Feb. 28, 2008
Early season news from the offroad world
Lopes and Ibis
Brian Lopes has a new ride for 2008 with Ibis Cycles. The 36-year-old, a four-time four-cross world champion, had been looking for a new bike sponsor since fall, when GT Bicycles let him go. Lopes will race Ibis’ Mojo ...
Feb. 14, 2008
Brian Head, Utah, to host first epic stage race on U.S. soil this August.
A pair of the country’s best known mountain bike race organizers are planning the first epic mountain bike stage race in the U.S., to be held this summer in the ski and bike resort of Brian Head, Utah.
Inspired by the growth of events like ...
Feb. 14, 2008
Cape Epic features top elites; Subaru-Gary Fisher returns; Blenkinsop Joins Yeti-Fox
Following its trend of attracting the world’s top cross-country racers, this year’s Absa Cape Epic stage race in South Africa will boast a deepened roster of elite male and female riders, including four teams from North America.
The nine-day ...
Feb. 7, 2008
Lopes tries his hand at cyclocross
World four-cross champion Brian Lopes won the Men’s Open category at the January 20 Championship race of the 2007-08 Fresno Cyclocross Series at Woodward Park sponsored by Sportsmobile. It was the first time the 36-year-old Lopes had entered a ...
Feb. 7, 2008
MTB News and Notes: New Epics in Wales and Chile; Big plans for other Epic rides; Hall of fame seeks nominations 
Plans afoot for TransWalesOrganizers have announced plans for MTB TransWales 2008, a seven-day stage race across 344 miles of Welsh countryside. The route includes 50,840 of climbing and will run August 17-23.
Unlike other stage ...
Feb. 6, 2008
A Conversation with Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå and Kenneth Flesjå
Reigning Olympic champion Gunn-Rita Dahle-Flesjå, the most dominant woman on a mountain-bike from 2002-2006, has started on the long road back to her sport’s pinnacle after missing much of 2007 to a serious stomach infection. The Norwegian and ...
Jan. 31, 2008
MTB News and Notes for February 1, 2008
The Kona professional mountain-bike team will send its six factory riders to a diverse group of races in 2008, from World Cup-level downhill and cross-country events to multi-day stage races and local events.
Veteran cross-country rider Ryan ...
Jan. 10, 2008
MTB News & Notes: Decker, Diablo and more
Few current professional mountain-bike racers can say they raced in the first-ever UCI world mountain-bike championships, held in Durango back in 1990. Carl Decker can. The now-32-year-old Oregonian lined up in the junior ranks that year. ...
Dec. 22, 2007
'08 mountain bike calenders releasedOffering a richer prize pot next season, USA Cycling announced the 2008 Mountain Bike National Calendars on December 19, 2007. Between the three racing calendars — Cross-country, Gravity and Ultra Endurance — more than $150,000 is available. ...
Dec. 20, 2007
MTB News and Notes: A conversation with Greg Minnaar; New power at Luna
It’s been a roller coaster year for Greg Minnaar.
The South African downhiller opened the season riding his country’s Absa Cape Epic as a celebrity participant in the mixed team category (he finished fourth). Minnaar then spent the 2007 ...
Dec. 12, 2007
MTB News & Notes: Trek-Volkswagen to race Absa Cape Epic; Baja to host epic in '08
South Africa’s Absa Cape Epic stage race has evolved into the unofficial season opener for Europe’s top male World Cup-level cross-country racers. Christoph Sauser and Bart Brentjens, among others, use the eight-day, 800km slog across the ...
Nov. 27, 2007
A Fred’s Eye View: Lessons learned at La Ruta
La Ruta finally cracked me with about five miles to go. Riding along yet another ass-rattling section of railroad track during the fourth and final stage, my rear wheel smacked the square corner of a concrete tie.
Pfssssss!
This marked the third ...
