DH positive(DH+)© by Alessio Toninelli
First race of the year: Parnitha gravity cup - 25 apr 2012
I decided to race with the Meta because was a trail with a lot of pedalling and mostly on flat a part from the first 500m where there was a wall drop.
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The bike was awesome, reactive and fast, good in the drop, in the jumps and amazing in the turns.
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I had a very good seeding run with the 6th position behind some of the best Greek racers. I knew from my practice timed runs that I had more ti give and one of the top three position was the target for the final.
Too bad I pushed too much and I had a big crash on an high speed turn ending face in the dust, at list I fully tested the IXS protections VERY GOOD :).
Well like somebody told me...this is racing.
Next time it will be better.
The Meta proved to be a bike for doing all and I loved it , bit I can't race to have a race "big enough" for the Supreme V3 DH.
Special thanks to the organizers, the race was very well organized and everything on schedule, even with more than 150 riders, a big number for a Greek race, WELL DONE!
Thank you to Arteliz Photographer for the good job and we wait for you at more events!
CHEERS!!!
2 Petalia Dromos ! finally on AIR this Sunday
I will be at the first race of the year! but for all of you( in Greece) ! ER3 at 3pm Sunday24th! is easy to remember!
South Africa Downhill World Cup 2012 practice
Crazy crash from Brook MacDonalds , is just fine and Sunday is going to race!
VCA 2012 - CHILE urban downhill legendary race!
Here the best videos from VCA valparaiso cerro abajo 2012 race!! enjoy!
THE BIKES : Commencal V3 & Commencal Meta AM
First look on the 2012 rides:
Commencal V3
racing specs with Fulcrum RED FIRE wheel set.
all the bikes are equipped with FORMULA brakes and MAXXIS tires !
IXS gravity will keep me safe with style!
For now I tested just the Slope Evo ultralight knee pads and they are awesome !!!
looking forward for the rest !
looking forward for the rest !
Open publication - Free publishing
Were we come: Commencal !!!
Big news are coming for 2012!
Has being 2 year of amazing collaboration with Trek/Cyclist.gr, we traveled around Greece and not only, organized meeting and rides. We infected a bit of more people with the DH+ virus, but nothing is for ever and every good thing has to come to an end. THANK YOU Cyclist.gr !
From 2012 I will be riding and racing on Commencal bikes :V3 for Downhill and Meta AM for Enduro ( all equiped with Formula brakes and Maxxis tires).
I had the chance to test them and I have being very impressed from the geometry of the bikes and from how easy they are. You can ride them fast with a big smile on your face since the first time!
The program for 2012 is going to be really full:
- 3 Superenduro races in Italy
- 3 IXS downhill cup around Europe ( Austria, Italy and France)
- and of course all the Greek downhill and Enduro races.
The MomentuM mtb academy it will be an other important aspect for the twenty12 with a full program of 20 lessons and a trip out of Greece ( stay tuned here for news)
I'm really excited to start this new adventure and I can't wait to post some nice photos of the new rides and some nice GoPro videos!
see you soon!!!
Alessio
@dirfys mountain for "2petaliadromos" tv show
thanks to all the guys of 2 Petalia Dromo we had two amazing days! Even if it was very hot and I got sic by the heat it was worth !!!
MomentuM mtb academy Downhill lesson (2.Oct.2011)
We spent our day in Parnitha near Athens improving Drops and high speed Berms !
All the Guys showed a lot of improvement ! WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU!
no more to say, let's roll the photos and don't miss to LIKE us on facebook!
then bigger.....
time to "berm"...
and now.....rock and roll!!!!
here a video made by our student Ste...
All the Guys showed a lot of improvement ! WE ARE REALLY PROUD OF YOU!
no more to say, let's roll the photos and don't miss to LIKE us on facebook!
then bigger.....
time to "berm"...
and now.....rock and roll!!!!
here a video made by our student Ste...
PILA, Italy - IXS European Cup (photos and video)
FIRST THING:
...Find a good box, pack the bike...hope it will arrive in one piece...
Fly to Pisa in Tuscany borrow my mum's city car (fit the Session and the bags inside) and gooo 350 km and... Pila here we come!
........PILA view from the drop..................................................
The race was hard, an other sport compare to Greece ! Very hard full of super Pro from all over the world, not only Europe ( Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...)!
It went ok considering that I raced with a couple of cracked ribs... :S
Yes, unfortunately in the practice run before the qualification I had a massive crash at high speed and went over the bar...
After one hour I decided to ride the qualification anyway even if the doctor was not happy with my decision! ( I was riding with a very good chrono before the crash and I didn't want to waste the all race for this accident.)
