Title Sponsor
DH Presenting Sponsor and Official Component
www.e13components.com
Back again for the forth consecutive year as our presenting sponsor, e.thirteen components is dedicated to producing the best mountain bike compenents in the world through advanced engineering. How do they do it? Through Finite Element Analysis and exhaustive product testing. Check out e13components.com and click on the guide picker to which will cater equipment directly with your riding capabilities. E.thirteen components: performance that lasts.
www.jbl.com
JBL has been setting-and is continuously raising-audio performance standards in theaters, concert halls, recording studios, arenas, home audio, car audio and portable audio for more than 60 years. If you are looking to build a great home theater system, car audio system, computer speaker system, gaming system, or looking for the perfect headphones or portable speaker system for your Apple iPod, Microsoft Zune or other MP3 player, JBL has you covered. No other company can deliver your music or soundtrack exactly the way the artist intended. Be sure to check out our latest and great gear at the races by stopping by the Trek Racing Team pit, at a retailer near you, or on the world-wide web at www.jbl.com.
To celebrate our sponsorship of this awesome event series, JBL would like to extend and invitation for you to visit a private on-line store where you can purchase all of the latest gear at great pricing. We know you love music, and there is no better way to enjoy it than on JBL gear. Log onto www.coolstuff.harman.com and have fun.
Associate, Official Suspension
www.foxracingshox.com
Since 1974 FOX Racing Shox has made suspension. It is all that we do, and it is all that we have ever done. We’re proud of this focus, which has resulted in racing championships in Motorcycles,Indy Cars, Snowmobiles, ATV’s, Off-Road Trucks and of course, Mountain Bikes. The products that result from the knowledge gained across our multi discipline racing efforts are tools, not toys. We design, test, and manufacture our high-performance, engineering-driven, purpose-built tools right here in our factory in Watsonville, California. This is not just our job this is our passion. This focused passion is alive and well within FOX Racing Shox, fueling the innovation you’ve come to expect from us for the present and the future.
Associate, Official Bike
www.cannondale.com
"Our mission is to create innovative, quality products that inspire cyclists around the world."
For us at Cannondale, it's building, testing and rebuilding; making it better in the process, never settling for "good enough". It's knowing it, verses guessing it and using the world's greatest athletes to prove it. It's having such high standards and expectations in how we want product to perform that we are relentless in our pursuit.
It's not about superfluous welds or fancy etchings, it's about performance, innovation, superior product. Does it contribute to the ride? Does it do what we want it to do? When we step back and look at our work, the answer is easy... it does, and we feel it everyday, knowing you'll feel it too.
Associate, Official Disc Brakes
www.hayesdiscbrake.com
A staple since Mount Snow started our DH series events 3 years ago Hayes Disc brakes have been supporting events for 20 years. Hayes Disc Brakes are the leaders in technology designed to make you stop, or at least slow down. This weekends 1st place riders will all be walking home with a full Hayes Disc Brake System.
Associate, Official Tire
www.maxxis.com
Whether you’re jumping out of the gate in BMX or mountain cross, lining out the sprint in the local crit, screaming along on your favorite downhill, or climbing to the top of the nearest mountain just to ride back down, you don’t have to worry about what’s underneath. Go ahead and focus on the race, the course, the competition, the ride – leave your tires to us. Maxxis takes pride in the development and construction of high–quality performance products that riders trust on any surface. So check out our bicycle products. Because like the pros, you deserve the best: Maxxis.
Associate, Official Rim
New to our Sponsor team is SunRingle Rims. SunRingle provides the best in wheel/rim technology. Each Iron Horse Weekend we’ll be raffling off one set of sweet rims to our competitors. Check out sun-ringle.com for all of the SunRingle Products.
Associate, Official Helmet
Giro helmets are being worn by millions of riders, cyclists, skiers and snowboarders around the world. Young-bloods and old timers; hard-cores, hashers and hipsters; rookies, experts and a few regular Joes too – in fact, pretty much anyone that appreciates superior fit and function, cutting-edge styling and the very best ideas you can get in a helmet. And somewhere deep in our Santa Cruz, California headquarters the next innovation is being born.
Associate, Official Spoke
When Wheelsmith Fabrications started in 1980, we were the first company to perfect mass-production of high-quality stainless steel bicycle spokes. This year we celebrate our 28th year of business — and Wheelsmith spokes continue to be the finest available. With our many years of experience, there are few techniques we haven’t tried and few situations we haven’t encountered. As a result of this vast database of wheel knowledge, Wheelsmith not only turns out an ideal spoke, but we also offer the nipples and wheelbuilding tools necessary to all who seek a better bicycle wheel.
