Peaty is back for another season.  Sit back, open a cold one and enjoy!

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After a great weekend of XC racing in a wet Three Rock we are off again to Sea Otter for the race from the Specialized point of view in slightly better conditions…  Congrats to MAD on a great race! Now the DH guys including Aaron Gwin’s first ride in a red shirt and not on [...]

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Trek World Racing lost it’s lead racer Aaron Gwin at the cusp of the transfer market closing and unfortunately for them it shows.  Faced with a season bereft of a real star of the DH world they have had to fall back on a more documentary style video format.  Here is the first episode.  We [...]

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Steve Peat is back with more madness.  Check out the trailer for season 2.

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Here are riders eye views of the Sea Otter dual slalom and downhill courses.  First up dual slalom in the company of Darren Berrecloth. Next we head downhill with the Santa Cruz quad of Steve Peat, Greg Minaar, Josh Bryceland and Cedric Gracia. The downhill race was won by Aaron Gwin in his first major [...]

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Urban downhill has been growing at a phenomenal rate and while the Letterkenny race failed to get past the planners there is still hope!

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SRAM have just announced details of their new Rockshox Vivid and Vivid Air downhill rear shocks.  Six years in development with Blackbox athletes, the new shocks are a radical departure for Rockshox in terms of the way their shocks work. The key features of the new Vivid are:

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After four years in the Pro ranks, three of them with the Trek World Racing setup, Neko Mulally has been steadily progressing and is still only twenty years old.  With the departure of Aaron Gwin from the squad expect to see a lot more of this young man as he is pushed more into the [...]

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Marcelo Gutierrez rides another crazy urban downhill race, this time in Santos, Brazil.  Watch for when it gets really narrow, we think he chopped down his bars.  Gutierrez finished second by 0.6 seconds.

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Colombian Giant rider Marcelo Gutierrez Villegas just took his third crown at the extraordinary 2013 Manizales Urbano DH Race.  Here is his final run filmed with a Contour headcam. The course is a crazy run through the town making use of natural features and huge gaps.  Their have been attempts to replicate it all over [...]

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The official welcome for Sam Hill to the CRC Nukeproof fold.

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Huge news in the mountain bike world is the apparent move of World Cup champion Aaron Gwin from Trek World Racing (TWR) to Specialized.  The move is controversial as he signed a letter of intent with TWR that was to see him stay with Trek for three more years.  TWR have upped the anti though [...]

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Also on the move is former five time downhill World Champion Sam Hill who is off to the Chain Reaction Cycles/Nukeproof team in what is one of the biggest announcements of the year. Hill leaves Specialized, a team he had mixed success with, never gaining the heights he enjoyed previously with Ironhorse.  A crash within [...]

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Shot entirely on GoPros this is a nice short vid of the Rampage.

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Sometimes proto-type testing doesn’t go as planned.

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The season ends with a trip to Norway followed by a visit to Chang Mai in Thailand!

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Santa Cruz have just launched a revamped V10 that is essentially the Santa Cruz Syndicate team frame brought to the masses.  Greg Minaar won the World Champs on board one and its prior iterations have many more World Championships and World Cup victories to its name. Furthermore the team will be riding stock production frames [...]

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Here is a nice edit from Andy Yoong Of Colin Ross. Colin Ross Edit – Mourne Mountains – FS700 from Andy Yoong on Vimeo.

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Off to Leogang with Steve Peat and the Syndicate…

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The annual Off road Commission AGM takes place this Saturday at Taylors Three Rock in Rathfarnham at 3pm.  This is where the rules that govern our sport are decided and it is also where the election of volunteers to positions on the Commission happens.  Both the Chairman and Secretary are stepping down after several years [...]

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Newly crowned World Champion Greg Minaar leads the Santa Cruz Syndicate team at the final round of the World Cup in Norway.   Steve Peat reflects on his worst season ever and Josh Bryceland contends with his best. Syndicate Hafjell – September 15th 2012 from santa cruz bikes on Vimeo.

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Steve Peat takes us on a walk down the Hafjell, Norwegian World Cup course before showing us how to do it on two wheels, partly in the company of teammate and new World Champion Greg Minaar.

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This years Red Bull rampage takes place October 7 in the USA.  For those who don’t know the Rampage is an annual exhibition of extreme riding in the Utah desserts that has pushed the edges of freeride monutain biking on an equally annual basis.  Here is a compilation of the 5 best rides and 5 [...]

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Former World Champ Sam Hill and former Under 23 World Champ and protegee Troy Brosnan head to Leogang to take on the World Champs.  Not exactly known for their excitement these two…  Interviewing Sam Hill after he won the title in 2007 he was exactly as you see him in this video.

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If you are one of the hundreds of mountain bikers who head into the hills every weekend there is a not to be missed spin for you coming next month. MTB Rendezvous is a new concept for an MTB spin gathering everyone for food and refreshments at the end of their cycle in Knockree Youth [...]

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Steve Peat races Val d’Isere and the British National Champs…

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On the road with Danny Hart

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Today is the downhill world Cup final in Val d’Isere.  Here Steve Peat of the Santa Cruz Syndicate walks the track and gives some insight follwed by a headcam viewpoint as he rides the course.

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Aaron Gwin continues his dominance in front of a home crowd in Windham.

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