4th Win In A Row For Remy Absalon

Killington Resort Hosts The POC Eastern States Cup DH MTB Race Series

Killington Resort, VT is hosting two POC Eastern States Cup Series races in 2012, both races are part of the USA Cycling Vermont State and Eastern Regional Championships. The first event is the POC ESC Series Race #7 being held Saturday and Sunday July 28-29. This weekend’s event will be the second of four Vermont State Championship races. Killington Resort will host the Vermont State Championship finals at POC ESC Race #10 on August 18-19, 2012. Mount Snow, VT will host the other two Vermont ESC Vermont Championship rounds. Men, women and junior mountain bike riders of all abilities are welcome to come and race
 
The race will be contested on a new version of last years ESC race course, it starts at top of Skye Peak and finishes at the K-1 Bse Lodge.The ESC Race Trail has been freshened up with new trail sections added during the last few weeks by the Killington trail crew. The trail crew is led by ESC Racer Jay (Rosey) Rosenbaum and he’s been doing a great job at Killington for a few years. The course consists of a variety of the east coast’s classic terrain including, high speed ski slopes; steep rock faces; open woods with fast turns; technical roots and rock gardens; and more.

If you’re not racing come watch the Mountain Bike racers challenge the course then at 4pm on Saturday, Rusted Root will be taking the stage for a FREE outdoor show as the "Cooler in the Mountains" summer concert series returns to Killington Resort. Grab a lawn chair, a beach blanket, the whole family and head slope side at K-1 Lodge for this family-friendly event produced by the Town of Killington and presented by Long Trail Brewing Company.

Rusted Root was formed in Pittsburgh in the early ‘90s, Rusted Root’s worldly style quickly charmed fans of roots music and world rock. After debuting in 1992 with the self-released album Cruel Sun, Rusted Root signed with Mercury Records and released the 1994 platinum selling breakthrough album When I Woke, which featured the hit songs "Send Me On My Way," "Ecstasy" and "Martyr." Not long after, the band scored on tours with Toad the Wet Sprocket, Santana, The Grateful Dead, Dave Matthews Band, The Allman Brothers Band, HORDE Festival and the landmark Jimmy Page/Robert Plant reunion tour.

Killington’s Bike Park offers the ultimate summer lift-served mountain biking experience. Killington Resort features 45 miles and a 1,700-foot vertical drop spread across five mountain areas, all served by the K-1 Gondola, offering everything from classic cross-country singletrack to challenging big-bike downhill and freeriding trails.Rental bikes and equiptment are available

The Eastern States Cup Series is a USA Cycling Regional Championship Series and features five USA Cycling State Championships through the summer.
 
The K-1 Express Gondola will be closed on Thursday, July 26 due to construction activity at the Peak Lodge. The K-1 Express Gondola will reopen at 10:00 a.m. on Friday, July 27.
 
Saturday, July 28, 2012

• 9:00 a.m-2:00 p.m. Registration, 2nd floor, K-1 Lodge
• 10:00 a.m-4:30 p.m. Racer practice
• 4:00-6:00 p.m. Rusted Root performs at the Cooler in the Mountains Summer Concert Series, Roaring Brook Umbrella Bars & Deck

 
Sunday, July 29, 2012

• 8:00 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Registration, 2nd floor, K-1 Lodge
• 9:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Racer practice
• 11:00 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Race
• 3:00 p.m. Awards

 
2012 EASTERN STATES CUP SCHEDULE

• May 20    Mountain Creek, NJ
• May 27    Plattekill, NY
• June 3     Attitash, NH
• June 10    Pat’s Peak, NH
• June 24    Mount Snow, VT
• July 15    Windham, NY
• July 29    Killington, VT
• Aug 5     Mount Snow, VT
• Aug 12    Plattekill, NY
• Aug 19    Killington, VT
• Sept 2    Plattekill, NY
• Sept 16   Attitash, NH
• Sept 23   Jiminy Peak, MA
• Oct 7      Plattekill, NY

 
Race Entry

• Pro Men & Women $ 75.00
• Categories 1,2 & 3  $ 65.00
• Includes Lift Tickets for Both Saturday and Sunday.

 
Camping - Overnight parking / camping will be allowed in the designated area in the K-1 parking lot Bay 1 (near the race finish area). The site gravel and will have a few portable restrooms. There is no charge.
Hotel Deals - contact Killington Central Reservations: 800-621-MTNS (6867) or email bookit@killington.com
For course map and more information, please visit http://www.killington.com/  or         www./easternstatescup.com/

Former Marzocchi USA Founder To Launch VDO Suspension

The competition in the high-end suspension is about to heat up with the launch of DVO Suspension!

DVO is short for “Developed Suspension” and represents the mindset we have to engineer, design, and deliver fully developed suspension products that are 100%.

