ScottWeek a Tremendous Success

ScottWeek in Deer Valley a Huge Success 

SCOTT Sports US Bicycle Division has wrapped up it’s hugely flourishing ScottWeek circumstance in Deer Valley, Utah. This year SCOTT chose to combine both its domestic income gathering and clannish moneyman presentations, bringing 118 buyers from approximately cardinal dealers to Deer Valley Resort for a series of presentations and on cycle creation testing.

Courtyard panopticon in Deer Valley.

The format evidenced staggeringly effective  in delivering a conformable communication to both income staff and moneyman base. By first bringing in the income reps to advertisement the 2012 distinction and handle income initiatives, aggregation could then be accurately and immediately relayed to dealers in clannish meetings held during the ensuant ScottWeek moneyman days.

2012 apparel advertisement showroom.

New for 2012, SCOTT brings helmets into the US.

By establishing a more hint region with a sacred accessories showroom, including the sort newborn helmet line, and courtyard cycle distinction show area, SCOTT was healthy to wage buyers more personal, one-on-one tending to full vindicate both creation and sort strategies. Dealer salutation to this approach far outstripped expectations, and resulted in nailing down a material percentage of preseason orders.

SCOTT set footgear and glove offerings.

“Focusing our efforts and condensing the time we spend with our income team along with our moneyman network not exclusive paid soured from a time management perspective, but we also effectively serviceable the stoke amongst all channels targeted during ScottWeek in Deer Valley”, noted Adrian Montgomery, Marketing and PR Director of SCOTT Sports’ Bike Division. “We exceeded visit expectations during the circumstance by a huge edge and if this is an indicator of what 2012 is feat to countenance same for SCOTT Sports we are dead feat to grow, not exclusive incoming year but for years to come.”

The initiate is set…

Dealer meetings were an overwhelming success.

Bookending ScottWeek with the cycle DealerCamp, also held in Deer Valley, evidenced a incentive as well. It gave the opportunity to greet likely dealers and provide them an unmediated introduction to the calibre and state of the ever ontogeny SCOTT brand.

source: Adrian Montgomery Marketing/PR Director US Bike
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Lezyne News – HTC-Highroad Wins Green / Gracia Down But Not Out / Maxxis-Rocky Mountain Place High Windham

San Luis Obispo, CA â€" While the worldwide Lezyne aggroup has been working hornlike to launch the new Year 5 line, our sponsored athletes hit been working hornlike and winning races. Here is a little update on what they hit been up to.

HTC-Highroads Win Tour Green

Paris, author â€" On Sunday, HTC-Highroad’s Mark Cavendish comate his prototypal ever points jersey get in the Tour de author with a ordinal straight conclusion on the Champs Elysées. The Manxman took his ordinal running get of the 2011 vie at the end of a ninety-five kilometer initiate from Creteil to Paris, destructive aweigh of Edvald Boasson Hagen of Noreg and Germany’s Andre Greipel.

The prototypal nation rider ever to get the points jersey, Cavendish said afterwards there could not hit been a meliorate artefact to ammo off his effort for naif than with the ordinal initiate get of his occupation in the Tour de France.

HTC-Highroad complete the 2011 Tour de author as the aggroup with the most victories; five for Cavendish and digit on Sat for Germany’s Tony histrion in the Stage 20 ITT. For more aggregation most the aggroup go to their website>>.

For all those Team HTC-Highroad fans, analyse discover the restricted edition Team Port-a-Shop Tool Kit. The outfit contains everything the upbringing and traveling cyclist needs to service his/her bike on the road. For every outfit sold, a assets of the proceeds are donated to the Carla’s Circle fund to support the family of fallen aggroup rider Carla Swart. Learn more most Carla here>>.

Gracia Down But Not Out After land Championships

Meribel, author â€" Lezyne Ambassador Cedric Gracia concluded his vie separate at the 2011 land DH Championships with a activate to the infirmary on July 19th. Gracia had a beatific hearty up and was primed to pin it on his vie run, but had to fling after landing a jump wrong and injuring his mitt ACL. Gracia had surgery last Friday (7/22) to repair the alteration and is today undergoing physical therapy for a speedy recovery. Gracia was having a enthusiastic flavour and was ranked 15th feat into the land Championships.

Get substantially presently Cedric! We requirement the Sergeant at the face directive the way!

For more aggregation most Cedric, analyse discover his website here>>.

Premont and choreographer Place High at Windham WC

Windham, USA â€" Team Maxxis-Rocky Mountain had a beatific showing at the UCI World Cup in Windham, New royalty early this month. Marie-Helene Premont came finished with a 5th locate closing in the XC patch Ruaridh choreographer brought home a solidified 17th locate closing in the DH. Not a intense closing for choreographer considering he was racing injured. Teammates Geoff Kabush and Sabrina Jonnier also had solidified results closing 7th in the XC and 7th in the DH, respectively.

Check discover the Windham vie recording here>>. For more aggregation most the team, study them here>>.

Source: Apostle Ribera-McKay www.lezyne.com

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Race Face Welcomes Dave Murray as Operations Manager

Race Face Performance Products Appoints Operations Manager

Vancouver, BC – July 26, 2011 - Just figure short weeks after resurrecting Race Face, Managing Director Chris Tutton is ‘manning up’ faster than anticipated. Effective immediately, Dave philologue joins the payment cycling sort as Operations Manager; tasked with streamlining both river and off-shore manufacturing.

His extensive manufacturing occupation is anchored by two-decades with a Nuclear Pump Company in Bedfordshire, England where he began as organisation cause and spent the incoming eighteen eld employed his way finished various departments, eventually attractive the helm as Plant Manager preceding to relocating to Canada. philologue is no intruder to the cycling industry, having spent more than eight eld as Head of Operations for Rocky Mountain Bicycles, river inclose concern and birth locate of the store sort he today joins.

“It’s an industry that I hit uncomprehensible since my days with Rocky,” said philologue most his appointment. “I am surrounded by a talented assemble of organisation engineers and operators sacred to breathed new chronicle into this loved brand. This is an exciting instance at Race Face and the energy in the office is palpable.”

Murray’s first meet of playing is to streamline husbandly manufacturing and secure the chronicle of the reputable ‘Made in Canada’ soubriquet and lifetime warranty that hit embellish synonymous with the brand. “Tutton offered me a thin possibleness to tie the build from the connector up and I leapt at it,” said Murray. “Preserving jobs and even expanding here at the head office is our priority. The temptation to concoct off get is something we are disagreeable to refrain but it will be challenging, particularly with our meet book growing by the day, but with our renewed aggroup fiber I am overconfident it can be done.”

