- Trebon Pedals To First At Crested Butte XC Race, While Moseley And Wicks Face World’s Best In Italy -

KONAWORLD (June 23, 2008) - Coming off two first-place finishes at the Oregon State Championships and Teva Mountain Games in the last three weeks, Kona Factory Team rider Ryan Trebon added another crown to his bag of medals after taking the cross-country title at the fourth Mountain States Cup event in Crested Butte, Colorado last weekend. While Trebon was cruising along in Colorado, fellow Factory Team members Tracy Moseley and Barry Wicks faced stiff competition at the UCI Mountain Bike and Trials World Cup races in Val Di Sole, Italy. 

Racing in the pro men’s division in the eighth annual Wildflower Rush Shimano XTR XC race at the Crested Butte  Mountain Resort, Trebon  took the 28-rider field by storm, winning the race with a time of 2 hours, 15 minutes - nearly seven minutes ahead of the second-place rider. Pedaling on dry, buffed-out singletrack, the race featured three, 10-mile laps which covered a total of 5,400-vertical-feet of climbing. This was Trebon’s first Mountain States Cup race of the season.

Riding against some of the best cross-country and downhill riders in the world, Moseley and Wicks showed their racing dedication and desire at the World Cup races in Italy, but just came up short. With Italy hosting the World Cup event for the third time ever, Moseley, who was coming off a World Cup DH victory in Fort William, Great Britian two weeks ago, finished sixth last weekend after tackling a fast, technical course. After starting in the back of the pack in the XC race, Wicks slowly climbed into 30th place but was sidelined after suffering a costly flat tire which shattered his hopes of a better finish. Wicks took 56th place overall.

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