30 Years plus industry veteran Bryson Martin owner of Bryson Martin Racing along with Tom Rogers, John Pelino, Josh Baltaxe and Bryson Martin Jr will launch DVO Developed Suspension during the Taiwan Bike Week held in Taichung Taiwan November 2012. We will have a booth at the Splendor Hotel in Taichung during Bike Week.

Bryson and his team were long time Marzocchi employees; they left in May 2012 amid struggles with Tenneco upper management and the direction of the mountain bike suspension business. Bryson Martin was the founder of Marzocchi USA and was the inspiration for the successful Bomber line as well as many other iconic models over the past 23 years.

“After losing our supplier SR Suntour and not having a back up plan, I felt that the future with Marzocchi will be extremely difficult and going my own direction with my own suspension program is the way” said Bryson Martin”.

The new DVO Suspension Team consists of Tom Rogers who is a long time industry veteran and former World Cup racer. Tom worked at Manitou for ten years during their glory days and then nearly ten years at Marzocchi focusing on damper designs. John Pelino was at Marzocchi for 16 years handling operations, after market sales and distribution support. Josh Baltaxe has a graduate degree in Engineering and is a passionate bike rider; he brings the brains and science to all our designs. Bryson Martin Jr is a pro DH racer and business student and will help in tuning, marketing and race support.

Bryson along with his USA based engineering team brings over 80 years of suspension building experiencing and will launch some very cool and innovative suspension products purely focused on the long travel market. “We started with a clean sheet of paper but didn’t look to re-invent the wheel, we addressed some critical areas of current suspension design to enhance performance while making it easier for the consumer to tune or service their own fork if desired”

“We will also launch a very informative web site helping riders better understand the dynamics of suspension in general while providing extensive information on tuning and setting up all of the DVO products”. “Providing detailed and informative information on our web site and backing up our products with excellent customer service and support is key!”

Regarding the competition, it has been a long time since a new company has entered the high-end suspension business of this magnitude, both Rock Shox and Fox the industry leaders have been doing a great job for years. “We feel that the dominance of Fox and Rock Shox has been because there hasn’t been enough good competitors to give them a run for their money and DVO Suspension will be gunning for the top”.

In order to become a player in the suspension business you need to have a solid manufacturing base and SR Suntour the worlds largest suspension maker will install a dedicated production line to assemble the complete line of DVO products (forks and shocks). “SR Suntour is an amazing company with a rich history in the bicycle business, although they are currently known for making low to mid priced suspension, they also produced a lot of great high end products and were once a main player in the early days of mountain bike components” “I’ve worked with SR Suntour for decades, they are passionate about building high end products and have dedicated themselves to making sure DVO Suspension will be a success” says Bryson”. Furthermore, the President of SR Suntour Daisuke Kobayashi rides thousands of kilometers each year, not too many company presidents have the passion like he does for bikes.

For 2013 DVO Suspension will be working with DH Teams and individual riders while heading to as many races and events we can get to and our goal is to support some top World Cup DH Teams in the near future. “We will also work on other market segments within the suspension business and focus purely on the performance aspect” says Bryson.

DVO Suspension is located in Valencia California and is a rider owned company.

2012 VP Components Dirt Club Enduro

The VP DIRT CLUB ENDURO was  a fun ride with friends- going easy on the hills but pinned on fast, fun, descents, with timing and prizes.  Who could ask for anything more?  Watch the video- it tells the story!

We are also in the planning stages of a November event because the riders were so stoked on this event, and of course we are planning for a bigger 2013 event that keeps the successful smooth and mellow vibe of our first event.

Thanks to all of our sponsors: VP Components, Body Armor, X Fusion Shocks, Light and Motion, KHS Bicycles, TRP Brakes, Cane Creek, Kore, T.H.E. Industries, Kenda, Nema Brand Clothing, Decline Magazine, Mountain Khakis, Gamut, SDG, TIME, MRP, Adidas Eyewear, Lazer, SR Suntour, Novatec, Osprey, Clean Bottle, WTB.  Thanks also to Volunteers, Staff, and the Riders.

OPEN MEN RACE RUN DOWN:  

Session 1 was composed of 6 timed runs and saw runs averaging 2:30 with saddle time around 2 hours for 2000 feet of climbing (and descending).  The overall DH flavor made mistakes costly, but there was a big incentive to ride the hardest lines as they could be worth as much as a full minute at the end of the day.  Anthony Medaglia posted the fast time in the opening session of 11:59.2 combined for all 6 runs.  Craig Harvey trailed him by only 4 seconds with former BMX pro Jared Kolich down by only 12 seconds.  