“Reviving a fallen sort is an large undertaking,” explained Chris Tutton. “When the possibleness to purchase Race Face presented itself we knew the success of a quick turnaround hinged on attracting talent that could attain strategic moves apace and regain the certainty of our cater chain. I hit famous Dave for eld and, in my mind, he was the front-runner to upkeep dealings and directionally verify the sort to the incoming level. His manufacturing skillfulness is not restricted to cycling which gives him the unique knowledge to identify and implement the changes necessary crossways our dealings and refrain the pitfalls that eventually obligate production facilities to motion less expensive resources abroad. Dave has an indisputable drive and his activity skills are a field quality to the longness of the new Race Face.”

Follow Race Face online by liking facebook.com/RacefacePerformance and on Twitter @RaceFace2011

About Race Face Performance Products Based in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Race Face Performance Products designs and manufactures leading-edge action cycling components, clothing, and protection. Race Face products are distributed in more than 40 countries globally. The company sponsors a sort of professional riders. For more information, meet raceface.com.

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Mammoth Bike Park Update

Ushering in the Next Generation of Mountain Bikers

Before you see how to launch rock drops, you hit to know hit to kick a turn. Mammoth Mountain has a reputation for whatever of the prizewinning big hit elevation cycle terrain around. Although they’re still adding to freeride options, the Park Crew has spent plentitude of instance on originator and grey terrain this summer.

“We pride ourselves as a cycle tract that offers something for everyone,” said Mark Hendrickson, Mammoth Mountain Bike Park Supervisor. “We hit everything from originator trails to the extremity downhills. We hit an grey family-type dawdle that goes from the top of the elevation every the artefact downbound — a aggregation of mountains can’t feature that.”

To see Hendrickson’s enthusiastic vision for the future of the sport, countenance no boost than Downtown, Big Ring and Juniper. These threesome entry-level trails are fashioned for anyone with base cycle skills. These trails hit old the brunt of improvements so far this flavour including 14-tons of paver bricks added to Juniper, 10-tons of paver bricks added to Downtown and an overall anaplasty of Downtown to attain it as welcoming as doable to newborn riders.

One contest that many cycle parks hit visaged is erosion on high-traffic areas much as berms. Mark Hendrickson and his team hit institute an engrossing artefact to conflict this by adding paver bricks to sections of dawdle that obtain a broad take of abuse. Paver bricks are 1-foot by 2-foot bricks with a frame pattern that provide a integrated sensation of climb on soil and asphalt. What does this stingy for the average biker at Mammoth? Fast, smooth turns that hold their shape and support bring your climb to the incoming level.

“We’re disagreeable to prepare the sport,” said Hendrickson. “We want to take that first-time elevation biker and inform them to the concern of elevation biking in a artefact that doesn’t anxiousness them. A aggregation of originator elevation bikers haven’t pedaled a cycle in eld and the terminal instance they rode a cycle was on an asphalt-paved cycle trail. We want to provide them a locate to take their cycle skills and denture the notch between paved and dirt.”

Hendrickson and his dawdle gathering hit been hornlike at impact this flavour digging the trails out, ofttimes by hand, from the record-breaking 55 feet of downfall that fell on Mammoth Mountain terminal winter. Snowfall like that equates to more impact than many think.

“We’d be walking a dawdle finished the woods and become crossways eight- to ten-foot deceive drifts. We hit still to become crossways a wooden feature that has prefabricated it finished terminal flavour unscathed,” Says Hendrickson.

In fact, snowcats had to revilement finished snowbanks as broad as 20 feet meet to get Kamikaze and Off the Top open.

Even though the eld of impact so far this flavour has been put toward the mellower trails on the mountain, downhillers and soil jumpers hit no requirement to fret; phases digit and threesome of cycle tract cerebration for this flavour are right up their alley, err trail. Phase two, which is already underway, module be convergent on jumps, jumps and more jumps.

New move runs designed for this flavour include: Recoil, which module replace Trail Home and aspires to be Mammoth’s newborn mode move trail; Jill’s Run, a newborn dawdle intake off of Twilight Zone; a rank anaplasty and reroute of Pipeline; the termination of Upper Twilight Zone; a newborn Kamikaze Park intake off modify Kamikaze newborn Chair 11; and Disco Ball, a move separate under Chair 11.

Phase threesome module pore on antiquity discover a mix of move tract trails nearby Main Lodge. Once every is said and done, the dawdle gathering is expecting to hit about 15 miles of newborn or completely restored trails in locate by the end of summer.

Mother nature threw her prizewinning at Mammoth Mountain terminal flavour but that hasn’t obstructed the Park Crew from getting the flavour rolling in the broad Sierra.

Source: justice Hansen, Mammoth Mountain Ski Area, LLC

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Ergon BX2 Review

European arrange companies hit always made their products easy and conformable, with excellent coefficient carrying attributes and incredible turn of sound adjustment, and Ergon has been at the perspective of this identify of technology. The BX2 is the epitome of this ergonomic thinking, and it’s exceptionally comfortable, ventilates well, carries its load counterpoised and near to the back and hips, and has plumb adjustment for different torso lengths, and uses a unequalled liberated floating margin strap. The Ergon BX2 arrange is available in digit sizes (regular and large) and digit colours (Black or Team Edition Green), and has a hardware capacity of 8 liters, with an treatment to 9.5.

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Andrew Neethling & Anne Caroline Chausson Win Jeep Air DH July 20

Andrew Neethling Soars to Victory at Jeep Air Downhill at Kokanee Crankworx Anne Caroline Chausson Wins Pro Women Category

Whistler, BC July 21, 2011 â€" The Jeep Air Downhill took over the painter Mountain Bike Park with over 344 competitors cacophonous downbound the most famous DH instruction in the world, A-Line. Brian Lopes was dethroned from his rule as power with South Africa’s saint Neethling taking over crowning spot success Lopes’ color of fivesome wins in a row, scoring the fastest instance of the period at 4:13.34.

The Air DH instruction runs the whole size of A-Line, finishing at the humble of the painter Mountain Bike Park with the unreal GLC Drop. A-Line is arguably the most famous DH instruction in elevation biking, with nearly 50 jumps on the course. A-Line is the criterion every DH courses strive to emulate. “Although the algid defy wasn’t saint for the fans, the instruction couldn’t have been in meliorate condition.” said character Merrick, circumstance announcer. “The instruction conditions were pretty tacky. A aggregation of the riders felt same their bikes were on rails.”

“I had a rattling decent awing run,” said saint Neethling, succeeder of the pro men category. “Compliments to Lopes, I meet put together a enthusiastic run.”

Andrew Neethling (RSA), claimed prototypal with a instance of 4:13.34; Brian Lopes (USA) took ordinal locate with a instance of 4:14.28; Mick Hannah (AUS), took third locate with a instance of 4:17.22.

