News Archives > August 2010

AMB issue 111!111  
(0 comments) (link) Tuesday, 31-August-2010  12:16 AM - by scratchy 
AMB issue 111 hits the shelves September 1st with a trail riding Andrew Neethling on the cover.
We put a Commencal Meta 55 Carbon, Mongoose Teocali Super and a Pivot Mach 5 against each other. Australia ’s first test on the new Avanti Torrent 140mm suspension bike!
Our 24hr Solo World Championships hopefuls, Craig Gordon, Andy Fellows and Jason English chat about the big one this October.
100km race bike setup and dialling in your bike position.
And more, of course!




World Cup Finals - Windham - DH Results  
(5 comments) (link) Monday, 30-August-2010  08:00 AM - by Scott 


Men:
1GBR ATHERTON Gee2:28.28
2RSA MINNAAR Greg2:28.65
3NZL BLENKINSOP Samuel2:30.19
4USA GWIN Aaron2:30.88
5SUI BEER Nick2:31.66
6GBR BEAUMONT Marc2:31.71
7CAN SMITH Steve2:31.76
8NZL MACDONALD Brook2:33.29
9GBR FAIRCLOUGH Brendan2:33.49
10NZL LEOV Justin2:33.67
11AUS DELFS Mitchell2:33.81
...
13AUS HILL Samuel2:34.24
18AUS BROSNAN Troy °2:35.91
20AUS KOVARIK Chris2:36.18
26AUS O'CONNOR Shaun2:36.37
56AUS RANDO Jared2:41.27
59AUS ATKINSON Bryn2:42.72


Women:
1GBR ATHERTON Rachel2:49.85
2GBR MOSELEY Tracy2:51.21
3FRA RAGOT Emmeline2:52.57
4JPN SUEMASA Mio2:57.49
5FRA PUGIN Floriane2:59.76


Full results: men, women



World Cup Finals - Windham - XC Results  
(0 comments) (link) Monday, 30-August-2010  07:36 AM - by Scott 
Men:
1CZE KULHAVY Jaroslav1:39:28
2SUI SCHURTER Nino+00:14
3SUI VOGEL Florian+00:15
4SUI SAUSER Christoph+00:17
5SUI FLÜCKIGER Lukas+00:44
6FRA ABSALON Julien+01:11
7ESP HERMIDA RAMOS José Antonio+01:19
8RSA STANDER Burry+01:57
9ITA FONTANA Marco Aurelio+02:31
10ESP MANTECON GUTIERREZ Sergio+02:41
...
93AUS BRITTEN Cal *-3LAP


Women:
1CAN PENDREL Catharine1:39:48
2CAN PREMONT Marie-Helene+00:04
3USA GOULD Georgia+02:07
4SLO KLEMENCIC Blaza+03:17
5AUT OSL Elisabeth+03:41
6USA KOERBER Willow+04:21
7SUI SÜSS Esther+04:26
8SUI LEUMANN Katrin+04:26
9USA MCCONNELOUG Mary+05:09
10SLO ZAKELJ Tanja *+05:23
...
37AUS LOGIE Heather+14:56
44AUS POTTER Kate+17:07
51AUS O'SHEA Katherine-1LAP
64AUS FRY Rowena-3LAP


Full results: men, women



World Cup Finals - Windham - 4x Results  
(0 comments) (link) Sunday, 29-August-2010  1:39 PM - by Scott 
Another great win from Graves, putting the icing on his World Cup series cake. A exciting race for the women's final also, Anneke Beerten went down on the first corner leaving the door open for Anita Molcik to take the win and the World Cup overall.

