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Take a run through the jungle with Steve Peat and Brook Macdonald, on the Drift HD Cam, out in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

A local race with big aspirations, ran by X-BikingChiangMai.com has invited them out, along with Wyn Masters and a few others, for a week of bikes and carnage.

A flat out track, with a rad step-up halfway down, kept everyone entertained and the Thai crowd didn’t disappoint.

Steve took 1st place, with Brook in 2nd come finals. But the main event was the long jump contest, won by a local Thai kid, who sent it bigger than E.T.

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Ben Reid spends some time ripping up one of the best downhill tracks in the small resort of Oz-En-Oisans in the French Alps

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ANGEL FIRE, New Mexico (VN) — Fort Lewis College dominated the Division I cross-country races as the 2012 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships got under way at the Angel Fire Resort.

In men’s racing, Howard Grotts won his third national title and led a Fort Lewis sweep of the podium. Grotts opened a 30-second lead at the top of the first climb and kept building on it over four laps of the 18.8-mile course.

Grotts took the victory by 7:24 over teammate Rotem Ishay   …  More

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The 2012 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships continued Saturday at the Angel Fire Resort in Angel Fire, N.M., with the short track cross-country and downhill competitions.

In the short track cross-country race, riders turned half-mile laps with minor elevation gain and loss for 20 minutes and three laps. The first gravity event of the competition, the downhill, spanned 1.5 miles and dropped riders 1,000 feet of elevation.

Division I

Men’s Short Track Cross-Country
It was readily apparent in the early stages of the Division I men’s short track cross-country race that the winner would be a member of    …  More

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