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Q & A WITH MITCH DELFS - CLICT MAGAZINE

Kenda/Morewood rider Mitch Delfs was recently interviewed by Click Magazine…This is what was said:

WA Boy Mitch Delfs has an unmistakable flow on a bike. Sam Hill is on a record saying that Delf’s cornering skills are some of the best in the business and prior results have led him to a spot on a world cup team alongside the likes of Rennie. With injury setbacks sending Rennie home early, Delfs has not disappointed, with some great results throughout the World Cup season so far. We caught up with him just after Bromont World Cup as he headed down to Whistler … Read More »

WORLD CHAMPS - CANBERRA AUSTRALIA

The weekend was wrapped up with Peaty taking Gold. The course was super rocky and filled with buck jumps with lines continuously changing as practice wore on.
After taking a bit of time off to prepare, Nathan came into World Champs having put in a considerable amount of training looking strong and focussed, which paid off in the end. Having a little off during practice, Rennie ended up with eight stiches in his hand and having to do a bit of iceing a few days before race day, but this didnt stop him from pulling in a top 10 result. The … Read More »

Morewood Kalula @ Eurobike

The third new offering from Morewood for 2010 is the much anticipated Kalula, based on the success of the Makulu, Morewood’s premier downhill race machine, the Kalula has an adjusted leverage progression ramping up through the last part of the stroke making the bike more suited to its shorter 7″ of travel. Still using a low leverage design the frame will be available in three sizes; a first for Morewood on the gravity side of things who usually only offer small medium and medium large. Word from Mr Morewood himself is that this is to allow for smaller riders to … Read More »

Morewood Kwela and Zula @ Eurobike

So day one of Eurobike is in the bag, everyone has now moved their focus from the Oudtoor “demo” to the main event where all of the bright lights, neon signs and fancy displays are had. Over at the Morewood booth its work [read fun] and business [read play] as usual with the Sports Nut crew serving cold beer and hot, strong coffee to clients while they give them the run-down on the Morewood product line-up for 2010. First up its the two newbees, meet the Zula and Kwela:

WORLD CHAMPS UPDATE

With one half of Morewood at Eurobike and the other half at the World Champs in Auz its certainly been a bust week, thankfully due to the time difference the news is coming in during different times of the day making it a little more manageable from a workload point of view to keep a news streams coming.

Pat is across in Canberra Australia for the World Championships taking place this weekend in order to offer additional support to Morewood’s World Cup riders Nathan Rennie and Mitch Delfs, both riding in the Elite Men’s Downhill category for Australia. With custom painted … Read More »

EUROBIKE DAY 1

Well Eurobike has officially kicked off for 2009, the Morewood team is a little split up this year with Eurobike and World Champs on the same weekend, Pat [Mr Morewood] is in Australia supporting Nathan Rennie and Mitch Delfs [more to come on that later] while Richard Carter is playing Mr Nice guy with the Euro’s showing off some of the latest Morewood product.

There is not too much excitement expected this year from international brands as far as new products and releases are concerned, aside from the SRAM XX group which for most is old news by now there is … Read More »