New bling to brighten your MTB head tube

The experience of riding a Cove Mountain BIke is un equalled however with the great quality this small private frame building operation in Canada can make the best handling frames, they put little if any value on the graphics and they will often vanish at the first sign of an aggressive jet wash. [Read more →]

It might be the middle of winter but in Australia it is Summer

For the Boxing Day weekend the Coed Llandegla Visitor Center was open meaning all the staff had to suspend family activities and slabs of Turkey to ensure the regions mountain bikers and walkers got all the great facilities at Llandegla. The centre was packed out with visitors many of them young riders checking out Santa Clauses good taste in Mountain Bikes. The OPA Café crew, not to waste a good christmas threw in an outdoor Barbeque which with the almost icey state of the higher trails still attracted many blue skinned riders to take advantage of the blue sky and sun of a cold december …

You can now hire an Orange at Coed Llandegla

With One Planet Adventure being appointed dealers for the UK Mountain Bike manufacturers Orange [Read more →]

From British Cycling’s web site… and our forum

The next and final NPS Cross Country at Penmachno 13/14 September is cancelled… for more details join the squabble over at www.xcracer.com.  Our respect goes to the organisers who had a hard unprofitable job putting on this years series and I dont blame them at all.. The fact the locals tried to stiff them for £4000 for the start field shows the often greedy reaction that inflicts a sport because of the hype caused about the notional prices of these bikes and the seemingly bottomless pockets of riders… all total tosh and as with most other countries in Europe some of the costs for holding an event of this calibre would have attracted financial support from Regional / Local government in this  case Welsh Assembly / Conwy County Borough Council

Here is the BC press release in full .. [Read more →]

Just got this in from our favourite extreme sport video site.. the award winning Freecaster.tv

Freecaster.tv announced today at Eurobike, the world’s largest bike trade show, a 3 year exclusive partnership with UCI to cover LIVE the Mountain Bike and BMX World Cups. Stay tuned for more Freecaster.tv breaking news in the weeks to come.

For recent coverage of the World Cup check out these clips…. [Read more →]

Another great end to the season at the classic course at Schladming, Austria is due on 13 September. In the Women’s Downhill event we are seeing the domination by North Wales resident Rachel Atherton who has been flying so high and fast this season most of her opponents are only seeing the vapour trail. [Read more →]

Great news just in. Downhill finals today saw Gee Atherton First and Steve Peat second in the men and Rachel Atherton first in the ladies with Josh Bryceland and Sam Dale doing a 1-2 knockout of the worlds Junior Men in that race. [Read more →]

Still hardly old enough to be allowed out of their nappies let alone shorts the guys and gals at Llandegla are holding an evening party based around the theme of the MTB pioneering days of Klunkers. . more details follow but any one with an old Schwinn pre 60’s Klunker get them out as we are going racing.. however turn up with any retro bike ( we reckon that would be any pre V Brake bikes) and associated retro outfits and we’ll try to sort out a race to rival Repack… here’s the invite.. [Read more →]

British National Downhill Championships at Rhyd y Felin.

The No.1 event in the UK domestic calendar this year is taking place on the legendary Bala course in North Wales on 19-20 July.

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it is a shame the older you get how nothing is new anymore the same old ideas regurgitate themselves every 50 years or so. [Read more →]