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PRESS & MEDIA HYPE
partial press coverage & media list for Rusty’s X-cellent
Adventures and JAMBA
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"If
you seek truly insane thrills, (Rusty) Jones is happy to accommodate."
-Alison Ashton, Copley News Service
"Especially exhilarating is mountain biking with Rusty’s X-cellent Adventures in
Negril."
-Jim & Niki Wood, Coast Orange County magazine |
"Riding here does not’t remove you from people; it enables you to meet them in
strange places under sublime circumstances."
- Rob Story, BIKE magazine
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To get your copy
of
"Jamaica Soul Ride - To Air Is You, Mon!"
go to www.videoactionsports.com
or call Video Action Sports at
1-800-727-6689
check out the review of
"Jamaica Soul Ride - To Air Is You, Mon!"
In the June 2000 issue of Mountain Bike magazine |
*Jamaica International newspaper
Summer 1999
Written in English, Italian and German. A quarterly publication based in
Jamaica with distribution focused on tourists areas and on international
airline carriers routed through Jamaica.
*MTV "Jamaica Undercover" Part
of MTV's Spring Break 1999 coverage. March
1999 -Show dedicated to Spring break in Jamaica. Four guys are followed
through their trip by MTV. They spend a day with Rusty and friends at
"Rusty' s X-cellent Adventures"
*Outdoor Life Network - "The
Ride Guide" (U.S.A., Canada) June, 1999
-Half an hour feature on JAMBA, local trails, and the first "Jamaica
National Championship Series Mountain Bike Race 1999" held in
February "The
Ride Guide" is broadcast to over 14 million households throughout
North
America.
* "Jamaica Soul Ride - To Air Is
You, Mon." Summer 1999
Mountain bike movie spotlighting Rusty's X-cellent Adventures and JAMBA
*Dirt Rag magazine issue # 71 April
1999
Article on Zerial Hayles, Olympic hopeful
*New York magazine Vol.32, No. 9
March 8, 1999
*Bike Schweiz magazine
(Switzerland, Germany, Austria) February, 1999
*SkyWritings magazine (Air
Jamaica's in flight magazine) Winter, 1999
*The Gleaner - Jamaica's National
newspaper January 22, 1999
*The Jamaica Observer - Sunday
Sport Section Vol. 5 No. 8 January 17,
1999
*DIRT RAG magazine issue #69 (USA)
January 1999
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REVIEWS |
"The
world’s ultimate mountain biking adventure!"
- Jose Diaz-Balart, CBS This Morning
"Christopher Columbus described Jamaica as ‘the fairest land mine eyes have ever
seen’." Ride a beach front singletrack as waves thrum against the shore and
palms whisper overhead, and you’ll know what he was talking about."
- Rob Story, BIKE magazine"It promises to
take you on the ride on - literally - the ride of your life."
- Jose Diaz-Balart, CBS This Morning |
"It's
the coolest ---damn race course I've ever been on"
-John Thompson, Mountain Bike magazine
- *CBS THIS MORNING - "Out There
with Jose Diaz" September 30, 1998
- *Copley News Service wire service
(international) August 8, 1998
- *COAST - ORANGE COUNTY magazine
August 1998
- *Showtime Cable Network "Showtime
No Limits" May and June 1998
- bicycle stunts performed by Rusty for cable network commercial (North
America)
- *ABC TV - "Eyewitness News"
- Houston, TX. USA. April 1998
- *MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDER magazine (aka:MBR)
(UK) March 1998
- *London Weekend Television / Sky TV ³Caribbean
Uncovered² (UK) Spring
1998
- featured in a six part documentary about Jamaica
- *College T.V Network March and
April 1998
- closed circuit TV broadcast to over 500 colleges and Universities in the
USA
- *BLUE magazine (North America)
January 1998
- *New York Times - Sunday Travel
Section October 26, 1997
- *MOUNTAIN BIKER magazine (North
America) October 1997
- *BIKE magazine - six-page feature
article (North America) August 1997
- *Jamaica International newspaper (International)
June 1997
Featured in article about extreme sports in Jamaica.
- *Easy Reader newspaper (USA - West
Coast) May 1997
- *NEGRIL NEGRIL magazine Winter
1997/1998 and 1998/1999
- *NEGRIL NEGRIL magazine Fall 1996
and Spring 1997
- *The Travel Channel "Meshach
Taylor's Hidden Caribbean" (North America)
December 1998 and January 1999
- *TRAVEL WEEKLY magazine (USA)
Featured cover story November 19, 1998
- national publication - exclusive to the travel industry
- *Entertainment Television -
"Talk Soup" (USA) October 3, 4, 1998
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Publications
- *Mountain Bike magazine Vol. 16, No. 8
³Riding in Heaven²
August 2000
Feature on ³The Second Annual Negril Fat Tire Festival and Rustyıs X-cellent
Adventures
- *Mountain Bike magazine Vol. 16, No. 6
June 2000
Review of the video ³Jamaica Soul Ride - To Air Is You, Mon²
- *Mountain Bike magazine Vol. 16, No. 5
May 2000
³Sites² listing
- *Caribbean Travel & Life Volume
15 Number 2 March 2000
Article "Going To Extremes" highlights the best adventures in
the Caribbean
featuring
Rusty's X-cellent Adventures.
- *The Daily Observer Vol.6 No.35
(Jamaican newspaper) Saturday, February
26, 2000
- *The Gleaner - Jamaica's National
newspaper Sunday Sport Section
February 6, 2000
Feature on the "Second Annual Negril Fat Tire Festival"
- *The Jamaica Observer Tourist Times Vol.
1 No.1 January 20 -February 2,
2000
Feature on Jamaica Mountain Bike Association (JAMBA)
- *The Western Mirror Newspaper
(Jamaica) Saturday Sports Section, January
22, 2000
Feature on the "Second Annual Negril Fat Tire Festival"
- *Negril Winter ~ Spring 2000
Feature on the "Second Annual Negril Fat Tire Festival"
- *The News-Gazette (greater Chicago
area) Sunday Travel Section November
28, 1999
Front page feature on Negril, highlighting Rusty's X-cellent Adventures, a
profile on Linda, an account of a ride.
- *Dirt Rag magazine issue # 73
July 1999
Three page feature on Rusty's X-cellent Adventures and the "First
Annual
Negril Fat Tire Festival"
- *Skywritings Air Jamaica's
in-flight magazine
August 1999
Feature on Rusty's X-cellent Adventures, JAMBA, and profiles on Rusty,
Zerial & Linda.
Jamaica Mountain Bike Association Limited
Rusty's X-cellent Adventures
Negril P.O. Box # 104, Westmoreland, Jamaica, W.I.
t: (876) 957-0155 f: (876) 957-4108
e: jamtnbikeassc@cwjamaica.com
www.nyws.com/rusty
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