2012 Colorado Freeride Festival Slopestyle Results
Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 5:57PM 2012 Colorado Freeride Festival Slopestyle Results
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Killington Resort Hosts The POC Eastern States Cup DH MTB Race Series
Monday, July 23, 2012 at 7:58PM 
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
Sunday, July 22, 2012 at 4:27PM 
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.
