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LAMA CYCLES – 2010 PRESS RELEASE

2010 Lama Cycles Racing Team

Lama Cycles, the Canadian distributor for NS Bikes, Morewood Bikes, Industry Nine, Kali Protective and Straitline Components is proud to announce its official DH team for 2010. For a fourth year in a row, the Lama Cycles team will take part in the Quebec Cup events, the Canada Cup events, BC cup events and will also be attending the two North American World Cups. Throughout the 2010 season, the team will be training for these events on their Morewood Makulu Bikes at the local DH hill, skibromont.com.
The team’s main goal is to offer the … Read More »

MOREWOOD UNITED 2010 TEAM

Florent Payet and Fabien Cousinie make up the Morewood United team for the 2010 season…

This presentation is already a first victory for the 2010 season. It was a long way and It took a lot of phone calls, mails, hours and hours of work to put all the pieces together.

With the … Read More »

KZN GREG MINNAAR DH PROV#3 – CASCADES

Round 3 of the GM KZN Series took part at the Cascades track in PMB. The course was short fast and dry resulting in quick times and close finishes. There was a strong Morewood presence at the event as we had Morewood United Team rider Florent Payet #62 out from France, Morewood Design Engineer Fabien Lemasson #59, Sales and Marketing Manager Kyle Gifford #10 and Fox/Morewood Rider Travis Browning #4 all taking part, flying the flag. Patrick Morewood and Richard Carter of Morewood Bikes were there as well sipping down some cold ones and making noise. It was a great day with … Read More »

KZN GREG MINNAAR DH PROV#2 – WORLDS VIEW

Round 2 of the regional series went down at the Worlds View track this last weekend…

Slightly better weather on the same track that everyone raced on 2 weeks ago. Greg Minnaar raced again, Tim Bentley was fast, Motocrosser Justin Cope is adapting real quick but most impressive was Tiaan Odendaals 3rd overall less than 4 seconds off the winners (Minnaar) time. A real low key kind of guy but very fast. Fox/Morewood rider Travis Browning making a comeback after slaming his hand and breaking his knuckle a few weeks ago. Good to see him back on it. All and all … Read More »

Fresh News From The Megavalanche Réunion Race

Morewood rider Fabien Cousinie took part in the Megavalanche Reunion Race recently and this is what he had to say:

Hi guys

Here is some fresh news from the Réunion Island Megavalanche race.
For the last race of the season i finished 5th on the podium. “the machine ” Wildhaber won the race and some Enduro specialist and XC guys were in front of me.
I’m pretty glad because the race was so hard technicaly and physicaly and everybody was using enduro bikes 6inch travel and i used my makulu with a single pivot fork… not really my first choice but at the … Read More »

CAPE PIONEER TREK – ROAN EXELBY

When I saw the images of the route on the CPT website , it was too much to resist. Sure, according to traditional periodisation and old school training regimen, you should be resting at this time of year… but this year has been a bit different for me. And sometimes you just have to follow your heart ! Besides – we do it for the love of biking man ! Who can resist riding in such splendour !??

I rode with Donovan “Powerhouse” Jackson. If you were born anytime in the 70’s or earlier, you will recall a clothing brand with … 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 »

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 »

BUKIT CERMIN DOWNHILL CHALLENGE – KUALA LUMPUR

AG Suspansions Clive Ackerman gives us some feedback as to whats happening in Malaysian DH:

Race events in Malaysia have been rather few and far between this year, for a number of reasons, but the 4th installment of the Bukit Cermin Downhill Challenge has fast become a much anticipated event on the racing calendar in South East Asia. With a rider participation topping 160 racers from Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia, this was going to be a good one.
The track has undergone some changes in the last few weeks that have made it faster and more exciting. Word of the changes were … Read More »

NATHAN & MITCH SELECTED FOR WORLD CHAMPS

Kenda/Morewood riders Nathan Rennie and Mitch Delfs have been selected to represent Australia at the upcoming world champs. Both riders will be riding in the Downhill (DHI) / Elite Men class.

Riders representing Australia:
Bryn Atkinson (Wentworth Falls, NSW 09/12/1982)
Mitchell Delfs (Gracetown, WA 25/07/1989)
Jared Graves (Toowoomba, QLD 16/12/1982) (Oceania Champion)
Michael Hannah (Yorkys Knob, QLD 21/11/1983)
Samuel Hill (Glenn Forest, WA 21/07/1985)
Chris Kovarik (Deception Bay, QLD 01/03/1978)
Jared Rando (Ainslie, ACT 22/06/1981)
Nathan Rennie (Northbridge, QLD 06/06/1963)

From everyone here at Morewood, we wish Nathan and Mitch all the best leading up to and at the World Champs