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Sam 'Demo Man' Davies has been kind enough to put together a video of the Thredbo Champs held two weeks ago. Considering he's done it all himself as a kind gesture to the MTB community, I couldn't let it go by without some good old pimpage.
Grab it here (right click > save target as). Be sure to thank him here. |
 | 2006 National Downhill/4x Champs Photos
(4 comments) (link) Sunday, 29-January-2006 5:01 PM - by Scott |  |
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It's taken me the best part of today to get these up, so you better damn well enjoy them!
Check 'em out here. |
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| Footage from this years National Championships will be televised on Cycling Central, Sunday the 29th Jan, 5:30pm on SBS. |
| Hypnosis Visual Intensity World Premier
(3 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-January-2006 3:35 PM - by DOM | |
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At the moment there is no Aussie Premier but Clay has asked that we post this up for all our Yanky Farkers who visit daily ! ( Probably to find out who is going to toast the US riders at the next Norba \ WC hehe ) Had to post that as it's AUSTRALIA DAY tomorrow !
Please Note - Santa Cruz, CA Premiere and the Denver, CO Premiere are soon to be announced. |
| Canberra to host National Champs for 2007 - 2009
(6 comments) (link) Wednesday, 25-January-2006 10:45 AM - by Scott | |
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"The National Championships are set to return to the national capital for the first time since 1999 and this is fantastic news for the sport of mountain biking and cycling in Canberra” CORC President, Mr Anthony Burton said today.
The Executive Officer for MTBA, Tony Scott, said "Canberra is an awesome location to stage the nationals. It is centrally located to Sydney and Melbourne, has nationally connected direct airflights from most major state capitals, has a wide variety of accommodation options, has a wealth of alternative cultural activity opportunities and will be conducted on a purpose built mountain bike park, funded entirely by the ACT government."
He added, "The current ACT Government has earmarked $6.5m in the development of the Mt. Stromlo area, devastated in the 2003 bushfires. The development includes buildings for event management, power, water and sewerage and telecommunications and the design and construction of mountain bike trails for all the disciplines. This, in conjunction with the fact that internationally respected course designer Glen Jacobs has been engaged to develop and manage the conceptual and design aspects of the mountain specific tracks and trails, suggests that the venue will the best ever in Australia."
Full release here. |
| Nathan Rennie & Tracey Hannah take Championships
(57 comments) (link) Sunday, 22-January-2006 6:33 PM - by toodles | |
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After some drunken rambling from the Thredbo attendies I managed to glean the following info.
Elite Men
1st - Nathan Rennie
2nd - Jared Graves
3rd - Chris Kovarik
Elite Women
1st - Tracey Hannah
2nd - Emma McNaughton
3rd - Tai-Lee
Vets Men
1st - Dean Davies
2nd - Tony Carson
3rd - Jason Blackmore
U/19:
1. Ben Bell 6.24 & 6.21
2. Joel Bain 6.30 & 6.22
3. James Maltman 6.21 6.24
U/17:
1. Tom Patton 6.28
2. Sam Ward 6.30
3.Dylan Prohm 6.40
More results when someone who speaks english gets on the phone |
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Brendan:After a decade of contributing to the mountain bike scene through course design, team, event, and website management, I have decided to call it quits. The work has got to the point where it has outweighed the fun and with this in mind, I have ended my formal involvement with the sport. I will continue to ride recreationally but that’s where it will end.
Some of the highlights of the ten years have been designing the Trafalgar 4X course and running events there, as well as creating 4XFEVA.com, Australia’s only dedicated 4X web site.
Thanks heaps to all that have supported me throughout my time. It has been a pleasure meeting and hanging out with all the crazy people in Downhill and 4X Mountain Biking.
To read more about my decade in the sport, go to my freshly designed site, with new and updated pages, http://www.4XFEVA.com .
PUSHI will keep the site alive in 2006, as well as continuing their work at Trafalgar.
See you on the trails… On behalf of Farkin.net I thank Brendan for his contribution to the mountain biking scene in Australia over the years, I'm sure many people have benefitted in one way or another from his hard work. |
| Taberlay Takes National XC Title
(1 comments) (link) Saturday, 14-January-2006 5:58 PM - by Scott | |
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Sid Taberlay is looking at a Commonwealth Games spot after winning the National Championships at Mt Beauty today. The Athens Olympian from Tasmania took over the lead with 2 laps to go. His berth in the team is looking positive with his performance at the World Cup races last year.
