When the sun broke over the Rocky Mountains this morning, Travis, along with his friends Special Greg and Eric Roner, set out to conquer the “Great Divide Trail.” The 2,493 mile trail begins in Montana and continues South along the Rockies before ending in New Mexico. Pastrana will ditch the familiarity of his motorized vehicles for a full-suspension mountain bike supplied by Giant Bicycles…Â Details
Heath and Harvey take inaugural Pro GRT crowns after Mulally and Bourque win at Whiteface
Sixteen year-old Neko Mulally (Reading, Pa./STA) and 44-year-old Dawn Bourque (Campton, N.H./Rhino Bike Works) won the final race on the 2009 USA Cycling Pro Gravity Tour, the Whiteface 5K Downhill. Mulally outrode dozens of the region’s best downhillers to post the day’s best time at 7:48.15, while Bourque put up the best women’s time at 9:41.29. With his win, the young Mulally moved into sixth place in the final Pro GRT standings as Bourque propelled herself into fourth overall. Click here for complete results from the Pro GRT’s fifth and final race of 2009 set in Wilmington, N.Y. … Details
Paul Delagnes raced against time as a high school student in Menlo-Atherton. Today,
as a junior at the University of
Colorado in Boulder, it’s judges who Delagnes must impress as a burgeoning dirt jumper.
“It takes lots and lots of practice and ignoring your instinct of not to do something stupid,” Delagnes said.
The 20-year-old became a competitive mountain biker as a freshman at M-A, traveling to courses as far east as Deer Valley, Utah, once or twice a month.
“For under 18, it’s all juniors and it’s a … Details
