USA TODAY sportswriter and member of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Sal Ruibal named Dirt Rag in his Top Ten Cycling Blogs list, which was posted on blogs.com, a site devoted to the best in blogs…. More info
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What’s the most intense modification you can do to your dirt bike? The market is full of nifty electronics, high-tech two-wheel drive systems, slick automatic clutches and potent internal motor upgrades, but can the most radical aftermarket item really be a bolt-on? We have just sampled what might be the baddest aftermarket goody available, and it actually makes your bike worse in the dirt – the 2Moto RadiX snow bike.
Just how sophisticated is this product? Consider that it took a rocket scientist to take the final conversion from a neat, fun concept into a fourth-generation, fully righteous, powder-slaying motorsport. The possibilities presented by a motorcycle chassis in a snow environment create such a different focus from snowmobiling that it really doesn’t suit the same clientele. That’s fine with the crew from Nampa, Idaho. They won’t beg to be included like a playground reject. Instead, this odd man out rallies its small band of misfits and starts its own, better game. 2Moto doesn’t just expand motorcycling, it has created an entirely new sport. … More info
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The 2009 USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (ProGRT), a new professional gravity mountain bike series designed to recognize the top gravity racers in America, will consist of five events, including three International Cycling Union (UCI)-sanctioned races throughout the United States.
According to USA Cycling, the intent of the series is to provide world-class athletes with a consistent stage to showcase their downhill and 4-Cross skills.
“With the development of the ProGRT we were looking to showcase the country’s strongest gravity venues,†… More info
As part of the North American Handmade Bicycle Show coming to Indianapolis this weekend, ArtBike! will be featured in the Mass Ave and Fountain Square areas.
It is an exhibition that marries bicycles and art in the form of street art, sculpture and installation art.
“It’s kind of hard to explain how beautiful these things are,” said Laura Brennan, account coordinator for O2 Sports Marketing. “They’re so pretty and you can tell that these people put so much work into them. . . . There’s no trick, there’s no hook. It’s bicycling, it’s art.”
The handmade works of cycling art will be displayed in six galleries.
One bike, made from bamboo …Â More info
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