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Industry Nine DH/FR Wheels Long Term Review

Scott checks out a set of DH wheels from Industry Nine for 5 months to see if they are as good as they look.

Check it out here.

5-5-2008 - Category: Review - Previous Features

08.07 Sunshine Series Rd 4 Toowoomba

07.07 Willemse takes Junior iXS European Downhill Cup

05.07 Newton's Playground - Coming to a TV near you

27.06 Cycling Australia Nominations for the 2008 Olympic Games

25.06 Sunshine Series DH Round 4 - Toowoomba

25.06 Sunshine Series Rd 3 Kandanga Results

24.06 [R]evolution Issue 13

23.06 2008 World 4X Championships Finals Videos

Mitch Delfs Interview

Sunshine Series Rd 4 Toowoomba
(3 comments) (link) Tuesday, 8-July-2008 4:55 PM - by lindsay

I'm happy to say that Queensland has finally run a race in the rain! After showers on and off all weekend it decided to rain for the U19 and Elite finals. It's now rained 4 years in a row for the Toowoomba race!

Elite Men
1. Darcy Murrell 3:13.2
2. Lindsay Klein 3:16.3
3. Tom Richards 3:18.9
4. James Maltman 3:19.0
5. Jay Taylor 3:20.4

Elite Women
1. Jayne Rutter 4:27.6
2. Lea Harley 4:33.5
3. Samantha Gambrill 4:38.1

U19 Men
1. Liam Paiaro 3:20.8
2. Kim Bishop 3:27.6
3. Obi Nobel 3:37.0

Full results here.

Willemse takes Junior iXS European Downhill Cup
(7 comments) (link) Monday, 7-July-2008 2:16 PM - by Scott

Rhys took the win in the Junior men with a time that would have landed him second in elite. Nick Beer dominated the elite men by more than 10 seconds. Laurie Dinham qualified 4th in juniors but a crash in practice saw him off to hospital with concussion. Hopefully nothing too serious there, get better Laurie!

Junior Men:
1. WILLEMSE Rhys - AUS 3:57.186
2. SMITH Joseph - GBR +1.200
3. TETZLAFF Boris - AUT +2.699
4. GSPAN Nicolas - SUI +10.749
5. BENDER Maximilian - GER +14.116

Elite Men:
1. BEER Nick - SUI - 3:48.103
2. PEKOLL Markus - AUT +10.666
3. BEER Marcel - SUI +12.927
4. FREI Martin - SUI +16.004
5. CALUORI Claudio - SUI +16.398

Full results here.

Newton's Playground - Coming to a TV near you
(5 comments) (link) Saturday, 5-July-2008 5:06 PM - by Squidly Didly

If you have Pay TV, tune in to Fuel TV on Sunday 6th July @ 5pm for the Newton's Playground one-hour special.

If you don't, tune into Channel 10 on Sunday 6th July @ 3pm for a Totally Australia documentary titled "Panorama Punks".

Both shows are well worth a watch!

Cycling Australia Nominations for the 2008 Olympic Games
(16 comments) (link) Friday, 27-June-2008 9:20 PM - by Squidly Didly

Cycling Australia today named the 28 cyclists it intends to nominate to the Australian Olympic Committee for selection in the Australian team for the 2008 Olympic Games to contest the road, track, mountain bike and BMX cycling events in Beijing.

Track Sprint
* Ryan Bayley OAM (Alexander Heights, WA 09.03.1982)
* Daniel Ellis (Ngunnawal, ACT 07.10.1988)
* Mark French (Elwood, VIC 13.10.1984)
* Shane Kelly OAM (Ararat, VIC 07.01.1972)
* Anna Meares OAM (Gracemere, QLD 21.09.1983)

