BRAKE BURNER 08 The brake burner is a 6 hour 'super D' type race held at Coronet peak. Byron Scott and a few other 'Elite' downhillers headed down to Queenstown for the weekend to burn their brakes and their lungs.
Everything you need to know about the South Island cup this January from the moment it kicks off at Coronet Peak on the 4th & 5th - We'll have live results for seeding and race run in most classes through the day as well as all the usual photos and reports following the event, plus interviews and other stuff.
NORTH ISLAND CUP: ROTORUA
The big cheese, Aaron Fernandez back on board with the weekend's events and photos. More photos to come soon also...
NORTH ISLAND DH CUP: NAPIER
Photos and results from the first round of the new look DH cup series this weekend in Napier.
NORTH ISLAND SERIES: ROTORUA Awesome weather greated the riders for the final of the AKDH North Island series over the weekend.
NORTH ISLAND SERIES: DOME VALLEY Report and heaps of photos from Matt Clouston, Kai Chow, Brook Macdonnald and Vaughan Woolhouse from the weekend's racing at Dome Valley, Auckland, sort of...
EDINBURGH: URBAN NIGHT RACE 2 Weeks ago Edinburgh was assulted by a gang of downhillers in another urban race. NZRIDE.com UK Correspondent Blair Christmas got amongst the action to bring us this report...
NORTH ISLAND SERIES: MARAETAI Round two of the North Island series at Maraetai forest in Auckland saw some hot lines, a little controversy and most importantly, fine weather!
ITALY: ROMA URBAN DOWNHILL Urban downhills are becoming increasingly popular, drawing huge crowds to the sport and big prize pools for top riders with great media exposure. A brief report from the guys in italy from one of the latest urban events, the inaugural Roma DH. (Roma = Rome)
WANGANUI: ED'S DIARIES Eddies usual spot with another take on the first round of the north island downhill series.
NORTH ISLAND SERIES: WANGANUI It was a wet, muddy race for the first round of the North Island "Summer" series today in Wanganui with the home comming of globe trotting hero Sam Blenkinsop and a bunch of fast Juniors who have got even faster over the winter.
2007 NISSAN UCI WORLD CUP:
ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW The 2007 World Cup page: Everything you need to know about the 2007 World Cup from the kiwis and other international riders. Results, photos, interviews and other stuff...
IXS MID EUROPEAN CUP: Scuol, Switzerland
Kiwis clean up in the first round of the IXS Mid-European cup. A huge field of New Zealanders saw Nathan Rankin at the top in 1st Place and Glenn Haden just behind in 3rd last weekend in Switzerland...
NISSAN QASHQAI DOWNTOWN, COLOGNE Something a bit different: The Nissan Qashqai series is an urban freestyle series that drags some of the best freestyle riders around the globe, including Santa Cruz's Jamie Goldman. We've got their report from the German leg of the tour in Cologne last weekend.
AUSTRIAN NATIONAL CHAMPS There was a strong showing from the euro-kiwi contingent over the weekend at the the Austrian national champs in Schladming, site of the 4th round of the UCI World cup series in about 6 weeks.
LISBON DOWNTOWN The Lisbon Downtown downhill is a unique invitational only race held annually through the streets of Lisbon in Portugal. The Santa Cruz syndicate team dominated the weekend with Steve Peat and Nathan Rennie stomping to 1st and 2nd Place. Kiwi Justin Leov also raced but suffered a puncture.
VIGO: KIWI'S REPORT The kiwi perspective on the first round of the UCI world cup DH in Vigo from Mike Skinner and Scarlet Hagen.
NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS 14.04.2007 - 15.04.2007
Finally have all the photos up in the galleries now
- about 900 photos in total, so many that we had to upgrade the bob canibulator in our flux capacitor to handle them all!
There are prints available of all photos - ranging from a standard 6"x4" photo print to A3 or A2 sized poster prints.
Congratulations to the Levin club for another great event!
POSTER PRINTS:
You can now order poster prints of any Gallery photo - a personalised A3 or A2 print of your favorite photo, plus standard photo prints available. Click on any photo in the Gallery pages for ordering info.
There's nothing wrong with a bit of self worship!
GALLERY PAGES NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS DH
All the photos in separate galleries, organised by class for race run
SDA ROUND 1 - INNERLEITHEN SCOTLAND Blair Christmas on getting out of shape in scotland, the start of his northern hemisphere season - the first round of the Scottish Nationals and of course snail smail.
GALLERY PAGES NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS DH
All the photos in separate galleries, organised by class for race run
EDDIES DIARIES NATIONAL SECONDARY SCHOOLS DH
Eddie masters live from the wanganui news centre.
