Sicklines interview about the Legend MkII

Jason from Sicklines interviewed me about the Legend and its development last summer in Whistler whilst he was there testing the bike. He just posted it up as the 2011 season is kicking off!

Check out the article and video here...

Banshee Riders on the Camp of Champs Airbag

Camp of Champions had their airbag set-up in Whistler this weekend. Banshee rider Alan Hepburn was on hand with some tips for the kids & some tricks for the cameras. Thanks to Ken from Camp of Champs for the video.

Adams Anthony

Adams Anthony

No. 95     Chicago Bears
Defensive tackle
Personal information
Date of birth: June 18, 1980 (1980-06-18) (age 30)
Place of birth: Detroit, Michigan
Height: 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)     Weight: 310 lb (141 kg)

Career information
College: Penn State
NFL Draft: 2003 / Round: 2 / Pick: 57
Debuted in 2003 for the San Francisco 49ers

                                       Adams Anthony Mom Kiss

Graeme McDowell

Graeme McDowell

Personal information
Full name : Graeme McDowell
Nickname  : GMac
Born  :  30 July 1979 (1979-07-30) (age 31)
            Portrush, Northern Ireland
Height : 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight     :  168 pounds (76 kg; 12.0 st)
Nationality :  Northern Ireland
Residence  :  Portrush, Northern Ireland

Career
College  :  University of Alabama at Birmingham
Turned professional : 2002
Current tour(s)  :  European Tour
                           PGA Tour
Professional wins : 8

                                      Graeme McDowell With Wife

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Adam Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist

Personal information
Full name :  Adam Craig Gilchrist
Born : 14 November 1971 (1971-11-14) (age 39)
       Bellingen, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname : Gilly, Churchie
Height :  1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Batting :  style Left Hand
Bowling :  style Right-arm off break
Role :  Wicket-keeper-batsman

International information
National side :  Australia
Test debut (cap 381)  :  5 November 1999 v Pakistan
Last Test :  24 January 2008 v India
ODI debut (cap 129) : 25 October 1996 v South Africa
Last ODI :  4 March 2008 v India
ODI shirt no. 18

                                               Adam Gilchrist with wife

                                          Adam-Gilchrist and family

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Personal information
Date of birth :    April 16, 1947 (1947-04-16) (age 64)
Place of birth :  New York City, New York
Listed height :  7 ft 2 in (2.18 m)
Listed weight :  225 lb (102 kg)

Career information
College  :  UCLA
NBA Draft : 1969 / Round: 1 / Pick: 1st overall
Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks
Pro career :  1969–1989

iXS European Downhill Cup #2 - Todtnau

For the first time since 2005, Germany's most prestigious and, as many claim, best downhill track (finally!) Todtnau returned to the international racing scene by hosting the second round of the European Downhill Cup. I wasn't quite sure what to expect of this race. The only races I've been to in the past were some smaller, local races and the iXS Dirtmasters race in Winterberg as well as the Wheels of Speed-Race in Willingen which arguably are two very unique races. And even though I've been to Todtnau several times in the past months - it's got to be my favourite DH track on this side of the Atlantic Ocean -, I was quite nervous on our way down to Todtnau.


Welcome to Todtnau!


My brother Joz and I loaded up the car and took off early Wednesday morning to get a few more practice runs in before the racers from all over the world arrived. The track was in prime condition and was extremely fun to ride as usual. The course starts with a smallish drop leading into a rather technical corner before you hit the first high speed section which is littered with some good-sized jumps and road gaps. This section is followed by the first pedalling bit and a very rooty section. Then you're off into a very high speed, rough section with some berms and jumps before entering a very long and flowy section through the woods which is quite technical in some places and extremely fun to ride. Usually the track ends here but the race organizers decided to add a grassy, off camber-section after leaving the woods, which lead right into a brutal, slightly uphill pedal-fest before crossing the finish line. In total, the track is close to 3km long and very difficult to ride. On the one hand it's very fast and rough in most places but there also are some very exhausting pedalling bits. Therefore one could easily mess up his race run by pedalling too hard and then not being able to control the bike through the technical bits and vice-versa.

