Having recently toured South Africa, Coldplay have just begin releasing the first string of music video’s, some of which are shot on location in South Africa. Check out how the show a bit of love for all things South African by featuring a snipped of Morewood’s Makulu downhill bike.
Our local friends at GoBoy productions sent me a link to a video clip which they came across during editing footage from a recent mountain bike event at Albert Falls Dam. Team Jeep rider, Evan van der Spuy comes off second best when he literally gets side swiped by a Red Hartebees who clearly misjudged the speed Evan was going at, completely miss timing his leap. Not a laughing matter at all, but truly an amazing piece of footage…
Yes, we love the Italians at Formula brakes, and with their 2012 product [including wheels, suspension forks and new brakes] previewing with huge interest over the last few weeks, we’re pretty excited to say that we will have a large amount of their #2012GOODNESS coming in during the first week of October. Our initial order will unfortunately not contain wheels or forks, but we will be landing R1, R1 Racing, Oval, The One and both colours of RX models.
Specialized put the 2012 Stumpjumper through its paces in Zermatt with Christoph Sauser, Burry Stander, Darren Berrecloth and Sam Hill tearing up the trail.
For those of you who were not fortunate enough to watch the 2011 World Championship winning run by Danny Hart live on Freecaster, here are two great video’s demonstrating how to win the World Champs on what is probably the most technically demanding courses in some of the worst possible conditions. Enjoy!
Take a trip down memory lane with James Stewart as he climbs on a 2-stroke for the first time in three years. If you have good sound on your PC crank up the volume and enjoy!
The biggest and most significant event of the Mountainbike calendar took place this past weekend in Champery, Switzerland, the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Below is a report from Onza tires on how their four-cross riders, David Graf and Roger Rinderknecht.
There is only one bicycle company in South Africa that design AND manufacture their product within the borders of South Africa, and its Morewood bikes. Its video’s like this one that make me proud…
Well there you have it, results are in, the 2011 World Cup and World Championship mountainbike season is over and your world current 2011 world champions are getting awarded their jerseys which they can wear with pride for the whole of the 2012 racing season. I’m still trying to digest Danny Hart’s mind blowing run. [...]
More to come as soon as the UCI deem them “official” but here is your Elite Men’s top 10 round-up: Elite Men Danny Hart Damien Spagnolo Sam Blenkinsop Brendan Fairclough Michael Pascal Marc Beaumont Sam Hill Greg Minnaar Brook Macdonald Fabien Barel