We are proud to make and supply the following products:
- Butted, bladed, ovalized, and straight-gauge stainless steel spokes
- Wheelsmith SpokePrep™
- Aluminum nipples in a wide array of colors
- Duristan™, our corrosion-proof nipple plating
Associate, Official Granola
www.bearnakedgranola.com
Granola has come a long way… thanks to Bear Naked. Long gone is the granola of the hippie health food movement, which emphasized all-natural, wholesome ingredients but lacked taste and personality. With its vibrant branding and dedication to producing all-natural, whole grain foods that prioritize taste and premium ingredients, Bear Naked reinvented granola and the granola eater. But the last chapter has yet to be written – as Bear Naked introduces… Trail Mixes and Chocolate Granola.
Associate, Official Accessory
www.dakine.com
Everything we design and build is all about quality. Since 1979 DAKINE has been a leader in the action sports world. Surfers, kiteboarders, skaters, skiers, mountain bikers, and snowboarders alike look to DAKINE for gear that will hold up to their intense sports and lifestyles. There are DAKINE backpacks specialized for nearly every action sport—from snowboarding to surfing to mountain biking. DAKINE luggage focuses on practical designs that get you to your destination in style. And DAKINE’s extensive line of necessities—like DAKINE beanies and hats, and DAKINE gloves—show that warmth, style, and performance go hand-in-hand-in-hand.
Associate, Official Eyewear
www.smithoptics.com
Smith Optics is home to an authentic group of product designers, marketers, salespeople, bean counters, and phone answerers who, above all things, just like to get their shred on. Having such a simple goal in life ensures that every product Smith makes goes from the drawing board to the warehouse floor developed, designed, and tested to out-perform the conditions served up by Mother Nature. Based in Sun Valley, Idaho, Smith Optics, Inc. was founded in 1965 with the creation of the first goggle featuring a sealed thermal lens and breathable vent foam. This invention, which made sending it on the most epic of powder days possible, has evolved into the most technologically advanced and in demand product line in the snow goggle industry. In 1995 Smith celebrated its thirtieth anniversary by turning the sunglass market on its head, introducing the “Slider”, the industry’s first intuitively interchangeable sunglass system giving consumers options, performance, and value they had never imagined. Today, Smith continues to forge new ground as a leading manufacturer of the industry’s most technologically advanced and diverse line of goggles, sunglasses and snow helmets. Our company is passionate about the sports we all love and our devotion to excellence, innovation, performance and style has made Smith the choice of action-sport athletes worldwide.
Official satellite radio
www.sirus.com
We’ll be jamming to Faction, Jam-On, Alt Nation, Lithium and many of the other Sirius stations throughout the weekend. Sirius is the best radio on radio.
Associate
www.sponsorhouse.com
Since 2001, more than 500,000 sponsorship matches have been made on Sponsorhouse making it the leading online destination for sponsorship. Simply create a profile, promote yourself, contact potential sponsors and then promote them through your riding! Athletes, events, and teams can use sponsorhouse a number of different ways. Click on our logo to learn more.
Associate
www.bustedspoke.com
The official EAST Coast Web-site Forum of the Sobe Energy Downhill Series presented by e.thirteen. Check out bustedspoke.com for to chat about events, trails, new equipment and more. For all the up to date information about this series visit the Busted Spoke, Racing and Local Events Forum.
Associate
www.northwave.com
Manufacturing performance-driven cycling footwear since 1989, Northwave has a strong history in all things bike. Located in Trevisio Italy, our shoes bring riders of all levels of experience to the height of cycling passions. From world-class competitors, such as Tom Boonen, Gunn Rita-Dahle, and Michal Prokop, to the weekend warrior making his or her dream come true on the roads, trails and parks around the globe. Northwave has been there in heart and soul.
Northwave shoes have been on the cutting edge of technology since the beginning, leading up to our latest offering of shoes and accessories. Our technological achievements include: the use of natural rubber in our tread designs providing grip and feel, the asymmetrical upper of the skate/dirt Mad Max freeride shoe, and the Gore-Tex protection in the Celsius Mtb High top.
So whether you’re slashing your way down a trail on a pair of Avalanche Pro Models, or on your favorite course, or winding it up in the sprint of a local criterium, Northwave has the shoe for you.
Associate
www.camelbak.com
CamelBak Products, LLC. is the originator of the Hands-Free Hydration system. Since 1991, CamelBak's state of the art packs and hydration systems have benefited athletes, outdoor enthusiasts, and soldiers around the world. CamelBak continues to deliver innovative hydration products to the market with the belief in the performance advantage that proper hydration can deliver in any situation.

