Saturday, 13 March 2021, 5:12 pm
With
Auckland now in COVID19 Level 1, the America’s Cup Race
Village can now begin an exciting roll out of village
activations. Locals and visitors to Auckland have had a
taste of the America’s Cup Race Village experience during
the ACWS and the PRADA Cup, but just as you can expect a
whole lot of great action on the water for the America’s
Cup Match, it’s heating up just as much on
shore.
The Eastern Viaduct will continue with the
Merchandise store, where fans can buy their favourite team
kit, and the Challenger of Record’s AC75 ‘professional
Press Release – America’s Cup
With Auckland now in COVID19 Level 1, the America’s Cup Race Village can now begin an exciting roll out of village activations. Locals and visitors to Auckland have had a taste of the America’s Cup Race Village experience during the ACWS and the PRADA Cup, but just as you can expect a whole lot of great action on the water for the America’s Cup Match, it’s heating up just as much on shore.
The Eastern Viaduct will continue with the Merchandise store, where fans can buy their favourite team kit, and the Challenger of Record’s AC75 ‘professional simulator’. With its 180-degree screen and moving platform, it gives you a taste of what it’s like to be at the helm of an AC75. Te Wero Island will continue with the very popular food and beverage experience of Te Pou – New Zealand House and the Mumm Yacht Club situated in prime position – in front of the Main Stage, where the crowds gather to watch the racing action on the big screen, an
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Watch: Some of the best spots to view the America s Cup racing from the shore around Auckland.
Pre-Covid, Auckland city was littered with new building projects, entertainment precincts and tourism activations.
The global pandemic slammed the brakes on much of that but Auckland, like the rest of New Zealand, endured. And Heart of the City chief executive Viv Beck says the city has come out the other side with plenty on offer for visitors and locals alike.
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There are plenty of new reasons for people to visit the CBD during the America s Cup, according to a local business head.
Crankbrothers is introducing its first range of mountain bike footwear for both clip-in and flat pedals.
The Mallet and Mallet E clip-in shoes and Stamp flat shoe apply the Match System to provide optimised engagement for clip-in and flat pedal riders.
Crankbrothers said it entered the footwear category to solve ‘common inconsistencies’ in the cleat box that cause frustration to riders. Its debut range is focused on the downhill, enduro, all-mountain and trail side of mountain biking. The outsoles are optimised for Crankbrothers pedals, though they are designed to work with any mountain bike pedal system.
“We have spent many years finding innovative ways to optimize the shoe-pedal interface focusing on the pedal system, but we were missing control over the shoe, which created interference issues with the pedals,” said Gaspare Licata, Crankbrothers CEO. “We saw riders cutting the cleat box in order to properly engage with the pedal and lengthening the cleat track to allow
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Getting the right shoe/pedal combo isn’t an easy task, especially when you consider how many potential options are currently on the market. Even when you settle on a pair, they might still require some subtle ‘altering’ to get them just right – we’ve all lengthened cleat slots or trimmed shoe outsoles for better pedal compatibility in the past. It’s not ideal, more of a necessary evil.
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But Crankbrothers is keen to eradicate these sorts of problems and has spent the past few years developing its new shoe line-up to do exactly that, with help from Fizik Research and Development designer Anthony Hope and rubber expert Vanni Scapin.