After five long years of waiting, it is settled: The Red Bull District Ride is coming back to Nuremberg! For years, fans have been waiting, guessing and hoping – now it’s official. On September 10th, the most spectacular event in bike history will once again keep the 40,000 expected fans of urban freeriding on their toes. The Red Bull District Ride is all about style, technique and creativity: The cream of the crop of the international freeride scene will show truly sensational tricks on the various obstacles along the way. Just like in past years, the course snakes through the entire historic city center with the obstacles in various districts definitely being an extreme challenge – even to the world’s best 25 riders at the final of the FMB World Tour
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Episode 8 of The Atherton Project begins with the team heading out on enduro bikes with 7-time Paris-Dakar rider Mick Extance – and getting stuck in some North Wales mud, quite literally. Then it’s on to World Cup Round 6 at La Bresse in France, and legendary bike designer Max Commencal pays the team a visit and lends some words of advice and encouragement
This week’s episode of Blast From The Past jumps back to the closing segment of Uprising. Watch this action packed segment as BASE jumpers, dirt bikers, kayakers, paragliders, surfers, BMXers, mountain bikers, skis and snowboarders close out our 1998 film in a pure adrenaline rush. As the narrator describes, “The Uprising is about a resurgence of pure human spirit.
Australian TROY BROSNAN won his second junior downhill world championship title in a row at the UCI Mountain Bike Worlds in Champery, Switzerland, on Sunday afternoon.
Rain started the morning of the competition and only got stronger all day. It made a very technical track even more technical and many of the top racers were crashing and slipping all over during their final runs.
Brosnan defeated 57 other juniors to take his second consecutive rainbow-striped jersey in a time of 3:51.503. He was the third last junior man down the hill and beat the time of the previous best rider, David Trummer (Austria) by more than 12 seconds.