In the Pro Women category, Anne Caroline Chausson (FRA), claimed prototypal with a instance of 4:33.16; Jill Kintner (USA) took ordinal locate with a instance of 4:40.98; wife Leishman (CAN) took third locate with a instance of 4:42.48.

Tomorrow is a Brobdingnagian period at Kokanee Crankworx with the Red Bull Joyride Qualifiers followed by the Teva Best Trick Showdown and springy webcast powered by Freecaster.tv play at 4-6:30pm. Then the action module advise up the elevation to the Ultimate Pump Track Challenge presented by Rock Shox. This elating circumstance module be webcast from 7:30pm to 10pm.

The village-wide expo and shew regularize module be hopping and attain trusty to check out the “Jeep® Rocks and Roads instruction in Lot 2 where visitors module be able to undergo the vehicle’s unparalleled capabilities while manipulating obstacles that shew the wild ride that exclusive Jeep® crapper deliver. The instruction and on-road test intend includes a stability ramp, a boulder crawl, a log pile and a 16 measure soil elevation to shew traction. The test intend area module separate until July 24 from 10am to 6pm.

Keep up to fellow on every things Kokanee Crankworx finished crankworx.com, Facebook.com/crankworx and attain to study @crankworx on Twitter.

About Jeep Brand Built on 70 years of unreal heritage, Jeep is the authentic SUV sort with class-leading capability, accomplishment and versatility for grouping who essay exceptional journeys. The Jeep sort delivers an unstoppered invitation to springy chronicle to the fullest by substance a full distinction of vehicles that move to wage owners with a sense of security to appendage some travelling with confidence. The Jeep container line-up consists of the Compass, Grand Cherokee, Liberty, Patriot, Wrangler and Wrangler Unlimited. To meet consumer demand around the world, every sextet Jeep models are sold right North USA â€" and are every acquirable in right-hand intend versions with fuel and diesel powertrain options.

About Kokanee Crankworx The ordinal annual Kokanee Crankworx is presented by painter Blackcomb and the painter Mountain Bike Park. Kokanee Crankworx is the biggest annual circumstance held in painter and is also the largest freeride elevation cycle festival in the world. Each year the prizewinning unskilled and professed freeride, descending and slopestyle elevation cycle athletes foregather for a ten-day, non-stop barrage of rivalry and celebration. painter has the world’s most different substance of elevation biking terrain, including 150 miles of single-track trails, 5,000 vertical feet of lift-accessed descending runs in the painter Mountain Bike Park, move parks and 20+ miles of sealed Valley Trail.

Source: Michelle Leroux www.crankworx.com

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2012 Norco Mountain Bike Product Launch

The 2012 Norco Product Launch is current in painter BC. There are a ton of newborn bikes and we poverty you to undergo every the details. Here is a hurried rundown of the Revolver, Sight, and Aurum, the latest and greatest from Norco. See New 2012 Road Bikes and Cyclocross Bikes from Norco on RoadBikeReview.com

2012 Norco Revolver – 100mm 29er

Overview Maybe you are ahead of the curve, someone who crapper wager the benefits and advantages of newborn technologies daylong before others grownup on. You’re a traveller who wants to advance the pack rather than follow, and a traveller who doesn’t permit their equipment stop them back. This 29er is fashioned for you.

The newborn REVOLVER from Norco brings a unequalled combining of technologies, description belief and industrial organisation to 29-inch wheels. A combative cycle for the masses, the REVOLVER is a lightweight dawdle instrument with poised confidence on the artefact downbound and explosive pace on the artefact up. A cycle for poem rides, living races and newborn adventures, it is agile, formal and responsive. This is the all-trail, singletrack killer that module yield you with no regrets and an upward turn at the ends of your mouth. Once you try this 29er you’ll never be healthy to countenance at diminutive wheels the aforementioned artefact again.

Intended Use For fast, liquid California-style singletrack, 24-hour living races or meet a topical dawdle with beatific friends, this is the cycle you need. The REVOLVER was fashioned to be lightweight and combative patch maintaining a healthy amount of versatility. With a carefully designated description and a meticulously engineered and carved frame, this is the un-race cycle that crapper be raced. Light sufficiency to be combative and formal sufficiency to be fun, it’s a 29er for the grouping … the faster people.

The Revolver Story: Shoot First, Ask Questions Later

If you already mate a 29er, then you know. You undergo they are quicker, smoother and more recreation than their small-wheeled counterparts. You undergo that with the correct 29er you are faster than the rivalry and your friends too. And you undergo that a 29er crapper be varied and competitive. If you don’t mate a 29er, try the REVOLVER. Then you’ll be in the undergo too.

Quickly gaining rubbing as the definitive choice for riders that poverty unmatched pace and a uncreased ride, 29ers are moving into the mainstream. To date, though, whatever 29ers lacked the versatility that riders hunger for. We took state and engineered the REVOLVER from the connector up to be a cycle that module invoke heads and modify 26” diehards. Nimble still stable, varied still lightweight, this unequalled combination was made doable by combining an excellent factor description with a carefully fashioned frame.

Built on the newborn A.R.T. hold platform, the REVOLVER combines technologies same a narrow nous tube, desegrated dropouts and bespoken hydroformed tubing. The modify termination is a cycle that is unbelievably formal and economical patch remaining lightweight. Surprising to whatever riders is the equilibrise that the REVOLVER finds between both rise and descending abilities, patch existence confident of winning living races.

Frame Technology Every characteristic of the design, hold and description was carefully scrutinized, engineered and adjusted to ensure that the final product is as close to perfection as possible. With 100 mm of dawdle optimized a.R.T. Travel creating a rigid, astir and economical platform, the handgun provides an saint sport experience. The hold kinematics were carefully civilised to create the amend equilibrise of pedaling efficiency and bump compliance. The inclose is lightweight still laterally unadaptable for fine and nimble direction characteristics. The modify termination is a beautifully counterpoised and economical cycle that is above every fast!

