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Show More misspellings than any other paper. Try to fotos aft cause local racer Jarret Rubis, first half of the 34-mile race, but had to succumb to a flat. Thomas Frischknecht of Switzerland, who broke his collarbone the night before last year’s World Championship race at Vail, took over and never looked back. Two Schwinn team riders followed, Tim pain, to exclaim “ If I rode that Grewal, Rishi’s more fortunate one hill that hard, I'd go into rigor mortis at the top.” Spectators lined much of the brother. doning aspect of the competition. Their deftness and power kept them on their bikes through hellish ruts and rock quarries. 3 In. the women’s competition, Julie Furtado exceeded expectations and crushed the field by more than five min- utes, leaving the svelte and ravishing Paola Pezzo of Italy a distant second. World champi- Henrik Djernis, the tour moves to Mt. Snow, Vermont next weekend, where the Missile and the senior Grewal hope to hold their bikes together and redeem them- selves. eke | current World Champion, took fourth. John Tomac was conspicuously absent from the leaderboard, to the chagrin of The DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME rs 7 : =| ae The real spin-off from the Mountain Biking high tech industry has been an absurd amount of vapor ware, the twentieth century equivalent of snake oil. Every year computer companies promise to give the world on a fifteen inch monitor, and every year instead we receive software and hardware with mere echoes of the promised technology; when it runs at all. Media Mosaic is the first company to deliver what they promise and more, in the field of multi- media CD-ROM’s. 7 The CD “Mountain Biking” is a great way to introduce the novice to the techniques, mechanics, and excitement of the mountain biking world. The Mountain Bike CD is the best graphic and audio CD interface that I have seen so far. The installation was a seamless three key effort, that installed a video driver if your machine is not so equipped. We ran the CD on two Pentium 90 machines, both running Windows for Workgroups with 24 megabytes of RAM. One computer was equipped with four times CDROM, and the other was equipped with a two times CD-ROM. On the 4x machine the Mountain Bikes CD was flawless, quickly working through videos, music, and animation with reasonable speed. On the 2x machine the delay was noticeable, and annoying. The animation and sound would pause while the CD worked nonstop. The sounds were also different on the soundblaster equipped machine. The Turtle Beach equipped machine played a wider range of effects. The most exciting part of the Mountain Biking CDROM was seeing how far multi-media has come. Media Mosaic has produced a high quality CD that will help the beginning mountain biker navigate many of the mysteries of the sport. The Mountain Biking videos were interesting if not wildly exciting. The technical tips were probably perfect for the novice mountain biker. The CD would shorten the learning curve for the average mountain biker joining the sport. David Billstrom the CEO of media mosaic said “we found a large positive correlation between 25-35 year olds males with CD-ROM computers who are first time purchasers of mountain bikes.” If Mr. Billstrom follows this marketing theory, then we can eagerly await follow up CD’s on Rogaine and prostate cancer. I recommend this to any novice with a 4x CD-ROM driver. 97-CD-ROM. It is available from Media Mosaic at (800) | | | bs Bhs Nir pros disappointed in the blood Ranjeet Levi ny wr thirstiness as NASCAR fans: » they are in it for the spills. The and © 1995 Bailey’s Rocks and Rock, ‘Shock and Roll where they had seen so many crashes in the cit-izen’s races mid-week. Apparently mountain biking fans suffer the same blood- Gould PHOTO BY JARRET “JARRET” RUBIS/WCR Noh Aan the normally stoic and oblivious to course but seemed to migrate to the danger areas like Se the“anen "ss = freid, st or 8256 S. 700E. Sandy UT Phone Uy 566-9494 AOUrS: Size Deep P1iza Not Valid with any ¢ Offer one Covips Mon.-Thurs. rit and incredible endurance to pain and lactic acid. The climbs were steep enough to In American Rishi Grewal led for his many disciples. Whether for cycling neophytes or seasoned gearheads, the Vail World Cup proved to be a sensory smorgasbord of sport, sufficient to make middle-aged couch potatoes shave their legs in anticipation of their first race. Despite its detractors, Vail has proved to be a premier venue for bike competition, if not the World Extreme Skiing competitions. Th als, lungs the size of Wyoming, . on Alison Sydor of Canada fol-— lowed placing third. f believed. The headline event is the cross-country, which gained full medal status at the Atlanta Olympics in 1996. Cross-coun‘try combines the speed of downhill, the handling of tri- Canyon Reporter, Mid June - Mid July, Page 5 Y _ biking” and must be seen to be Wasatch |
