Cuando ya va quedando menos para el comienzo de los Seis Dias Internacionales de Enduro 2009 a celebrar en Figueira da Foz, Portugal, vamos teniendo algún aspecto más claro como son las etapas que se realizarán en estos seis días y en las que el equipo segoviano Sego Extrem, estará presente.

Os ponemos todas y cada una de las etapas para vuestra información:

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My 2000 EK Civic needed new summer tires after my last tires (Nexen N3000) grenaded on the highway.  For my 16″ rims I wanted something that had a little higher aspect ratio sidewall for added comfort (not performance), so I began looking for a 205/45/16 performance summer tire.  Due to a shortage of summer tires in Toronto (I can’t backup that claim but it sure felt like it), I settled on a dedicated summer tire in the Maxxis MA-Z1 Victra.

Maxxis MA-Z1 Victra summer performance tire

Here are is the tire specifications from the Maxxis website

ULTRA HIGH PERFORMANCE RADIAL

MA-Z1 is an ultra high-performance radial featuring an aggressive unidirectional tread design. The MA-Z1 offers excellent cornering and handling ability as well as superior wet and dry traction.

• Aggressive unidirectional tread design
• Solid center rib with stiff shoulder blocks
• Specially designed rim protector
• High-tensile steel belts
• Advanced silica compound for improving wet traction and rolling resistance
• Excellent cornering and handling stability
• Superior wet and dry traction
• Swift response and minimum noise level at high speeds
• UTQG 280 AAA

Although you may not recognize the name, Maxxis has been producing tires for more than 40 years.  Bicycle tires that is … in China.  They are actually a Taiwanese company and in more recent years have expanded their product line considerably, distributing in over 160 countries.  In fact I just noticed that on my 10 year old Giant mountain bike (Giant is the brand, it’s not made for Shaq) the 10 year old tires are Maxxis.

Mounting the tires was nothing special other than the tire mounting Jimmy told me that 2 of them were borderline balanced.  He showed me the number of weights he had to use.  Although my rims aren’t bend, it’s probably more the rim’s fault than the tires.  I suppose they could equally be to blame but again, I have no way to back that up.

In the handling department I actually gave these tires a thorough workout at 2 local road course tracks.  I haven’t taken my EK Civic to the track in it’s 300,000km lifespan but I figured I should give it a try as my other car is in the shop.  These tires held up very well to the abuse I put on them at Mosport DDT and Dunnville while I was three-wheeling around most corners.  They give up their grip quite progressively and give you decent of feedback when it’s doing it.  At 32 psi the sidewalls rolled over as one would expect and at 34 psi they wouldn’t.  So I know 32 is good sweetspot for my conditions.  Despite the abuse the tires didn’t chuck too badly and wear was very acceptable.

On the street and highway I don’t notice that the tire noise is very loud.  I have a moderate tolerance to road noise as the Civic is so loud at highway speed anyways I don’t notice anything above that.  The Nexen’s were awful for this as they howled like wolf at a full moon … being spanked by a bear also howling at the moon … and the moon was howling.

I haven’t pushed the car in the rain but I have driven over 100km in several downpours … summer in Toronto this year has been unusually cool and wet.  They have performed admirably and I have no confidence issues with them.

In summary, the Maxxis MA-Z1s are a competitively priced performance summer tire with above average handling characteristics, good dry performance, good feedback, decent road-noise levels and acceptable wet grip.  If you can get them at a good price I think they are definitely work consideration.

Sept 2009 Update:

I’ve got a few track day videos where I’m riding on these tires.  The 4-some of videos is actually a lap time comparison between the tired stock suspension vs. Tokico, but the tires were the same in both pairs of videos.

Also here is a closer picture of one of the tires after 3 track days.  Oh and the bumper scuff is from rubbing a pylon

2000 Civic SOHC VTEC with Tokico Blue and Red springs – Best Lap ~1:20

Here is the same track configuration with Stock Suspension – Best Lap ~1:22-ish

Update 5-Oct-09: FYI, my particular tires were made in Thailand.

