Straitlines Ben Cathro pwoned the Podium!

Dirt magazine posted up some race results for the Alpine Winter series in Innerleithen and Ben Cathro took the win.

DIRT has all the info over HERE

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Ben Cathro Top of the pack for tomorrows race!

Ben must be stoked, with this… I think or maybe this is bad, first thing in the morning, wet track and first to go… we will see.

“After an amazingly exciting wet and wild qualifying at Champery, here’s how the riders line up for tomorrows finals.”

Team MTBCUT runs a full Straitline race kit pedals/50 mm Boxxers/ SSC stems and he Silent guides you can see how stoked Ben is over our Retro 80’s kit this year!

Stu Thomson of Team Mtbcut also covers all that happens at the race and I am stoked for Ben tomorrow, he’s been on fire and his mind is in the right place for a win!

Qualifying was nasty wet, take a peek.

So I believe free caster will be playing this live while I sleep and drool in bed tonight but if you can keep an eye on it and root for Team Mtbcut!

 

 

 

Team MTBcut at Fort Bill looking cool!

Be sure to tune in this weekend and catch all the action at Fort William with MTBcut. 
http://www.mtbcut.tv/  and join their twitter account for insider antics from the race!
Stu Thomson emailed me this shot of Ben Cathro and the MTBcut’s custom 80’s rocker design we did for them. Pretty sweet in person and full on 80’s, got to love it.
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Stu whipped up this practice footage starting off with Our Adam Brayton and listen to Cathro plug pedals, less pins over the bore gives you more grip peeps!


And the crew over at Sicklines.TV posted up this course overview.

World Cup 2010 - Fort William day 1 - track walk + 4x training from Tri-Ridedotcom on Vimeo.

Ben Cathro Straitlines to the podium!

We came in this morning with a note from Pete from HOTLINES, our UK distributor…

“Ben Cathro won the iXS European Downhill Cup ahead of a stacked field that included Cam Cole, Nick Beer, Wyn Masters, Shaun O’Connor, Matt Simmonds, Filip Polc amonst others. Totally stoked on his über-radness.

Cheers,

Pete” 

Cathro is on the MTBCUT Team running our boxxer stems, pedals and Silent guides check out this video of the IXS race and keep your eyes peeled for Adam Brayton pinning it on our flats.

Here’s the release we saw this am.

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iXS/Straitline Rider Ben Cathro Tops Podium At Innerleithen iXS Cup!

MTBCut.tv rider Ben Cathro rode to victory this weekend at the Innerleithen round of the iXS European DH Cup.

Ben rode straight into the Hot Seat and stayed there right throught to the last Elite rider - this has got to be some kind of record for length of time spent in the lead! Ben was one of the first to run in the Elite field as he couldn't make it to the seeding runs the day before - as he was at fellow MTBCut rider, and manager, Stu Thomson's wedding where he was an usher. Obviously getting a good nights sleep wasn't part of Ben's race plan!

Ben won by over a second with a time of 2:57.281, with fastest seeding rider Lewis Buchanan coming in 2nd at 2:58.477 and CRC/Intense rider Matt Simmonds claiming 3rd spot with 2:58.583. Ben's race run was typical Cathro style - fast, loose and incredible to watch!

The purpose built track at Innerleithen was a mixture of different surfaces - loamy and sticky up top, dusty and loose in the trees and wet and slippy grass coming into the arena - several riders came to grief in the last 2 corners in the field - some even managing to wash out after crossing the line!

The MTBCut guys are supported by iXS and Straitline via Hotlines - and are supplied with custom Straitline components and iXS protection and apparel.

MTBCUT.tv Stu and Cathro taking a piss!

The title may sound dirty but they are British and taking a piss -AKA messing around- and posting it up for all to see is okay in the UK!

They say it is the shittiest video ever made by them but I actually think it is the best yet, more fun, less portrayal of being Number 1!

We decked their bikes in pedals and stems in a custom colour for cool kids only and soon we must make up a new scheme.

Next season I think we will make the pink brighter and lessen up the black, regardless they will be one off’s for MTBCUT only!

The gear was to compliment the bikes in the video below. In your face Pink.

