Saalfelden Leogang, Austria, February 14th 2013 – The FMB World Tour’s season kick-off for 2014 started with the ultimate wintertime spectacle at the legendary White Style in Saalfelden Leogang. Without a doubt, French rider Antoine Bizet took the win in this unique competition on snow. It was his huge double backflip that convinced the jury to put him on the top of the podium. A surprising second place went to 18-year-old rookie Nicholi Rogatkin from the US, followed by Sweden’s Anton Thelander. 2014 could be his year – Antoine Bizet’s season has just had the perfect start! The Frenchy, already…
Author: Tomas
Entries for the 2014 Bluegrass Enduro Tour will open online on the 1st of February! The best trails and the most relaxed atmosphere will meet 6 times this year throughout Europe. If the Bluegrass Enduro Tour is the international blind-racing enduro series you were looking for, click here to access the Bluegrass Enduro Tour series website and enter the event(s) of your choice. Click here to enter Bluegrass Enduro Tour 2014 Bluegrass Enduro Tour 2014 events: – 06 April: Dabo, Alsace, France – 05 May: Glencoe Mountain, Scotland, UK – 11 May: Rombach le Franc, Alsace, France – 16-17 August:…
The benefits, that entails wearing a body armor are appreciated only at the time of crash. Along with the improving our bike skills, most of us decided to take off some of the protection gear. It mistakenly seems to us that the the risk falling is lower. Unfortunately, along with the skills, we also increase the speed, and hence, any falls will be more painful and dangerous. iXS Cleaver body armor gives us a possibility to choose, which part of body we want to protect. We can wear on the whole armor that protects the elbows, shoulders, chest and back, as…
Some people still can’t quite get their heads around the idea of a 29inch wheel on a mountain bike. They think that 29inch wheels are for lightweight XC race bikes and not up to the task of taking on hard and technically demanding trails. We would politely disagree. To prove our point Stu and Drew from team CutMedia asked for Five 29 frames to test, eager to find out if they could get more speed from a bigger wheel. More used to bikes with smaller wheels, we asked them to build up the Five 29 frames and to ride them…