Men:
1 GRAVES Jared
2 PROKOP Michal
3 SLAVIK Tomas
4 WICHMAN Joost
5 TATARKOVIC Kamil
6 OQUENDO ZABALA Carlos Mario
7 DERBIER Quentin
8 COUSINIE Fabien
9 GRACIA Cédric
...
15 HUNTINGTON Randal
21 EICHHORN Cody
22 HUNT Ryan


Women:
1 MOLCIK Anita
2 BUCHANAN Caroline
3 HORAKOVA Jana
4 BEERTEN Anneke
5 CURD Katy
...
10 HUNTINGTON Sarsha


Full results: men, women



World Cup Finals - Windham - 4x Qualifying  
(1 comments) (link) Sunday, 29-August-2010  08:47 AM - by Scott 
Men
1. Jared Graves
2. Michal Prokop
3. Johannes Fischbach
4. Joost Wichman
5. Fabien Cousine



World Cup Finals - Windham - DH Qualifying  
(3 comments) (link) Saturday, 28-August-2010  7:54 PM - by Scott 


Men:
1. Steve Peat
2. Aaron Gwin
3. Sam Blenkinsop
4. Greg Minnaar
5. Gee Atherton

Full qualifying here (pdf).



World Cup Finals - Windham Day 1  
(3 comments) (link) Friday, 27-August-2010  8:11 PM - by Scott 



TBSM and JetBlack Products Video Competition  
(0 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-August-2010  10:08 AM - by Scott 


All right all you video freaks check this out!!

TBSM is back with our next video comp and this time we’re bringing JetBlack Products along for the ride. We want you to document your ultimate riding weekend, be it downhilling, BMX, dirt jumping, street riding, all mountain or even XC ... whatever. We want to see it all, from Friday Arvo to Sunday night ... the joy, the heartache, the pain, the huge air, the lifestyle ... all compressed into 4 minutes!

Over $2000 in prizes

Entries close 17th October

Check out our Competition page HERE for all the details

Post up any questions or comments in this thread here!



World Cup Finals This Weekend - Windham, USA  
(16 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-August-2010  10:01 AM - by Scott 
After a short break we're down to the last round of the UCI World Cup series. This round will be held in Windham, New York state. Jared Graves may have already wrapped up the men's 4x series, but the men's DH series will go down to the wire between Gee Atherton and Greg Minnaar.

Coverage:
The nice guys at Freecaster are covering DH, XC and 4x.

UCI MTB World Cup XCO 6: Windham

Sun Aug 29 at 01:10 AEST


UCI MTB World Cup 4X 6: Windham

Sun Aug 29 at 08:55 AEST


UCI MTB World Cup DHI 6: Windham

Mon Aug 30 at 03:10 AEST



Bromont Open: 4X results  
(2 comments) (link) Monday, 23-August-2010  1:09 PM - by Scott 
Elite Men 4X
1 Randal Huntington (Aus)
2 Benoit Rioux (Can)
3 Sebastien O'Neil
4 Harold Woolnough (Can) Silent Devinci
5 Kye Walstrom (Can)

Elite Women 4X
1 Sarsha Huntington (Aus)
2 Anne Laplante (Can) XPREZO - BORSAO)

Not a bad weekend for Sarsha and Randal...



Richard Levinson 4x World Champs Fundraiser  
(4 comments) (link) Monday, 16-August-2010  3:07 PM - by Scott 
Help Richard get to Monte Sainte Anne for the World Champs!




Get paid to build trails  
(1 comments) (link) Tuesday, 10-August-2010  9:57 PM - by scratchy 
Thanks to harmonix1234 for giving us the heads up that there are some full time paid positions going in Tasmania for
One team leader job and one trackworker.
It's for the North South track up Mt. Wellington.

More info in the trail building forum here



[R]evolution Issue 20 - Out Now  
(10 comments) (link) Monday, 2-August-2010  4:11 PM - by Squidly Didly 
[R]evolution Magazine issue 20 hit the shelves this week with young ripper Billy Hindmarsh, ruling the cover. Tucked away inside you'll find 116 pages of the finest progressive MTB action Australia has to offer including our exclusive invitation to ride the massive Red Bull dirt pipe. Frew Farm, Nitro Circus, the history of 5.10's, 2011 bike previews, as well as all of our regular diarys and features. We then take a look at Mick Hannah's carbon race bike and catch up with Joel Panozzo to get the low down on Evolution, his new rider based coaching and development business. We hang out at home with Kovarik and Buchar for a few days and discover the dedication that goes in behind the scenes to stay at the top of the game. We've got Pro Opinions top 3 bits of advice, as well as an interview with one of Oz's fastest up and comers, Connor Fearon. Rick Boyer helps you out with line choice and we've got all the action from the opening 3 World Cup rounds. Plus bike reviews from Specialized and Kona as well as 5 huge giveaways. Go check it out!




