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5
Mar

Surfing – Taj Burrow conquers the 2010 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast

   Categories: Surfing & SUP

Taj Burrow (AUS), 31 has taken out the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover over Jordy Smith (ZAF), 22, in rippable two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at Snapper Rocks.

The opening event of then 2010 ASP World Tour season, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast started the year off with a bang, bringing the greatest assemblage of surfing talent in history to one of the most iconic pointbreaks in the world, and the world’s best surfers shattered high-performance barriers once again.

“I’m so so happy right now – it’s the best feeling on Earth!” Burrow said. “It’s unreal. I have a good  …  Details

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5
Mar

BMX Racing – Eight riders named to funded team for Madrid Supercross World Cup

   Categories: BMX, Cycling

Colorado Springs, Colo. (March 4, 2010) – USA Cycling announced today the eight athletes it will send to round one of the UCI BMX Supercross World Cup in Madrid, Spain, March 26-27. The Madrid Supercross is the fifth event that factors into the 2010 USA Cycling BMX Power Rankings. The final race that will factor into these rankings will be the UCI BMX World Championships in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on July 31. 

Four men received nominations to the funded team: Donny Robinson (Napa, Calif.), Nicholas Long (Lakeside, Calif.), David Herman (Wheat Ridge, Colo.), and Corben Sharrah (Tucson, Ariz.). Robinson was automatically selected as the top elite male rider in the USA Cycling Power Rankings. Long and Herman, the top U23 men in the power rankings, and Sharrah, who sits atop the junior men’s rankings, received coaches’ selection to the funded team for Madrid.   

The women’s funded squad will include Arielle Martin (Spanaway, Wash.), Ashley Verhagen (Simi Valley, Calif.), Amanda Geving (Largo, Florida), and Brooke Crain (Visalia, Calif.). As the top elite female rider in the power rankings, Martin was an automatic selection to the funded team. Verhagen, Geving, and Crain received coaches’ nominations to the team based on their performance at the first USA Cycling BMX Women’s Development Camp which took place at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., Feb. 22 – March 4. 

For more information about the Madrid Supercross event, please click here.

CLICK HERE to view all of the 2010 USA Cycling BMX Power Rankings

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5
Mar

Editorial: Local bike shop’s donations a model for helping others

   Categories: BMX, Cycling, Fundraiser and/or Volunteer, Misc., Mt. Bike, Road Bike

MARIN is home to many residents, organizations and businesses who go the extra mile to help others in need.

Marin-based Mike’s Bikes and its workers have been collecting hundreds of used bicycles and donated parts to transport to Botswana, where they will be given to Africans who need them. The bikes are a vital mode of transportation in that part of Africa.

This year, more than 450 donated bikes are bound for people in Ghana, Botswana and Namibia. Mike’s Bikes employees also are making sure that the parts needed to fix the bikes are donated. The company is also helping finance the opening of repair shops and training workers in how to fix the bikes …  Details

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4
Mar

Porsche apocalypse – Ruf’s 911 V8

   Categories: Automobile, Sports Car

In the quaint village of Pfaffenhausen, located in Germany’s Algäu region, is a rather special supercar manufacturer – Ruf. 

Essentially, you could make Ruf off as just another German aftermarket Porsche tuner – except that it isn’t.

Ruf is a registered manufacturer in Germany, and although most of the company’s cars silhouette the Porsche product portfolio, there’s enough independent engineering going on to justify the ‘independent manufacturer’ billing.

If Porsche can’t, we should

To prove its technical competence (and independence), Ruf showed up at this week’s Geneva auto show with a rather neat 911 based (we probably shouldn’t have said that) RGT-8.

If you’re a serious Ruf(fian) you’ll know the RGT moniker usually denotes something really special from the Pfaffenhausen concern  …  Details & Pictures

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