It’s no secret there’s always been a strong correlation between mountain biking and music. Motivation sometimes flows through the iPod while you push through that lonely 3:00 am lap in a 24-hour race. We also often find ourselves choosing just the right music for pre- and post-ride mood-setting.
Various mountain bike festivals over the years have featured live music, but some wise people in Idaho are taking the link between mountain bikes and music to the next level. The First Annual Sun Valley Rhythm & Ride: Bike and Music Festival, will take place … Details
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Catching up with XXL-Award-winning German tow-surfer
Outside of a river, and some random windswell on the North Sea, there is no surfing in Germany. But there are surfers. (Former WT’er Marlon Lipke was the first famous German surfer
Fresh off his win for Biggest Wave at the 2010 Billabong XXL Awards, relatively unknown tow-surfer Sebastian Steudtner was thrust into the limelight after riding the largest wave of a year — a caliper-measured 66-foot left at Jaws. A self-proclaimed tow-surfer, Steudtner grabbed the  … Details
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The Ferrari 599XX has become the first ever production-derived sports car to break the 7-minute barrier on the classic Nürburgring Nordschleife 20.832 km circuit, lapping in a time of 6 min 58.16 sec.
The new record was set on 21 April 2010 with Ferrari road car test driver Raffaele de Simone behind the wheel, beating a time of 6 minutes 58.5 seconds set by German Touring Car Driver Florian Gruber in another Ferrari 599XX. These times are both faster than Ferrari 312T Formula One car driven by Niki Lauda in a time of 6 minutes 58.6 seconds that put the Austrian legend on pole position for the 1975 Grand Prix , the best ever time for an F1 car on the Nürburgring Nordschleife circuit … Details
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