Upcoming CIMBA Events

Below are some upcoming Central Idaho Mountain Biking Association events. These group rides are a blast and a great way to check out some new trails and meet some local folk.

-Sun. Sept. 2nd 10am Tamarack meet @ Crane creek parking area DH/XC

-Tues. Sept. 4th 6:15pm Bear Basin meet 1 mi up bear basin rd. park on left

-Sat. Sept 8th Trailday meet @ new nordic parking area off of Kings Pines Estates II @ 9:30am Chapala's will bring food for after.(As always bring water, snacks, and a great attitude)

-Sun. Sept. 9th Jughandle meet at Potter Ln. 3pm

-Our rides will be moved to Sundays and I will let everyone know where the rest are.

-Sat. Oct. 13th Trailday meet @ new nordic parking area off of Kings Pines Estates II @ 9:30am. We will do a cruiser bike pub crawl and BBQ afterwards. The pub crawl might be weather dependent. We are also trying to get a movie to premiere at the BBQ.

-Sun. Oct 14th Goose Creek Trail shuttle. Meet @ Lardo's upper parking @ 9am for the first shuttle. We will try to shuttle twice if possible. Donations for gas would be greatly appreciated. You will not have to ride uphill.(haha) Goose Crk. trail does have a couple of short ones.

See ya out on the trails!

Bike Gear Blog

Over the course of the next several months, Pro Peak Sports will be doing product reviews, high ligthing all the latest and greatest products from Bicycle companies we carry, and keeping everyone up to speed on all of the new product for the 2008 Bike Season.

All this can be found at http://propeakgear.blogspot.com/

Tamarack Dirty Jump Jam

On August 17th, Tamarack hosted their 1st annual Dirty Jump Jam. It was an evening of twists, flips, music and food. For an event that was thrown together at the last minute and only gave competitors two weeks notice, it was awesome! The turnout was huge and the schwag give away was insane!

The comp was set up in a jam format where the riders had about 45 minutes to throw the best tricks they could. The platform above made for some impressive stunts as a few riders threw 360's, no handers, and X up's.

Further down the course riders were seen doing tailwhips, 360's, back flips, supermans, and whatever else they could come up with. A last minute BMX competitor was using the wall ride in ways the local park builders hadn't thought of.

A rider entering the jumps during the practice runs.

Pro Peak Sports rider Art Widmar warming up for the comp.

Kalen was all sorts of pumped for the comp.

Art dropping in.
Art throwing a 360. Art's 360's were out of hand that evening. He also went on to win the Idaho State DH series on Sunday.

While the practice runs were taking place in the park, there was also the Payette Lakes Downhill series taking place right at the same time. It was a two run format and had a huge turnout! Above are spectators checking out the action as racers came down the Firebird Trail.

A Scott pro rider coming to the finish. The Tamarack trail crew cleaned up with the top three spots going to them. Congrats to Charlie Olsen for taking this stage race!

Thanks to everyone that came out and particapited in this event! Thanks to Spectrum Techwear, Bell Helmets, Smith Optics, Blackburn Pumps, Transition Bikes and Tamarack Resort in getting this event up and running! See everyone next year!

What's Happening at Transition Bikes

Riding season is in full swing right now and Transition Bikes is crazy busy riding and bringing you new products. Here is the latest.

New Siren Prototype
TBC is now riding the new girls freeride bike called the Siren. The bike is a 6" travel freeride frame designed for women. They took input from over 30 female riders to design a bike specifically for them. The frame has ultra low standover. They had girls that are 5'0" and still have great standover on the frame and love it. The frame also is very light for girls to throw around with a lower center of gravity and short stays so the ladies can pull the front end up easily. Production bikes should be available Dec/Jan.

New Clothing
TBC has 4 new t-shirt designs ready to go. They will also be working on a new jersey and long sleeve T in the next month. Check it out at http://transitionbikes.com/2007/Accessories_Clothing.cfm

New BottleRockets Here
TBC has gottn the new production run of BottleRockets in with the new colors White, Raw or Baby blue. The frame remains unchanged for the upcoming year. Why mess with perfection?

New Sprocket
TBC has just finished up his design of a new 28 tooth sprocket and now have them available for purchase in 5 colors (black, gold, green, red, blue).

