We sat down with freeride star Darren Berrecloth to discuss the Red Bull Rampage, his off season travel schedule and the possible end to the Bearclaw Invitational.
SRAM's Eric Schutt demonstrates how to install the Truvativ HammerSchmidt. The HammerSchmidt is a crankset with an integrated two-speed planetary gear transmission. With a HammerSchmidt you no longer need a front derailleur or a chain guide.
The fine folks at Northstar-at-Tahoe’s mountain bike park bring you the world’s first fully irrigated, lift-accessed downhill trail called LiveWire. No longer will you squint painfully to peer through the plume of dust created by the rider in front of you. The trail features a vertical drop of 1,100 feet and more than 45 tabletop jumps, gap options and big, high-speed berms.
Sam Hill and Brendan Fairclough—Specialized's new pair of downhill aces, rolled by the office a week ago to go for a little cross country ride. We saddled up Bike's new Assistant Editor with a helmet cam and instructed him to stay on their wheel.
Gary Fisher engineers went back to the drawing board to revamp their HiFi platform. Witness the new bike's radically hydroformed tubes and seriously stiffened up chainstay assembly. Fisher Marketing honch Travis Ott stopped by to explain the new bike's virtues.
Bionicon's Mic De Min recently dropped off a new scandium Golden Willow at the Bikemag mothership. While he was here, he took some time to explain the mountain goat origins of the company's founding concept.
Truvativ's Bryan Bos talks about the new Hammerschmidt planetary-gear drive cranks.
Gee Atherton ripping the Worlds course the day after winning the race, Robbie Bourdon stomping a 70 ft. flat spin and Fabien Barel dropping an insane, near vertical line in Morocco, that's right New World Disorder is back with it's 9th installment, "Never Enough." Filmed exclusively in Super 16mm and High Definition, the world premiere will screen September 24th, during the annual Interbike trade show in Las Vegas.
Video highlights from the 2008 Kokanee Crankworx Monster Slopstyle finale.
Video highlights from the Kokanee Crankworx slalom competition in Whistler BC.
Video highlights from the Crankworx Colorado slopestyle event in Winterpark.
The third-annual Bearclaw Invitational slopestyle contest will be held August 23 at Mount Washington on Vancouver Island, British Columbia. Here are some video highlights from the 2007 contest.
Watch Kirt Vories ride the skatepark he built in his garage as well as other park terrain from Radical Films, the makers of the Kranked series.
Alex Rankin's footage of the Syndicate team, including Steve Peat, Greg Minnaar, Nathan Rennie and Josh Bryceland, racing at the Maribor World Cup downhill event in Slovenia.
Watch and listen as Alex Rankin films the Syndicate Team as they practice for the World Cup downhill race in Maribor, Slovenia.