• 100 Mm of a.R.T. (Advanced mate technology) lateral hold travel. Pivot placement has been optimized for xc/trail action to verify advantage of quaternary main benefits: accumulated pedaling efficiency, reinforced braking performance, accumulated square-edge strike deference and easier-to-tune, bottomless-feeling suspension.
• Custom hydroformed tubeset: apiece plaything has been meticulously engineered to be lightweight and stiff, providing a susceptible and snappy cycle that goes just where it is pointed. Using hydroforming also allowed us to appearance the tubes to create an aesthetically stunning frame. Some key inclose features are: centre plaything with desegrated unification limb pivot, lopsided seatstay tubing, and curved crowning plaything for low stand-over height.
• Holloform® unification arm: imitative and then welded to create a one-piece linkarm that resists torsional forces and provides a solid, inevitable ride
• Wrap-around seatstay yoke: by patch the seatstay connexion around the face of the centre tube, the lateral rotate crapper become closer to the centre plaything at flooded travel. This allows for a shorter chainstay size which improves the direction characteristics.
• Integrated dropout design: imitative dropouts with desegrated axle and parader points, full brushwood calliper post-mount and centre stay hold gussets. This unequalled scheme works with the holloform unification limb to wage an unbelievably formal lateral polygon that resists the lateral forces of the lateral wheel. The cycle tracks straightforward and is rattling steady and predictable. The desegrated dropout organisation of the handgun includes:Syntace x-12 142 mm x 12 mm axle: stiffer and stronger than another axle designs. Integrated derailleur hanger is stronger and much stiffer than conventional designs for crisp, fine movement in whatever condition. Post-mount brushwood mount: reduces the mounting hardware to half of a connatural brushwood mount, provides a stiffer programme for the brushwood and reduces brushwood noise. The gain gist is reinforced braking performance. Integrated gussets: strong, reddened and nice to countenance at, these restrict the lateral end, rising sport performance
• Clevis-less pivots: if you were to countenance at a connatural parader point, you would attending that the modify saucer is adjoining by a piece of touchable welded to the tube, also famous as a clevis. A stride nervy in cycle design, we institute a artefact to decimate the clevis by mounting the parader hardware direct into the narrow plaything design. With less welds these pivots are stiffer, stronger and lighter, gift you a meliorate ride.
• Tapered nous tube: a huge movement nervy in cycle organisation providing three field benefits, every making the cycle more responsive, stiffer and elating to ride. Larger conduit at the face modify â€" where the nous plaything meets the crowning and downbound tubes â€" making it stiffer and more nonabsorptive to lateral loading, ensuring fine curb and cycle control. It allows subfigure manufacturers to attain a stronger honor (the piece that connects the legs of the subfigure to the cows tube) with no coefficient penalty. Increased capableness effectuation inferior turn and more precision with no downsides. The bearings in the modify headset cup are oversized, allowing them to be stronger, smoother and longer lasting.
• One-piece, asymmetric chainstay yoke: optimized strength, stiffness and weight. Also reduces chain blow by cloudy the intend lateral chainstay.
• Forged modify damper mounts: fashioned to meliorate separate damper forces by creating an reinforced scheme nearby the bb area.
• Proprietary aluminum and unsullied poise pivot/shock hardware: ultimate and stays tight.
• Chainstay mounted face derailleur: to earmark the face derailleur to study the hold as it moves finished its travel, we hit mounted the face derailleur to the chainstay yoke, to meliorate movement performance.

More than a azygos hold system, A.R.T. is optimized for apiece inclose platform. Our engineers strategically better the parader locations to tune hold characteristics for apiece covering so that every inclose excels in its intended environment.

Increased Pedaling Efficiency To conflict the finite enemy of hold famous as bobfloat (the peppy that occurs when pedaling), A.R.T. was fashioned to wage accumulated chain growth. This creates anti-squat forces, effectively counteracting the forces that produce hold bob. The termination is unbelievably economical power designate and excellent rise knowledge for our bikes.

Increased Square-Edge Bump Compliance Square-edge bumps module andante most hold designs downbound in a hurry. A.R.T., however, improves the wheel’s knowledge to movement back as it travels up, allowing the rotate to advise out of the artefact of obstacles. When place in practice, this provides a smoother, faster mate over wrinkled and multifarious terrain, amend for elevation bikes.

Improved Braking Performance You haw hit heard of brake-jack before, and perhaps you’ve seen the engrossing contraptions latched to the lateral of bicycles to mitigate braking forces. With A.R.T. the back axle line allows the hold to rest unbelievably astir under braking. The termination is smooth, coercive braking with full astir hold and a full aggregation of rubbing when you requirement to andante downbound immediately.

Improved Leverage Ratio Curve To attain the hold easier to tune and wage it the bottomless feel riders are hunting for, A.R.T. hold uses a proportional investment ratio curve. At the beginning of the stroke, the damper is rattling susceptible to meliorate rubbing and diminutive strike absorption. As the damper goes finished its stroke, it becomes progressively stiffer to absorb large bumps, drops or hits. We also lowered the coverall investment ratio to turn forces in the damper and process tuneability and damper life.

Spec Philosophy A cycle is rattling the assets of its parts; the frame, the fork, the wheels and the brakes are junked by themselves. But when you place it every together, that is when the illusion happens.

We hit condemned our instance and carefully designated the saint compounding of parts to hands the inclose and ultimately the rider’s needs. It is our belief that bicycles requirement to be versatile, sanctioning riders to explore their intent of undertaking wherever the dawdle or agency haw verify them. Our factor specs emit this ideology and wage the amend combining of true action and versatility. The REVOLVER description was designated to wage cross-country action with all-mountain prowess, so it’s both lightweight and adaptable. These are whatever of the highlights of the spec:

• 3 x 10 drivetrains (44/33/22 face with 11-36 rear): wage a real granny-gear for reinforced action when climbing. We’ve institute that whatever 2 x 10 combinations are punishing patch rise steep terrain on a 29er, unless you hit legs and lungs of steel, so we opted for the player anulus to ensure that the amend equipment ratio is only a utter away.
• Wider 680 mm low-rise (15 mm) bars and shorter stems than tralatitious XC bikes. solon investment and curb patch sanctioning an battleful embody function improves action on a variety of trails.
• 100 mm movement forks with 20 mm and 15 mm dropouts, narrow cows plaything and remote lockout lever for every Revolver models. Stiffer axle and cows plaything as substantially as substance a hurried lockout rise setting.
• 29” tubeless-compatible rims for Revolver 1 and 2. Gives you the choice to separate a tubeless for coefficient savings, modify tire push and less pinch flats.
• Lockout or ProPedal lateral air shocks meliorate rise efficiency.
• 160mm face and lateral brushwood rotors: lightweight with every of the fastening power you need, and whatever to spare.
• Colour ties on components, including command graphics, edge graphics, bar, stem and seatpost: the esthetical is an essential part of a cycle and we’ve gone over and civilised every discourse to ensure the amend mate and look.
• Low-stack headsets: We hit specifically utilised a low-stack 1.6 mm or 5.3 mm crowning strobile to earmark for modify stem peak adjustment. Bikes module become with spacers for adjustment.
• Larger volume 29 x 2.2 tires with dawdle (mid-knob organisation tread), impact substantially with the large 29” wheels.

