Santa Cruz Syndicate’s Greg Minnaar continues to lead the UCI World Cup Downhill Series with a 2nd place finish in Champery, Switzerland. Gee Atherton takes the win and tightens the margin to 13 points between he and Greg making it a very exciting season. The bad weather all week created difficult track conditions and took a toll on Steve Peat and Josh Bryceland. Steve had a 6th place qualifier and expected to do well in the final, but he had a small crash at the top, which put him in 18th place. Josh’s crash in the qualifier took too much time and he did not make the cut.
Dave Weagle was just recently awarded the US patent for his latest design suspension design, theSplit-Pivotsystem. Inside you can read all the details, as well ascheck out some photos of the upcoming bikes that will be using Split-Pivot suspension.
Inside we take a closer look at two Fox full face helmets that come in at different price points and offer differing levels of protection. First up is the upscale carbon shelled V3R for those looking for a moto style lid, and for riders who desire a higher standard of protection, we have the DOT approved V2 helmet.
There have been rumors floating around for a while now about a carbon v-10 downhill bike, and the level of speculation has run the gamut from badly photoshopped alloy v-10s with carbon weave laid on the image to some very astute guesswork. None of the rumor-mongering or speculation was created by us, since we have been really busy spitting out other bikes and haven't had the time nor the organizational chops to pull together a subversive, anti-marketing, marketing campaign.
There have been rumors floating around for a while now about a carbon v-10 downhill bike, and the level of speculation has run the gamut from badly photoshopped alloy v-10s with carbon weave laid on the image to some very astute guesswork. None of the rumor-mongering or speculation was created by us, since we have been really busy spitting out other bikes and haven't had the time nor the organizational chops to pull together a subversive, anti-marketing, marketing campaign.