8:00am TV: Red Bull X-Alps on BBC Scotland
BANGKOK, THAILAND (Team Geared Up) - BBC Scotland followed Ulric Jessop on the 2007 Red Bull X-Alps paragliding challenge. The X-Alps race is an 850km flying and mountain climbing race across the European Alps where competitors armed only with their paraglider must scale high enough to jump and get[...] Read More »
9:01am Friday Links: Tube Station Downhill, Rust Stickers, Irish Coastline From Air & Monty Python!
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - You got your Thursday Fluff, now for some Friday Links! Here’s the stuff that never made it to a full post this week. — Anti-theft rust stickers. Make your bike look rubbish! Love it! via GO Blog. — Aerial photography of the entire Irish coastline fr[...] Read More »
7:15am Video: Top 5 Helmet-Cam Videos
LONDON, UK (team Geared Up) - With such a good response to our top 5 mountain biking & snowboard crashes we’re going to continue the series! Today we look at the top 5 helmet-cam (head mounted camera) videos. 5th Place, skiing down the longest escalator in Europe (Angle Tube Station, Lon[...] Read More »
12:33pm Photos: London Red Bull Air Race - Practice
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The London Red Bull Air Race is on this weekend above the Thames. The course is set right below our office windows. I snapped these photos at lunch during the practice runs. Fantastic! Flickr Set -Robin- (Photo Credits: All images by Author.) [...] Read More »
10:33am Red Bull X-Alps Takes Off
LONDON, UK (Team Geared Up) - The Red Bull X-Alps challenge has started. The race requires athletes to travel as fast as possible from Austria to Monte Carlo by foot & paraglider only. Effectively they run/walk up mountains then jump off and fly as far as they can. Land & repeat. There ar[...] Read More »

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