Welcome to the 2011 Ballyhoura Spook, the Halloween Mountain Bike Stage Race, formally known as the screamer. It’s the same great event as in previous years but now bigger and better than ever. Racing takes place over two stages on the Ballyhoura trails with a 30 kilometre cross country loop and an additional 10 kilometre [...]

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Competing at the final round of the British Mountain bike Series in Plymouth, Mel Spath has bagged the overall series crown with a second place finish to World Under 23 silver medalist Annie Last.  In her blog post she outlines how the race unfolded.  The race was a good one for Irish riders with a [...]

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A nice edit from Chris Akrigg of Mongoose bikes.  Make sure and watch it through to the end…

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The penultimate episode for 2011 sees the Athertons riding at the World Cup in Val di Sole before Dan has a go at Enduro.

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With the popularity of Fixed wheel bikes it was only a matter of time until Hollywood took notice.  Premium rush is a chase movie where our hero is a bike courier on the streets of New York. Premium rush is directed by David Koepp, screenwriter on films such as Jurassic Park, Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man and [...]

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Come riding with Danny Macaskill, Daniel Dhers and Martin Söderström around the archipeligo of islands on one side of Stockholm city. POC Bike Excursion from ANTIMEDIA on Vimeo.

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The Road World Championships are currently taking place in Copenhagen, Denmark and Wednesday saw the Time Trial rainbow jersey on new shoulders. Despite threatening weather, sixty-five riders took to the 46.4km course to decide on the top Time Trial honours for 2012.  At the end of the day Tony Martin emerged victorious with a masterful [...]

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The 2011 Cycling Ireland Offroad AGM will be held on Saturday Oct 8th. in Taylor’s pub, Ticknock, Dublin.  This is the annual event which allows Cycling Ireland members to have their voice heard in governing how the sport is run in this country, both XC and DH.  Last years AGM saw a floor motion to [...]

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Irish National TT and Road Champion Matt Brammeier has been looking for a new team since the announcement of the end of HTC-Highroad at the end of this season.  Today it has been confirmed that he will move to Belgian squad Quick-Step joining the likes of Tom Boonen and Sylvain Chavanel. The move has added [...]

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At last weekends World Championships, Jaroslav Kulhavy took gold.  Bike geeks watching closely will have noticed something special on the winning bike. The 26-year-old Czech, who took the XC world by storm this year and also won the World Cup, had a secret weapon: SRAM’s new 10-speed BlackBox Grip Shift® twist shifters.

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Specialized have a new XC World Champion, Jaroslav Kulhavy.  Following a dominant season the team headed to Champery and this is what happened.

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In a word – Awesome! Last weekend 400 hundred riders took to Ballinastoe for the annual Epic Blast but this year with an added event – The Foxhunt.  Former World Champion downhill rider Gee Atherton chased the pack down the mountain, eliminating riders by passing them.  Come the finish line there were only a handful [...]

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The one everyone has been waiting for, inside the Giant camp on World Champs Sunday with Danny Hart.

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Sam Hill makes a return to racing but admits he is not 100%.  HOwever he is not the one to watch in this episode from the Specialized boys.

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Yet more videos from Champery (plenty to come too).  This time it is the Trek World Racing boys and girls including defending female DH champ tracy Moseley.   Downhill first with XC below.

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With Gee Atherton about to tear up Ballinastoe at the Epic Blast, what better time to take in the new Atherton Project? If you fancy seeing Gee in action, head to Ballinastoe today for 3pm when he will be riding the course.  Then tomorrow, Sunday the Blast itself takes place at 2pm (with heats in [...]

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In the wake of a tough World Champs, GT are the first to produce a video on their teams performance. More Mountain Biking Videos

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Epic have just announced the availability of a small number of extra entries into the Blast on Sunday in Ballinastoe.  This is consistently one of the events of the year so don’t miss it! Due to unprecedented demand, EPIC MTB are happy to announce a limited number of additional places for The Blast! These places [...]

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Last weekend saw the best riders in the World head to Champery in Switzerland for the World championships.  First up lets take a look at the Downhill. The Champery downhill course is renowned for its high degree of difficulty and its steepness. It has claimed many victims over the years and has seen a number [...]

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Two of the major Pro-Tour squads have announced that they will merge next season to become Radioshack-Nissan-Trek Professional cycling Team.  Speculation in the last few weeks had suggested that Leopard-Trek would be absorbed into Radioshack and it appears that this is what is happening with the exception of the teams home base and license.  Team [...]

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29er frame manufacturer Niner bikes have just announced the redesign of two of their most popular designs the Air9 and EMD9.

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The MTB world is in confusion following the announcement of the UCI of the sponsorship of the MTB World Cup and World Champs series by a previously unknown website – www.rockyroads.net.  The site claims unique views of 221,000 unique views yet no-one seems to have heard of it and the writing on the site is [...]

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First up the Downhillers who have enjoyed a fantastic season for Aaron Gwin and Tracy Moseley. Next it is over to the cross country boys to complete the World Cup season in advance of the World Champs.

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Ever wondered what it is like to ride a World Championships course?  Lets take a run down the Champery course with Chainreactionscycles Matti Lehikoinen. Champery 2011 World Champs Track Helmet Cam from chainreactioncycles on Vimeo.

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Here is a great video from Gnarly Adventures from the SSWC that includes a section at the end on how South Africa won the rights for 2012.  Sums the whole event up really well.

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Shock manufacturer Rockshox has just annonuced a new even lighter version of their XC orientated Monarch shock that incorporates a carbon fibre air can and the excellent XLoc hydraulic lockout.

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