Morewood Team at the World Cup in Vigo Spain
Contact: Richard Beytagh
Phone: (828) 687-0788
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11 May 2007:
TEAM MOREWOOD 2007 AT THE WORLD CUP IN VIGO SPIAN
The gravity racing scene starts in earnest with the first major Downhill event of the year: Vigo Spain is the venue for the first of 5 World Cup gravity events this year and both the Pro men in the Morewood team are among the 5 USA riders entered for this event. The European World Cup events attract the best riders in the world and entry list has over 160 riders registered, headed up the world best – Steve Peat, Nathan Rennie, Sam Hill and Greg Minnaar. It is expected that over 25,000 enthusiastic spectators will travel to Vigo to see the action and it will be covered extensively by the European sports broadcasters. Sadly, the USA still has a long way to go before we get this kind of support of what is an incredibly exciting sport.
Cole Bangert and Geritt Beytagh are representing the Morewood Team in Vigo and although Geritt struggled to get UCI points last year due to an injury that put him out for most of the season, he has earned a place on the US National Team and will be riding in the US Colors. Both Cole and Geritt have been training hard – Cole up at 9,000ft at his home in Twin Lakes Colorado, and Geritt on the incredible
mountain trail systems around his home in Asheville North Carolina. Their new Morewood DH and 4X rigs were delivered this week and the team is looking good with their black and gold color combination. With Morewood Team at the World Cup in Vigo Spain good results from the 2007 Sea Otter Classic and local “season openers”, they are both feeling confident of getting a good result.
Most of the riders arrived in Spain on Tuesday, and although they had an opportunity to walk the course,
official practice only starts on Thursday. Down-time has been well spent however, checking out the sights of the resort town of Vigo and visiting the mainly topless beaches of the Mediterranean. The Vigo DH course has a reputation for high speed crashes and reports are that it is fast, a little dusty with some
sections that will come up and bite you if you get too confident. There is some well documented footage
of Bryn Atkinson taking a horrendous fall on this course last year so riders are giving it the respect it
deserves. There is a huge road jump at the finish and a lot places where the riders are getting big air.
There are some complaints that the 4X course is too radical and is about 2 minutes long, but more on this later.
Once again, if it wasn’t for the sponsors, the Morewood Team would not be in Europe and we would like
to thank – Fox Racing Shox, Control Tech, Maxxis, e.thirteen, Industry Nine, Formula, Crank Bros, Mavic, SixSixOne, FSA and Lake for the their great support.
