“Return To The Hill” DH Story and Results
It was dry, fast and really dusty. Intense/Crankbrothers’ Pro Bryn Atkinson and Speedy Beaver’s Dawn Fidler take the pro classes as Fluidride’s/Evil Luciano Worl takes the Junior Expert titles home. Several racers traveled the distance to race the now famous ‘Dry Hill’ trails located in beautiful Port Angeles WA and nobody left with a grumpy face. Well, maybe Kona’s photographer who sustained a wicked torn up knee injury walking down the course was the only one…
Photo’s by Carl Warren, Doug Snowdon and …

The straight goods on Kicking Horse Bike Park, straight from the trail crew’s fingertips.
Amazing what a bit of low pressure can do. After that long July drought, it rained for almost a week since my last blog. You could almost hear the earth sigh as she absorbed the precious liquid. That change to the soil texture allowed us to finally get a good grip on Superberm. We spent about 6 days filling bomb holes and patching and extending berms. Don’t just take my word for it though, here are a …

Source: Santa Cruz UK
This is a letter I had hoped I would never have to write but unfortunately we had a break in on Tuesday night. Amongst various office computers, clothing, helmets and the like – the scumbags also took a decent amount of Santa Cruz and Ibis bikes, including pretty much the world’s only Santa Cruz Tallboy that had been shipped over for the Eurobike launch next week.
Dickon Hepworth - Santacruz UK explains all..

by Ryan Kuhn
North American and Canadian Championships, BC Cups and the Rubberhead Classic – Rossland was once lauded as a premier destination for mountain bike racing in Canada. With infamous, technical courses and spanning single track, the small mountain community located in the southern Kootenay region of British Columbia was auspiciously dubbed the “Mountain Biking Capital of Canada.” After a hiatus from the competition scene, Rossland is pleased to announce the town’s first annual Fat Tire Festival September 5 and 6, 2009. The Festival will feature three events: the …

Source: Reece Wallace
Weighing in at under one kilogram, extremely stiff with Hollotech II technology, and designed to fit almost any mountain biker’s budget, the Shimano SLX series cranks and bottom bracket cannot be beaten.
When my Shimano SLX cranks first arrived in the mail, I opened up the box and thought a mistake had been made. I thought that some cross country cranks had been shipped to me instead of the freeride cranks I was supposed to be reviewing. However, within the first ride it became obvious that …

Picked fresh from the August Harvest. The latest produce from the MTB Tree…
Seems the mongrel that is Hensley just can’t stop watering the local trees. Good job as the fresh produce they are producing is definitely fit for the captain’s table. To see what the pickers have harvested from Schwalbe tires, Cube bikes, Fox clothes, Bloc Eyewear, and MTB Britain this month, open wide..

The Slopestyle contest at Crankworx Whistler went off this year with Greg Watts upsetting Semenuk for the win, ending his 5 contest unbeaten streak. You all had a chance to assemble a Slopestyle fantasy team and with over 11,500 fantasy teams created, we crowned 8 winners to share the prize loot!
Check out who won and what they are taking home inside!

Source: Sun Peaks
Four Hundred Racers Compete at Canada Cup and BC Cup Downhill and Cross Country Finals
Chayse Marshall heads to World Championships in Australia
A shifting problem and a crash on the downhill course didn’t stop Sun Peaks sponsored rider Chayse Marshall from pinning it down the Canada Cup DH Course in less than four minutes over the weekend during the championship event.

British Cycling and Manchester City Council, in partnership with New East Manchester, are putting final touches to an ambitious plan to build a £24 million National Indoor BMX Centre in Manchester’s Sportcity in a bid to secure a world class BMX training facility for the GB Cycling Team and boost Manchester s position as the home of British Cycling.
If new plans for the National Cycling Center go through and funding is approved, the 110,000 square foot building will be the world’s first purpose built indoor BMX track. It will sit …

It saddens me to share with you the loss of a giant in the bike community. On Tuesday, August 25th, my best friend and riding partner of the past 10 years passed away at the ripe old age of 15.
Over the past years, Harley had quietly amassed a body of work that rivals that of the great riding stars of our time. Her resume includes more appearances in bike media than I can possibly remember, but some of her more memorable appearances include multiple appearances in North Shore …