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THE news from Elbry...

More hot news from wideopen regular Elbry:
"Hi guys, Elbry here dropping you some pics of some cool new products from
one of my sponsors; THE.

First off THE have added some cool new gloves to its range which are pro style, thin and durable and in must have white!

Now this is what you call a hood! backcountry freeriders will love...One lid was a big hit last year, now it comes in composite as well as the top end carbon and some of the best styling in the helmet world! Eric Carter gets his own sig lid! for the racer guys..




The much talked about all mtn/freeride open face the f-14 will also hit the UK
shores in 2008.

Lastly, the saddle range has grown with the mtn-x and mtn-x junior being the standout product for dh,4x or freeride.


Until next time..!
Elbry

RiderRunCompany meets Rip.tv

Watch out. Hot of the press news from wideopen regular Elbry:
"Rip Media Group www.rip.tv have teamed up with www.riderruncompany.co.uk, UK importers/distributers of MDE bikes and Sikspak, Rogue and Vandal clothing. RRC will have RIP.TV as a sponsor of its team in 2008, with the team again headed up by Elbry Sandland himself. Look for RRC to help promo Rip.tv here in the UK and Rip to feature more UK riders in the future."

Great news I say. I often watch Rip, but often feel its a bit too American, so to see more UK riding hitting my comp screen is no bad thing. Watch this space...

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Issue 4

Folks, if you subscribe you'll have the e-mail, so I wont post it all on here.

But get to the lastest issue page and get downloading. Get reading, it'll take a while...Enjoy.

Downtown race in Penarth, near Cardiff!

This weekend is the Downtown race in Penarth, near Cardiff... product of evil genius Dave 'Chopper' Harris.

The great news is it's gonna be streaming live online for anyone who can make it over.... Take a look at the following from 10am on Sunday:

http://streamingportal.multistream.co.uk/downtownrace/webstream.html

It is also being filmed for BBC' Wales for a show in 2 weeks....

The UK race scene f*ckin rules.

Bicycle Film Festival London 17-21 October

The Bicycle Film Festival kicked off today in London after stops in NY, LA, Paris, Chicago, Toronto, Portland, Minneapolis, San Francisco and Vienna. It's on till the 21st and screening some great films including 'Klunkerz' and Santa Cruz bikes 'I Just Work Here'.

Festvial Director Brendt Barbur says...:

"The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycle. We are into all styles of bikes and biking. If you can name it-Tall Bike Jousting, Track Bikes, BMX, Alleycats, Critical Mass, Bike Polo, Cycling to Recumbents- we've probably either ridden or screened it. What better way to celebrate these lifestyles than through art, film, music and performance? We bring together all aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport us in many ways. Ultimately the Fest is about having a good time.

We have been fortunate enough to include works of established artists such as Jorgen Leth, Mike Mills, Jonas Mekas, Blonde Redhead, Swoon and Michel Gondry among others as part of our programming. Many of the artists who have participated in the Bike Film Fest such as Nick Golebiewski, the Neistat Brothers and Lucas Brunelle are gaining more and more re-cognition for their work. Sign up for the email list or just come out and enjoy our 7th Annual Bicycle Film Festival."

Check out their website here

Cycle 2007- Earls Court LDN

Just settling back into normality after 3 days at 'Cycle' in London - a massive orgy of bikes and clobber. I spent Friday mooching round with camera and press-pass then Saturday and Sunday touting on a stand to the masses.

Was a bloody good but bloody tiring weekend and i'm now thoroughly overdosed on bike parts. Not looking forward to trying to make sense of a mountain of photos and business cards for a proper write-up!

Sadly there wasn't too much new or exciting stuff but after a bit of a dig around a few gems popped out. I'll go in to 'em in more detail in WO5 and pop some photos up on Facebook but a few highlights were.... Hope's CNC'd and Carbon 24" kids bike, pink calipers and flowery disks. SE's 24 year old race bike (NEVER ridden!). The Intense M6 and SS. Charge's top notch stand, seeing Hans 'NO WAY' Ray... Loads of stuff actually.

Two companies that really stood out were Diamondback and Riding High UK, both of which seemed genuinely interested to chat about their bikes and really happy to be at the show. Diamondback team rider Lex was zipping about all weekend with his new signature street bike and product manager Mike was keeping a VERY close eye on the Sabbath gear-box bike.

Over at Riding High the guys were showing off loads of tarty Spank product, Bergamont (including another Gear-box ride) and some rare as white dog shit Canfields. Again, they were really keen and had a couple of their team riders on hand to talk about actually riding bikes rather than just selling them.

All good stuff anyway. I'll post again when my gig of images are online. If you fancy a look at something a bit more in-depth check out Jim's repo at http://www.ftmb.net/

Klunkerz

Word up from Billy Savage about his new film called "Klunkerz"; a history of mountain biking. Some footage going back in time to when some of you were wrapped in pampers and a true one-man project from the man himself. After release at Interbike in Las Vegas on September 27th, "KLUNKERZ" announced the sale of the film to VAS Entertainment for world-wide distribution.

At interbike some of the guys came out lend their support, sign a few autographs, and meet their fans. I can't thank these folks enough for all of their continued support on the movie. If you every run into these guys, remember to just say 'thanks'. James McLean, Joe Breeze, Tom Ritchey, Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher, Billy, Donnie Koski, Mike Sinyard
InterBike 2007 Shimano booth 'Klunkerz' autograph signing.

Photo: Gary Newkirk
Check out www.klunkerz.com for more info and watch this space for a review soon...

FINAL NPS at Innerleithen, GET TO IT!

In addition to the reminder below from the boys at npsdh.com ...JUST YET ANOTHER REMINDER that THIS weekend (SAT 13th/SUN 14TH October) is the FINAL round of the 2007 NPS downhill season. Race prizes, season end frolics, free films, hungover magazine editors, the lot!