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Eastern States Cup Race #6 at Plattekill Bike Park

Eastern States Cup Race #6 at Plattekill Bike Park Featuring The Hookit.com and Monster Energy Spots and Sessions Tour

The Eastern States Cup #6 DH MTB Series Race marks the halfway saucer in the program for 2011 at Plattekill Bike Park. What better artefact to mark this weekend than to vie at Plattekill? It is digit of the example birthplaces of DH elevation bike riding and racing in the USA. The track is being kept “under wraps” for this event. The articulate at the elevation is the trail gathering has been antiquity this track especially for this race. You undergo if it’s at Plattekill it module be steep, lax and FAST ! No flat long dull courses at this mountain.

The Eastern States Cup is a army Cycling Regional Championship Series, a National Championship Qualifier and hosts 3 State Championships within the series. This kibosh at Plattekill module be the ordinal of four NYS Championship Races. The NYS Finals are at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, NY on Sept. 11, 2011

Come to Plattekill and tie the rest of the ESC regulars for a recreation weekend. The ESC strives to be a fun, kinsfolk oriented vie series. The people that separate this program also vie and wager what the racers poverty in value, courses and locations. 2011 is proving to be a rattling successful assemblage for the ESC and we poverty you to tie us to wager why. Thank you to those that already have based the series.

Every vie module feature a wrap up POC Video of the Weekend, produced by VonCooper Productions. The video module ready vie weekend highlights available for a reminder when the colder months set in. The Nema Team Challenge is vaporisation up with 11 teams disagreeable to capture conception of the $1000 Nema Team Challenge purse. The Nema Team Challenge standings are rattling close and the crowning positions are ease up for grabs.

As an added motivator to be there this weekend, Hookit.com and Monster Energy are rolling the Spots and Sessions journeying into Plattekill for the Eastern States Cup Race #6. The journeying has already cosmopolitan over 5,000 miles temporary legendary tracks, parks and symptom in the southern California, San Francisco, Tahoe, Portland, Seattle, Salt Lake City, Denver, Kansas City, Chicago, city and metropolis areas. The journeying has crooked up members at over 50 symptom with creation and giveaways from Hookit, Monster Energy, Piranha X, Osiris, GoPro, Spy Optics and AXO. Monster module be recruiting for new members of the Monster Army. Make sure to kibosh by the display area.

2011 EASTERN STATES CUP SCHEDULE 6/4 â€" 6/5 – Mt Snow. VT 6/11 â€" 6/12 – Pats Peak. NH 6/18 â€" 6/19 – Attitash, NH 7/2 â€" 7/3 – Plattekill. NY 7/16 â€" 7/17 – Mt Snow. VT 7/23 â€" 7/24 – Plattekill. NY 7/30 â€" 7/31 – Killington VT 8/20 â€" 8/21 – Mt Snow. VT 9/3 â€" 9/4 – Plattekill. NY 9/10 â€" 9/11 – Whiteface, NY 10/8 â€" 10/9 FINALS – Plattekill. NY

Race Entry Pro Men & Women $ 75.00 Categories 1,2 & 3 $ 65.00 Includes Lift Tickets for Both Saturday and Sunday. $1200.00 Maximum Pro Purse

Schedule: Saturday 9-5 Sunday 8-5 â€" Race 11

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2011 USA Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country Nationals: Gould and Wells successfully defend cross-country national titles

Ketchum, Idaho (July 16, 2011) â€" Georgia Gould (Fort Collins, Colo./Luna Pro Team) successfully defended her favoring women’s interbreed land domestic denomination in face of her hometown gathering on period threesome of the 2011 army Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships on Saturday. Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized) also maintained his Stars-and-Stripes jersey after an awing display at Sun Valley Resort in Ketchum, Idaho. By morality of success domestic titles today, the unify attained an automatic nomination to the aggroup that will represent the United States at the Union Cycliste International World Championships in Champéry, Switzerland, from Aug. 31-Sept. 4.

Zions Bank Pro Women’s Cross-Country race Gould quickly jumped discover to the primeval advance with Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Rabobank-Giant) ornamentation on her wheel in the primeval going. The 2008 plain moneyman was healthy to slowly physique her advance throughout the five-lap affair to earn her ordinal coverall and ordinal serial favoring women’s cross-country domestic title. “I was in the face and I meet proven to be as standpat as I could be when you’re going every discover at the crowning of that climb,” said Gould. “I desired to save a lowercase bit in housing somebody caught up and attacked.” “I knew she (Lea Davison) was not that farther behind. It was rattling everybody individually against the hill.”

As moneyman soloed to victory, Compton and Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt./Specialized Factory Racing) battled for the silver. Davison surged New in the 29-kilometer circumstance and was healthy to grownup Compton, who suffered a flat, on the penultimate lap. The unify was healthy to near whatever ground on the cheater as moneyman battled cramps on the test lap. Davison had to settle for grayness however, despite approaching the gap to approaching exclusive 23 seconds behind Gould. On the comeback dawdle following a hip trauma in 2010, the 28 year-old Davison transcribed her best-ever finish, nearly a instance aweigh of the seven-time cyclo-cross domestic endorse Compton who attained the bronze on a tough climbing course. “I was feeling meliorate on the second-to-last lap,” explained Davison. “I passed Katie (Compton), then she kinda got me at the first of the terminal lap, but I absolutely throttled myself on that terminal climb. I was rattling impelled and I was approaching on Colony (Gould), but I ran discover of ground. I’m ease really, rattling happy.”

The 2009 domestic endorse Heather Irmiger (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek) ended fourth, nearly quaternary transactions behind the winner, after battling mechanical issues. Kelli Emmett (Colorado Springs, Colo./Giant Bicycles) who led a big chase assemble throughout the vie grabbed the test ambo blot meet aweigh of Judy Freeman (Boulder, Colo./Kenda-Felt) in sixth.

Zions Bank Pro Men’s Cross-Country Wells, who became the prototypal Negro ever to get domestic titles in cross-country, brief road cross-country and cyclo-cross in a azygos assemblage in 2010, continuing his streak on Saturday earning his ordinal favoring men’s cross-country domestic title. The accumulation of his denomination wasn’t cushy still as 26-year-old Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont./Subaru-Trek) put up a hard fisticuffs to garner the grayness medal. “To get it the prototypal time, terminal year, was a huge weight soured my shoulders,” said Wells, the top-ranked dweller internationally. “This year, I’ve been riding brawny in every of the preceding races, but this instruction is a lot different than most of the races I train. I’m a large guy, so to be healthy to get here is rattling satisfying. On a precipitous rise same this, at high altitude, you can’t rattling attack. Everyone meet rides at their own pace. My measure meet happened to be a some seconds faster than Sam’s (Schultz) apiece travel which was enough to allow me to get away.”

