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Hamsterley Forest gets new bike shop
30 March 2006
The Forestry Commission has sealed an agreement for a major cycle hire and servicing centre to be established in Hamsterley Forest, near Bishop Auckland.
CHUMBA Racing Teams Up With BooKoo Energy
28 March 2006
CHUMBA Racing is pleased to announce that BooKoo Energy has joined our team for the 2006 season.
BooKoo produces the strongest and best tasting energy drinks on the market today, and that is a perfect compliment to CHUMBA Racing's emerging factory racing effort and demo tour.
You can find the CHUMBA Racing/BooKoo Energy Drink Team and demo tour at all the major MTB events this year, so swing on by and meet the team, ride a CHUMBA demo bike, and power up with some BooKoo Energy Drink!
www.bookooenergy.com
www.chumbaracing.com
SRAM increases coverage in Canadian Market
28 March 2006
Canada has proven to be a leading market with the MTB segment. SRAM, in an effort to increase focus and coverage, is pleased to announce that Norco will be adding RockShox aftermarket sales and service.
This program will commence in spring 2006 for warranty service and follow shortly after with sales of the 2007 RockShox product line.
“The combination of Norco and Cycles Lambert offering our complete range of products (SRAM, RockShox, Avid, and Truvativ) will provide further support and choice for the retailers. It also brings our Canadian distribution structure inline with our overall global distribution strategy,” says Robert Priest, SRAM’s Global Aftermarket Manager.
In addition to the distribution improvements, SRAM will further strengthen its Canadian based team by seeking to employ an east coast based technical representative. This investment will balance SRAM’s technical support in Canada, complementing Tyler Morland, SRAM west coast based technical representative.
www.sram.com
Race Face Sponsors Commencal for 2006
28 March 2006
Race Face Components producers of high-end mountain bike components and apparel, is proud to announce the sponsorship of the Commencal Downhill & 4X race team
Mach 3 and Syfydrin trails could become one huge 60km monster.
27 March 2006
Plans are in the pipeline for a new section of trail to join up the northern end of the existing Syfydrin route and the southern tip of the Mach 3 route. They already run close, and you can join them up unofficially, but the `bridging section` will create a 60km ride of truly epic proportions.
It`s not been made official yet, but the route will be ridden and hopefully finalised this week. These things take time though so please be patient, I will keep you reliably informed as to developments.
www.mbwales.com
New MBUK Dvd on the way!
27 March 2006
MBUK’s third Access All Areas DVD is called Rush! This time we go international with sections from Portugal, Germany, America and Canada as well as the UK!
Featuring more riders than ever before, and riding that has progressed incredibly over the last 12 months, Rush! is jam-packed and box-fresh.
The DVD launches with an amazing section from the 24seven roadtrip to Portugal, showcasing footage of Lance McDermott riding with team-mate Chopper. Lance pulls some of the tightest tricks seen on an MTB – 360 handplants, backflips and 360 whips!
Then it’s on to Nuremberg, Germany for the Red Bull District Ride. The world’s best freeriders compete for big bucks as they ride through the streets – and spectators! See all the action including Aaron Chase’s winning run.
Sneak a peak at the 06 Halfords BikeHut team, take a style sesh from Chris Smith, with a guest appearance from Garry Penman, then spend a day with MBUK in Wales as we take the latest test rigs to Cwmcarn. Then it’s back to the 24seven boys as they take on Timo Pritzel in Portugal – synchronised backflips and massive tail whips and more…
Jeff Lenosky shows you how to abubaca, and then we get a look at Danny Holroyd’s new trials section, including a massive 60ft huck into a marina.
You even get extras from Warner and Ashton, and mechanical know-how in our GrimeTime section.
And, just when you think it’s all over, you can catch trailers of Anti Gravity 2, unscene and USA flick The Cut.
Stick a note on your calendar for Wednesday 12 April – that's the date it hits the shops.
www.mbuk.com
Gate Eight 2006 Team announced
24 March 2006
UK clothing company Gate Eight has just confirmed it's mountain bike team for 2006.
Line up is as follows: Chris Akrigg - Trials / street (of Earthed 3 fame!) Dave Wardell - Downhill / 4x Chris Smith - Freeride / Dirt Jump Ollie Fielder - Dirt jump
Gate Eight's owner Nick Larsen said, "It is great to have these high profile riders continue their support for Gate Eight, but what is even better is that I have finally got them into regular blogging, which is producing some of the funniest stories I have read in a while. Check out the website for their Rider Diaries"
www.gateeight.com
Red Bull Challenge in the Mine
23 March 2006
Among the twenty mountain bike athletes from all over the world, will taking part in the latest Red Bull Challenge event in the Goldmine located in Mariana
Charge Bikes Team
23 March 2006
The UK based bike company, Charge Bikes has formed an 8 strong team of dirt riders in varying disciplines, who will ride their titanium and steel framed hardtail bicycles on a national and international scale. Riding dirt they have up and coming riders Garry Penman and Andrew "Ren" Rendell and veteran Neil Gibson.
Richard Batey, Paul Garrett and Richard "Cunny" Cunynghame will head up the 4x and DH side of the team respectively. Whilst Abi Greenaway and Sam Humphrey will be hitting up XC and Marathon events.
Charge is undertaking a major roadtrip (which Alex Rankin is filming for his forthcoming video) to Japan in a few weeks to get the team psyched up for the forthcoming season, check out the main news feed and separate rider blogs over at their site: www.chargebikes.com for the latest.
The Charge Bikes Team is sponsored by: We Clothing, Oakley, Shimano, Thor, Giro, Manitou, Answer, Circa Shoes, Syncros, Hotwheels, ODI and Dirt Worker and Fuse.
www.chargebikes.com
Killeen secures gold for England
23 March 2006
Liam Killeen produced a stunning comeback to lead home team-mate Oli Beckingsale in an England one-two in the Commonwealth Games mountain biking. In the women's event, Bolton teenager Amy Hunt took an incredible fourth.
The 23-year-old, who won bronze in Manchester four years ago, struggled in the early part of the race, after a frantic start, falling 90 seconds behind Aussie leader Chris Jongewaard. The chasing group then reeled him back in on the final lap of eight. A ding-dong battle got underway between the two English riders. Eventually, Killeen nipped away after darting up the inside line around a rock garden hairpin. Liam had time to grab a St George's flag and hold it aloft as he crossed the line.
"It's a pretty special feeling and it hasn't completely sunk in yet," said Killeen. "I'm happy I've come here and achieved what I set out to do. I stuck to my plan today. I was aiming for gold throughout."
In the women's race, England's Amy Hunt finished fourth more than six minutes behind race winner Canada's Marie-Helene Premont. The 19-year-old's result was remarkable considering she had only travelled to Melbourne for the women's road race on Sunday.
"It was just to see how I'd get on because I haven't got a particular discipline as well as the road and it was too good an opportunity to miss," she said.
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