What’s the most intense modification you can do to your dirt bike? The market is full of nifty electronics, high-tech two-wheel drive systems, slick automatic clutches and potent internal motor upgrades, but can the most radical aftermarket item really be a bolt-on? We have just sampled what might be the baddest aftermarket goody available, and it actually makes your bike worse in the dirt – the 2Moto RadiX snow bike.
Just how sophisticated is this product? Consider that it took a rocket scientist to take the final conversion from a neat, fun concept into a fourth-generation, fully righteous, powder-slaying motorsport. The possibilities presented by a motorcycle chassis in a snow environment create such a different focus from snowmobiling that it really doesn’t suit the same clientele. That’s fine with the crew from Nampa, Idaho. They won’t beg to be included like a playground reject. Instead, this odd man out rallies its small band of misfits and starts its own, better game. 2Moto doesn’t just expand motorcycling, it has created an entirely new sport. … More info
As part of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show coming to Indianapolis this weekend, ArtBike! will be featured in the Mass Ave and Fountain Square areas.
It is an exhibition that marries bicycles and art in the form of street art, sculpture and installation art.
“It’s kind of hard to explain how beautiful these things are,” said Laura Brennan, account coordinator for O2 Sports Marketing. “They’re so pretty and you can tell that these people put so much work into them. . . . There’s no trick, there’s no hook. It’s bicycling, it’s art.”
The handmade works of cycling art will be displayed in six galleries.
One bike, made from bamboo …Â More info
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ASA Entertainment (ASA) is excited to announce that the ASA Action Sports World Tour, one of the industry’s oldest and most elite action sports competition circuits, will return to Chicago for the first time in over a decade. On May 1st the ASA Action Sports World Tour will visit the Sears Centre Arena with a one-day competition featuring the world’s top X Games pros in Skateboard, BMX and Freestyle Motocross (FMX). As the third stop on the 2009 Tour… More info
Snowboarder Shaun White may be the face of extreme sports, but he’s not the top earner.
Snowboarder Shaun White was down to his last chance after falling during his first two runs of the men’s half-pipe competition at last month’s Winter X Games. It was the culminating event in the four day contest that drew 68,000 fans to Aspen, Colo. Once again, White delivered. He ripped off a stellar final run that included back-to-back 1080s (three complete rotations in the air) to win the gold.
Snowboarder Shaun White was down to his last chance after falling during his first two runs of the men’s half-pipe competition at last month’s Winter X Games. It was the culminating event in the four day contest that drew 68,000 fans to Aspen, Colo. Once again, White delivered. He ripped off a stellar final run that included back-to-back 1080s (three complete rotations in the air) to win the gold.
White’s payday for winning one of his sport’s biggest competitions: a paltry $30,000. By comparison, Geoff Ogilvy earned $1.1 million for winning golf’s 2009 opening event…Â More info