Adelaide’s Chris Jongewaard relinquished his hold on last year's jersey and finished in second spot after leading for the first four laps.
Sydney’s Josh Fleming third finish today now has selectors discussing his placement on the 3 man team for the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne in March. Fleming rode the Athens Olympics and placed second in the first selection race on the Games course in Lysterfield.
Fourth place was taken out by Queenslander, Mark Frendo who doubles up with a win in the Under 23. Frendo passed Daniel McConnell from Bruthen, Victoria when he had two flat tyres in the last lap.
Riders now line up in the 50 metre dash this evening and on Sunday the elite men, elite women and junior men will have the first National Title for the Short Track Championships. Racing starts at 2.10 pm.
Next National Series event is the final round in Mt Buller in February. |
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Melbourne’s Dellys Starr has taken out the National Championship title at Mt Beauty today.
It was not certain until the final downhill run that Dellys could egain her lead after a crash has damaged her wheel and bent her rear derailleur.
Second was Claire Baxter also from Melbourne who has already put herself up for Commonwealth Games selection by winning the Lysterfield event in December.
Third went to Mt Beauty’s Tory Thomas who was pleased to be on the podium after being hit by a car over a year ago and being told she would never ride her bike again.
The 2005 National Champion, Emma Colson was visibly disappointed with her fourth place after being second earlier in the race.
Athens Olympian, Lisa Mathison from Brisbane finished in 6th and won the first Australian jersey for the Under 23 division.
* Men’s race is underway 1 lap to go. Tasmania’s Sid Taberlay in the lead, Adelaide’s Chris Jongewaard second and Sydney’s Josh Fleming in third. |
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Drift 3, Black Phoenix Films' latest creation in the Drift series, is to be launched Friday 20th Jan at the Kosciusko room, Thredbo Village NSW.
Screening will be straight after the MTNX National Championship, so make sure you’re there.
For those who haven’t seen the latest and greatest trailer, click here |
| Chosen Line Preview now Online
(25 comments) (link) Wednesday, 11-January-2006 3:04 PM - by DOM | |
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Well after months of editing the lads at Chosen Line have sent through a preview of what we can expect in the up coming extreme sports lifestyle television series to air on Fuel.
If you have been living under a rock for the past 12 months Chosen Line is the brain child of Cairns ledgends Glen Jacob's, Dylan Jeffries and James Wells and is basically a MTB\Extreme sports\Lifestyle\Adventure series made for television. To cut a long story short ! They piled themselves and downhillers Dennis Beare, Benny Bramham and Ricky Boyer into a mini bus and basically drove it from Cairns to Victoria stopping at every location on the way to ride, play and have a yarn ! Visitors along the way include Kovarik, Graves, Hannah, Rennie and a whole truck load of Australia's best riders and extreme sports Athletes.
If you are privileged enough to have pay television then make sure you check this out ! A DVD may also be in the works with extra MTB footage which was not suitable for the series. The Chosen Line website should hopefully be back up asap.
Information on series start dates etc will be posted first on Farkin as it comes to hand.
Teaser is in .mov format and is 34MB you might want to Right click save target to download rather then stream.
*You may need to get quicktime version 7 to view this teaser. Go here to get the version without iTunes. |
| QLD Canungra DH - 8 January 2006 *CANCELLED*
(2 comments) (link) Sunday, 8-January-2006 07:03 AM - by toodles | |
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Due to bucket loads of rain the downhill race had to be cancelled this weekend.
Sorry folks! The shuttle track isn't suitable for use after this much rain. Pass this message on to anyone you know who was heading out |
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[R]evolution delivers yet another killer issue including a wad of features such as MTB vs. BMX, Nationals so far, Mud Kittens, N-Zo 12hr, Interbike, Crankworx, More Rennie, World Cup wrap-up, and “5 minutes with Farkin.net”. Wacka also gives us a “How To” with trail building.
An added bonus with Issue 5 is a funky sticker sheet, which includes non other then Farkin.net’s ‘fooly sik’ logo. Reprazent yo
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Just when you thought things were back to normal... you get more issues. It appears over the new year a hacker has gained access to the server and started using it for his/her own purposes causing the site to go down. I've spent quite a few hours trying to get rid of the damage but it appears that I haven't got everything.
The only real way to be 100% they can't get back in is to get another server, so that's what I'll be building up over the next couple days. Once this is done I'll transfer the site to the new location.
Happy new year! |
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