Archive for October, 2010

Volodya Sorokin reached Florida

dscn0101300 The traveller Volodya Sorokin has just reached Florida. He started in the beginning of the month his 14 000 km journey from Washington DC to Alaska with bicycle Drag Cruizer and is expected to end the trip in May 2011. Gallerydscn01151

KostadinPetrov on the top of the 2010 Macedonian Cadets Ranklist

kp300 The young Macedonian racer KostadinPetrov, who’s riding Drag Bluebird, won the first place in the overall ranking in Cadets category for 2010 in Macedonia. He took the gold medal in three of the competition for the season – in Kochani, Veles and Kumanovo. That gave him the leading result of 116 points and the top place in the overall ranking. Gallery

The seventh edition of Drag Race “Cherni Vrah” and it’s winners.

allFor the 7th consecutive year Drag organized Cherni Vrah( Black Mount) Race and participants from all over the country and all ages took part in. The competition starts in Boiana, District of Sofia , 750 m above sea level. All participants should climb to Cherni Vrah (2290 m above sea level and the highest point of Vitosha Mountain) and then get back down to Boiana.
fedq1-3447The fastest climber turned out to be Alexander Genov with time of 2.21:10 h, while Fiodor Dragolov was the fastest in the overall ranking (ascend and descent) with time of 3.14:40 h .
Fiodor won the gold medal for Veterans and broke his own records.
The fastest down the mountain was Nikolai Petkov who took the distance for 1.01 h.
Up on Mt.Cherni Vrah Alexander arrived for 12 min and 11 sec - faster than Fiodor, while Fiodor was better in down hilling and crossed the finish line 5 min earlier than Alexander.
124 persons from all over the country and all ages took part in this competition.
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Drag Emotion was awarded with Gold Medal at the International Plovdiv Fair

medal_big-2010-1 This year “Velomania” participated in the International Plovdiv Fair and received a gold medal for its electric bike Drag Emotion in category “Transport”. The e-bike has a built in drive system that helps the rider, using an electric motor, integrated in the front hub. All kinds of systems for safety and easy control are provided and all European Union standards are taken into consideration. This makes it very ergonomic, ecologic and comfort vehicle for the city.