Practice on Friday went surprisingly well and trouble-free. The pace was great and we managed to hit some lines that we hadn't even seen before. You could definitely tell that everyone was taking it quite easy since nobody wanted to be too exhausted for their race run come Sunday. After practice was done, we hiked up again to watch the Pros practice on course and we were definitely blown away by some of the riding... definitely very inspirational. We also met Banshee World Cup rider Matej Charvat and talked to him for a while. He was looking great on track and proved to be very nice and easy to get along with off the track.


Prepping the Legends...


Come Saturday, we got up early to get our two mandatory practice runs in. Again, everything was going very well. Our Legends felt right at home in the rough stuff and both Joz and I were really comfortable with the track. We decided to take a closer look at two or three sections to discuss our line choices for our upcoming seeding run but apart from that, everything was quite dialled. After a healthy lunch, we went back up again to do our seeding run. I had a minor little crash in the very first turn which cost me a bit of time and I also decided to walk the uphill bit so I was pleasently surprised to find out that I qualified in 23rd position despite saving a lot of energy. Joz rode very well and qualified in 14th place out of around 65 riders, so both of us were very pleaed with how our seeding runs went.

For some reason though, Sunday simply was one of these days were nothing quite works the way you want it to work. I felt horrible during the morning practice, riding all over the place and not hitting any of my lines. In addition to that, I flatted my rear tire once again and managed to bang up my rear wheel pretty badly so I decided to call it a day and rest until my finals run. Joz was once again feeling great on track and riding very fast yet controlled at the same time, so he was quite confident for his finals run.



Possibly the best berm in the world? / credit: www.traildiaries.de


When I was standing on the start line, I felt surprisingly calm and relaxed, unlike during the morning practice session. Right when I left the start hut, everything was going very well and I was hitting all the lines that I was planning on hitting while riding notably faster than during my qualifier. I also managed to hit some lines that I hadn't attempted before so everything was going great until I went down in what was propably the easiest turn on the entire track. My front tire must have washed out underneath me or something like that - I didn't even have time to react so I went down into the ground with my head first. My visor was broken so I couldn't see anything for the first few seconds and I had to run up the hill to grab my bike. Luckily my helmet and neck brace absorbed most of the impact. I was lucky that I was able to get back on my bike again but obviously I knew that my race run was pretty much over. In the end I was quite surprised to find out that my finals time was just half a second off my qualifier despite the big crash and consequently keeping it rather mellow down the rest of the track, finishing in 31th position. Joz managed to hold it together during his race run and not make any major mistakes. He knocked a couple seconds off his qualifier and finished in 18th place with a 4:38 which he was very happy with.

After our race runs, we loaded up the car and watched the Pros tackle the last bit of the course. Track favourite and local hero Marcus Klausmann, who qualified 6 seconds ahead of everyone and looked visibly faster than the rest of the field managed to rip his rear derailleur off his bike so the race was over for him. In the end, Brook Macdonald took the victory a few seconds ahead of Nick Beer and Joshua Button.



Joz on his way to a great Top-20-finish / credit: www.traildiaries.de


Looking back at the race now a few days later, I'm still pretty bummed about the way my race run went but that's racing I guess. If anything, crashing in my race run should be a motivation to be a bit more focused during my race run in Winterberg next week. All in all, I'm quite happy with how the weekend went though. The riding was great, the course and the entire event was awesome and we got to spend a lot of time with a bunch of friends riding and racing our bikes. I guess you couldn't ask for anything more, right?

We should have a bunch of pictures posted up on www.zimbros.de very soon. In the meantime, our good friends Peter and Rizzo took a bunch of awesome pictures of the race and uploaded them onto www.traildiaries.de, so take a few minutes and check them out.