Schultz came around for the prototypal of sextet laps in the lead, but author wasn’t farther soured his heels and was healthy to progress the past U23 domestic endorse on travel two. author was healthy to acquire his advance to meet under a instance before Schultz came surging backwards to approaching exclusive around 20 seconds downbound to achievement his best-ever favoring domestic championships finish. “I would hit idolized to hit won, but I was psyched to make it a race,” said Schultz. “I felt beatific right from the move and intellection I strength as well separate with it. I proven to secure with him (Wells) but he was climbing pretty hard.”

The 2007 and 2008 domestic champ Adam Craig (Bend, Ore./Rabobank-Giant) touched into ordinal on the ordinal travel and rode comfortably to the bronze. Ultra-endurance specialist and past marathon elevation cycle domestic endorse Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./Cannondale Factory Racing) prevailed in a shoot-out with 2009 interbreed land domestic endorse Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek) to ammo discover the podium. Twenty-three-year-old Tad Elliot (Durango, Colo./Durango Devo) also had a brawny ride closing meet aweigh of Spencer Paxson (Seattle, Wash./Kona) for sixth and seventh, respectively.

SINGLE SPEED Hometown heroine, Rebecca Rusch (Ketchum, Idaho/Specialized), competing for the prototypal instance in a azygos speed race, won by over figure minutes, traversing the 22.25-kilometer instruction in 1:31:43. “Hearing my study and sight every of my friends and my upbringing partners,” a jubilant Rusch said after her win. “It’s the prizewinning hebdomad of my chronicle experience here, having nationals here. It’s awesome.”

In the men’s single-speed race, Cary Smith (Jackson, Wyo.) attained the metallic ribbon with a instance of 1:21:36, slightly more than digit transactions faster than grayness linksman Cameron Brenneman (Santa Fe, N.M.).

CATEGORY 1 AGE GROUPS MEN 19-70+ Brennan Wodtli (Bend, Ore.) completed the men’s 19-24 instruction in 1:18:11 to get the Stars-and-Stripes jersey.

Brendan Shafer (Durango, Colo./Durango Devo) was nearly digit instance faster than Miguel Ramos (Durango, Colo.) to get the men’s 25-29 contest.

Ty Kady (Brea, Calif.) cosmopolitan 22.25 kilometers in 1:19:21 to get the men’s 30-34 by exclusive 38 seconds over Marco Arocha (Newbury, Calif./Team Velosport Club).

In the men’s 35-39 race, Kyle Dixon (Reno, Nev.) was threesome transactions faster than Scott Leland (Reno, Nev.).

Dario Fredrick (San Anselmo, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) was meet 17 seconds faster than Mark Legg Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo.) to get the men’s 40-44 race.

Donald Myrah (San Jose, Calif.) was digit transactions faster than the runner-up Michael Hogan (Louisville, Colo./Justin’s-Titus Mountain Bike) in the men’s 45-49 race.

Russell Kappius (Littleton, Colo.) won the men’s 50-54 oppose by nearly threesome minutes, bill a instance of 1:26:00.

Gary Thacker (Boulder, Colo./Justin’s-Titus Mountain Bikes) traversed 22.25 kilometers in 1:31:48, nearly digit transactions faster than Dean Swank (Crestline, Calif.), who ended second, in the men’s 55-59 contest.

Don Leet (Bend, Ore./Ben Endurace Academy) posted the prizewinning instance among the men’s 60-64 racers at 49:54, 90 seconds faster than grayness linksman Glen Norton (Renton, Wash.).

James Wagner (Auburn, Wash./Cycle Therapy-4 Corners Cycling) topped the men’s 65-69 podium.

In the men’s 70+ race, 69-year-old Andy Andrews (Hailey, Idaho) completed the 12.5-kilometer instruction quaternary seconds faster than 71-year-old Hans Muehlegger (Sun Valley, Idaho).

CATEGORY 1 AGE GROUPS WOMEN 19-60+ Katie Sodergren (Brekenridge, Colo.) cosmopolitan the 22.25 kilometers in an awing 1:39:55, nearly 11 transactions meliorate than the runner-up Lindsy Campbell (Missoula, Mont./Northern chain Cycling Team) to get the women’s 19-24 competition.

In the women’s 25-29 race, Rose Grant (Kalispell, Mont./Sportsman & Ski Haus) took the crowning blot of the ambo with a instance of 1:35:17, nearly seven transactions meliorate than the grayness linksman Jena Greaser (Newton, Mass./Noreast Cycling).

Jamie Busch (Los Gatos, Calif.) attained the metallic ribbon after success the women’s 30-34 vie by nearly sextet transactions over Serena Bishop (Bend, Ore.).

Another hometown pedaler won in face of her fans as Brooke Hovey (Ketchum, Idaho/Mud Honey Cycling) cosmopolitan 22.25 kilometers in 1:34:22 to get the Stars-and-Stripes jersey in the women’s 35-39.

Helene Drumm (San Anselmo, Calif.) won the women’s 40-44 oppose by meet over 90 seconds over Christine Irelan (Colorado Springs, Colo.).

Julia Violich (San Anselmo, Calif./Peanut Butter & Co TWENTY 12) topped the women’s 45-49 ambo after completing the 22.25-kilometer challenge in 1:35:21.

Anne Gonzales (Aspen, Colo.) emerged successful in the women’s 50-54 race, closing in 1:38:34, 12 transactions faster than the next fireman in her age group.

Lesley Jensen (Benicia, Calif./One Team Racing) was the prototypal blackamoor to rank the instruction among the riders, success the women’s collection 1 55-59 with a instance of 57:58.

Former road age-group world champion, 62-year-old Martha Iverson (Durango, Colo./Durango Wheel Club) won the women’s 60+ race, completing the 12.5-kilometer instruction in 1:12:47.

National title elevation cycle racing continues Sunday with the BNSF caretaker D races first at 8 a.m. and the elating brief road cross-country domestic championships play at 11:30 a.m.

Visit the authorised circumstance webpage of the army Cycling Mountain Bike Cross-Country National Championships for more information on the event, including rank schedule, results, picture gallery and more.

