You can’t get any more urban than riding down stairs and across rooftops through the Dona Marta slum in Brazil. Cool rider point of view as well during the Red Bull sponsored race. Found via BikeCarson.com.
Check out the sick blind drop within 15 seconds of launching outta the gate!
Photo by Jj Arcinas.
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FROM THE AUCTION LISTING: Santa Cruz have kindly donated a brand new 09 Bullit frame, which has been signed by all the team (plus other top riders) to Steve Peat’s charity event the ‘Wharncliffe Weekender’. The frame which is in hard anodized aluminium (black) has a value of over £1,200, plus is signed by the best mountain bike riders in the world, plus comes with a RockShox. Along with the bike you will receive 17 photographs in a frame showing the world’s best riders signing this frame.
The photos / signatures include: World Champ Steve Peat, Gee Atherton, Greg Minnar, Josh Bryceland, Rachael Atherton, Sam Hill, Brendon Fariclough, Jill Kintner, Fabian Barrel, Dan Atherton, Marc Beaumont, Chris Kovarik, Sam Blenkinsop, Jared Graves, Mick Hannah, Andrew Neethling, Justin Leov, Tracy Mosley and David Vasquez.
As one of the Wharncliffe Weekender organisers I am selling this bike on behalf of Peaty and the other organisers – with 100% of all the money raised going straight to our chosen charity (Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity). This is a cancer hospital in Sheffield which does an amazing job of supporting cancer sufferers and their families. Not only do you get one of the coolest frames there has ever been but you get a warm, fuzzy feeling inside from helping raise lots of money for a totally worthy cause.
Bike Features:
- Travel: 178mm
- Huge 20mm swingarm pivot
- Lifetime pivot bearing guarantee
- 1.5″ headtube
- 135 QR (standard) or 150mm through-axle
- Hard anodized 7075 aluminum hardware
Bid on it on eBay, they’ll ship anywhere in the world (winner pays actual s/h costs). Auction ends 28 Nov, 200917:10:21 GMT. Hit ‘more’ for additional deets and photos…
Sean Yates will join Team Sky in the New Year as Sports Director. He will join Scott Sunderland, Steven De Jongh and Marcus Ljungqvist, the other Sports Directors for Team Sky.
Sean Yates has been a sports director at Astana since 2008 and before that was at Team Discovery Channel and Team CSC.
Dave Brailsford, Team Principal for Team Sky, said: “Sean brings a wealth of experience and we’ve been very keen for a long time to bring him on board. He’s well known as a hard-working sports director with a deep understanding of the sport and good connection to his riders and staff. He will be a true asset to our management team and a great colleague for the other Sports Directors we have signed.
“Our ambition is to have our Sports Directors collaborating with the best available expert knowledge on all the relevant aspects of sport and we believe that it will provide Team Sky with a unique fundament to perform and win. Sean and the other Sports Directors will be working in a performance driven team where I’m convinced we can bring out the very best in the riders.â€Â
Ag2r La Mondiale, the only team to have competed at every edition of the Santos Tour Down Under, will bring a strong team to compete in the 2010 race in Adelaide.
Santos Tour Down Under Race Director, Mike Turtur, said that he is looking forward to the return of 2007 Tour Down Under champion Martin Elmiger.
“Elmiger started out strong in January finishing fourth overall at the 2009 Santos Tour Down Under,†said Mike Turtur.
“This set the scene for a solid effort all season, with Elmiger claiming a third place finish in the Monte Paschi Eroica and finishing twelfth in the Milan – San Remo.â€Â
Ag2r La Mondiale has produced the most overall winners of the Santos Tour Down Under in the event’s history – Gilles Maignan (2000), Mikel Astarloza (2003), Simon Gerrans (2006) and Martin Elmiger (2007).
“Ag2r-La Mondiale will be a very competitive side at the 2010 event, fielding a team led by very experienced riders with key victories on the world stage in Elmiger and Dessel,†said Mike Turtur.
Cyril Dessel is a Tour de France stage winner, taking victory on the 16th stage in 2008 after being in a chase group for the majority of the day.
