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SRAM’s backyard in Schweinfurt (Germany) goes big!

SRAM Backyard Track’s action On Sunday, September 8th, over 250 people participated in the inauguration of the SRAM Backyard Track, the newest addition to SRAM’s Schweinfurt Development and Training Center (DTC). Built over the course of the 2013 summer by a team of experts led by dirt jump athlete Joscha Forstreuter, the SRAM Backyard Track is a unique structure which combines a test track for off-road bicycle components, a pump track and various lines of jumps, from easy tables to competition-size doubles.

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Marco Osborne: Team WTB’s Newest Ripper

Deep in the northern eddy of Marin County spills the oversized town of Novato, unfurling and punctuated over local geography and infrastructure – sun baked mountainous afterthoughts, a freeway, and wandering fingers of a Sulfurous marsh that lap against the back of a Costco-centric strip mall. Novato, where the traffic is thick, the Oak trees parched, the hills tyrannically steep, and the dust the sort of loose film that stings the inner walls of lungs as it enters in still, overcooked air. From this severe landscape of the scorched, Mark Weir and Ben Cruz have reared their ornery heads, unwilling to take no for an answer in an environment that crushes most mountain bikers’ dreams.

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Race Report: Alutech Enduro – Reschenpass / Austria

The 3 country challenge sponsored by Alutech bikes took place over the weekend. The race base was in Resia, Italy and the event would see participants compete in Italy, Switzerland and Austria all in one day! Saturday allowed the riders to practice the 5 stages, followed by a prologue in the evening. The race was around 32 km in total and took advantage of the various lifts in the region, one chairlift and 2 gondolas, the remaining sections the riders had to pedal between stages. The total descent was around 2000m vertical with an ridden ascent of only 500m, this was a nice balance.

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The new Santa Cruz Bantam at Eurobike 2013

Sharing the same agile geometry as the Solo, the Bantam punches way above its weight for a trail bike in this category.

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Breaking News: Scottish Enduro Series Announced

No Fuss Events and Innerleithen MTB Racing are pleased to announce that they will be working together to organise Scotland’s first National Enduro Race Series in 2014. The series will consist of 6 races held throughout Scotland, ensuring that each round has a unique feel and that the variety of  terrain available to us is maximised.

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