Stories by Fred Dreier

• Posted: Tue, May 27th
  Olympic MTB course tweaked by four-cross expert
  More bumps, rocks and obstacles have been added to Beijing’s Olympic mountain-bike course, which failed to impress riders in its debut last year, according to a UCI expert. Peter Van den Abeele, the UCI’s mountain-bike sports coordinator, and Phil Saxena, a renowned ...
• Posted: Thu, May 22nd
  Angel Fire's Chile Challenge awards 4X national title
  Top-level mountain bike racing returns to Angel Fire resort in Northern New Mexico this weekend as the Mountain States Cup’s premier event, the Chile Challenge, celebrates its 20th birthday. And as a fitting double-decade present, the 2008 ...
• Posted: Wed, May 21st
  A conversation with USA Cycling president Mark Abramson
  It was no surprise to see Mark Abramson, USA Cycling’s newly elected president of the Board of Directors, helping call races at the 2008 collegiate national championships, earlier this month in Fort Collins, Colorado.
• Posted: Wed, May 21st
  A conversation with Georgia Gould
  The longest winning streak in NORBA/NMBS cross-country history came to a close this past weekend as Georgia Gould (Luna) recorded a DNF at the third round of 2008, held in 100-degree heat in Santa Ynez, California. Kelli Emmett (Giant) crossed the finish line first to take her ...
• Posted: Mon, May 19th
  Fat Tire Recap: NMBS No. 3, Lisbon Downhill, European XC Championships all held this past weekend.
  Emmett, Taberlay Claim NMBS win in Santa YnezKelli Emmett (Giant) took her first-career National Mountain Bike Series cross-country win at the third round of the 2008 series, held May 17-18 at the Chamberlain Ranch in Santa Ynez, California. Visiting Australian Sid ...
• Posted: Wed, May 14th
  A conversation with Kona's Barry Wicks about targeting the World Cup circuit
  Barry Wicks is already a household name in the domestic cyclocross and mountain bike scene, but this year he is trying his hand at joining mountain bike racing’s elite crowd on the World Cup.
• Posted: Sun, May 11th
  Lees-McRae riders ace their finals
  Tiny Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina, can finally say it owns the best collegiate road cycling team in the United States. After a series of near misses at collegiate cycling’s biggest race, the Bobcats finally grabbed the coveted Division I team omnium, ...
• Posted: Sun, May 11th
  Lees-McRae riders snap up wins in the Div. 1 men's and women's road races.
  Carla Swart clung to the back of the elite seven-woman breakaway in the waning minutes of the 2008 Division I women’s road championship, held Saturday in Fort Collins, Colorado. Outnumbered and without teammates, the Lees-McRae sophomore didn’t appear to have the numbers or ...
• Posted: Wed, May 7th
  Madrid World Cup mountain bike race: a report card for the Olympic hopefuls
  With help from Rob Jones The third round of the 2008 UCI cross-country World Cup saw the world’s top riders battle on a sun-baked band of dust and gravel in the heart of Madrid, Spain. The fast, almost road-like course was a far cry from the muddy, wooded tracks in ...
• Posted: Tue, May 6th
  Another Canadian offroad stage race on tap for '09
  Organizers in Kamloops, British Columbia, are close to finishing plans for a five-day endurance mountain bike stage race to be held in 2009. The Intermontane Challenge will run July 27-31 and boast 450km of riding in and around the city known as the “Tournament Capital of ...
• Posted: Fri, May 2nd
  The race for Beijing: An Offenburg report card
  Two rounds of the 2008 UCI World Cup are now in the books, and the North American chase for the Beijing Olympics is beginning to take shape. Round two saw riders tackle the 5.1km course in Offenburg, Germany, which many have referred to as the most technical ride on the World ...
• Posted: Sun, Apr 27th
  The long trail back: A conversation with Liam Killeen
  Two years ago, Liam Killeen was just a small step away from joining the top ranks of cross-country mountain biking. After years of slow but steady improvement, Killeen had a breakthrough 2006, winning the Commonwealth Games and the Sea Otter Classic, and regularly duking it out ...