Apr. 27, 2008
Mountain Bike World Cup: Absalon, Kalentieva victorious in Offenburg
It was standing room only in Germany’s Black Forest, as a crowd of some 17,000 crowded the 5.1km Offenburg mountain-bike course to catch a glimpse of the second World Cup of 2008. Reigning world and World Cup champs Julien Absaslon (Orbea) and ...
Apr. 26, 2008
Offenburg hosts second MTB World Cup
With the opening day jitters gone from their legs, the worlds’ top cross-country mountain bikers head to Offenburg, Germany for the second round of the 2008 UCI World Cup. The event falls one week after riders took their first taste of World Cup ...
Apr. 21, 2008
How did the Olympic hopefuls fare at the Houffalize World Cup?
Only five months remain until the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and both the United States and Canada are in the process of choosing their respective four-person (two men, two women) teams. Both countries base their Olympic selection on results from the ...
Apr. 21, 2008
Schalk, Sawicki win Ultra Endurance openerTrek-Volkswagen rider Jeff Schalk and Monique “Pua” Sawicki (Mata-Ellsworth) rode to victory at Tennessee’s Cohutta 100 on Sunday, the first race of the 2008 National Ultra Endurance mountain-bike series.
Schalk outlasted Dan Vallencourt ...
Apr. 21, 2008
Martinez, Emmett claim Sea Otter XCMiguel Martinez (Look) and Kelli Emmett (Giant) sliced through the wind on Sunday to win their respective cross-country races at the Sea Otter Classic.
France's Martinez, the 2000 Olympic gold medalist, escaped a strong eight-rider group on the ...
Apr. 21, 2008
Team Cannondale-Vredestein's Cannondale Scalpel: the bike that won the Cape Epic
The climax of South Africa’s 2008 Absa Cape Epic mountain-bike race came in the final kilometers of stage 5, a hot, dusty 146km slog from Swellendam to Bredasorp on April 2.
Belgian Roel Paulissen rode the rim of a Mavic Crossmax SLR rear ...
Apr. 20, 2008
Absalon, Ren take Houfffalize World Cup
Julien Absalon can cross Houffalize off his list.
Before his victory at Sunday’s World Cup opener in Belgium, the Frenchman had won on every classic World Cup course save this one. In 2007 he came close, but had to settle for second behind a ...
Apr. 19, 2008
A conversation with Julien Absalon 
You may have thought that Julien Absalon had won every important cross-country mountain bike race on the planet. The Frenchman owns four elite world titles, three World Cup titles, a swarm of World Cup wins and Olympic gold. And to top that off, he ...
Apr. 19, 2008
Davison, Decker dominate Sea Otter Super D
Giant Bicycles gets to add one more Super D win to go with the two it picked up last year in the debut event at the Sea Otter Classic. Carl Decker succeeded in overpowering former World Cup downhill pro Jurgen Beneke (Marin/Mercury Rev) on a short ...
Apr. 19, 2008
The Houffalize World Cup is critical for Olympic team selections.
The world’s top cross-country mountain-bike racers begin their final toward the Beijing Olympics, as the UCI World Cup kicks off this Sunday, April 20, in Houffalize, Belgium. The women take to the 6.7km course at 10:30 a.m., and the men at 2 p.m. ...
Apr. 14, 2008
Fox's race program feeds its development cycle.
Fox doesn’t have a fancy name for its somewhat sheltered race product program. It’s simply called the Fox Race Development Program, and it does just that. It takes Fox’s current products and pushes them to limits that can only be achieved by ...
Apr. 11, 2008
Giant's Adam Craig reports on the second round of the NMBSAmerican cross-country mountain bike racer Adam Craig has his sights set on the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. That means for the next few months he will be battling it out on the World Cup and National Mountain Bike Series with his fellow ...
