Daily Archives: 06/17/2009

Konaworld Travels in Leogang

_mg_andreu_sequenz_Run the Bongo Bongo in Leogang, Austria with KonaWorld Travels July 6-12, 2009 at Austria’s finest Gravity Festival, Leogang’s Out of Bounds Weekend.

Out-of-Bounds runs July 9-12. But you arrive pre-festival to get your groove dialed and kick ass in freeride heaven. Take in the recently opened North Shore styled Bongo Bongo – a new trail for 09 – as well as the Speedster, Flying Gangster, Terminator and 4Cross.

Get it in before an action packed weekend of gravity racing that includes the legendary international dirt jump contest 26trix, the iXS European Downhill Cup and the Austrian Downhill Championship.

Since opening in 2001, Kona Groove Approved Leogang is widely recognized as Europe’s most highly recommended bike park and the Out of Bounds Weekend is an institution on the European summer mountain biking circuit. The mountain and the event have something for everyone – young, old, beginner, expert or pro. Nail it downhill, cross country or freeride style.
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Rules? Do we need any stinkin’ rules? Well, yes, we do.

the-geekFrom the reasoning of the Dawg name to the best comic book authors, from the history of the Hot to a timeline of industrial music, Cory has the trivia, and the opinions to mouth off about it.

Many crusty old mountain bikers will tell you about the “good ol’ days.” This sort of revisionist memory is wrong, and should be punished with great severity – except for maybe one facet. You see, these people conveniently forget about rigid forks and u-brakes. They forget about crappy clothing, and uncomfortable, terribly vented helmets. Seven speed top bar shifting? It wasn’t as good as you’ve been told. Trail access was terrible, and the trail quality was generally much better.
The one thing that might have been better was that trails weren’t as crowded. But with those crowds came the better trails, better equipment, and the awesome bragging right that we as mountain bikers have of seeing Chester Cheetah pictured on a mountain bike on his bag of “food.” I know I’d be happy to have slightly more crowded trails in order to see a true hero like Chester on a mountain bike!
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