Cheers from Germany,
-Moritz Zimmermann

Andres Iniesta

Andres Iniesta

Personal information

Full name  :  Andres Iniesta Lujan
Date of birth :    11 May 1984 (1984-05-11) (age 27)
Place of birth :  Fuentealbilla, Spain
Height :  1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position  :  Midfielder / Winger

Club information
Current club  :  Barcelona
Number : 8

                                                    Andres With Wife

2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC SE

2011 Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC SE

APRILIA RSV4 FACTORY APRC SPECIAL EDITION

APRILIA'S DOMINATION IN THE WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP HAS GIVEN RISE TO A SPECIAL EDITION OF A MOTORCYCLE THAT ALREADY SET NEW STANDARDS FOR THE SUPERSPORTS STREET BIKE GENRE: THE APRILIA RSV4 FACTORY APRC SPECIAL EDITION IS THE NEW BENCHMARK FOR THE SUPERSPORTS SEGMENT.

ULTRA-SOPHISTICATED ELECTRONIC MANAGEMENT: THE APRC PACK LETS THE RIDER FREELY ADJUST EVERY SINGLE ASPECT OF THE BIKE'S PERFORMANCE AND HANDLING EXACTLY AS DESIRED.

Racing heritage

Created with the single-minded goal of being simply the best on the track and on the road, since its inception the Aprilia RSV4 has astonished the world with its looks, technology and performance. The first 65° V-4 engine ever in a sports production bike, a chassis worthy of a 250 GP, Ride By Wire, multimap engine management: all these are accomplished achievements for the Aprilia RSV4, that
tops unique architecture and specs with Aprilia's signature excellent rideability brought to the next level.

But records are made to be broken. Thanks to the unrelenting efforts of the Aprilia R&D department and a very close collaboration between Racing Department and production, the Aprilia RSV4 has made a giant leap forward.

The RSV4 Factory APRC Special Edition is a milestone in the history of super sport bikes. All of the racing expertise and indications gathered during the successful 2010 season of World Champion Max Biaggi were brought together in a bike that sets a new standard for future road bike development.

Unique adjustable traction control capable of self-adjusting to suit different types of tyres, wheelie control, launch control, quick shift: these are the RSV4 Factory APRC SE's new features that raise the bar in track performance even further up.

Aprilia's technological supremacy meant that every aspect of the electronic management system for the RSV4 Factory SBK, with which Max Biaggi dominated the 2010 World Superbike Championship, could be developed in house. As a result of the innovative know how developed on the circuit and the close collaboration between the team, the Racing Division and the manufacturing division, the transfer
of this technology from the track to production was practically instantaneous.

This is how the Aprilia people were able to turn out the fastest, most effective bike on the track, a bike whose only goal is to post the fastest lap. State of art technology.

This new technology is brought together in the APRC (Aprilia Performance Ride Control) package, basically the state of the art in dynamic performance control, a multi-patented system that makes Superbike winning technology available to professional racing riders and hobby riders alike. All this comes in an easy to use, intuitive package.

Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC SE's improvements are not limited to the electronic management system. The 65° V4 engine offers improved lubrication and closer spaced gears for better acceleration. The new, lighter exhaust features an advanced butterfly valve management system to suit the Ride By Wire mapping for improved breathing and efficiency throughout the RPM range.

In addition, the Aprilia RSV4 Factory APRC SE is the first super sport bike sporting the homologated new-generation extra performance dual blend 200/55 tyres developed in collaboration with Pirelli based on the expertise gathered on World Superbike racing circuits.

Luke Donald

Luke Donald

Full name  :  Luke Campbell Donald
Born :    7 December 1977 (1977-12-07) (age 33)
             Hemel Hempstead, England
Height : 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Weight :  161 lb (73 kg; 11.5 st)
Nationality :  England
Residence : Evanston, Illinois;
            High Wycombe, England;
            Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Spouse :  Diane Antonopoulos

                                             Luke Donald With WIfe