Steve Peat continued his dominance of the Nissan Lisboa DownTown urban downhill race this weekend, winning the 10-year-old event for the eighth time.

The Briton beat Aussie Mick Hannah (GT Bicycles) and his own team-mate Greg Minnaar (Santa Cruz Syndicate) to take the top spot.

Results

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7.9kg fully built…

Picture by Justin Fox from EUROBIKE 2008

Watsonville, CA, November 12, 2008 – FOX Racing Shox is proud to announce their World Championship Limited Edition 40 RC2 Fork and DHX RC4 Rear Shock will be made available for sale in a run of just 200 individually numbered units. In June, 2008 at Val di Sole, Italy history was made when sister and brother Rachel and Gee Atherton of team Animal-Commencal rode to dual victories in the World Championship Downhill race riding FOX’s 40 RC2 and DHX RC4.

The 40 RC2 limited edition has the same damping that was tested, tuned and won on throughout the season. Its performance characteristics are designed specifically to be pushed at the highest level of competition and comes stock with a stiffer Titanium spring than the 2009 production model. Race Manager Mark Fitzsimmons tested with FOX’s top Downhillers throughout the season to tune both the fork and shock for ultimate, winning performance. “The harder these products are ridden, the more rewarding the ride becomes,” stated Fitzsimmons.

The DHX RC4 is a new from-the-ground-up, purpose built downhill shock specifically engineered to meet the demands of the world’s most brutal downhill courses and the athletes that dominate them. External adjustments for velocity sensitive damping and position sensitive ending stroke control act independently of one another allowing the rider to dial in the perfect balance of small bump compliance/traction, dynamic control, and big hit absorption. The World Champion version has been tuned and tweaked throughout the season to perform at the highest World Cup level of competition to give the aggressive rider the extra edge for winning performance.

“These Limited Edition products are the culmination of hundreds of hours of testing and working with our Engineers, Race Support Team and Athletes. Our Race program is not just a Marketing effort, we work year round with the World’s best athletes to develop and improve our products so that we can win World Championships and ultimately deliver products to the end consumer that are best in class,” said Mario Galasso VP of FOX’s Bike division.

Gee riding to third in qualifying at Rampage 08. Photo ~ David Ferguson.

The Limited Edition World Champion 40 RC2 and DHX RC4 will be available mid December. Lucky owners will find trading cards with Rachel and Gee’s photos and statistics in the package as well as videos of their winning runs on the Limited Edition owner’s manual CD. Along with the Limited Edition product decals there are also tuning decals on the product to keep track of the owner’s preferred settings. Inquire at your favourite dealer for availability and price.

40 RC2 World Champion

WEIGHT: 6.83 lbs (3.09 kg)
(Includes axle)
TRAVEL: 8 inches (203 mm)

EXTERNAL ADJUSTMENTS
– Low speed compression
– High speed compression
– Coil spring preload
– Rebound

INTERNAL ADJUSTMENTS
– Travel is internally adjustable down to 6 inches in half inch increments
– Hydraulic bottom-out in damper
– Spring Rate

LOWER LEG
International standard disc brake tabs

STEERER 1 1/8”

SPRING Titanium

DAMPER FIT

FORK COLOUR White

DHX RC4 World Champion

WEIGHT: .99 lbs. (447 g)  (No reducers or spring)

ADJUSTMENTS
– Externally adjustable velocity sensitive damping (DSC)
> High speed compression
> Low speed compression
– Bottom out force adjust (via Schrader Valve)
– Bottom out progressiveness
– Rebound adjust
– Coil spring preload

LENGTH
9.5×3.0

including the new Fox DHX RC4 rear shock…

(sorry about the advert at the beginning, you just have to sit through it!)

Duration: 2m 43s

Commencal designer and engineer Nico Menard talks about the 2009 Atherton Commencal Supreme racing DH bike

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Win a Ltd. Edition ‘Team Atherton’ Commencal Supreme DH framekit (sorry not the complete bike as shown) and a pair of team race jerseys.

The framekit, which has been made to celebrate Gee and Rachel Atherton’s double win at last year’s World Championships in Italy, includes the frame (duh), a Fox DHX5 rear shock, Sun Ringle rear hub, Thomson seat post and an e.thirteen chain device.

There are only a limited number of these frames being made, so this is a pretty exclusive deal.  And not only that, the jerseys are special too…rainbow stripes and signed by the whole team.

This competition closes on the 6th of May ’09

Head over to Dirtmag to enter the comp!

Collaborating with Animal Commencal co-sponsors Shimano, Fox, DT Swiss, Chris King, Sunline, E13 and Maxxis, Commencal set to work on producing an ‘all-singing, all-dancing’ replica of the Atherton’s World Championship winning Supreme DH complete with illustrious rainbow stripe paintjob.

£ TBC

For spec…

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