Backyard pump track: Convince your parents
hey lee. i want to ask u about a pump track. i was thinking about building one in my back yard but i still have to convince the perental units. any advice?
– l’belle
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Yeti-FOX’s Graves wins Willingen 4X
Willingen, Germany (June 3 and 4) – The Yeti-FOX Factory Race Team had its best weekend yet. Jared Graves had a near-flawless 4X, and Justin Leov is regaining his speed after hurting his shoulder in Vigo, Spain.
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Infineon nationals: another perspective
Mark Fitzsimmons, the racing team manager for FOX Racing Shox, offered these comments:
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Controlling mid-air rotation
A reader wants to avoid endos and loop-outs when he jumps his bike. That sounds like a good idea; here’s how.
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Local moto adventures
We have so many amazing trails near Boulder, I have a new mission: Exploration.
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Sea Otter deluge
This was so traumatic, it’s taken me a month to tell the story.
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Hike. Ride. Repeat.
The Fix monkeys and I have been getting strong and ripping [sic] trails.
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Yeti Cycles principals establish Bigfoot Productions, purchase Mountain States Cup
This is a huge deal, and I’ll explore it in detail. In the meantime, here’s the press release.
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Dude, I’m an Escalator!
Last week I got an email:
“We’re shooting a global training video for Shimano. We lost our mountain bike rider/model at the last minute. We need someone Sat AM for an hour to ride up and down the Marshall Mesa climb a few times, make $100, and be the It Guy for Shimano. Could you do it, or do you know someone who can?”
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Yeti-FOX’s Graves and Leov storm Fort William World Cup
Fort William, Scotland (May 27 and 28) – The weather might have been nasty, but the Yeti-FOX Racing Factory Team found the riding quite tasty.
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MSC #1: Madness in Angel Fire, NM
The first Mountain States Cup was sick, sick sick! Great courses, nice weather, all the characters, yadda yadda yadda.
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Connecting the dots
In a former life I was a newspaper infographics artist. When a plane crashed, I drew the inside of the engine and highlighted the whatchamacallit that failed. On hindsight, it was a cool job, but at the time I was too anguished that I wasn’t a full time bike rider/writer. When I won a Pulitzer in 1998 I didn’t give a damn. I needed to win an expert DH national.
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