The Burner 12-Hour Downhill claims to end your 2009 season in style. It’s 12 hours of all you can handle downhill on the gnarly terrain at Angel Fire Resort. You’ll race all day and into the night on three tracks. This extreme downhill mountain bike challenge is geared to sport-, expert- and pro-class mountain bike riders. The race starts at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, and finishes at 9 p.m. that night. The winners of the challenge are determined by total number of laps in the 12-hour period.
Three of Angel Fire’s top bike park DH trails will be utilized simultaneously for the event. It begins with a mass start …Â Details
On Oct. 10-11, Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort will host the third annual “Race for Tara.”
The downhill benefit race will raise funds for the Tara Llanes Road to Recovery Fund and the Christopher Reeve Foundation to find a cure for spinal cord injury. In September 2007, Llanes, a professional mountain bike competitor, was left paralyzed from the waist down as a result of injuries she suffered in a crash.
The Race for Tara series was started by friends to help out with the former biker’s medical expenses and to support efforts of the Christopher Reeve Foundation as it searches for a cure for spinal cord injury.
The weekend race features…Â Details
The Optibike OB1 electric bike gets an equivalent of 2,287 MPG.* Could bikes like these be the future of transportation?
Ever wonder what happens when you cross the finest mountain bike components money can buy, an 850w brushless DC motor and a 20ah lithium-ion battery with motocross styling and sensibilities? You get the Optibike OB1, an electric bike that can get up to 45 miles on a nine-cent charge, and what is arguably the finest electric bicycle in the world…Â Details & Pictures
The moment of truth is almost at hand for a man who is no stranger to the toughest of challenges. In just a few days he’ll be climbing Africa’s Mt. Kilimanjaro as no one has ever climbed it before, as CBS News correspondent Karen Brown reports.
Don’t tell Chris Waddell he can’t climb a mountain. This week Waddell will try to become the first paraplegic, on his own power, to summit Mt. Kilimanjaro.
“I want them to go, ‘Wow, I never thought that was possible,'” Waddell said.
Paralyzed at 20 in a freak ski accident, Waddell went on to become the most decorated Paralympic skier ever. But still, he’s tired of just being “a guy in a wheel chair.”  … Details
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