birthday : april 1, 1980
hometown : jim thorpe, pa
current home : Balneário De Camboriú, Santa Catarina, Brazil
racing since : 1988
fact : father galen van dine is regarded as an east coast mountain bike pioneer
influences : “I get a lot of influence from my snowboard background and friends…. and a little from Bruce Lee”
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Cannondale’s Chris Van Dine and Aaron Chase recently starred in a Mountain Bike episode on AT&T’s U-verse Sports Channel. U-verse is AT&T’s cable service provider with over 3 million subscribers nationwide. Van Dine shot his segment on the Claymore during the peak foliage of New England’s autumn season at Cannondale’s new partner, Highland Mountain Bike Park. CVD commented, “Our friends at Highland fired up the chairlift and basically gave us the keys to the mountain to film for the show. We had a lot of fun and it definitely came through in the broadcast.”
Van Dine added, “Highland was ideal for fine-tuning my setups over their wide range of terrain. I’m loving the Claymore’s versatility. I’ve never ridden a bike that is as comfortable bombing the rock gardens of ‘Maiden Voyage’, as the massive jumps and features on the slopestyle course, and then raising the seat to spin up for another run. The OverMountain bikes blur the traditional lines, and are the most fun bikes I’ve ever thrown a leg over.”