February 22, 2007 – Commencal and Dropmachine.com are proud to announce their continued partnership into 2007. By supporting athletes and continuing our support of cycling, Commencal/Dropmachine.com are proving their dedication year after year with no end in sight. “Commencal Bikes has a dedication to performance driven design and result oriented follow through so its natural for us to continue with this partnership into 2007 and beyond” said Peter Appleton Team Manager and National Sales Director for Commencal Canada.

Ranked as the # 3 Trade Team in Canada and the # 1 Trade Team in Ontario for 2006 was icing on the cake of great individual efforts all year. These accomplishments gave the team a lot of confidence to continue building into 2007.

“We were very happy with our season last year, not only did we have a riders on the podium at Nationals an Provincials but we also had the #1 Chris Dufault, #2 Brandon Cassell and #6 Peter Appleton ranked 4X riders in Canada.” Said Peter Appleton.

Antoine Aubert Larose will return to the team hoping to catch the Canada Cup Podium some more this year, his new responsibilities as Cycling Camp Coordinator at the national Cycling Center in Bromont will also keep him busy helping develop our next top cyclists.

Matt Zdriluk hopes to continue his domination of Junior Ex DH and 4X, not to mention defending his “best trick” title at the Toronto International Bike Show, Overall Forest Jam title and many other dirt and street comp titles from 2006.

The Team will continue its XC program with Samuel Gazaille a Quebec provincial team member and Jason Duffy an elite XC cardio machine in Ontario. Both of these athletes have stars in their sites so we are proud to help them get to that top level of competition.

“Team Commencal Dropmachine has decided to increase its presence in the west by acquiring BC Provincial Team Member Adam McConaghy and Whistler ripper Tom Grzesik, watch out for Team White Commencal Supreme DH’s coming up behind you on dirt merchant!”

The Commencal/Dropamchine.com Team will continue attending Canada Cup, Ontario Cup, US Open and Crankworx as its major events for 2007, so keep those camera’s handy for a podium pic!

Remaining with the team is our All-Star cast of rippers:

-Peter Appleton
-Matt Zdriluk
-Corey Shannon
-Adam Mcconaghy
-Chris Dufault
-Tom Grzesik
-Paul Meiklejohn
-Doug Beattie
-Brian Serneels
-Josh De Cloet
-John Summach

Team Commencal/Dropmachine.com is proudly supported by:
SRAM, Avid, Oakley, Sombrio, Hutchinson, Commencal, Impac Gloves, Axis Gear, Kempter Marketing Inc