The opening round of the 2013 Schwalbe Euro 4X Series took place in Winterberg, Germany at the weekend. Held as part of the Dirt masters Festival, this event attracts thousands of fans who flock to Winterberg to watch Schwalbe Euro 4X Series, IXS Downhill series and the impressive Bergline Freeride World Tour event. … Pictures and more
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The fourth stop on the USA Cycling Pro Mountain Bike Gravity Tour (Pro GRT) was the Mountain Creek Spring Classic on May 19 in Vernon, N.J.
Despite their absence at the New Jersey event, Aaron Gwin (Wildomar, Calif./Specialized Racing) and Robyn Embrey (Incline Village, Nev./Shine Riders Co) still hold the top spots in the men’s and women’s Pro GRT standings.
Brook MacDonald (NZL) entered the Pro GRT men’s standings on Sunday when he put down the fastest time of the day on the wet course, finishing in … More
The Welsh countryside can be a vast untouched wildness of roaming forest and distant mountains, or it can be the complete opposite, a thriving and overcrowded environment filled with bustling businessmen and pencil pushers. Blaenau Ffestiniog once was one of the latter, a slate industry driven town where mining and quarrying were its biggest investments. Over the years the thriving industrial town has seen its self drying up of all it resources and slowly started to decay. Dont get me wrong, business in the quarries is still booming and the slate that comes from this area is still some of the best in the world but the mine tours and corner shops selling sticks of rock dont bring the crowds like they used to.
In the interest of driving the tourism back into Blaenau, the locals turned to bikes, one local in particular, Adrian ‘Bud’ Bradley took it on him self to to open the darndest, most rootenest tootenest attraction for miles. Antur Stiniog was born and boy did the flocks of bikers come.