Lapierre Gravity Republic does Val di Sole
The Life on Wheels project’s teaser edit from the second round of the World Cup, where they had a pretty good weekend (except for Blenki, but he’ll be back)… Life on Wheels – Val di Sole Edit from PureAgency on Vimeo. More ›
Russell Brand on fire!
I’ve never been a Russell Brand fan, but this is brilliant… you can see these presenters are in for a shellacking even before he opens his mouth! More ›
Seven reasons why your Bike Mechanic doesn’t like you.
Seven Reasons why your Bike Mechanic doesn’t like you. First thing you have to realise is your Bike Mechanic knows everything. They may not have had any formal training or qualifications, but despite all of this, they know everything. The reason they know everything is… More ›
Imaginate: Inside MacAskill’s Mind
Danny MacAskill takes us inside his mind with his long-awaited new film, Imaginate… it’s a pretty unique concept and visually like nothing seen before in bike film. Check out more on the Imaginate project here… More ›
Drew Bezanson vs Joyride 150
Yes, I know this isn’t MTB, but while we are all busy worrying about what wheel size we can’t possibly live without, this guy is getting sh*t done on a 20″: More ›
Gaze wins, Peters top tens, DHers have bad day
The Kiwi XC racers took up the baton at Val di Sole on the weekend, with Sam Gaze taking a great win in the Junior race and Dirk Peters a fine 9th in the U23 (Anton Cooper didn’t start due to an ongoing illness). The… More ›
The New GT Sensor
So the previous post on the Force covers a bunch of stuff that’s common on the Sensor that we don’t really need to go over again. I mean they both share very similar silhouettes and the same Angle Optimized Suspension and Path Link. The real… More ›
Val di Sole DH Live Coverage
This is gonna be sick! Go make some coffee and watch it live on Red Bull TV here… More ›
The New GT Force
Today at 2am New Zealand time a bunch of the world’s MTB media met down in the basement conference rooms of our Deer Valley, Utah accommodation for the final unveiling of GT’s two new Trail/All Mountain bikes, the Sensor and Force. Both these bikes have… More ›
More Santa Cruz newness!
Does anyone sleep at Santa Cruz? They’ve just announce yet another ‘new’ bike, this time the venerable single pivot Heckler gets the medium wheel size treatment… oh, and we almost forgot the Tallboy 2 which was dropped during the week too. HECKLER In its seventh… More ›
The Bearclaw’s custom Red Bull Lid
Red Bull athletes getting custom painted helmets is nothing new but when Darren Berrecloth showed up for the Melrose Bike Festival last weekend, his lid looked just that little bit more custom than most. Given the strength of Darren’s Bearclaw branding Red Bull were more… More ›
Press Release: Cooper returns, Macdonald confident at Mountain Bike World Cup in Italy
Junior world champion Anton Cooper makes his return to UCI World Cup mountain bike racing in Italy this weekend. Cooper has been off the bike for three weeks with illness and is not expecting too much in this weekend’s race at the demanding Val di… More ›
Val Di Sole course preview
The second round of the DH World Cup hits Val di Sole in Italy this weekend. Here, Gstaad Scott team manager and former racer Claudio Caluori gives us the view from his GoPro. More ›
Luke and Dan’s Covert Mission
Luke McCombie and Dan Meilink headed over to Wainuiomata Trail Park on their new Transition Coverts and Finlay Woods captured the action. Makes me wanna go ride there NOW! Luke & Dan shredding the new Covert from finlaywoodsfilms. on Vimeo. More ›
What do we want? Enduro! When do we want it? Soon!
If you think an Enduro race on the slopes of Mt Ruapehu sounds the business, then you might want to take five minutes to fill out this survey and tell the organisers what you’d want from such an event. Plateau Productions and the Ohakune Events Charitable… More ›
9 Month Countdown Pt. 2
It’s been six months since my initial post about my journey to the Trans-Provence race, and boy how time’s flown. With almost four months still to go, I thought it was time to put fingers to keyboard and get another column done on what’s been happening.… More ›
All in the family at Fort Bill
Okay, so the Athertons cleaned up on their new GT Furys at Fort Bill last night, but what about our boys? Brook and Blenki kicked arse and finished 2nd and 4th respectively. MacDonald celebrated his first World Cup on his new Trek World Racing team… More ›
Introducing Aaron Bradford
Who is he? This guy… More ›