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Race Face Gone?

March 14th, 2011

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You heard it here last… after 18 long years of making some of the most sought after high end mountain bike components anywhere, Race Face Performance Products is closing its doors. This friends is a sad day for our sport.

From Race Face.com website…

In almost 18 years of doing business, Race Face has become a global leader in the design, manufacturing, marketing and distribution of high performance cycling components and apparel.

A short drive from the famous North Shore mountains, Race Face designs and tests its line of high performance products to excel in the world’s most abusive riding environment. Our component line spans ten product categories, ten component families and is sold in over 45 countries world wide. Our line of performance cycling apparel is worn by a discerning group of riders who value function as well as fashion.

Race Face sponsors a team of internationally recognized athletes and is the creator and driving force behind the upcoming feature length film Transmission. Race Face is also a proud sponsor of Crankworx and the Whistler Mountain Bike Park – the world’s premiere lift-accessed mountain bike park.

And behind all the product awards, strategic partnerships and innovative marketing campaigns is our staff – a group of dedicated individuals who take an enormous amount of pride in their work. From our design engineers to the folks boxing product, Race Face employees share the same passion for cycling as you. We think it shows in the quality of our products and the service we provide.

We’d love to hear what you think. Drop us a line and let us know.

Race Face Performance Products
100-100 Braid Street
New Westminster, BC
V3L 3P4
Tel: 604-527-9996
Fax: 604-527-9959
E-mail: components@raceface.com

For more details on this, check the Race Face website or for that matter, any Mountain Bike website or Forum anywhere on the net.
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Earth Ramp Bike Parks

August 6th, 2010

Earth Ramp Bike Parks

I stumbled across the Earth Ramp Bike Parks site on another MTB website just today. It is great to see riders being able to make a living or to suppliment their incomes by doing what they do for their recreation. I once read that when you do what you love for a living, you never have to work another day in your life! I am also stoked to see yet another Dirt Jump and Bike Specific park going up in Vanier Park in Vancouver. The sport is definately becoming more mainstream than it ever has been, and gaining acceptance by the powers that be. I am super happy to see local municipal governments buying into the sport, and supporting this on a large scale. There are tangible benefits to supporting our sport in tourism dollars, more bikes being sold, and all of the bits to support those tourists and new bike not to mention Red Bull sales must be off the hook!

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