5-8-08 // Online Exclusive: Colin's World Cup Shuttle
So Madrid was in the can. I had 3 weeks to kill in a sun drenched land filled with amazing food and even more amazing wine. So what’d I do? I left.

5-8-08 // News: Hendershot 5th at Dirt Sweat & Gears
Syndicate veteran Mark Hendershot finished 5th at the Dirt Sweat & Gears 12 hour in Fayetteville, Tennessee. DSG, the second in USA Cycling's Ultra Endurance Series, attracted most of the best ultra-racers in the country.

5-7-08 // Events: Next Week Is Bike To Work Week
If you haven't already heard, May is National Bike Month, while Bike-to-Work Week is nest week from May 12-16 and Bike-to-Work Day is on Friday, May 16. With the reality of $4.00 per gallon gas, commuting to work makes more and more economical sense in addition to the ecological and health benefits that it provides.

5-5-08 // News: Kenda Tomac Team Announcement
Keen observers made note of Red Bull athlete Filip Polc racing for Tomac bikes at the Sea Otter Classic last month. A formal team announcement has now been made naming the team Kenda Tomac. Kenda Tomac is an international mountain bike downhill and fourcross team comprised of 2 athletes: Filip Polc (Slovakia) and Mitch Delfs (Australia).

5-5-08 // News: Madrid World Cup XC 2008
Colin Meagher reports from the third stop on the World Cup cross-country circuit this year. The course at Caso de Campo park in Madrid, Spain is challenging, but fun.

5-4-08 // News: Nissan Qashqai Challenge Madrid
The second stop of the Nissan Qashqai Challenge was this past weekend at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, in Madrid, Spain. The course was a dirt jumping line with the added twist of including a North Shore ladder element built into the middle of it for step-up and down maneuvers. It had a long roll in and offered excellent flow with a few banked turns giving the excited spectators a great show.

4-29-08 // Adam Craig's 10 Reasons Offenburg Was Bollocks
Any time a week of racing bikes somewhere kicks ass we (Adam Craig and the Giant racing squad) are going to do a "Ten-Reasons" piece. There’s so much to tell on these perfect weeks that there would be pages and pages for you, the unfortunate reader, to wade through. So we’ll just condense things a bit.

4-29-08 // News: Tara Llanes Benefit Auction
Tara Llanes was badly injured on September 1st, 2007 while racing at the Jeep KOM Finals. At the present time she is paralyzed from the waist down. This auction is being held to help pay some of her ever-growing medical bills.

4-29-08 // News: Jordie Lunn's Jump Jam Under Wraps
Held on a perfect sunny day on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, thirty riders were on hand to compete in Jordie Lunn’s backyard jam, dubbed "Peanut Butter Knife Fight". With nearly three hundred spectators, it was a fun and casual scene.

4-28-08 // News: Offenburg World Cup XC Results
The third World Cup of the 2008 season concluded last weekend in Offenburg, Germany. This was the second cross-country-only World Cup event, after last week's Houffalize competition. T

4-22-08 // News: World Cup XC Houffalize, Belgium
With a rich history and impressive winners’ list that includes names like Thomas Frischknecht, Bart Brentjens and John Tomac, Houffalize has long been considered hallowed ground by cross-country racers. But Absalon, the three-time world champion and defending Olympic champion, had never won in Houffalize until this weekend.

4-21-08 // News: Sea Otter Pro Results Summary
Here's how they finished at the 2008 Sea Otter Classic. Click here for the men's and women's cross country, short track, dual slalom, super D and downhill results.

4-16-08 // Events: Bike Parks BC's Ultimate Road Trip
Bike Parks BC is giving away an epic road-trip vacation to not just one, but four lucky winners. Winners will get to ride with Shaums March at three different BC bike parks in a row.

4-15-08 // Events: Sea Otter Classic This Week
The 18th Annual Sea Otter Classic will be held April 17-20, 2008 at the Laguna Seca raceway in Monterey, California. The four-day event is the largest cycling festival in the US, hosting nearly 10,000 professional and amateur athletes and 50,000 fans.

4-9-08 // Events: NMBS 2 - NOVA National XC
The second round of the 2008 National Mountain Bike Series, The NOVA National event, landed in McDowell Mountain Park, Arizona last weekend.