Session 2 was held after a big break of hanging out, live blues, beer, and tri-tip sandwiches.  Once the sun went down, the lights came on and the riders rolled out to tackle two timed sessions.  A big thanks to Light and Motion in the night session who supported the event with free demo lights to anyone who didn’t have lights of their own.  Anthony Medaglia again put the hammer down and did his two runs in 6:30.7 thanks in part to some aggressive line selection in the dark.  Jordan Lopez was second best 13 seconds later with Craig Harvey 18 seconds back.

Session 3 featured the most pedaling with a slight climb that a fit rider could blast over, and also included a few floaters, doubles, a 25 footer, and a long high speed off-camber section of trail.  There were 4 timed stages on the final day and Jordan Lopez got the most power to the rear wheel, hit the jumps, stayed off the brakes, and posted the fastest time in 11:31.3 followed by Medaglia in 11:33.8.  Third position went to John Hauer, 18 seconds in arrears.

Anthony Medaglia turned out to be the best of the bunch with Jordan Lopez and Craig Harvey rounding out the podium in second and third respectively.  Jarrett Kolich and Tom Obrien occupied the spots just off the steps in fourth and fifth.

Results

Place	Name	Team	Class	Bib	Saturday AM	Saturday PM	Sunday	Total
1	Anthony Medaglia	SRAM Factory	Open / Expert Men	6	0:11:59.2	0:06:30.7	0:11:33.8	0:30:03.7
2	Jordan Lopez	SPECIALIZED / Victory Velo Racing	Open / Expert Men	7	0:12:19.7	0:06:43.9	0:11:31.3	0:30:34.9
3	Craig Harvey	Harvey Custom Homes	Open / Expert Men	1	0:12:04.5	0:06:49.2	0:11:58.3	0:30:52.0
4	Jarrett Kolich		Open / Expert Men	4	0:12:11.1	0:07:13.4	0:11:54.9	0:31:19.4
5	Tom O’Brien		Open / Expert Men	8	0:12:25.8	0:07:10.5	0:12:06.9	0:31:43.2
6	John Hauer	X-Fusion	Open / Expert Men	2	0:13:52.4	0:06:39.6	0:11:49.7	0:32:21.7
7	Michael Cody	Best Friends Bike Club	Open / Expert Men	5	0:13:07.8	0:07:12.3	0:12:44.2	0:33:04.3
8	Cedar Kyes	Devinci / X-Fusion	Open / Expert Men	3	0:12:46.4	0:07:28.3	0:13:42.8	0:33:57.5
1	Mary Moncorge	Santa Cruz Bikes / Endura / Kali	Open / Expert Women	30	0:14:10.1	0:07:58.4	0:14:26.2	0:36:34.7
2	Olivia Harkness		Open / Expert Women	31	0:16:37.6	0:20:40.7	0:15:52.9	0:53:11.2
1	Nathan Loyal	Team Helen’s	Expert Men 35+	46	0:14:26.3	0:07:33.8	0:13:57.3	0:35:57.4
1	Christopher Muntz		Sport Men 19-34	43	0:13:36.1	0:07:55.2	0:13:08.3	0:34:39.6
2	Aaron Guerrero		Sport Men 19-34	42	0:14:49.9	0:08:08.2	0:14:14.1	0:37:12.2
3	Patrick Green		Sport Men 19-34	53	0:14:39.7	DNS	0:13:40.0
1	Ted McToldridge		Sport Men 35+	47	0:12:57.3	0:06:53.8	0:12:14.4	0:32:05.5
2	Blake Garnand		Sport Men 35+	54	0:13:02.0	0:07:15.1	0:13:13.9	0:33:31.0
3	Luke Jones	Dirt Club	Sport Men 35+	48	0:15:40.1	0:08:42.0	0:15:27.0	0:39:49.1
4	Gary Lucia	NEMA	Sport Men 35+	45	0:21:35.7	0:09:23.6	0:17:53.3	0:48:52.6
5	Andy Somerville	Team Duke	Sport Men 35+	52	0:17:02.6	DNS	0:15:18.2
6	Mike Tjaden		Sport Men 35+	41	0:15:52.0	DNS	DNS	DNF
1	Joshua LaForge		Beginner Men 19-34	40	0:17:58.0	0:09:25.3	0:16:55.2	0:44:18.5
2	Demar Morris		Beginner Men 19-34	44	0:23:37.5	0:10:23.9	0:20:06.8	0:54:08.2
1	Damion Dasaro	Ten Four Graphics	Beginner Men 35+	49	0:16:59.7	0:08:58.6	0:15:54.6	0:41:52.9
1	Thomas Phelan		Junior Men	50	0:07:21.3	0:08:46.6	0:15:56.2	0:32:04.1
2	Gus Phelan		Junior Men	51	0:07:48.3	0:09:14.4	0:17:44.5	0:34:47.2

2013 Transition Carbon Covert Announced

Transition Bikes unveils the new carbon Covert. See the bike in action as well as some of the new features and design inspiration that went into creating Transition Bikes first carbon bike.