SOUTHERN DH CHAMPS 25.03.2007
The southern-most dh race in the world in Bluff - A brief report and some photos by James Allan.
WOODHILL SPRINTS
The Woodhill sprints is an interesting take on a semi downhill event: A series of short sprint races on 5 mainly downhill courses, the time added up over all 5 counting towards your final result. It's a good, relaxed event that Bike parks will be running quarterly, so get along and give it a go. One of the woodhill regulars who went out has sent us in a report.
OCEANIA CHAMPS 2007
It was a mamoth race, over 6mins down a track 4.1km long. We've got race reports from a couple of the Kiwi athletes:
NATS '07 PAGE:
Keep an eye on the nationals page for updates on the racing and the dodgy bits in between. Rider profiles, interviews and lots of other pointless shit. -06.02.2007: Cam Cole's South Island race round up.
-05.02.2007: Eddie's Diaries - Ed's repo on the Nelson Race
-31.01.2007: More photos from DH & 4X added plus race report.
-30.01.2007: Nelson DH Photos Added
-21.01.2007: Dunedin, Round 3 - Cam Cole Second to Fabian Pedemanaud
-16.01.2007: First installment of Eddies Diaries
-16.01.2007: New Photos added on Coronet Page
-13.01.2007: Race report and photos from Coronet
[+] PHOTOS Keep an eye on the Nats Gallery Page [HERE] for access to all the photo galleries from the series
RACE: BLENHIEM CLUB DH
Mike Hill dropped in on the Blenhiem club downhill race with Justin while he was down there filming for Pusher II. Full gallery of photos.
NI SERIES: WELLINGTON RESULTS
Thanks to Jen and Jono and all the wellington crew for putting on a great race in pretty appauling conditions. The long gully track is looking great and can't wait to ride it without the wind someday, hopefully?
NI SERIES: ED'S DIARIES: WELLY
The low down on the Wellington round of the North Island Series from everyone's favorite grom, Eddie Masters.
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NI SERIES RND1: WANGANUI
Thanks to Charles and the team for putting on another great event. Results from the race are up here - series points will start to add up after the second round at Maraetai this weekend. If you're not registered yet, it's not too late - click on the link below and send your details in - costs nothing extra!
BLAIR CHRISTMAS: IXS SWISS CUP REPORT
A quick report on the final Round of the IXS Swiss cup from advanced-upper-lower-middle-backpack kiwi racer Blair Christmas.
ROTO '06
Results and a round up of the event. Heaps of info, interviews and photos still to come...
RACE REPORT: AKDH//MARAETAI
Coverage of VOQ's first race back on the bike in preparation for the worlds - round two of the AKDH Ironhorse winter series.
RIDE REPORT: EUROPE
We catchup with Jenna Makgill - what's happening in Europe, where to ride and why you should get over there.
WHERE THEY'RE AT:
A round up of all the kiwi riders (and some honorary kiwis) who have disappeared overseas in our off-season.
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WATCH THE RACING LIVE ON www.mtbcut.tv
Video updates through the week.
4X live at 19.00 GMT to 21.00 GMT on Friday 7th September
Downhill Finals live 11.30 GMT to 15.00 GMT on Sunday 9th September
News every night from Wednesday to Sunday!
Not only are we covering the Downhill and 4X finals live, but we will also be providing updates from the race every night from the moment the first tire tread is laid on Wednesday morning. You will not miss a pedal stroke.
Other World Cup News:
Sam Hill wins Schladming Round for the 3rd time in a row. Tracey Hannah win's the women's. 08.07.2007
Yet again, Sam Hill storms the field to take his 3rd consecutive win on the Schladming Course. Tracey Hannah makes it a double header for Australia, taking out the women's race to win her first World Cup round. After rain earlier in the week perfect weather held out all weekend for an awesome event...
See full report and photos below
First win of the World Cup season for Sam Hill and another Win For Jonnier 24.06.2007
Sam Hill takes out the Men's race in the Final ahead of Greg Minnar and Steve Peat. Sabrina Jonier win's the women's race ahead of Tracy Mosely. Justin Leov in 7th Place - best world cup result for a kiwi so far this season! [READ MORE HERE]
KIWIS KILL IT AT LATEST NORBA
02.07.2008
The Kiwi trio of Justin Leov, Sam Blenkinsop and Cameron Cole all won an event at last weekends NMBS series in the States. [+]READ HERE
WORLDS ROUND UP FROM SANTACRUZ SYNDICATE
23.06.2008
The gold & silver winning team santa cruz syndicate sums up their race weekend with photos from Kathy Sessler. [+]READ HERE
