Giba Gorge MTB Park situated 20 minutes out of Durban below Marionhill Toll Plaza, celebrated their Birthday over the weekend. The day started off around 7am with a buzz of riders arriving to take part in the XC event held at Giba, as well as bring along family and friends to enjoy what the park had to offer. The weather couldnt have been any better with the sun out South African style. Morewood were there to display their bikes as well as show off the all new Marathon and XC Hardtail. There was huge buzz around the Marathon and Hardtail and Morewood Bikes were the … Read More »

Team Kenda Morewood had a spectacular weekend as Mitch Delfs takes 9th place at the 5th World Cup round of the season, in Maribor, Slovenia. Mitch Delfs was looking fast all weekend on the frighteningly fast track in Slovenia. Filled with an enormous amount of roots and natural doubles, and made slick by torrential rains on Saturday, Delfs smashed thought the rocks of the infamous rock garden, barely keeping to together.

Mitch Delfs, Kenda Morewood Team Rider:
“My run was blistering up top. My Kenda Morewood was hookin’ up all the way until I got a bit tired. I got … Read More »

There have been significant changes from this year to the World Cup. The opening round in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa has been dropped, and instead the season will open in Dalby Forest, Great Britain for a cross country only event. Dalby Forest is a completely new venue in the northeast (the nearest major city is York). From there it goes back to Houffalize (XC and 4X) and then the downhill begins in Maribor, Slovenia (DH and 4X), followed by Offenburg, Germany for an XC.

The cross-country takes a break for a while, with gravity events in Fort William (Scotland) and Schladming (Austria) … Read More »

After some disappointing results and a series of injuries that didn’t allow Nathan Rennie to achieve results that were up to his caliber, Kenda Morewood Team Management together with Nathan Rennie decided that the best solution for the actual situation will be taking a break from racing, going back to Australia to recover from injuries and concentrate on training for World Championships on Nathan Rennie’s home track in Canberra, Australia.

Nathan Rennie, who finished the overall 2008 World Cup on 7th placed had a knee surgery at the end of 2008. The surgery should allow Nathan to ride his bike pain-free. … Read More »

Fort William, Scotland was home to yet another World Cup this past weekend. The world’s best decended upon Aonach Mor to brave the cold and the midges and battle for the win on a legendary downhill track and one of the series long standing venues. The sun stayed out for most of the race weekend, allowing riders to let it all hang out as they smashed their way though huge braking bumps and a new woods section that caught many riders off guard in practice. Deep loam and newly exposed roots turned the largely off camber section … Read More »

‘The Morewood rolled into the office at the tail end of last year, one of the first production versions, put together by one of the team of engineers down at BOS suspension in Toulouse. Since that time it has been in constant use, most certainly not one of the bikes that gets buried in a corner of the office’.
Frame
“It’s correct from the outset.”
In terms of geometry it’s a very straightforward bike, but don’t for a second think that each millimetre and degree has not been agonised over.

These angles are deliberate and certainly not the work of a guesser. This … Read More »