Welcome to our all new Wideopen web-feature – the random question generator!

We’ve stolen a huge list of interview questions off the internet – chucked in some bike ones – and will be firing a random 20 questions at anyone we get in our sites from now on. Or till it gets crap.

Victim number one is… Tom Dowie.

The Nuke Proof team just uploaded a few teaser shots of their new proto DH and freeride frames to Facebook…

The frame was tested at 2009 Mega and what you’ve got here is the 2nd generation proto. No more news as yet… Stay tuned.

Boom!

Mike at Borderline just sent over the official press release for this year’s National Champs.

It’s going down on a completely re-vamped track at Ae Forest on the 17th/18th July. Expect bigger jumps, new lines and all new sections. Can Gee defend his title? Will Peaty take revenge and win it back after his victory in Bala two years back?

Full press release here champs fans…

This Is Sheffield. Episode 1. from Joe Bowman on Vimeo.

Joe just put together another banger from oop north – awesome work bro!

Remember we ran a comp to win a copy of Break the Cycle? Looks like we’ve got a winner at last…

The answer was of course that BTC covered the Irish downhill scene and not the Welsh, Polish or your mum’s. We only had one joker opt for ‘your mum’ … you know who you are!

Find out here who won the prize…

Last year Fli-distro and Mtb-direct came up with the great idea of running a raffle to win a Solid Mission 9 frame.

At just £25 a ticket it was a pretty bloody good way to get your hands on a grand an a half of downhill race goodness!

Check out who won right here…

We’ve had a few bits of kit land at WOHQ over the last couple of weeks, including a few new lids from Bell and Giro.

We’ll be putting them through the grinder and reporting back in Wideopen issue 12 on how they’re holding up.

Check out what’s turned up…

LowFiVideoClub is the new project of LowFiBicycleClub.com.

They’ll be putting together monthly ‘video magazine’ style web edits – starting with this 2009 resume and Whitestyle report.

Check it out!

Round 2 of the Irish Winter Series went down last weekend at Cloon – with Wideopen’s Irish race reporter Dan Sheridan taking the junior #1 spot once again.

Check out Dan’s mini-repo of the race here and look out for a full repo in Wideopen issue 12.

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Transition are doing a great job of getting a real buzz going about their new TR450 race bike…

To keep us all moist on the new rig they’ve just sent round a few high-res studio shots – showing the bike in all it’s glory.

Check ‘em out here…

There’s a lot to be said for picking a bike that suits your local trails – if you don’t ride monster big hills every weekend why not ride a bit less travel?

MSC and Propain are both releasing ‘mini-dh’ bikes for 2010 and both look like a lot of fun.

Check ‘em out here…

Alpine Bikes Winter Series Round 1 from Joe Bowman on Vimeo.

Check out Steve’s repo from the race here and click the vid to view in HD!

Transition HQ just fired over this quick video of Lars Sternberg riding an awesome trail and doing a bit of a ‘cornering clinic’.

Perfect antidote to a boring Tuesday morning..

Entries are GO for the 2010 BritishDHSeries!

There’s over £10K in prizes, an awesome track line up, confirmed pro-entries and heaps more awesome reasons to race the UK’s premier downhill series. All you need to enter today is 50 points.

Get signed up NOW here.

Yep – Wideopen team rider Dan Sheridan just won another round of the Irish Winter Series. That’s 2 races and 2 wins.

He emailed mid-week and said he’d be “first or last” and it looks like he picked the right one getting the top spot in junior and 4th in Elite. Pinned!

Check out the full repo in Wideopen 12…