While Dirk Peters fired out an early warning shot to his rivals ahead of the upcoming NZ National MTB season, it was the debut of the yet-to-be-named rock garden that drew all the attention during Sunday’s final of the Mid-North Island MTB series. Over the… More ›
Not that no one saw this coming, what with Anton signing to Martin Whiteley’s 23 Degrees a month or so back, well as of today Christchurch super-mini-shred Anton Cooper will be raicng for Trek World Racing joining fellow Kiwi Justin Leov on the powerhouse team.… More ›
Wide Open have been dropping photos of their latest team rider on Facebook and the Net over the last week and today I received an email announcing that Matt Scoles is back on the Wide Open programme. Here’s the official word: “Wide Open is stoked… More ›
So Ian from Nelson’s (well New Zealand’s) most prestigious all-mountain race, The Coppermine, has just dropped this re-edit of the Coppermine descent footage that we brought you a month or so ago. The clip definitely shows a bunch more and the addition of music is… More ›
The Revolution Products DH team has been around for last five seasons and they’ve enjoyed a huge amount of success, but have decided to grow the team and now they’ve added their first Super D/Enduro DH rider to showcase Pivot’s rad trail bikes. So Chris… More ›
Tonight nothing happened, no one timed anything, no one raced down barking emu, car parts extesion, carparts and the roller coaster. Ed Crossling didn’t come first, Hadley didn’t come second and brother Ryan didn’t come third. If something had happened and some one timed it… More ›
This past season fans joined Danny Hart for a ride of a lifetime. We watched, astounded, as he attacked every DH course in his bonkers style and his flat-out commitment to speed. Here is a different look at the man himself. At home, relaxed, preparing… More ›
Although Martin answers the question in the press release, you’ve got to be thinking is there any more space at 23 Degrees for any more Kiwis? I mean maybe MTBNZ should be employing Martin direct to manage all the New Zealand downhillers. With Brook on… More ›
The New Zealand distributor of Scottish cycling apparel brand Endura has put his money where his mouth is and launched a massive XC team for the 2011/2012 season. The team, consisting of Raewyn Morrison, Adrian Retief, Nigel McDowell, Josh Parkin, Ryan Hunt, Amber Johnston and Nathan… More ›
Just heard via Chris at Revolution Products that Eddie Masters has joined the team and will race for the Revolution Products team for the 2012 season. Eddie took delivery of his new 2012 Pivot Phoenix DH on practice day morning at round 3 (Napier) of… More ›
This Team Rumours guy (or guys) really knows what’s up. Now he’s called part of the Atherton equation, today the official press release regarding their departure from their five year sponsor Commencal was released. Team Rumours has them getting more wings and heading to GT… More ›
The Nelson MTB club kicked off their Sprung Super D Series last week. They seem to be taking their event pretty serious; shit, they even have categories. Kieran Bennett was fastest overall with a time of 09:15.4 with Jamie Nicoll and Derek Winwood taking the… More ›
So there is no word on which bike company mini shred Anton Cooper will be riding in 2012 but as of today we now know he’s on Aussie Martin Whiteley’s 23 Degrees program, alongside Greg Minnaar and fellow Kiwis Justin Leov and Sam Blenkinsop. Here’s… More ›
I remember when I used to live back in the motherland, there was this weedy little kid with a hot sister who would turn up at the races and pretty much clean up his junior category and place top ten in Pro. Damn, that weedy… More ›
VitalMTB has just posted up a press release regarding Brendon Fairclough’s departure from Monster Specialized. I guess this is the first one of @teamrumours to come true, well part of it anyway; Giant needs to pick up Brendawg for it to fully come to fruition.… More ›