Team G Cross Honda Comes To An End

Following an announcement by Honda at the end of the final JCF race series in Japan at the weekend, it can be confirmed that Team G Cross Honda will not be continuing.

23 Degrees Sports Management, the company hired by the Honda Racing Corporation to manage the international mountain bike race activities for the company, confirms today that the program will have no future beyond 2007.

As a motorcycle manufacturer, Honda had achieved the approach of this challenge by applying its technology which has been cultivated by its motorcycle development, and getting some feedback to its motorcycle technology is one of the purposes of its entry into the downhill mountain bike racing activity. The original "RN01" technology for example, frame and suspension, was designed utilizing off road motorcycle technology, including a very special centrally mounted gearbox that is able to change shift at any time; these were improved repeatedly, and were completed as Honda expected and hoped it would when they started this project back in 2000. The correctness of direction, and its approach, has been validated by the fact that they have been the number one international team for the past 2 years, and proven by the race results including acquisition of the NORBA title (2004) and UCI World Cup title (2005).

Again, Honda wish to express its gratitude to all team members and persons related to this project, and want all members of the team to continue aiming at success in all the challenges that lay before them. Honda deeply appreciate the cooperation and warm guidance they received as a company from both the race scene and the bicycle industry, allowing its to learn a lot over these years.

The pass for 21 Poles in World Cup 2008!

How to this time start of Polish competitors' in contests Wourld Cup stood under great sign question. A rule of 20 points UCI additionally limited the possibility of notifications, however Mr. Andrzej Skrzypczak was engaged this matter and an affairs gained new turn. How Mr. Andrzej informed us, a national Championships in DH / 4X are the awarded points by UCI and the competitors from high places collected considerable quantity of points in this year, what gave them a possibility to start in World Cup 2008. Andrzej Skrzypczak - "In last year only Grzesiek Borodajko won the necessary points authorizing him to start in Wourld Cup, and this resulted of fact, that nobody sent the scores of Championships of Poland to UIC. The scores of national championships are very high pointed! I looked after 4X, but I see, PZKol. sent also DH scores and in this way a quite considerable group of competitors has got a pass to nextyear's competitions of World Cup of what I'm very glad and I believe, that they'll use this chance. I don't know why in previous years these scores weren't sent to UCI, but organizers of the Championship of Poland probably simply neglected it, or they didn't know how many points flew 'around nose' of competitors. On webside of UCI has appeared information on this subject. A rule introduced in last year stays, that competitor can take participation in the World Cup if has got 20 captured UIC points. In this situation in 4X in next season 12 competitors can star in competition, who took places in world ranking in 2007.
47. Borodajko Grzegorz.........................122 punkty
55. Baran Łukasz................................98"
81. Oleszkiewicz Romek..........................71 "
100. Solarski Piotr.............................60 "
109. Kulesza Robert.............................53 "
123. Makowski Michał............................45"
138. Chmiel Maciej..............................40"
158. Pilewski Łukasz............................35 "
169. Ostrowski Tomasz...........................32 "
174. Kowalski Jacek.............................30 "
190. Smuczyński Wojciech........................25 "
202. Kuckowski Tomasz...........................20 "

All these competitors have automatically right take participation in nextyear's World Cup contests!

In downhill 9 Polish competitors captured 20 or more points authorizing 'em to start in World Cup:
112. Jodko Maciej..............................110 punktów
128. Kucbora Maciej............................ 93 "
160. Banaszak Filip............................ 70 "
199. Zieliński Grzegorz........................ 58 "
245. Śliwa Michał.............................. 45 "
264. Syrzistie Szymon.......................... 40 "
306. Perin Arkadiusz............................33 "
345. Krawczyk Krzysztof........................ 25 "
374. Kasperczak Patryk......................... 20 "

Michal Prokop 2nd in the finals of the BMX Supercross

By this excellent result on Saturday, October 13 in French seaside town Frejus Michal Prokop concluded the pre-Olympic BMX season. In the last of four races of the World Cup of the new Olympic discipline BMX Supercross he won after an excellent performance the second place. Thus he repeated the last year’s position on the same place and took up the fourth place of the previous round of the World Cup in Salt Lake City. After the unlucky first part of this year’s season Michal Prokop sprung from the twelfth position up to the fifth place in the overall standing of the BMX SX World Cup 2007. Prokop’s coach - Radim Mencik: “It looks on this, that Michał quickly preformed his wrongs from the first part of season. He feels good and he’s in a great form, it was visible in his drive. The way in which he gained leadership in semi-final was FANTASTIC!
I think so, too.