The final World Cup for 2010 took place in Windham NY and was a look into what may happen next weekend at the World Championships in Mont St. Anne QC.

For the XC racing, Both Andrew Watson and Catherine Vipond were racing. Andrew Watson was having a solid race when a mechanical lead to the unfortunate script of DNF beside his name. Catherine Vipond on the other hand finished a strong 42nd for the day.

Fuelled by gravity, Norco international riders Ben Reid, Bernard Kerr and Fionn Griffiths raced the DH. Ben Reid Finished 25th, Bernard 54th and for the Women Fionn came in for 10th place.

The Team is on their way to Mont St Anne now for the World Champs. Check back soon for updates.

Members of the Norco Factory Team, Norco World Team and Dirt Norco Race team have all shifted east following Crankworx and are now in Windham NY. This is home to the final World Cup race of the season. Norco Factory XC riders Catherine Vipond and Andrew Watson have been ripping up the Cross Country course while Fionn Griffiths, Bernard Kerr and Ben Reid have been practicing the DH and are now through Qualification. Going into the Finals, Fionn has qualified in 10th for the women, Bernard 55th for the men and Ben is up in 34th for the men. Good luck to everyone over the next couple days of racing.

For full DH qualification results check out canadiancyclist.com







Photos by Jonathan Duncan

Alex Chisholme had only one wish regarding Whitehorse's bike park - that it had gotten here sooner.

The 19-year-old entered the pro category of the Goat Style Bike Jam held in Creston, BC, in July, and said that, while he failed to reach the final round, the experience of riding alongside the pros was worth the trip.

Growing up in Whitehorse, Chisholme was just one of the riders looking to reach that next level.

"For me, when I was in a prime age, trying to find jumps, there wasn't that much at that time," he said.

"I enjoyed the park last year, it was good, I rode these dirt jumps a lot, and it was nice to finally see a rhythm section in town, because most of the jumps that I'd ridden previously were just one-hits, and then you go back and hit one jump and come back again."

Read more at: whitehorsestar.com

photo by JONATHAN RUSSELL/WHITEHORSE STAR

Last weekend in sunny Bromont,Quebec the Canada Cup XC series wrapped up for 2010. To date this has been a great Season for our Factory Team riders Andrew and Catherine, both in the running for Overall series titles.

Well they both ran into a little bad luck... Catherine flatted on her 2nd lap, having to run into the pits for a wheel change. She held strong
fighting back some spots, but had to settle for 2nd Overall in the
series....Not Bad.

Andrew was having a trouble free race battling it out with fellow National Team rider Derek Zandstra and Great Brittan's Olympian Liam Killen, just before the last piece of single track he lost control and found himself hitting the deck hard. After collecting thoughts he rolled off course, not being able to finish. Good news being he had enough points to hold on and WIN the Overall..

With a 1st and 2nd in the overalls, both look forward to a World Cup in New York followed by World Championships in Mont St Anne in the coming weeks.

Ryan Leech doesn't care about the rain. When the drops start quietly splattering his set, where he's standing and chatting an hour before his show, he doesn't even look up. Still, it's a hell of a time for the sky to start pissing on Quebec City. The Canadian town has blown out every stop for its 400th anniversary celebration, and on this particular July weekend the yearlong festivities happen to merge with Velirium, a two-week-long mountain bike festival culminating in World Cup racing on nearby Mont-Sainte-Anne.

Read More at: bicycling.com

Hello Everyone! I (Ben Kaufmann) Just finished up with a good 3 and a half week tour out to the central western side of Canada for some Craz-E-Crew Stunt shows. Pretty exhausting but fun with the 3 to 4 shows a day at 20-30 minutes each. All that riding and driving almost the whole 7000 km round trip from Ottawa, I feel it all has hit me harder than being jet lagged! All together the trip was amazing! We stopped in every town or city we were able so we could ride the local parks and street. The tour brought us to perform shows in Mattawa, Ontario, Longlac, Ontario, Red Deer, Alberta, Strathmoore, Alberta, and Regina, Saskatchewan. We got to ride some pretty awesome stuff along the way. We all had the pleasure to ride Millennium Skatepark in Calgary, Kenora, Ontario`s Skatepark, Winnipeg`s Fork`s Skatepark, Strathmoore`s Skatepark, Sudbury, Ontario`s Dirt Trails, Street in almost every town we were at. The team had tons of press coverage for the shows we performed and here is one of the article interviews I had with the Red Deer Advocate.

albertalocalnews.com


Photo by PAULA TROTTER/Red Deer Advocate

Norco Factory Team rider Sam Dueck just finished competing in the Kokanee Crankworx competition in Whistler BC. Riding on his Norco Empire SE, and pulling off a massive Super-Flip, up top and finishing with some crazy style Sam took fourth position in the final. Congratulations Sam. For more info on the results check out pinkbike.com

Norco Factory Team rider Nick Geddes is two for two at the 2010 Kokanee Crankworx. Starting off Saturday, Nick took the win at the Dual Slalom and today, doubled the victory with a second in the Canadian Open Enduro.

To Read more about both these events check out the Enduro and the Dual Slalom

I am now home from Colorado and stoked on the final result! after a lot of hard luck and disappointment on my qualifying runs and my first final run i finally was able to pull it off in the end and made it down to the bottom of the course that has been just killing the riders all week. I was so happy to be finished my run and be down at the bottom in once piece and i even did all the tricks i wanted to do.

Read more at: norco.com/blog