sspomer's Stories

Happy New Year Ayr Academy Fans! We hope 2012 is treating you well and you’re getting your mountain fix at the area ski resorts. We’ve been quite busy this off-season planning for another spectacular bike season and hope you are all stoked ... more »

USAC just dropped the 2012 Pro GRT Schedule... April 26-29  NW Cup — Port Angeles, WA May 20        Eastern States Cup – Mountain Creek — Mountain Creek, NJ May 27        ... more »

Round #3 of the Fontana Winter Series is in the books, and it was our most successful event to date! Our entire team was in attendance, including our coach Aaron Gwin. The team is really starting to gel, and the results are showing! Saturday's ... more »

This past weekend the urban downhill circuit in South America held the Urbano Santos in Brazil. Though the course was short (about a minute long), it was extremely intense with over 400 stairs and plenty of spectators waving their hands as riders flew

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Spank Industries Supports UK Dirt Scene Spank Industries and Dirt Wars UK have just announced Spank’s title sponsorship of the Series for 2012! Already widely regarded as the premier Dirt Jump series in the UK, Dirt Wars got its start just two seasons ... more »

Vital MTB is looking for the web's best to join our paid, part-time news blogging crew. Are you glued to your computer to see the newest videos, read the latest team news and spy the coolest product photos? Then you may be the perfect new cog for our

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Join the Athertons and moto racers for an autograph signing session at ONE Industries. We invite our friends to come join us and celebrate our 15th Anniversary here at the ONE U.S. headquarters in beautiful San Diego! This event is open to the public from 2-4pm Friday Feb 10th prior to

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The season is upon us and all contracts are signed. Therefore the organisers are proud to announce this year’s supporters of the iXS Downhill Cup, as they deserve publicity for their support of Downhill mountain biking.   First on the ... more »

Team Manager, Gery Peyer is happy to announce the SC-Intense rider and sponsor line up for the 2012 season. We welcome back the following riders:  Florent Payet, La Reunion Island; Josh Button, Australia; Lars Peyer, Switzerland; Faustin ... more »

Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park is looking forward to another off-the-charts Women’s Weekend event!  What’s Women’s Weekend you ask?  Women’s Weekend is a ‘for women, by women’ skills clinic designed for riders of all ability. 

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by Evan Powell Ever since the Whistler premiere of ‘From the Inside Out’ last October, I’ve been riding and evaluating the 2012 Scott Voltage FR 20.

The bike is geared toward the entry to mid-level gravity rider. Scott says it’s a freeride ... more »

DH World Champ Danny Hart and XC Olympian Liam Killeen joined by global crew with diverse talents 2012 Giant Factory Off-Road Team Josh Carlson (Aus), XC, Enduro Carl Decker (USA), XC, Marathon, Enduro Kelli Emmett (USA), XC, Marathon, Enduro Danny Hart

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This year’s iXS European Downhill Cup season opens in the Swiss Rivera at Monte Tamaro. The kick off the European Series will be celebrated, especially as the downhill race is the first one to be run in the Hors category.

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Laguna Beach, CA, January 30, 2012 – Weʼve officially reached the halfway point as we move towards our goal of raising $50,000 for Wheels 4 Life! After the auction of the Mojo SL for $3,660 (estimated retail of $6,700), weʼve raised $25,937, ... more »

Vital's go-to photo shredder, Sven Martin is donating two photographs to help out with the Greg Watts injury fundraiser. Here's what he had to say... I'm donating two one-off, signed 12"x18" archival-quality photo prints of Greg Watts doing what he does

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Here’s your chance to win a free season pass to Ray's Indoor Bike Park while letting us know what you think of our parks. We’ve assembled a brief list of questions and we really want to hear your thoughts, ideas and suggestions on how we can continue

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Big House (Rich Houseman) drops this race report from Fontana #2 about his ODI / Trek development team. Aaron Gwin even got in on the action last weekend. -gordo A nice winter storm was exactly what the Fontana, CA course needed this weekend ... more »

You say Dunc, I say Dawg! Duncan Riffle just sent over this info explaining his departure from Giant. Good luck, mang! -gordo As of January 2012 Duncan Riffle and the GIANT Factory Off-Road Race Team will be parting ways. After a successful and exciting

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Red Bull Brazil announced that they recently added Bernardo Cruz to their squad. You may remember Bernardo from his ridiculously sideways performance that earned him a victory at the Vital MTB Whip Off World Champs in Whistler last summer. Well done

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