“Dessel is in the elite group of cyclists who can say they have worn the race leader’s yellow jersey at the Tour de France, which he achieved back in 2006.â€Â
Ag2r-La Mondiale’s roster for the 2010 Santos Tour Down Under will be led by Team Manager Laurent Biondi (FRA) and include riders:
More rider and team announcements will be issued over the coming weeks. The 2010 Santos Tour Down Under will be held in Adelaide and regional South Australia from 17-24 January 2010. For more information, visit www.tourdownunder.com.au.
Back in July, Asheville firefighter Charles Alexander Diez yelled from his moving vehicle at Alan Simons as Simons rode his bicycle along Tunnel Road pulling his son in a bike trailer and his wife following.
Diez apparently yelled that Simons was risking the child’s life by riding their bikes on that road, and when Simons approached the vehicle, Diez pulled out his gun. As Simons walked away, Diez’s gun went off and hit Simons’ helmet, causing damage to his eardrum but otherwise (and fortunately) leaving him relatively unharmed.
On Thursday, Diez pleaded guilty to assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill (the original charge was first attempted degree murder, but was changed because the event was not premeditated) and was sentenced to four months in prison, which could be increased to 15 to 27 months based on Diez’s behavior during the next 30 months.
Superior Court Judge James Downs said mitigating factors, including Diez’s excellent work history and lack of prior criminal records, was the basis for the lenient sentence. Diez says he only intended to fire a warning shot, that he felt threatened because Simons reached into his car and grabbed his shirt (a claim Simons denies).
Read the full story at Asheville Citizen-Times.com
Simply go to www.ByeKyle.com and “Get on the Free list” by emailing your name address and a photo of your face. Kyle will select a winner every day or so and if you see your face on the website, you’ve won! Simple. Just like the strap. It’s also a great stocking stuffer idea for the cyclist in your family…
New from two members of the Rollapaluza crew is FIXED, a “high quality photo-driven book about the fixed wheel bicycle, unlike other fixed culture publictions and blogs it has a lot on the history of the bicyle and racing as well as the modern trend of fixed wheel riding.”
It’s available on Amazon.com for $16.47 (MSRP is $24.95). Check out some of the pages after the break…
NY TIMES: On the hour they come, great clouds of cyclists pulsing between classes along the street called Serra Mall  the main axis of Stanford University  like so many slowly charged particles in a physics experiment.
Campus is flat enough  and large enough  and the weather so brilliant that nearly everyone cycles. And whoever all these cyclists are, as individuals, their individuality is burnished by the bikes they ride and by the way they ride them. It’s as though the bikes are only partly transportation, as though they were really machines for differentiation.
And what aids the differencing is that few people wear helmets, and everyone is wearing ordinary clothes  none of the sleek and gaudy costumes you see on cyclists pumping through the peninsular hills and whistling down Sand Hill Road to the Caltrain station. They are themselves on wheels.
There is a deeply pleasing randomness about the campus cyclists… read the rest at NYTimes.com
Industrial designer Pablo Lopez from firm DIBRUTAL came up with the Pardo, short for guepardo (Spanish for cheetah.) Designed for Innovar, an Argentinian innovations contest, it’s a recumbent of sorts in that you are mostly horizontal and there are pedals. That’s where the similarities end.
The rider lies prone, face down, and pushes on the pedals simultaneously…like doing a frog leap…to propel the bike forward. Not content just to make these pretty concept renderings, Lopez actually built one! See it, and a usage diagram, after the break…
Halo Rims‘ 7075 anodized colored fixed gear track rings are CNC machined and made for left hand thread, 24T cogs. They come in blue, purple, red, black, gold and green and retail for £6.99.
They also have some “V” shaped freestyle fixie rims that are wider and stronger than typical road hubs and made to take the abuse of trick urban riding. Hit ‘more’ to see them…they come in colors, too!
PRESS RELEASE: BOULDER, CO USA. Ciclosportivo N.A. announced this week their Gran Fondo and SuperCorsaâ„¢ events to the cycling blog community. Ciclosportivo N.A. events scheduled for 2010 include Gran Fondos and SuperCorsas Boulder, Steamboat, Taos and Vail; New Mexico events are tentative.
Gran Fondo is a cycling phenomenon that has taken Italy by storm. The sporting cousin of marathon, Gran Fondos are long distance, mass-participation bicycle rides that welcome riders of all types and riding abilities: recreational, amateur and professional.
Click ‘more’ for more information about the SuperCorsa and Ciclosportivo N.A.