New Chainguide
TBC has also just finished up their design of thier new single-ring chainguide. The chainguide works with 32-36 tooth chainrings and is available in our standard 5 color palette (black, gold, green, red, blue). We'll have pictures of the guide on our website in the next couple days so stay tuned.

New Colors and Decals
Heads up for the upcoming year. All of TBC's bikes will be coming with new decals kits so you guys can customize your bikes however you want. Each frame will come with a decal kit that features 4 different colors of decals to decorate your bike. Currently we only have new BottleRockets with the new colors and the rest of our frames with new colors will trickle in throughout the winter and early spring when we do new production runs.

Blindside Production Frames
The new 8" travel Blindside frames will be here around September 12th and ready for purchase.

For more info about any of these products check out Transition Bike's Website for the latest and greatest!

Labor Day Sale!!

Pro Peak Sports is having its semi-annual clearance sale this weekend (September 1-3). The Labor Day parking lot sale is the best opportunity to get the largest deals on the great clothing and equipment we offer. This weekend all of our 2006 winter clothing and equipment will be discounted a whopping 60%! Summer 2007 clothing and equipment will also be discounted from 25%-60%! We need room for all of our great new clothing and equipment that is already arriving and in stock. We are open everyday from 9am-7pm.

We will also have live music and free food and drink on Saturday afternoon with the Silver Tip Hat Band. There will also be a lemonade stand with all sales going to benefit McPaws.

Finally we are offering our first annual Kids Bike Swap. Call Andy or Wolfe at 325-3323 for more information. This is a great opportunity to come to Donnelly, shop with us and then head to Roseberry to celebrate at the Ice Cream Social. We hope to see you all there.

Tamarack DH Championships

Here are some pictures of the Knobby Tire downhill state championships this last weekend at Tamarack.

Here's tamarack trailcrew member Pat doing the big drop in the race. Believe it or not, he rolled into this from a dead stop about 5 feet from the lip.

This is Scott Bikes pro rider Silas cleaning stage fright with style. He got 3rd place that day.
Pro Peak's newest employee, Tyler, rounding one of the sharp corners in Hibernater.
Pro Peak rider, Nick, poaching a line down the chute in Hibernater after being turned down for an expired NORBA card. Pro Peak rider Skye in a post stage fright stomping stupor. He had the air knocked out of him, his already injured knee bashed, and his shoe tossed a good thirty feet downhill.
Notice the serious amount of dust shoveled onto his face by his helmet.
Tyler and Charley from trail crew riding up for their second run.

Darren Lightfield going for a jog down stage fright.

Pro Peak rider Art coming out of the berm after the stage fright drop.
Art got second that day and won the entire series in points.

Teton Trip

Just got back from a quick weekend in Jackson Hole. Hit up the trails in Jackson, Jimmy's Mom, etc and Fischer Creek outside of Stanley on the way home. Camera broke right after I took the above picture so didnt get any riding pics. Drove 1100 miles in four days...that sort of sucked...

Dirt Jumping

The re-worked dirt jump park at Tamarack.


Andy going big on his new Transition Bottlerocket.


Tyler


Andy dropping in on the new ladder drop.


Tyler

Tam Tam

A look at the village and Cascade Lake at Tamarack.

Fire

Just a couple of pics looking east of the store at the Sandy Fire. The smoke in the valley has been hit and miss lately. Today was a great day and the temp was just right.




These are some pictures looking into the valley from Paddy Flats road. A few of us went and road from the campground for a after work ride the other evening. Action shots to come.

Wake on the Lake

Last weekend was wake on the lake at the Tamarack waterfront. Idaho Watersports, Tamarack and Pro Peak Sports all joined in giving the public the opportunity to get some wakeboard instruction and also demo the latest and greatest gear and boats. There was a huge turnout and was an awesome time. The Wakekite guys were here giving instruction and showing off their new product. People were having a blast trying out the Wakekite and were getting huge air. Some first timers were getting anywhere from 8-15 feet of air.

Ben, one of the Wakekite founders, showing off his moves.

Greg doing a little on water demo.

A parting evening shot. Thanks for everyone that came out and participated in this great event.