USA Cycling Mountain Bike National Championships Sun Valley Resort, Ketchum, Idaho July 14-17, 2011

Pro Men 1. character author (Durango, Colo./Specialized) 1:44:38 2. Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont./Subaru-Trek) 1:45:27 3. cristal Craig (Bend, Ore./Rabobank-Giant) 1:47:06 4. book Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./Cannondale Factory Racing) 1:48:43 5. Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek) 1:49:03

Pro Women 1. Colony moneyman (Fort Collins, Colo./Luna Pro Team) 1:40:14 2. Lea Davison (Jericho, Vt./Specialized Factory Racing) 1:40:37 3. Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./RaboBank-Giant Off Road Team) 1:41:28 4. Heather Irmiger (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek) 1:45:30 5. Kelli Emmett (Colorado Springs, Colo./Giant Bicycles) 1:46:37

Men’s Single Speed 1. Cary adventurer (Jackson, Wyo.) 1:21:36 2. Cameron Brenneman (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1:23:53 3. Cody Peterson (Bend, Ore.) 1:25:13 4. Christopher McGovern (Durango, Colo.) 1:25:26 5. Afroasiatic Cheeney (Durango, Colo./Durango Devo) 1:26:31

Women’s Single Speed 1. wife Rusch (Ketchum, Idaho/Specialized) 1:31:43 2. Jennifer Wilson (El Paso, Texas) 1:41:15 3. Sara Tescher (Durango, Colo.) 1:44:20 4. Melissa Liebling (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1:48:23 5. Lisa Curry (Bozeman, Mont./Gallatin Valley Bicycle Club) 1:49:16

Category 1 Men 19-24 1. Brennan Wodtli (Bend, Ore.) 1:18:11 2. Greg Krieger (Cedarburg, Wisc./Team Extreme) 1:22:49 3. Sean Jones (Billings, Mont./Montana Cycling and Ski) 1:23:13 4. Chris politician (San Luis Obispo, Calif./California Polytechnic-San Luis Obispo) 1:24:15 5. Garet discoverer (Warrenburg, Mo./Ethos Racing) 1:24:17

Category 1 Women 19-24 1. Katie Sodergren (Breckenridge, Colo.) 1:39:55 2. Lindsy Campbell (Missoula, Mont./Northern chain Cycling Team) 1:50:35 3. Lauren Gregg (Big Bear Lake, Calif.) 1:53:49 4. Katelyn Isaacson (McKinleyville, Calif.) 1:57:34

Category 1 Men 25-29 1. Brendan Shafer (Durango, Colo./Durango Devo) 1:19:46 2. Miguel Ramos (Durango, Colo.) 1:20:44 3. Jafer Beizer (Conyers, Ga./TBB Sports) 1:20:47 4. cristal Leiferman (Casper, Wyo.) 1:21:00 5. Tyler Gauthier (Ishpeming, Mich./Range Mountain Bike Association) 1:21:36

Category 1 Women 25-29 1. Rose Grant (Kalispell, Mont./Sportsman & Ski Haus) 1:35:17 2. Jena Greaser (Newton, Mass./Noreast Cycling) 1:42:07 3. Sara Schroeder (Hailey, Idaho/Mud Honey) 1:43:17 4. Mary Foss (Ogden, Utah) 1:47:10 5. Jamie Terry (Missoula, Mont.) 1:57:52

Category 1 Men 30-34 1. Ty Kady (Brea, Calif.) 1:19:21 2. Marco Arocha (Newbury Park, Calif./Team Velosport Club) 1:19:59 3. Josh discoverer (Boulder, Colo./Rockymounts-Izze Racing) 1:22:12 4. politico Schuler (Boulder, Colo./Boulder Cycle Sport) 1:23:15 5. histrion Morris (Tucson, Ariz.) 1:23:34

Category 1 Women 30-34 1. Jamie Busch (Los Gatos, Calif.) 1:39:17 2. Serena Bishop (Bend, Ore.) 1:45:14 3. Rebekah Rottenberg (Davis, Calif./Davis Bike Club) 1:46:24 4. Becky Sears (Gunnison, Colo.) 1:46:29 5. Megan Chinburg (Portland, Ore./Veloforma) 1:47:31

Category 1 Men 35-39 1. Kyle Dixon (Reno, Nev.) 1:20:10 2. histrion Leland (Reno, Nev.) 1:23:14 3. Justin Mann (Murrieta, Calif./Rock N’ Road Cyclery) 1:24:02 4. Jerry Long (Moscow, Idaho/Coeur d’Alene Velo Racers) 1:24:49 5. Ilium Olson (Driggs, Idaho) 1:25:09

Category 1 Women 35-39 1. poet Hovey (Ketchum, Idaho/Mud Honey) 1:34:22 2. Tara Walhart (San Francisco, Calif.) 1:39:06 3. Hollie McGovern (Nevada City, Calif./Calnorte VC Switchbacks) 1:46:06 4. Melanie Long (Boulder, Colo.) 1:46:51 5. Abbie Durkee (Des Moines, Iowa/Whole Athlete-Specialized) 1:51:27

Category 1 Men 40-44 1. Mario Fredrick (San Anselmo, Calif./Whole Athlete-Specialized) 1:19:57 2. Mark Legg Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 1:20:14 3. Kenny When (Durango, Colo./No Tubes Race Team) 1:22:19 4. Stanislaus Bankston (Nevada City, Calif./Bicycle Emporium) 1:22:56 5. Kevin Donovan (Boise, Idaho/Team Ascent Idaho) 1:25:03

Category 1 Women 40-44 1. Helene Drumm (San Anselmo, Calif.) 1:37:23 2. Christine Irelan (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 1:39:01 3. Jill Hardiman (White Salmon, Wash.) 1:43:56 4. Heidi Volpe (Topanga, Calif.) 1:45:36 5. Brenna Lopez-Otero (Bend, Ore./Bend Memorial Clinic Total Care) 1:45:54

Category 1 Men 45-49 1. Donald Myrah (San Jose, Calif.) 1:23:02 2. archangel linksman (Louisville, Colo./Justin’s-Titus Mountain Bike) 1:25:04 3. Frank Gonzalez (Helena, Mont./Montana Velo) 1:26:04 4. Brian President (Boise, Idaho/Team Ascent Velo) 1:26:28 5. Mark Roebke (Avon, Colo.) 1:26:45

Category 1 Women 45-49 1. Julia Violich (San Anselmo, Calif./Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY 12) 1:35:21 2. Karenic linksman (Louisville, Colo./Justin’s-Titus Mountain Bike) 1:41:34 3. Coreen Wright (Evergreen, Colo.) 1:45:35 4. Michelle Richardson (Helena, Mont./Montana Velo) 1:55:28 5. Elaine Bothe (Portland, Ore.) 2:01:26

Category 1 Men 50-54 1. writer Kappius (Littleton, Colo) 1:26:00 2. Wade Wilderman (Fraser, Colo.) 1:28:46 3. Johnny O’Mara (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) 1:28:52 4. Terry Duran (Birmingham, Ala./Birmingham Velo) 1:30:34 5. histrion Seaton (Bend, Ore.) 1:30:49

Category 1 Women 50-54 1. Anne Gonzales (Aspen, Colo.) 1:38:34 2. Laura Howat (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1:50:36 3. Ursula Sandefur (Auburn, Ala.) 1:52:18 4. Ellen minstrel (Salt Lake City, Utah/Revolution Café Rio) 1:52:42 5. Lori adventurer (Boise, Idaho/Wild chain Inc.) 1:54:41

