Archive for the ‘Cycling’ Category
Brendt Barbur’s cause is noble: He wants road rash to be sexy. Then chicks would giggle rather than withdraw the next time he explains how he grated the flesh off his forearms and palms …
Sure, girls go all gaga if you smash your face into coral while surfing in Hawaii, says Barbur. (The general consensus being that surfers and surf injuries are sexy.) But getting clipped by a car door, and being sent over your bicycle’s handlebars, and belly flopping onto the road like it was a Slip ‘n Slide with a 30-foot concrete runner … well, the NYC cyclist says, girls don’t think getting “doored” is as stunt-man mythic as wiping out on waves. Yet. … Details
Cycling Mt. Bike Motorcycle FMX Motocross – TRAVIS PASTRANA AND THE GREAT DIVIDE TRAIL ADVENTURE!
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