Downhill

Racing uphill demands an exceptional level of fitness, natural ability, and tactical savvy. Returning to the valley floor is a very different game, but it’s crucial to many victories.

Four different colleges collected downhill crowns on Saturday at the Angel Fire Resort

As a racer who prides himself on consistency, for Gwin the championships don't decide a true champion, but are just one race

1. Greg Minnaar (South Africa) +3:21.790 2. Gee Atherton (Great Britain) +.581 3. Steve Smith (Canada) +1.214 1. Morgane Charre (France) +03:50.654 2. Emmeline Ragot (France) +01.199 3. Manon Carpenter (Great Britain) +01.490

Downhill world champion Danny Hart will not attend the year's biggest races in order to recover from shoulder surgery

Trek team shows off their new Bontrager tire and while teammates Gwin and Leov took top 10 finishes, Neko Mulally took a hit to the head

Be transported to the Fort William course as Aaron Gwin's helmet cam shows you what it really feels like to be a World Cup downhiller

Aaron Gwin's winning World Cup ride has some gratuitous air and speed on offer

Check out the Trek World Racing DH team at Sea Otter. Bontrager developed a special fast-rolling, low-knob tire specifically for the Sea Otter terrain.

The final event of the MTB World Cup racing season (#7 of the year) was last weekend in Val Di Sole, Italy. Gwin had already wrapped up the title, but still showed up to the event on said prototype bike and crushed it to win with a time of 3:10.35 …

New for 2012: SRAM's first carbon downhill race crank and DH-specific derailleur.

Think downhillers do hairball stuff? Look no further — check this out...

To laugh or cry? New E-motor made to get DH rigs uphill

Aaron Gwin, America's most competitive World Cup downhiller, will race alongside world champ Tracy Moseley, Justin Leov and Neko Mulally.

SLIDESHOW: Hidden amongst the thousands of new road, XC and All-Mountain products on display at Interbike were a few wicked new offerings for those whose top gear is limited only by gravity.

SLIDESHOW: American Aaron Gwin barely missed a spot on the elite men's downhill podium when he clocked the fourth fastest time on Sunday. Neko Mulally misses junior gold by fractions of a second.

SLIDESHOW: The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup is officially in the books as racing wrapped up on Windham Mountain in New York's Catskills on Sunday with the men's and women's downhill contests.

Greg Minnaar, from South Africa, and Great Britan's Gee Atherton have dominated all four speed events so far this season, each with two wins.

The UK's Gee Atherton takes first place at World Cup downhill stop in Scotland while sister Rachel just misses first in women's event.

A few months after signing with Trek World Racing, young American downhill prospect Neko Mulally is sidlelined with a broken arm and will miss the first two World Cup events.

Red Heat is designed as a race-ready wheel for the downhill and freeride worlds.

Overall leaders of USA Cycling's ProGRT as of July 14, will also be an automatic selections to the United States World Championship team.

New Rabobank-Giant Off-Road Team and expanded Giant Factory Off-Road Team will feature top cross-country and downhill athletes.

From downhill and endurance to cross-country, 21 events will make up USA Cycling's Mountain Bike National Calendars.

Trek Dirt Series looking to help riders, particularly women, refine their XC, DH and freeride chops at 16 clinics this spring and summer.

Full World Cup schedule set for teen U.S. rider, with his first race in Vigo, Spain, at the end of March.

In the wake of each World Cup season, riders, teams, journalists, sponsors and UCI officials vote for the best event venues of the year.

So what's East Coast downhilling all about? Check it out in movin' pictures.

16-year-old gravity phenom Neko Mulally is ready for his first year on World Cup circuit and the mountain bike Worlds at Mont Ste Anne.

A total of 1,620 racers have started at least one Gravity East event in the second year of the series. This weekend it's the finals at Plattekill in New York with Neko Mulally likely to grab championship.

Check out the lines of 20 big-hit bombers in a slideshow from the rocky trails and bright lights of Interbike 2009. What was the take-away from Vegas? Options, options, options.

Kathy Pruitt gave the United States its fourth and final medal at the 2009 Mountain Bike World Championships in Canberra, Australia.

The nation's youngest pro rider at 16 won the downhill during the last stop on the Pro Gravity Tour over the weekend. Chris Heath and Darian Harvey take overall ProGRT titles.