I did the qualify so...ready for Sunday race in pain but happy.
Still in pain I raced and catch the two guys in front of me, but I could not pedal or ride hard because of the ribs ( and also the overtaking took me some time...) , so...the time was not good enough for being in the top of my category, just 19th.
At least I taste the pro circuit again and I know that with more training for this level of races I can still do well !
here my helmet cam! (unfortunately only of the middle part of the trail!)
the winner Florent Payet from France
PS: the Pro are Aliens !
thank you to all the sponsors, a special thank you to my fiance Helen for supporting me, Simone "Zaffa" and the guys from the chair lift of Pila for fixing my bike, Michel Angelini for riding with me and all the friends from Italy and Maximum Attach for keeping me smiling (even if with ribs problems was really painfull to smile :P )!
...Find a good box, pack the bike...hope it will arrive in one piece...
Fly to Pisa in Tuscany borrow my mum's city car (fit the Session and the bags inside) and gooo 350 km and... Pila here we come!
........PILA view from the drop..................................................
The race was hard, an other sport compare to Greece ! Very hard full of super Pro from all over the world, not only Europe ( Australia, New Zealand, South Africa...)!
It went ok considering that I raced with a couple of cracked ribs... :S
Yes, unfortunately in the practice run before the qualification I had a massive crash at high speed and went over the bar...
After one hour I decided to ride the qualification anyway even if the doctor was not happy with my decision! ( I was riding with a very good chrono before the crash and I didn't want to waste the all race for this accident.)
I did the qualify so...ready for Sunday race in pain but happy.
Still in pain I raced and catch the two guys in front of me, but I could not pedal or ride hard because of the ribs ( and also the overtaking took me some time...) , so...the time was not good enough for being in the top of my category, just 19th.
At least I taste the pro circuit again and I know that with more training for this level of races I can still do well !
here my helmet cam! (unfortunately only of the middle part of the trail!)
the winner Florent Payet from France
PS: the Pro are Aliens !
thank you to all the sponsors, a special thank you to my fiance Helen for supporting me, Simone "Zaffa" and the guys from the chair lift of Pila for fixing my bike, Michel Angelini for riding with me and all the friends from Italy and Maximum Attach for keeping me smiling (even if with ribs problems was really painfull to smile :P )!
Trek Session 9.9 carbon 2012 first look!
You're looking at Aaron Gwin's Trek Session 9.9 carbon downhill race bike, the very bike that he rode to victory at the Mont Sainte Anne World Cup just two races ago. That race also happened to be the 9.9's coming out, as well as Aaron's first race aboard the new machine, having thrown a leg over it only a short time before heading to the Canadian round of the World Cup. Not a bad debut! While the 9.9 is almost identical to the Trek World Racing aluminum team bikes, it should really be thought of as an entirely different animal from the consumer version, the 2011 Session 88. That isn't solely down to its carbon construction - for about a year and half now the team has been riding a version with a slew of changes, including big changes to both the bike's geometry and suspension layout that greatly effect its performance. Oh, and the new carbon frame happens to be about 800 grams lighter than the 2011 aluminum team frame to boot, with the complete production version of the 9.9 projected to weigh in at around 35 pounds.
Trek Session 9.9 with Aaron Gwin on pinkbike.com
The 2012 Production Session 9.9 in all its glory. While any new downhill bike stirs up the rumors, Trek's new carbon Session took speculation to a new level. Forums were filled with wildly different details of the new machine, but everyone seemed to agree on one point: it would be made of carbon. Then, at the Mt. Sainte Anne round of the World Cup series, the carbon Trek made its public debut as Gwin rolled out of the pits for his first practice run aboard the new Trek. The internet immediately went into overdrive, with photos of it popping up worldwide on every mountain bike website. At that point, little was known about the new bike, beyond that it was obviously made from carbon and that it would be called the Session 9.9. Pinkbike spent the last four days in the Austrian Alps with Trek, learning about the Session 9.9 and about the technology that Trek used to construct the new chassis. The 9.9's carbon frame includes an impressive range of geometry adjustment - the very same setup the the Trek World Racing team is using - and features a quick-change rate chip that either tunes the suspension to better handle square-edge bumps on a race track and to hug the ground - or to pop better and pedal firmer for pedal-heavy tracks, or sessions in the bike park. The production 9.9 sports Trek-developed proprietary Fox suspension, including a radical Fox Hybrid Air fork that uses an air-assist spring that you'll find only on the 9.9, and a custom shock tune that is currently used by the TWR team.
source Pinkbike
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