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2010 Team News Roundup

By LaBabarbarian - February 2, 2010 - 14:54

Rider: Ryan Berrecloth

Ryan Berrecloth Gets Spanked

Ryan Berrecloth has re-signed with Spank Bikes on an expanded sponsorship package. This year Berrecloth will be sporting the Tweet Tweet Dirtjump frame, Spank’s 2010 EVO line of rims, including Spike EVO 35AL DH Rims, Tweet Tweet EVO 30AL DJ Rims, and Subrosa EVO All Mountain Rims, as well as rocking the complete line of Spank saddles, including the Subrosa, Tweet Tweet, and Starblast. Berrecloth is also sponsored by Knolly bikes, which provides the rider with full-suspension frames.

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Tags: Bike Race, bontranger, dean racing development, DH, DRD, Dylan Dean, lezyne, Ryan Berrecloth, spank, spank bikes, tomac, trek, XC

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Tickets Now On-Sale for the 2010 Trans-Provence

By Lesser - December 13, 2009 - 20:27

By: Chris Lesser

Photos: Courtesy Trans-Provence

Video: Rob Hamillton-Smith

Ash Smith has never been much of a fan of big, elaborately staged, mass attendance mountain bike races. Instead, as the owner of trailAddiction, a mountain bike guiding company based out of Les Arcs, France, Smith makes a living taking small groups of riders into the Alps, showing them the kind of riding experience that he is a fan of—epic all-day adventures across stunning terrain, following singletrack as much as possible.

“I don’t have any experience organizing mountain biking events…. I haven’t even participated many, either,” says Smith. But that didn’t stop him from dreaming up a seven-day, point-to-point stage race across the Maritime Alps the likes of which hasn’t quite been done before. In total, says Smith, the Trans-Provence boasts more singletrack descending than any other seven-day race in existence.

The Trans-Provence takes riders on a seven-day crossing of the Maritime Alps

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Tags: Add new tag, all-mountain, ash smith, ashley smith, BC Bike Race, chris Lesser, DH, downhill mountain bike, maritime alps, monaco, mtb, shuttles, singletrack, stage race, trailaddiction.com, trans-provence

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More Activities Slated for this Weekend’s Moab Ho-Down Bike Festival

By Brice Lee - October 27, 2009 - 16:39

Augurin' in on the Super D course

By Brice Minnigh

The Fourth Annual Moab Ho-Down Bike Festival will begin this Friday, October 30, in a weekend of racing, group shuttles and parties that will usher out another mountain biking season in Moab, Utah.

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Tags: bike festival, Bike Magazine, Bikemag, Brice Minnigh, Chile Pepper Bike Shop, DH, dirt jump, Downhill, LPS trail, Moab, Moab Ho-Down, Mountain biking, mtb, Porcupine Rim trail, Ryon Reed, super d, Tracy Reed

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Mountain Biking’s Raddest Women: Rachel Atherton

By Screamin Mimi - October 12, 2009 - 18:13

Rachel Atherton. Photo: Sven Martin

ATHERTON DOESN’T JUST WIN RACES, SHE DOMINATES THEM—OFTEN BEATING THE COMPETITION BY 10 SECONDS OR MORE. JUST 21, SHE ALREADY POSSESSES THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RAINBOW STRIPES AND HAS WON A STAGGERING SEVEN WORLD CUP RACES. SLOWED BY A SERIOUS COLLISION WITH A TRUCK WHILE TRAINING EARLIER THIS YEAR, ATHERTON IS PREPARING TO RETURN THIS MONTH.

I never really had any female role models growing up because I was very far removed from racing and the whole cycling industry. And even when I started racing, the biggest influences on me were my brothers.

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Tags: accident, Bike mag, Bike Magazine, DH, Downhill, Lisa Myklak, mountain biking's raddest women, October issue, Rachel Atherton, women of mtn biking