Track Endurance
* Jack Bobridge (Mt Pleasant, SA 13.07.1989)
* Graeme Brown OAM (Menai, NSW 09.04.1979)
* Mark Jamieson (Acacia Hills, TAS 04.05.1984)
* Brett Lancaster OAM (Shepparton, VIC 15.11.79)
* Katie Mactier (St Kilda, VIC 23.03.1975)
* Bradley McGee OAM (Wentworthville, NSW 24.02.1976)
* Cameron Meyer (Helena Valley, WA 11.01.1988)
* Luke Roberts OAM (Walkerville, SA 25.01.1977)

Road
* Katherine Bates (Northmead, NSW 18.05.1982)
* Sara Carrigan OAM (Nerang, QLD 07.09.1980)
* Cadel Evans (Barwon Heads, VIC 14.02.1977)
* Simon Gerrans (Jamieson, VIC 16.05.1980)
* Matthew Lloyd (Brighton, VIC 24.05.1983)
* Stuart O'Grady OAM (Unley Park, SA 06.08.1973)
* Michael Rogers (Garren, ACT 20.12.1979)
* Oenone Wood (Watson, ACT 24.09.1980)

BMX
* Tanya Bailey (Mariginiup, WA 15.03.1981)
* Nicole Callisto (Beechboro, WA 12.11.1987)
* Jared Graves (Toowoomba, Qld 16.12.1982)
* Kamakazi (Jimboomba, QLD 08.03.1981)
* Luke Madill (Cranebrook, NSW 28.05.1980)

Mountain Bike
* Daniel McConnell (Bruthen, VIC 09.08.1985)
* Dellys Starr (Smith's Gully, VIC 02.10.1976)

Check out the Press Release here

Sunshine Series DH Round 4 - Toowoomba
(45 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-June-2008 8:18 PM - by Scott

Next Sunday 6th July, Toowoomba Mountain Bike Club is hosting Round 4 of the Qld Sunshine Series Downhill at their venue in Amos Road via Withcott. On line entry forms are now up on Two Wheel Promotions. For those who haven’t ventured up the range before, an access map also available from the same site. Registration from 7.30am, official practice from 8.00 and racing at 1.00pm. A canteen will be operating all day.

The track will be open for use by the general public on Saturday until 4.00pm when it will be shut down for some last minute maintenance. Everyone who plans to ride the course on Saturday needs to be aware though that there wont be any track marshalls around and Toowoomba Mountain Bike Club will not be responsible for any loss/injury that may occur prior to start of official practice at 8.00am on Sunday. Also for insurance purposes, there will be NO PRIVATE SHUTTLES permitted on Sunday. For further particulars, email enquiries to contact@tmbc.org.au

Sunshine Series Rd 3 Kandanga Results
(9 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-June-2008 09:37 AM - by lindsay

Elite Men
1. Mick Hannah 2:27.4
2. James Maltman 2:31.9
3. Lindsay Klein 2:33.0
4. Jay Taylor 2:33.2
5. Jacob Reeves 2:40.5

U19 Men
1. Liam Paiaro 2:41.9
2. Brandon Yrttiaho 2:42.7
3. Alex Winton 2:45.5

Elite Women
1. Tracey Hannah 2:44.5
2. Jayne Rutter 3:04.8
3. Lee Harley 3:15.2

Full results can be found here.

[R]evolution Issue 13
(70 comments) (link) Tuesday, 24-June-2008 00:50 AM - by Squidly Didly

The winter issue of [R]evolution has landed! Our biggest issue ever at 132 pages is opened by Kovarik lighting it up with a massive 360 on his new Intense M6 race bike. Then feature wise we've got the Anti-against Canberra drain tour and Rando takes you behind the scenes at this years Sea Otter. We take a close look at the new Santa Cruz V10 & Tomac Primer 220. Niki Gudex, Bryn Atkinson, Grant Allan and Glen Jacobs all have their regular diaries and NZ's Sam Blenkinsop signs us off with last words. Plus a host of racing, road tripping, interviews, gallery pics, rad prize giveaways, tech Q&A, the latest new prody, reviews and a whole heap more MTB goodness to keep you frothing through the cold winter months.