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Entries Tagged as 'Mountain Biking'

Bike Bling #26

January 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment

 
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.

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Tags: MTB Cycles · MTB equipment · Mountain Biking

OPA Xmas Barbeque

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

 
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 [...]

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Tags: Coed Llandegla · Mountain Biking · One Planet Adventure

One Planet Adventure go … “Orange”

January 6th, 2009 · No Comments

 
With One Planet Adventure being appointed dealers for the UK Mountain Bike manufacturers Orange

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Tags: Coed Llandegla · MTB Cycles · MTB equipment · Mountain Biking · One Planet Adventure

British Cycling NPS Penmachno …. cancelled

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: British Cycling · MTB Marathons · MTB Racing · MTB XC · Mountain Biking

Freecaster.TV … hot news of long term UCI coverage

September 5th, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: MTB Downhill · MTB Racing · Mountain Biking

Athertons and Peaty help top off a great World Cup Downhill Season

September 4th, 2008 · No Comments

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.

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Tags: British Cycling · MTB Downhill · MTB Racing · Mountain Biking · NWMBA website news

British / Atherton domination at the downhill World Championships in Italy

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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.

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Tags: British Cycling · MTB Downhill · MTB Racing · Mountain Biking

One Planet Adventure will be 3 shortly

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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 [...]

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Tags: Coed Llandegla · Mountain Biking · NWMBA website news · One Planet Adventure

Press Release from the Organisers of the 2008 National Downhill Championships

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: British Cycling · MTB Downhill · MTB Racing · Mountain Biking

the disappointment of ageing…

June 21st, 2008 · No Comments

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

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Tags: History of Cycling · Mountain Biking