You can see it better on this Pinkbike Video where Ben Cathro goes over his ride

“Ben Cathro is part of the MTB Cut DH team and is the only racer on the World Cup Circuit that is 7 feet tall. Ok maybe he's not 7 feet tall, but damn he's a giant. Ben is here with fellow team mate Joe Barnes and is sporting the all new prototype Orange 225 bike.”

Ben Cathro wins the final UK NPS

Just got in from Vegas Interbike and had this email pop in from Stu over at MTBCUT 

The MTBCUT team slayed it this year setting the bar pretty dam high for sponsorship and what you do to HELP grow a brand by having fun and paying it forward!

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Hey dude,

Awesome to see you last week, I need to get down to editing that killer video we made!!

Cathro won the final UK NPS last week and wrote a little blog on it, podium photo below as well...  Run it on your blog if you like.

Cheers

Stu MTBCUT

2009, well it's been a good year for myself. I've pulled some sweet results out of the bag and had a flippin marvelous time as well. It was my first year riding for MTBCut/Cyclejersey and let me be the first to say it was a pleasure. We've had some blazing results this year and some good laughs as well.

After all the highs and lows through the year the team found itself in a quiet valley in southern Wales for the final round of the NPS series. Rheola is a track I've ridden before and it is also a track I wasn't too keen on. It was pretty much 1 line flat out in a rut the whole way. Race over I can officially say it's one of the best tracks I've raced on in Britain. The guys who reworked the track added in some awesome, fresh, gnarly, rooty sections which gave the track some variation and just added a whole lot of rad to the situation.

Myself and Barnes were fresh back from Europe and were feeling good on the bikes, Coatesy was feeling strong after posting some record power outputs in testing, Hutchens was pumped to have a pink 225 to rag down the hill and James as always was stoked to be there. Practice was real good fun on the fresh bits of track as it changed every run. I was all over this new super booter the builders had erected which meant I could bring out the superior pencil skills and entertain the crowd/myself.

Racing went pretty well for the team. Coatsey put in a solid result which secured him 3rd overall in senior. James had the biggest stack in seeding but manned up and just missed the junior podium in 6th. Hutchens had a bad day at the office and was O.T.A. Joe had a pretty good run and scored 5th in Elite and I scored myself a victory which rounded out my season quite nicely.

This has been one hell of a year and I've got to be lame and thank a few guys because they're the people that make it all happen. So obviously cheers to Stu and Brian for keeping us bunch of weapons rubber side down. Thanks to Orange Mountain Bikes for supplying us with the best frames out there. Thanks to Hope, IXS, Straitline, Hotlines, Silverfish and Madison for supplying us with the only kit you'd ever want to run. Big thanks to anyone else who's helped out along the way, you're all legends. Oh yeh, also wee man, I love you too.

If anyone wants me over the winter I'll be in the gym.

See you next year.

 

Fort William Red Route overview

 

Cathro Bike check

Bike Check with Ben Cathro!

MTBCUT Team member Ben Cathro did a quick bike check while covering the Monte Saint Anne this past weekend.

 

 

Ben rides a custom set up we developed for the entire MTBCUT team complete with one off Xray pink Boxxer stems/ pedals/ end caps.

Slick lines… I must admit we made a nice stem and yes I am bias but look at it!

Check out the full coverage over on PINKBIKE and look at the love hate relation us men have with running pink, the comments are quite funny!

I fell into a wormhole!

I don’t know where the last ten days went but a lot has happened and almost too much to blog!

 

Team Pinkbikes Kyle Marshall took the Canadian Nationals Junior with our platform pedals underfoot. His time put him 2nd overall if he was in the Pro’s! And last weekend in his first WorldCup race qualified a respectable 74th!

Team Lama Cycles took second place with the finesse of Simon Garstin at the Canadian Nationals…

   

And in Lama Cycles Race team slayed it at Monte Saint Anne! Check out their site for news….

Big shout out to MTBcut/Cyclejersey rider Ben Cathro for hitting a great final run to squeeze into the top 20!  Team MTBCUT runs a full custom set up by Straitline, stoked to see him finish top 20!

 

Anyone find the UCI site to be impossible to navigate? I am still searching for results…