pure biking pleasure on your GoPro this summer. Saalfelden Leogang is the epicenter of the European gravity scene and now has one attraction more to offer for the upcoming season. The trail “HOT SHOTS – fired by GoPro” will be the new point of…
Friedrichshafen, Germany – There are many design awards, but only very few innovations in cycling are evaluated by an independent jury of experts. And only with one design award are the honors presented on behalf of the world’s leading trade fair for the bicycle industry. Accordingly, the interest of the market participants in the Eurobike Award is great. Last year, 500 innovations and new products competed for the coveted awards. In order to ensure that there continues to be a fair and competent selection of award winners in view of the ever-increasing number of participants, Eurobike organizer Messe Friedrichshafen is…
April 5th 2016 – SloEnduro international mountain bike enduro series will start its fourth season this weekend. For fourth time in a row the opening event is Enduro 3 Camini (three chimneys enduro) near Trieste in Italy, right on the border with Slovenia. Vid Peršak / photo: Nejc Bole From April to October the series will visit six venues in three countries. Enduro 3 Camini race with special stages in the hills above San Dorligo della Vale near Trieste, in the Val Rosandra natural reserve and even across the border in Slovenia, will also be a part of first No…
Round two and I worked more on my set-up. We loaded up the volume spacers this week further in the fork and shock and went down on the air pressure a little. Basically after seeing the stages it was going to be like racing sandy blown out downhill tracks. Some ruts and holes would even end up being up to the cranks. It was going to be important to stay on the bike this weekend as well. I had enough time to walk a few stages and that gave me a good idea on my set-up and what to expect…
No one thought it possible, but there was more dust and even more drama at day two of the Cerro Catedral Montenbaik Enduro World Series Presented By Shimano. Cecile Ravanel (Commencal Vallnord Enduro) and Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Shox) finished the day as they started – leaders of the race. After six long, dusty stages over two days of racing, the pair made it back to back wins after their success in Chile last weekend. In the men’s race Martin Maes (GT Factory Racing) pushed Rude all the way, but three stage wins for Rude left him seven seconds ahead and…
When Kyle Strait welcomes Rémi Thirion to his Californian motherland, it’s surely the perfect excuse to make a video. No need to say anymore, let them ride!
The Enduro World Series continues its South American adventure as it moves from the Chilean coast line to the high Andes of Argentina, for the Cerro Catedral Montenbaik Enduro World Series Presented By Shimano. Yoann Barelli Richie Rude (Yeti/Fox Shox) and Cecile Ravanel (Commencal Vallnord Enduro) will head into the race as series leaders, having triumphed at the first race of the year in Corral last weekend. However they’ll be facing tough competition from the likes of Anneke Beerten and Martin Maes, both of GT Factory Racing, who placed second in their respective categories last weekend. And third placed Isabeau…
Pivot Cycles is happy to announce the formation of the Pivot/Reynolds Enduro Team. The team is comprised of three riders – Adam Snyder (Durango, CO), Mason Bond (Grass Valley, CA) and Brice Shirbach (Brookhaven, PA). Adam is a winner of the Eastern Enduro Triple Crown overall championship and is a top five athlete in the North American Enduro Tour overall rankings. Mason is the team’s young gun, with the style and speed needed to make an impression on the podium and in team edits. Brice brings years of XC and Enduro racing to the table and is a well known…
And so it begins! We arrived into Chile and Corral greeted us being a very small village. life consists here by fishing and timber operations. Rough dirt 4×4 roads lead us to all the stages and the jungle where the courses were freshly built and hasn’t seen any bikes before. This was going to be a unique race. To avoid a 20 minute ferry ride each day as well as the queues to make it onto the ferry between Nieblie and Corral we booked accommodation around the coast 20 mins and inland on a dirt road for 20 mins. Staying…
Sam Pilgrim is one of the most recognizable riders in the dirt/slopestyle world. On his achievements list there’s a lot of international comps – wins at Swatch Rocket Air, FISE Montpellier or Dirt Masters Slopestyle. In 2013 he also won overall title in FMB World Tour. We catched Sam several days after Crankworx Rotorua and asked him few questions. Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Sam Pilgrim! Tomasz Profic, 43RIDE: Hi Sam, We’re couple days after Crankworx Rotorua where you placed 5th. It’s good or bad result for you? Sam Pilgrim: Hi, this result is good for me and I’m very happy…