Over 45 riders showed up mid-April from as far away as Canada to clear trails and build the courses for the first race of the season this Sunday May 4 at Plattekill Mountain in Roxbury, NY. This weekend's race will be the first in Plattekill's 7-race series for 2008 and serve as the automatic qualifier for juniors to the USAC World’s Team. Top juniors from thru out the United States will challenge the steep terrain and big drops at the mountain. Plattekill is entering their 14th season offering lift served mountain biking and racing. A pioneer in the mountain bike race arena, Plattekill continues to offer exciting new terrain and courses with each race event. Pre-race registration open until Thursday noon. PRE REGISTER and SAVE TIME and MONEY! Pre-reg entry $60, onsite entry $65 (same as last year) and a special discounted 'Beginner Class' race entry of just $40. This includes race entry and 2-day lift ticket. Onsite registration open Saturday 9am-1pm, Sunday 8am-noon. Great start to what promises to be an awesome series of racing at Plattekill Bike Park in 2008 with upcoming events including the World Junior X qualifier this weekend, Gravity East Series event in July, Gravity East finals in October, 6-race Plattekill Extreme Downhill Series, 5-race Racer's Edge NYS Dual Slalom Series and NYS 6-hour endurance race in June! More photos and information available at resort website at www.plattekill.com. Hope to see you at the races!
PLATTEKILL PREPARES FOR JR-X WORLDS QUALIFIER AND FIRST RACE OF THE SEASON
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If you ever owned mag-wheels as a kid, now its time to own a set as an adult.
Thrashbike Jump Jam Video Highlights
Here are highlights from last week's Trashbike Jump Jam, put on by Atomlab & BlkMkt in San Diego, CA. Check out the Thrashbike site for more videos and photos updates. There's even a ton of photos by our Brooklyn native, Gideon on flickr.com
The Warmup Video:
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The Session Video:
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Mountain Bike: Nissan Qashqai Milan Live Webcast
T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds on Freecaster.tv
T-Mobile Extreme Playgrounds on Freecaster.tv
Freecaster.tv brought you Live coverage from 'The Dirt Session' at Duisberg on Sunday. Now you can watch the winning runs again. Embed codes via the links below.
Some of the world's best BMX and MTB riders competed in the BMX Dirt Jump and MTB Slopestyle contests. The standard was incredibly high with each rider pushing himself to the limit to the elation of the crowd.
The bands rocked on and the entire event was a real good time.
This great season of events will continue with 'The Summer Session' (Wakeboard Cable and BMX Mini Ramp) in Hamburg/Pinneberg on August 24 and 'The Street Session' (BMX Street/Vert and Skateboard Street/Vert) in Velodrom, Berlin on November 2. All will be webcast Live on Freecaster.tv.
1st Paul Basagoita
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2nd Lance Mcdermott
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3rd Phil Sundbaum
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A highlights is coming later on!!
Updated Gallery
I finally got my gallery software updated. Some of you may have noticed picture albums were missing or really out of order. Now things should be smoother and easier to manage. Well enjoy the new gallery, there's even a random images shown on the side. If you dig this drop me a line.
Fat Tire Festival Anyone?
FYI: Lucky has moved
As of today Lucky, is working at Racer's Edge in Brooklyn. This is great news since he races for shop when he not tinkering bikes all day long along side of Willy another good mechanic. So you know whats up when you walk in and want to get your bike fix by some of Brooklyn's finest pair of hands.