Mountain bike slopestyle went off in Vail, Colorado last Sunday at the 2009 Teva Games Slopestyle event. Cam McCaul, Aaron Chase, Paul Basagoitia, Greg Watts and more blasted big jumps, flips and tailwhips in between hail and rain showers. Check out 42 Teva Games photos and a video at Littermag.com.

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The City Planning Board of Boulder, Colorado unanimously approved the 4.5 million dollar Phase One of the Valmont City Park which includes construction of the bike park. It’s only taken 10 years, but now one of the greatest bike parks in the country will begin construction very soon. The Fix can’t wait and I’m sure you can’t either!

Visit www.bma-mtb.org for all the info regarding the Valmont Bike Park

Reality for the Valmont Bike Park is Here!

The highly competitive UCI World Cup season is underway with 4th race in Fort William Scotland just completing. Check out incredible photos and videos from all the World Cup races at http://www.littermag.com/2009/tag/uci-world-cup/

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Chris Shewmake is the youngest member of the SolVista Bike Park gravity team. Age really isn’t relevant, but it’s nice to have a member of the squad wearing tight pants and crazy, hyper-printed sweatshirts with fur-lined hoods…keeps things diverse, ya know?

Chris got his 2009 Commencal Absolut 4X bike put together so we snipered it at the Gunbarrel trails in Boulder a couple weeks ago. Now, you get to listen to the details and check out the pics.

Chris Shewmake’s Commencal Absolut 4X Bike

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A diverse, snappy hardtail made for gated racing.

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The Absolut 4X will shred your local jump spot too. Shewmake in action.

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e.thirteen equipped with SRAM drivetrain and Truvativ cranks.

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Burgtec Penthouse Flat pedals!

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A dialed cockpit area with adjustable headtube design.

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Hayes Stroker brakes and a rear end with 3 options for dropouts. Standard 10mm (seen here), 12mm or mAxle.

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Burn and turn.

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Custom SDG SolVista Bike Park saddle.

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Intense System 4 tire, light-weight with aggressive tread pattern.

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Sun Ringle wheelset.

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X.0 shifter, Thomson stem, Sunline bars.

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Killer graphics. The Absolut 4X VIP frameset looks good.

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THANKS CHRIS!

A complete selection of Commencal bikes will be available for demo at the SolVista Bike Park in 2009 and you can purchase them from The Fix Bikes in Boulder, Colorado.

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March 17th, starting at 5pm, The Fix will be hosting a Saint Patrick’s Day Jump Jam and Pumptrack Time Trial. A fun evening is planned with riding starting at The Fix and then a NWD 9 and 970 Biking Issue 7 movie premiere at The Boulder Theater. Doors for the movie open at 7 and the movie rolls at 8pm.

Riding session is free and movie tickets are $10 with all proceeds going to the Valmont Bike Park! Wear green and get $1 raffle tickets. SEE YA THERE!!!

Black Market’s Adam Hauck joins Jason Perz in the Ray’s MTB Odd Couple video contest. The concept was pretty cool. Pair up a BMX rider and a mountain bike rider to film a video part in Ray’s park. This is only one of the bangers from all the participants.

Here’s some video of Thomas Vanderham talking about his new Evil Bikes Revolt Prototype bike! The Fix will be an Evil Bikes Dealer, too!

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Check out the Superco Silencer prototype downhill bike over at Littermag.com

The bike is sexy, only 38lbs as seen there and there’s not release date or price yet, but wow is that thing puuurrddy!!!

Rachel Atherton discusses what happened during her horrendous road biking accident in Santa Cruz, California. Rachel is the current UCI World Cup Downhill Champion in the Women’s Elite Category and she races for Commencal Bikes.

The Fix Bikes is proud to announce that we are now an Ellsworth Bikes dealer. We will be carrying the full line of Ellsworth mountain bikes and frames, including the affordable, new 2009 Ellsworth Glimpse. Ellsworth has a rich and long history as a full-suspension mountain bike manufacturer and we’re stoked to be teaming up with them this year!

Buy Ellsworth Bikes at www.thefixbikes.com