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Race favorite Aaron Gwin (USA) saw his hopes of taking the World Title this year come to an end around 1min 20secs into his final race run in Leogang, when inexplicably his front brakes failed, resulting in a crash. Shortly after the crash Aaron pumped the brake to try and get some pressure going but it was insufficient to complete the course safely at speed, and he cruised to the line disappointed he was unable to throw down a full race run. After the brake failure, both brakes were sent to Shimano Japan and were thoroughly evaluated by their engineers, and in Norway the results of their findings were revealed to Aaron and his mechanic Monkey. Testing proto-type products, always to the limit and sometimes to failure, is part of the role of modern day professional downhill teams and riders. The timing couldn’t have been worse, but the feedback and information gleaned was extremely valuable and all part of the process.

The Trek World Racing team dominated the 2011 DH World Cup season thanks to the all round sterling performance of both their XCO and DHI riders’ performance, and subsequently walked away with the team of the year honors. They launched their new team with individual rider video profiles… (more…)

Trek world Racing and 23Degree sports have an exiting new competition for this year’s UCI World cup mountainbike event on 21 – 24 April 2011 in Pietermaritzburg… (more…)

12 February saw round 5 of the NZ Cup on the new course in Nelson, and fresh after his win the week before at Kaka Hill, Justin Leov (Trek World Racing) took his second trip to the top step…

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One of the newest and fastest growing gravity teams on the World Cup circuit has just signed 19 year old Harry Heath for season 2011. The Slovenian gravity UCI MTB team has big ambitions signing Harry Heath of Congleton UK, and the best Slovenian rider Nejc Rutar, plus 3 riders from last season returning for DH and 4X duties… (more…)