Paddy added a new shoot to his Flickr-page, this time of the Maxxis Onevia of Dean Kearney, drifting in the ProDrift Series. Below you’ll find my personal highlights of the photoshoot. But be sure to check out the rest of the shoot.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Dean Kearney – Maxxis Onevia, originally uploaded by Paddy McGrath.

Cycling racer Steve Larsen passed away at the age of 39 Tuesday night in an untimely death initially blamed on a heart attack. Now word comes that the autopsy found no evidence of a heart attack, but the exact cause remains under investigation. In any case, Larsen died too young and is a testament to carpe diem, or as my riding buddy Jim would say, carpe limitem (seize the trail!). He was a road racer, a mountain bike racer, a triathlete and a cyclocross racer, yet he died while running.

Larsen was a well-known competitor in his prime, raced with Lance Armstrong on the Motorola team, but I came to associate his name with a great mountain-biking race/cross country tire he designed for Maxxis called the Larsen TT (a second one was the Mimo; both were named after his kids). Larsen was a Davis, Calif. native who lived in Bend, OR, named recently by Mountain Bike Action as the best mountain biking town in America (yet he died while…). We wish his wife Carrie and 5 children well.

2008’s World Cup number 3 Tracy Moseley won the first round of the Maxxis Cup  by nearly 20 seconds over her nearest rival, showing she’s in good form for 2009.  Fellow UK riders Jessica Stone and Katy Curd placed second and fifth respectively (apparently Katy had a mechanical), with third place taken by France’s Sophie Borderes, and fourth byAriadna de Barros of Spain.

The race was held on a dry, dusty track in Gouveia, Portugal, which must have suited Tracy’s new Trek. The first round of the Maxxis cup is often a good pre-World Cup indicator of who’s riding well, but most of the Elite Women World Cup top ten from 2008 didn’t ride. Rachel Atherton still hasn’t raced since injuring her shoulder, Sabrina Jonnier is in the US getting her new bike, Emmeline Ragot was in NZ… Anyway, we will have to wait till April for a real show-down. A lot of the Elite riders are heading to South Africa for the SA National Series a week before Round 1 of the World Cup.

The Maxxis Cup Round 1 Podium: From left, Sophie Borderes, Tracy Moseley, Jessica Stone.

For full results and future Maxxis Cup dates, visit their needlessly complicated and slow-loading website here!

Results

1. Tracy Moseley, GBR 3.05
2. Jessica Stone, GBR 3.24
3. Sophie Borderes, FRA 3.34
4. Ariadna de Barros, SPA 3.40
5. Katy Curd, GBR 3.45
6. Maria Sanchez, ESP 3.49
7. Ana Martins, POR 3.56
8. Carole Armanet, FRA 4.19
9. Jullyana Santa, BRA 4.21
10. Aurea Aghostino 12.59

Livrea rosso fuoco e componentistica al top: ecco la nuova Intense M6 del campione italiano junior Edoardo Franco. Il valdostano portacolori del “team individuale” UC Vallée d’Aoste, sponsorizzato per la stagione 2009 da DSB – Bonandrini, esordirà sulla nuova bici a Pieve di Teco, nel campionato regionale ligure di domenica 15 marzo.

La bici sarà montata con freni Formula (altro sponsor personale di Franco, assieme ad Oakley), gruppo Sram, forcella e ammortizzatore Rock Shox, cerchi e mozzi DT Swiss, gomme Maxxis e componentistica Race face.

Come già anticipato con l’annuncio dei team UCI 2009, il team Ancillotti si è affiliato ufficialmente alla Federazione internazionale del ciclismo, diventando un trade team, grazie anche al supporto della località toscana della Doganaccia, main sponsor del team. Correranno per i colori del team italiano, oltre agli junior Francesco Petrucci e Leonardo Piccini, la campionessa austriaca di downhill Petra Bernhard, i fratelli svizzeri provenienti dal team iXS Patrick e Lucas Meyer (quest’ultimo junior) e i due kiwi Wyn Masters, 22enne che correrà anche qualche tappa di coppa del mondo di four-cross, e Brook MacDonald, fresco campione neozelandese junior.
La squadra avrà sede a Doganaccia 2000, località che punterà molto sul freeride per il suo sviluppo turistico estivo, grazie al supporto di Ronni Ceccarelli. Il team manager sarà Tomaso Ancillotti.

