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Ride the rockies: Rocky Mountain goes on tour

Sat, Apr 5, 2008

All Mountain, Cross Country, Gravity, News

Rocky Demo TourRocky Mountain is pretty proud of its bike line these days, and for good reason. The Slayer is one of the best built all-mountain bikes going, and the Flatline is positively badass. However, Rocky seems to feel that not enough people have actually thrown a leg over its bikes lately, and is launching the Rocky Demo Tour to remedy this crisis. The tour consists of a full fleet of 2008 Rocky bikes jammed in the back of a Dodge Sprinter. Driven by Thane Hall, the fleet will make appearances at over 75 events this summer including Sea Otter, the Downieville Classic, and both Crankworx festivals. Sounds like a pretty sweet summer gig if you ask us; who wouldn’t love road tripping around to some of the best events on dirt all summer long?

To find out when the short-bus of fun is going to be close to you this summer, check out the website that Rocky has set up for the event.

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