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Video: X Jam 2018 – Manipur, India

Vinay Menon

The most energetic and high voltage three days of action sports and music festival featuring BMX stunts by Chokbikes Thailand, MTB, Skateboard, Street bike stunts and breaking (B-Boying), design to help, grow and unify youth culture in Manipur. X-Jam was all about creating a lively atmosphere with positive people! Here’s some of the BMX action that went down! The X-Jam 2018 was organized by the passionate team of Manipur Extreme Sports, from October 26th to 28th, 2018 at HVS Compound, Patsoi (Imphal West), Manipur.  

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15th Indian National MTB Championship 2018 | XC – Time Trials

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The 15th National Mountain Bike Championship 2018 conducted by the Cycling Federation of India saw a refreshing new course for the Cross Country discipline, with tech climbs and steep singletrack descents. Not the usual XC course you’d see at the Indian Nationals, the 2018 trail was demanding as well as rewarding, with it’s flow and gradients, said some of the racers. The Giant Starkenn team did an excellent job of putting together a challenging XC track, which surely filtered on the best XC racers of the country, in the Time Trials-leg…

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Video: Course Preview – 15th Indian National MTB Championship 2018 | XC

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The 15th Indian National MTB Championship 2018 is coming up in Pune, Maharashtra from 26 to 28 of October. The XC course is about  3.7kms in length and will include multiple laps of this track based on the categories. Here’s Himachal Pradesh’s Shiven (XCO – Elite Men) spinning you through a course preview.  It’s a great track for National Championships, with steep climbs and a lot of single tracks. – Shiven .

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Video: Red Bull Pump Track World Championship 2018 – Final Highlights

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.  The world’s best 67 riders from BMX and MTB took to the Velosolutions Pump Track at the Jones Center, Arkansas, to battle it out for the first ever Red Bull Pump Track World Championship Title. Despite the rain, thousands of spectators lined the track as the riders progressed from timed qualifying to battle it out side by side in the knock out heats. Early favourites in the men’s field, Tommy Zula and Adrien Loron would have to settle for top 16 positions but the women’s field would be…

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Video: Best Of Red Bull Rampage from 2001 to 2017

Vinay Menon

. Mountain biking’s wildest competition is ready to open its doors to the world’s best freeriders on an all-new course in Utah. Watch the best moments of Red Bull Rampage from the beginnings until last year’s epic edition. The date has been set for the 2018 edition of the biggest show in freeride mountain biking: Red Bull Rampage returns to the Virgin, Utah, desert on October 26, 2018. This event will see 21 of the world’s greatest freeriders transforming the unforgiving terrain of southern Utah into descending lines of form…

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North Quest Challenge Ladakh 2018

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The 2nd ‘North Quest Ladakh – Challenge 2018’ wrapped up last week, in the beautiful city of Leh. Boasting of about 250 mountain bike (MTB) riders participating this year, it is the highest accredited MTB race. While talking to the media, Harkirat Singh, who is one of the organizers at the race said,” This is the highest accredited MTB race in the world. This race is accredited by Cycling Federation of India (CFI). Since the last event, we have seen a huge influx of new riders, new clubs coming up.…

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Trans-Cascadia is Back!

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Trans-Cascadia racers will arrive at their first basecamp in the depths of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest tomorrow. For the first time, the 4-day blind-format enduro race will take place in Washington state, utilizing 45 miles of reclaimed trails that are the direct result of years of planning and thousands of hours of labor.  The field of racers is deep this year and those following – and attending – can look forward to some tight battles and great stories to come out of it. Back this year in our…

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Video: Revolutionary Jam at Wall Ride Park, Hyderabad – BMX

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The Revolutionary Jam was one kick butt gathering at the WallRide Park in Hyderabad earlier this April. Good times, good vibes! Here’s some randomness that floated over the weekend… Video: Kimaya Morye   Video: Eika – Omair Quadri

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Video: Red Bull Pump Track World Championship 2018 | India Qualifier

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The WallRide Park in Hyderabad, India was the location for the 4th stop of the Red Bull Pump Track World Championship where India’s best battled it out on the Velosolutions Asphalt Pump Track for their place at the World Championship final later this year.  The WallRide Park in Hyderabad hosted India’s first ever asphalt pump track, built in 2017 as a part of the city’s efforts to support the growing interest in cycling amongst the local community. One year on since its opening, the Velosolutions Pump Track welcomed riders…

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Video: 16th Red Bull Valparaiso Cerro Abajo 2018

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With courses cobbled together from residential hillsides, riders are forced to hunt for seconds off the clock amidst the rooftops and stairways of everyday life. Red Bull Valparaíso Cerro Abajo is the most well-established and infamous race in urban DH. Checkout the 2018 full race coverage.  RESULTS Tomas Slavik 2:42.101 Matt Walker 2:42.643 Matias Nuñez 2:44.504 Marcelo Gutierrez 2:45.582 Johannes Fischbach 2:45.764 Bernard Kerr 2:46.567 Pedro Ferreira 2:48.395 Brook Macdonald 2:48.947 Alberto Nicolas 2:50.041 Felipe Agurto 2:50.882

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