Gli altri sponsor saranno Ufo plast, NZride.com, Formula, Maxxis, CampaBros, Selle San Marco e Landini automobili.

Link
La notizia sul sito del team Ancillotti.
L’elenco completo delle squadre 2009.

Two-time World Downhill Champion Sabrina Jonnier has been racing in New Zealand during the NZ National Series. She joins a growing number of overseas riders choosing to spend their off season down under, and deciding that NZ rules for the variety of trails, lack of dangerous bugs and bushfires, and the fact that Aotearoa has some serious mountains unlike Australia!

Sabrina has been in NZ for a month, starting out in Queenstown, every DH’ers paradise. Unfortunately she crashed in practice and was unable to race the Coronet round of the Nationals, but was back on the bike to take the win in Blenheim. Nelson was her favourite track even in the wet, and along with Emmeline Ragot’s stellar performance she proved that the fast French chicks are almost in a league of their own.

This season, Sabrina is swapping her black and pink Ironhorse Sunday for a new Rocky Mountain, and is still riding for Team Maxxis at the world cups in their new guise as Maxxis-Rocky Mountain. In New Zealand she’s been having an awesome time travelling with Amy Laird and team-mate Cameron Cole – in fact, such an awesome time that she doesn’t want to go home!

The new Rocky Mountain Flatline Pro

Check out our video interview with Sabrina below:

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by U Urbano

Oscar Saiz Castane, il catalano del downhill, si ritira. A 35 anni compiuti, lo spagnolo era con Steve Peat, Brian Lopes e Jürgen Beneke uno dei più anziani rider in attività. Tra i più forti iberici del circuito internazionale, Saiz ha debuttato nel lontano 1992 in patria, per poi presentarsi con risultati di tutto rispetto sulla scena internazionale dal 1995 in poi, per approdare nel ‘97 al mitico team statunitense Volvo – Cannondale. Pluri-campione spagnolo tra gli élite nel downhill e nel dual, è curiosamente l’ultimo vincitore della Lisboa Downtown prima del filotto di sette successi consecutivi proprio del quasi coetaneo Peaty, nel 2001, e annovera nel palmarès, oltre a qualche podio in coppa del mondo, la vittoria nella Maxxis international cup 2002 e due successi di tappa nella NORBA. Ha corso su Gary Fisher, Cannondale, Specialized, BeOne, per poi diventare pedina fondamentale del team Giant, con il quale ha corso anche nella scorsa stagione.

Link
Il sito di Oscar Saiz.

I’ll keep this short and sweet:

Maxxis Razrs are THE BEST atv tires.

En el transcurso de la temporada 2008 hemos contado con el apoyo de MAXXIS para la organización de la Copa de España de SuperQuad. A continuación os presentamos el spot promocional que PUKSÔFILMS ha realizado para la marca de neumáticos taiwanesa. 

Cambio di bici, ma non di team, anche per un altro atleta iridato, la francese Sabrina Jonnier, campionessa del mondo di downhill nel 2006 e nel 2007: dopo anni di successi su Iron Horse, la portacolori del team statunitense Maxxis passerà a Rocky Mountain. Il produttore di Vancouver, Canada, rientrerà nelle discipline gravity in un team che raccoglie ottimi risultati nel nordamerica, del quale non sono ancora però stati confermati i componenti uscenti dello scorso anno, che erano lo yankee Luke Strobel e il neozelandese Cameron Cole.

Link
La pagina del team Maxxis (non ancora aggiornata).
L’elenco completo delle squadre 2009.

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