See you there (looking rough)!

Thanks again to Alan Whitelaw for the EXCLUSIVE flyer. Well, have you seen it anywhere else?!!!!

NPS GRAND FINALE!

Rider - Josh BrycelandPhotographer - Jon Beckett

This weekend is the final round of the successful Chain Reaction Cycles British Downhill Series at Innerleithen near Peebles in the Scottish Borders on Saturday the 13th and Sunday the 14th of October 2007.

The Innerleithen course is great for both spectators and riders offering a unique mixture of high speed sections with large jumps and drops broken up by super steep, tight and technical wooded sections. Throw in plenty of roots, rocks, screaming spectators and some of the Worlds top riders and you are at the best National Series in the World!

Fancy a spot of XC riding? Innerleithen has a killer XC/Enduro loop for you to ride. Stop and rest at several view points and watch the racing unfold before your very eyes. Then head back to the race village and checkout the retail stores and talk suspension tech with the likes of TF Tuned and Mojo.

The Sombrio Film Festival on Saturday evening is free and open to all and will be showing the U.K Premier of "Make it Happen". Bring your own chair and a beer and sit down and enjoy!

Refreshments will be on hand with our caterer continuing their Themed Nights, this week it’s "Chinese" so bring your chop sticks.

Fenwick’s the bike cleaner people will be running a bike wash with free use of their jet washes and cleaner and we will have our fully trained Park Tool Mechanic looking after your ride, all free of charge!

Hang around for the Podium and shout and scream to receive some signed goodies from the top riders. Then see the top 5 in each category receive customised trophies from Hope Technology.

Schedule:

Saturday 09:00 - 17:00 Open Practise 18:15 Riders meeting 19:00 Sombrio Film Festival Sunday09:00 - 12:30 Practise1 3:00 - 16:00 Racing 16:30 Podium

What more do you need to know? Parking and spectating is FREE!

Many thanks again to our title sponsors: Chain Reaction Cycles and our co-sponsors: Loctite - Offering a track day for 4 riders in their Formula 3 BMW’s. Fenwick’s - Making your ride sparkle. TF Tuned - £200 to the rider winning their category by the biggest margin.Ancillotti UK - £100 to the fastest rider of the day. MFX Air Art - Offering 4 custom helmet spray jobs. Action Cameras - Awarding hands free waterproof cameras. Shimano - Providing course tape.Parktool - Tool ChestBalfa - Danger Boy products. Ticket2RideBC.com - Holiday for two in Whistler!

We look forward to seeing you all trackside. Steve Parr and Si Paton.SPS Events.

Pump Urban Wear News

Some news from our friends at Pump Urban Wear... They've got a sale, green fingers and some good things happening on the high street.

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Fat Face Edinburgh Urban Downtown race

Headed into Edinburgh (very hungover) yesterday for the worlds first ever night time downhill race. Awesome is the word!

Fearingout Race Team rider Ste Larking was on fire in the HT category, a baw hair off of 1st in his seeding run. What would have been like with two brakes?! An awesome field of about 300 competitors meant 3 runs and a seeding run squeezed in during daylight, followed by the race run in the dark gave an action packed day.

I camped at the bottom of the hill catching the final section of steps, the tricky fast right berm and car jump at the finish straight. Seeing some of the guys manual and double the bottom section of steps made me glad i wasn't racing, nevermind the crashes!

More coverage soon on wideopen and I'm sure Ste will post soon too. I only got decent pics from daylight, but more soon from our contacts...!

From memory Pager won Masters, Rachel won womens, Gump won Junior and Gee pipped Stanbridge in the elite. Ste came a very good 4th in the HT, if only he'd had 2 brakes!

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NPS finale

Check it out Race Fans. This weekend you can catch the first ever night race in Edinburgh. I know I will be. Crate of beer in one hand and a torch in the other!

The race season is hitting finale time, with downtown races, post season celebrations...but hold your breath...the NPS aint over til the fat lady sings. Who is the fat lady? Answers on a postcard to...haha.

Seriously, check out this exclusive suave flyer from Alan Whitelaw at npsdh.com. Cheers to Alan for that (and well done on his first cover shot!). The rearranged round on the 14th October is back where it all began, Innerleithen. It's sure to be a season end highlight, I'll be there with a different crate of beer and maybe no torch.

See you all there. 2 weekends of top racing, get in!

New designs from Twoand8

I met Twoand8's front man Adi a few months ago when I moved to Bristol. Everytime I've bumped into him riding BMX on the mean streets of Brizzle I'ved asked how Twoand8 is doing and what he's got in the pipe line. Everytime he tells me things are pretty quiet but new designs are gonna blow any second...

Well....Great news, the wait is over and fresh Twoand8 product is here!

Check out the designs below and visit http://www.twoand8bmx.com/ to support a truly pedigree UK clothing company.

2008 ODI Grips - First Look

Hot off the email from Matt at Ison are sneek pics of the latest ODI grips for 2008. They were only unvelied at Interbike in Vegas so are fresh as you like!



New Additions are:
Ruffian Lock-On Kits in Ltd Ed Gold.Ruffian Lock-On Kits in Ltd Ed White.
Rogue Lock-On Kits in Brown.
X-Trainer Lock-On Kits in Brown.
Longneck ST's in Gold.
Longneck ST's in White.
Subliminal BMX grips in Purple.
"O" BMX Grips in Purple.
Brand New Tangent BMX Lock-On Kits in Black -
Super slim lock-on BMX racegrips.
New Alu End Plugs in Various Colours.

They should all be available before Christmas. Click the image to check 'em out in a shady montage style!

ODI Grips online