Read Part 2 of Nate Hoch’s trip to New Zealand, complete with tom foolery, XR200’s, and Subaru rallying!

Fluidride Team rider Nathan Hoch spent this winter in New Zealand riding bikes and exploring the country. After three months, he’s back in town and tells the story (Videos Here).

The first Fluidride Cup in history has gone down as a huge success. We had 235 riders entered in Sunday’s Downhill, and 41 racers entered in Saturday’s Slalom. There were 15 pros, 14 Semi Pros, and 3 Pro women in attendance. We handed out over 50 temporary licenses to first time racers, and 47 annual [...]

If you haven’t picked up a copy of the May 2008 issue of Bike magazine, go out an buy one. The special 15th anniversary issue is packed with great reading, and of course, great pictures. Editor Lou Mazzante’s article “Thirty Years to Whistler” chronicles some of the areas and people who have helped bring the [...]

After 5 stages and over 42 hours in the saddle, Fluidride Rider Anka Martin is sitting in an impressive 15th place in the Women’s division of the Cape Epic. Anka has worked tirelessly to get the required fitness to complete this grueling event. We wish her the best of luck in the final stages. Good [...]

It’s been a few years since I’ve ventured into Capitol Forest, and I have to say my most recent visit left me wondering why it had taken so long to get myself back to this magical playground of endless singletrack. Since my last visit, the Friends of Capitol Forest have been hard at work creating [...]

Looks like we missed a great race in Chile this year with the running of the fifth
annual Valparaiso Cerro Abajo (VCA) race. Congrats to Chilean ripper Antonio
Leiva on his fourth VCA win in five years:

We went on the most beautiful xc ride on Sunday with a local crew of friends. We set of to Grabouw in the dark, to have an early start, because it was supposed to be another real scorcher of a day. It was like a kid in a candy store, because I have been wanting [...]

So, with 23 days to go, I decided to enter a mountain bike race to see how my training has been going. There were 3500 entrants, and it was on a beautiful wine farm Boschendal, where you are not usually allowed to ride. It was 55km long, and because I was not seeded, I [...]

“” The King Took Back His Crown””
Hi everybody I´m Javier Araya, writting from Chile and i´ll write a few words about the biggest race of the year in Chile.
That big race has been placed in Valparaiso since 2003 and it´s the biggest downhill event in the country in terms of crowd and “glamour”. Riders [...]