Kurt Sorge 2nd at the Rampage!

Kurtis Sorge, Brandon Semenuk and Thomas Vanderham crowned the best of the best in Big Mountain riding!

Sorge styling it up at the Rampage.
Whipping the 60 ft gap after charging into it out of another cliff line!

By the looks of it you would think he was about to throw the bike, actually he is just busting a giant Superman the cliff gap.

I guess this is our blog so we can do what we want without having to give a shit... Holy Fuck! The Redbull Rampage so just punked the Krankworks event in my eyes! Sadly it is not very spectator friendly due to location but no doubt this is to date the worlds most hardcore freeride event!

So stoked for Kurt, probably the coolest event to podium on all year and with the level of competition having the worlds best riders in attendance, congrats.

Kurt charged his lines and almost took it but Semenuk has been dominating the scene this year, and at least all three on the podium are BC boys!
Big mountain is back!

Check out the Rampage videos here

Sorge sent this shot of his XRAY platforms eh road in the event. Obviously these were fresh, we start out blingy and sexy but these are designed to be beat on.

Kurt Sorge scores 5th at Nissan Qashqai Challenge

Okay this shot was from Kurt in Kamloops weeks back it is hard to find any good coverage of the Nissan events at the moment but Kurt emailed us pumped on qualifying 5Th in such a rad event.
Dirt Magazine has posted some good coverage quoted as saying...

"Some of the other highlights of the day were Adam Hauck’s 720, Kurt Sorge’s superman to pendulum air, Alex Reveles’s Indian airs, and Tyler McCaul’s no footed can can x-ups."

"I am in Milan at the moment and just finished the first event of the Nissan Qashqai Series and I placed 5Th." "I will be on my way to Madrid, Munich, and London for the next 3 events of the series, so I will be back around the end of May. Alright thanks again, talk to you later.

-Kurt"

Before Kurt took off for Europe we built him a rad set of of our Xray pedals for the tour...


I opened them up and put a slight dab of white grease inside the bushing to make the pedal rotation super slow for the big tricks Kurt likes to throw down, guaranteeing the pedals to be where he wants them on the landings.

Top 5 results:
1 Trond Hansen SPECIALIZED NOR
2 Mischa Breitenstein KONA EUROPE SUI
3 Sam Pilgrim DIAMONDBACK BIKES GBR
4 Darren Pokoj FELT AUS
5 Kurtis Sorge GIANT BICYCLES CAN

We are pretty stoked to have Both Sorge and Lenosky of the Giant Team on our pedals could not have asked for better guys to deal with.

Lenosky set up the Sram event at Sea otter and the event looks wicked and it seems everyone who raced wants to see the format at other events in the future. Sadly Jeff was stuck in Starbucks lineup and lost some time running back to his bike and Kyle Strait ended up rightfully stealing the win this time.

Lenosky battling Goss

LENOSKY FUFANU "STRAPS" SOLD OUT!

K it ain't real but shockingly it takes people a while to figure it out! Last year our April Fools prank the iStem tapped into a niche market and we could have made some money!

If you are just staring at this shot going F*%#ing Sweet! Click these links or send me your visa info, your call! So we were looking at some forums and it seems some people just didn't get the straps as being fake. They are fake but the pedals are real and still available.


First we dropped it in Australia...
Farkin Australia
NSMB
Pinkbike

Decline
Whistler Mountainbike
VIMB

But this year Brad at Spectrum Techwear slayed everyone with his freeride cape, but knowing brad he probably didn't know it was april fools and luckily dropped a retarded product on the 1st and saved face!