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Granby, Colo. (July 18, 2010) – Competition wrapped up at the SolVista Bike Park on Sunday astwenty more national champions were crowned in short track cross country, Super D, and downhill racing. Todd Wells (Durango, Colo./Specialized) grabbed his second national title of the weekend in the pro men’s short track while Katie Compton (Colorado Springs, Colo./Planet Bike) powered to the win in the women’s race.
Todd Wells capped off a stellar weekend of racing with a second national title on Sunday. After winning the cross country event on Saturday, the Colorado rider powered his way to another Stars-and-Stripes jersey in the pro men’s short track event, again finishing ahead of silver medalist Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski (Boulder, Colo./Subaru-Trek). Wells set a super-fast pace at the front, and despite an impressive chase effort by JHK and Sam Schultz (Missoula, Mont./Subaru-Trek), his pace simply couldn’t be matched.
“Up here at altitude, it’s hard to attack because … Details
 A winding drive from Sierraville along the “Dead Man’s Curves†of Highway 49 will eventually deliver you to the Sierra Buttes, where you can descend down brutally epic, blood-drawing mountain bike trails consisting of singletrack interspersed with fire road, doubletrack and old mining tracks, drop-off risks, banked turns and a recipe most adventurists thirst.
If you make this trip on the second weekend in July, you will stumble into a great grassroots mountain bike event known as the Downieville Classic … Details
Colorado Springs, Colo. (July 13, 2010) – USA Cycling announced today the roster of athletes that will represent the United States at the 20010 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships in St. Wendel, Germany on August 8. Two men and two women are set to compete for the U.S. in the 107-kilometer event later this summer.Â
Accepting discretionary nominations to contest the men’s event are Jeremiah Bishop (Harrisonburg, Va./Cannondale Factory Racing) and Burke Swindelhurst (Salt Lake City, Utah/Team Give-Blackbottoms). Bishop, a long-successful American rider, is a former USA Cycling Mountain Bike Marathon National Champion and  … Details