The 2013 Carbon Covert is Transition Bike’s first carbon frame offering. The 160mm travel Covert was the perfect candidate to bring to carbon as it allowed the bike to shed weight, improve strength, add new features, and update the look at the same time. 

“In my mind, this bike really represents the ultimate no holds barred quiver killer. It's really everything I would want in a single do-everything type of bike and we've tried pretty hard to ensure all the right features are there without including things that don't really matter. A big goal of ours with this project was to develop something with very unique lines that you don't often see in bicycle frame design...and we feel we've really accomplished that. This was a long development effort so we're pretty pumped to finally unveil our first carbon frame.” Says Kyle Young, Transition Bikes owner.

Transition Bikes took the essence of the previous Covert but started from the ground up to produce something all new and extremely exciting. For design inspiration they looked outside the bike world towards Italian super cars. The carbon material allowed a no compromise design approach that allowed them to achieve exactly what they envisioned; powerful lines and a unique bold look. The frame uses some exciting new materials and an evolved suspension platform for the best possible performance on the trail.

The 2013 Carbon Covert is the first bike on the market to offer both C.O.C.K. and B.A.L.L.S. technology. The Completely Optimized Carbon Kinetics utilized in production of the carbon structure are an industry first; only available on Transition Bikes. The careful use of C.O.C.K. makes the Carbon Covert one of the strongest frames on the market today. The Basically Aligned Linear Leverage System suspension works with the shock making the suspension incredibly easy to tune; once again, only available on Transition Bikes. Our B.A.L.L.S. are only there to make sure you have fun on the trail. Unlike other suspension systems, our B.A.L.L.S. aren’t overly complicated, it’s just the right suspension technology to keep the ride smooth and predictable.

“When we first met in the lab to develop these new technologies, I didn’t realize just how big they would become. I am proud to see this bike released so everyone can experience the ultimate package.” Says Sam Burkhardt, Transition Bikes product manager. 

Working in conjunction with the B.A.L.L.S. suspension system, the 2013 Carbon Covert features a longer 8.5” x 2.5” custom tuned Fox CTD Adjust rear shock. The longer shock helps contribute to improved suspension performance and easier shock setup for riders of any size. The rear travel has been increased from 150mm to 160mm further expanding the performance in gnarly terrain. For riders looking for ultimate downhill performance, an optional Fox RC4 coil shock is available as well. The B.A.L.L.S. suspension system uses a higher main pivot placement for improved pedaling performance with modern 2x10 and 1x10 drivetrain setups. An all new hardware system, with single allen key tightening, has been developed to keep the pivots tight. While the front triangle features full internal cable routing, including the Reverb Stealth routing for clean looks and integrated performance.

FEATURES

• Carbon Front Triangle with Carbon Seatstay and Alloy Chainstay and Rocker
• 160mm Rear Travel
• 8.5” x 2.5” Fox CTD Adjust Custom Tuned Rear Shock
• Optional Fox RC4 Coil Shock Available
• All Front Triangle Cable Routing is Internal
• Reverb Stealth Seat Post Routing
• New Pivot Hardware System
• 12 x 142mm Dropouts (10 x 135mm Dropouts Sold Separately)
• Press Fit 30 Bottom Bracket Shell
• Frame Weight 6.75 lbs (Including Rear Shock and Rear Axle)
• PRICE: To Be Announced
• C.O.C.K & B.A.L.L.S Technology (Only Available From Transition Bikes)

GEOMETRY 
Head Tube Angle: 66.5 Degree (Fox 36 160mm) / 67 Degree (Fox 34 160mm) 
Chainstay Length: 430mm 
Seatube Length: Sm 563, Md 593, Lg 623mm 
Reach: Sm 378mm, Md 406mm, Lg 431mm 
Wheelbase Length: Sm 1106mm, Md 1137mm, Lg 1169mm 
Bottom Bracket Height: 349 mm

"This is definitely the most exciting bike we have ever done. It took much longer than we anticipated but when doing full suspension carbon you can't rush anything. Seeing carbon bikes being produced in person really makes you appreciate the massive amount of work that goes into each frame. I think there is a misconception that these bikes just pop out of molds and are good to go and that couldn't be further from the truth. Each frame is like a sculpted work of art.” Says Kevin Menard, owner of Transition Bikes. 

The 2013 Carbon Covert will be available in three colors (Lemon Lime Metallic, Stealth Black & Matte White) with multiple build kit options to meet different rider preferences and price points.

• TRANSITION BIKES
• 2641 Delta Ring Rd.
• Ferndale, WA 98248 USA
• (360) 366-4960