Category 1 Men 55-59 1. Gary Thacker (Boulder, Colo./Justin’s-Titus Mountain Bike) 1:31:48 2. Dean Swank (Crestline, Calif.) 1:33:37 3. writer Asleson (Colorado Springs, Colo.) 1:36:02 4. Randy Beckner (Helena, Mont./Montana Velo) 1:37:02 5. archangel Longmire (Missoula, Mont./Northern chain Cycling Team) 1:38:06

Category 1 Women 55-59 1. Lesley author (Benicia, Calif./One Team Racing) 57:58 2. Karla Segale (Winthrop, Wash./Methow Valley Cycling) 1:04:50 3. falls Wiseman (Ketchum, Idaho/Mud Honey) 1:11:54 4. revolutionary Merritt (Ruckersville, Va.) 1:25:23 5. Melissa Boyd (Corvallis, Ore.) 1:26:10

Category 1 Men 60-64 1. Don Leet (Bend, Ore./Bend Endurance Academy) 49:54 2. Glen Norton (Renton, Wash.) 51:24 3. Dwight Hibdon (Park City, Utah/Mad Dog Cycles Race Team) 52:06 4. Dan Meyer (Lake Elmo, Minn./Loon State Cyclists) 56:05 5. saint Heywood (Wenatchee, Wash.) 59:01

Category 1 Women 60+ 1. Martha Iverson (Durango, Colo./Durango Wheel Club) 1:12:47 2. Melinda Berge (Park City, Utah) 1:25:22

Category 1 Men 65-69 1. James designer (Auburn, Wash./Cycle Therapy) 54:18 2. Stan author (Temecula, Calif.) 55:17 3. Joel Quinn (South Jordan, Utah) 57:22 4. discoverer Fanning (Waco, Texas) 59:52 5. Tomas Pastalka (Belvedere, Calif.) 1:00:27

Category 1 Men 70+ 1. Andy Andrews (Hailey, Idaho) 57:46 2. Hans Muehlegger (Sun Valley, Idaho) 57:50 3. Frederic Schmid (Waco, Texas/Bicycles Outback) 1:06:03 4. Ronald Riley (Aptos, Calif./Bike Station Aptos) 1:09:08 5. William Chambers (Park City, Utah) 1:59:11

 

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BCBR 2011 Stage Seven Update: Whistler

What an dumbfounding scenery for the test initiate of BC Bike Race 2011! With beautiful mountains achievement toward blue skies and the athletics rings watching over the closing line, the picturesque athletics Square in the heart of painter was the locate to be.

Racers ordered soured for their test stage, the painter ‘victory lap’ at 10am to the cheers of a huge gathering of spectators. Course Director Grant Lamont mutual whatever test insights and due that the fastest racers would interbreed the closing distinction in roughly 2 hours.

Chris Sheppard (Rocky Mountain Bikes) had attrited the chromatic jersey since Day One and had created a solidified cushion from ordinal locate Jason Sager (Jamis). Barring whatever unforeseen incidents, Sheppard was probable to intend BC Bike Race for the ordinal assemblage running. But would he intend the test stage?

The answer came much quicker than expected. Squamish traveller Neal Kindree (Republic Bike Shop / SRAM) astounded BC Bike Race spectators and gathering when he effort finished the closing distinction in a blistering 1:22:01, nearly 40 minutes primeval than anticipated. The question of who would intend the painter initiate had been brewing since the hard-fought effort for the intend in Squamish. Kindree was digit of the prospects, as were Sheppard, Sager, and the Kona combo of Kris Sneddon and Barry Wicks. Very brawny performances all hebdomad saw Kindree on the ambo fivesome times, three of which were initiate wins.

Kindree mutual whatever of his Whistler-winning strategy with the closing distinction crowd, “I’ve ridden these trails quite a bit and knew that there were feat to be whatever sharp rocks discover there. So, I locate player expose in the tires and throttled finished the descents. I meet kept telling myself, ‘Ride smooth. Ride smooth’.” A smooth ride it was. Kindree rode into a 2.5-minute notch over the incoming closest racers to interbreed the line: Brian Lopes (IBIS), Chris Sheppard and Jason Sager.

Yes, Brian Lopes. After success the Rock Mountain Bikes “Love the Ride” timed sections in Squamish yesterday, Gravity legend Brian Lopes locate in an unlikely effort to intend ordinal locate in Stage 7. BC Bike Race was Lopes’ first fissure at a elevation cycle initiate vie and he was understandably stoked, “This is artefact more than I’d expected. My content this hebdomad was a couple of crowning 20 finishes and I had two or three crowning 10 before today. But I never thought in a meg years I would intend in the crowning three!”

Lopes’ performanceâ€"as substantially as the awesome 3rd locate closing (Stage 7 and Overall) for gravity diva Katrina Strand (Troy Lee Designs/Oakley/Maxxis)â€"has shown that events same the BC Bike Race are accessible to riders from a broad spectrum of disciplines.

Sneddon and Wicks won Stage 7 in the Open Team collection in 1:25:04, which gave them their ordinal chromatic jersey of the week. Mitchell Hoke and moneyman Kappius (Clif Bar) were ordinal and Greg Day and Colin Kerr (Rocky Mountain Bikes) took third.

Other highlights of the period allow Trish Grajczyk success Stage 7 in Master’s Women category. Grajczyk, who clocked the fastest someone time of the period in 1:51:22, attained her ordinal chromatic jersey at BC Bike Race 2011. “I loved the race,” said Grajczyk, “I would propose it to anybody!”

In the Veterans 100+ Team category, Canadian Nordic and cycling legend Pierre doc and his partner justice Auclair won Stage 7 and also claimed the chromatic jersey for the ordinal time this week. “It was a great journey. Every period was perfect,” doc told the closing distinction crowd, “It was the prizewinning hebdomad of my life, that’s for sure!”

In essence, every azygos racer who decussate the distinction today was a highlight of the BC Bike Race. Each fireman attained a BC Bike Race track give medal, a finisher’s t-shirt, and crowing rights to hit complete more than 400km of West Coast singletrack in heptad days. All that remains is to celebrate the accomplishment, which module happen at the test awards ceremony and banquet tonight in Whistler. These riders hit attained it!

Some racers had much an dumbfounding experience at the 5th BC Bike Race this hebdomad that they already want more. Several racers are hoping to convey in 2012, including European pro saint Dietsch (BULLS).

Registration for the 2012 circumstance opens at 10am PDT at www.bcbikerace.com Limited primeval bird pricing is in effect.

For flooded vie results and information for the 2012 event, check discover www.bcbikerace.com

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Source: BC Bike Race

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