UCI World Cup DH #5 Results - Val di Sole  
(5 comments) (link) Monday, 2-August-2010  07:38 AM - by Scott 

Impressive win by Marc Beaumont, carving 11 seconds out of his own qualifying time and finishing up 1.5 seconds clear of 2nd place Greg Minnaar.

Men:
1GBR BEAUMONT Marc3:17.85
2RSA MINNAAR Greg3:19.25
3GBR ATHERTON Gee3:20.51
4RSA NEETHLING Andrew3:21.08
5CAN SMITH Steve3:21.98
6GBR PEAT Steve3:22.03
7GBR HART Danny3:22.14
8NZL BLENKINSOP Samuel3:22.51
9GBR BRYCELAND Josh3:23.44
10AUT PEKOLL Markus3:23.55
...
12AUS HANNAH Michael3:25.00
18AUS ATKINSON Bryn3:27.55
22AUS KOVARIK Chris3:28.71
23AUS DELFS Mitchell3:29.07
32AUS O'CONNOR Shaun3:31.92


Women:
1FRA RAGOT Emmeline3:59.75
2FRA JONNIER Sabrina4:02.15
3GBR MOSELEY Tracy4:06.25
4FRA NICOLE Myriam4:12.54
5FRA PUGIN Floriane4:13.42


Full results: men, women



UCI World Cup 4x #5 Results - Val di Sole  
(0 comments) (link) Sunday, 1-August-2010  09:09 AM - by Scott 
Jared Graves has wrapped up the 2010 4x World Cup series with a 4th place at Val Di Sole with one round still to go. Yeow!! Sure he did the same thing last year, but winning World Cups never gets old.... Maybe he'll get some more facebook friends now

Men:
1 RINDERKNECHT Roger
2 SLAVIK Tomas
3 PROKOP Michal
4 GRAVES Jared
5 FISCHBACH Johannes
6 WICHMAN Joost
7 DERBIER Quentin
8 KULESZA Robert


Women:
1 BEERTEN Anneke
2 MOLCIK Anita
3 CURD Katy
4 PETTERSON Joanna
5 MARTH Steffi


Full results: men, women



UCI World Cup XC#5 Results - Val di Sole  
(1 comments) (link) Sunday, 1-August-2010  09:05 AM - by Scott 
Men:
1SUI SCHURTER Nino1:44:09
2FRA ABSALON Julien+00:04
3SUI VOGEL Florian+00:20
4SUI FLÜCKIGER Mathias *+01:26
5SUI NAEF Ralph+01:46
6CZE KULHAVY Jaroslav+02:31
7GER MILATZ Moritz+03:05
8ESP HERMIDA RAMOS José Antonio+03:27
9FRA RAVANEL Cédric+03:45
10RSA STANDER Burry+03:51
...
129AUS CARLSON Joshua-2LAP
134AUS JACKSON Adrian-2LAP
148AUS BRITTEN Cal *-2LAP
157AUS BLAIR Andrew-3LAP
171AUS PEACOCK James *-3LAP


Women:
1POL WLOSZCZOWSKA Maja1:23:00
2CAN PENDREL Catharine+00:05
3RUS KALENTIEVA Irina+00:14
4USA COMPTON Katherine+00:20
5CZE NASH Katerina+00:58
...
79AUS WILLETT Jodie+18:49
82AUS O'SHEA Katherine-1LAP
84AUS RHODES Therese *-1LAP


Full results: men, women