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Matt over at Velo News just wrote up the new 1.X guide and Podium chainrings. Click HERE to view the article.

Here’s another cool video that Knolly just released. We are proud to support such a great team, and people. That new downhill bike looks pretty sweet too….! Great job up there guys!

Check out the latest from MRP sponsored Kirt Voreis and the All Ride Tour. Kirt, Travis and Mikey stopped by last week on their way to Diablo for the US Open. Good luck at the open guys! Here’s the video:

Santa Cruz AllRide Tour 2009 part 1 from Kirt Voreis on Vimeo.

Our good friends at Knolly Bikes in BC have put together a neat little video that features the owner, Noel Buckley and Ryan Berrecloth. These guys are a class act, great bikes and real people. Check it out:

The People of Knolly Part 1 - Large from Knolly Bikes on Vimeo.

Winter time got you down? Matt Hunter doesn’t let it slow him down. He just sent me a little update on what’s been going on in BC. How do you say…..JEALOUS?

I love living in BC. The riding is amazing, the mountains are big and
there is always something to do outside. Unfortunately the winters
are really long and I start to really miss my bike after a while.
Skiing and snowmobiling can fill the void for a while but then
singletrack dreams start to wake me up when February rolls around. So
I came up with a plan. I knew of an area in BC’s interior that has
some really warm days and very little snow. The mighty Fraser river
flows nearby and warms the valley, and the mountain has a perfect
West face that gets a lot of sun. This mountain in particular also
has the largest scree slope I have ever seen. I rode it last year for
a shot filming for Seasons and it was an amazing descent.
Unfortunately the only way to the top is to hike it - and it takes
about three hours, but these are desperate times.
So I called a couple of friends who I knew were also itching to ride
their Demos, we packed up the truck and it was on.
We had to take our bikes apart and tie them to hiking packs, and the
climb took us about 3 hours. The following photos tell the story of
our trip. It was awesome.

on the road. It feels so good to have the bikes in the truck
going riding!

We have arrived. We were really happy to see there is no snow
on the west facing slope, in the background we can see the scree
slope we are there to ride.

Found a sweet antler on the hike up. A good excuse to stop for
a rest.

taking a break, about halfway up. We ascended in the trees to
the North of the scree.

Climbing up, getting pretty close now. I like the snowy
mountains in the background of this shot.

When we started to get onto the top of the slope we were
getting so stoked because we could see the lines we wanted to ride.

shredding the rocks! At times it was really challenging
because the size of the rocks on the slope would change, hitting the
bigger rocks going fast could be sketchy. SOooo fun though. It felt a
lot like skiing powder, because you could pretty much ride anywhere
on the hill.

My Rig. this is how it stayed when I got off!

After riding the slope. We were so stoked! You can kind of see
our tracks in the rocks behind us.

Thanks for reading.
Matty

MRP and Brian Lopes go waaaay back. Why is Brian Lopes so cool? Is it the long list World Championship Titles, National Championships, and countless World Cup victories? No, although his list of accolades is longer than most, it’s his sense of humor we like best. Check out the amazing, death defying (at the very end!) stunt he did for New Years! Thanks Brian, you made my day…..!

April 23-26 is the 2009 Ranchstyle Festival here in Grand Junction. This is an awesome event hosted by one of our local shops, Grassroots Cycles. MRP is sponsoring the Slalom race, and I will be teaching a skills clinic on Friday to help get you ready for the race. It’s going to be a lot of fun. Check out the link below for more info.

Click me for more info!

Wade Simmons, Mark Weir, and Yvaral Villier recently competed with a select group in a unique race in Kenya. Check out the results and pics! www.urgekenya.com

Here in Colorado, it’s snowing, frozen and just not super nice outside. On the plus side, for anyone who enjoys snow sports (I DO!!), we’re having a great snow year again.

We’ll be closed on Christmas Day and the day after to be with our families, and closed again on New Years Day. So shoot us an email if you need to get in touch during those times. info@mrpbike.com

From all of us here at MRP - Happy Holidays! See you in ‘09.

Paul, our master of all things sales just got back from spending 2 weeks in California, where he *says* he visited lots of bike companies, magazines, and shops. But judging by the looks of this story on Mountain Bike Action’s website, he did more riding than anything……BUSTED !