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Micro drive is a type of bicycle drivetrain, mostly BMX and MTB, that uses smaller than standard-sized sprockets. [1] The smallest rear sprocket that fits on a freehub body is a 10 or 11-tooth, but with the use of a cassette hub, sometimes called a micro drive rear hub , sprockets as small as 8 teeth may be used.
The 1st downhill time-trial race took place in Fairfax, California on 21 October 1976, on a fireroad now referred to as Repack Road, [2] [3] [4] due to the need to repack the hub brake after each descent. [5] The bikes used were based on cruiser bicycles that had a drum or coaster brake that worked by pedalling backward. The mechanism operated ...
The most plausible, although still speculative reason, was an early resemblance of the racing courses for mountain bikes with the cyclo-cross discipline, with a major difference: the mountain bike racing track was significantly longer (a cyclo-cross course has 2.5–3.5 km versus 4+ km for a XC track) and free of artificial obstacles.
Edmund ("Ned") Overend (born August 20, 1955) is an American former professional cross-country mountain bike racer. [1] He is a six-time NORBA cross-country mountain bike national champion who became the first-ever cross-country world champion by winning the inaugural UCI Mountain Bike World Championship in 1990.
The Alpine Classic (formerly Audax Alpine Classic) was an Australian bicycle event run every Australia Day weekend (late January) in Bright, Victoria. The decision was made to permanently cancel the event as it was being run at a loss. The event is currently managed by O2 Events, [1] having previously been organised by Audax Australia ...
No Fear Downhill Mountain Biking (also known as No Fear Downhill Mountain Bike Racing) is a mountain bike video game released in 1999 for PlayStation and 2001 for Game Boy Color. The Dreamcast and Microsoft Windows versions were planned [ 1 ] but never released.
Cyclo-cross (cyclocross, CX, cyclo-X or ' cross) is a form of bicycle racing.Races typically take place in the autumn and winter (the international or "World Cup" season is October–February), and consist of many laps of a short (2.5–3.5 km or 1.5–2 mile) course featuring pavement, wooded trails, grass, steep hills and obstacles requiring the rider to quickly dismount, carry the bike ...
Four-cross race. Four-cross (4X), also called mountain-cross, not to be confused with fourcross, is a relatively new style of mountain bike racing where four bikers race downhill on a prepared, BMX-like track, simply trying to get down first.