Have a rad weekend everyone, here is Jack, Straitline’s Factory rider repping 26 clothing in their promo vid.
Eric got the green light to ride this week so everyone bailed on a Thursday to go ride. Mnt Prevost DH trail Duncan BC famous from Smith’s Seggy in Seasons
No big Deal…
Mike Montgomery's Huge 720 - More Mountain Bike Videos
Mike twisted his ankle after throwing down a solid run in the finals at AT’s Showdown in California this Saturday. Casey Groves landed 4th with Watts taking the win. We had Jack FogelQuist throwing down as well but he smacked his mellow pretty hard in Practice and decided to play safe and just have fun.
Slow mo 720 inside…
This course was built by riders and it obviously is the preferred way to do it. The Crankworxs course sucks, is dangerous and everyone agrees it needs a change. Watch Mike take second on his Banshee Amp hardtail and you can see the difference in course layouts.
Camp of Champions recently sent me over Gopro to play around with, So i have been trying to think of new angles to try with different types of riding. Although this angle isn't anything new it was certainly ghetto with a bottle of water and heavy bike lock duct taped to the back of my helmet as a counter weight. This was to help with the weight of the Gopro that was hanging out a meter in front of my head attached to some PVC pipe. Anyway this was the end result which i guess worked out well, gives me some other ideas to play.
Apart from mucking around with things like this lots of digging has been done with all the rain we have been getting. The sun has been really slow in coming out as we creep in to the start of our summer here in Aus. But its coming none the less and that means more beach and riding time :)
Also working on another edit which will be out soon i hope :)
Casey Groves, Greg Watts and AT have been slaving by the looks of it, to make the AT showdown become a FMBA tour event. Casey is 8th in the world this season an I applaud this new point system in place like the DH world. Jack Fogelquist and Mike Montgomery are on hand too to throw down, this must become a FMBA tour with the names in attendance showing up just ride and have fun.
Check the full story over at Pinkbike it has lots of pictures for the illiterate peeps out there.
Spoked Media popped a video out of Matt Juhasz owner of North Shore bikes In North Vancouver going to work!
His Rampant is his one trick pony that he climbs with and descends on it winning him yesterdays VOD on Pinkbike!
Check it out.
Banshee Rampant - North Shore Morning Commute from Spoked Media on Vimeo.
Casey Groves, Straitline’s Factory pilot and friends in the Okanogan at Dreamland. I saw this a while back but was too busy to remember to post it. I am sure it has gotten around but today was my first 5 minutes to watch it front to back.
Dreamland Season Ender from Eric Marciniak on Vimeo.
And since I actually was cruising Transition Bikes blog today I also stole this gem…
I’ll be honest Jacob was not even on my Radar Until Banshee bikes insisted we take a serious look at Adam Brayton, one of the few who choose to ride platforms on all world cup Races.
He released a photo slideshow of the season check it out.
2010 Slideshow from jacob gibbins on Vimeo.
While we were getting to know Adam we were introduced to Jacob and we started joint sponsoring his world cup course walks hosted by Adam and friends and to describe them in a nutshell would be… full retard. That's a good thing in my books.
Here is a typical course walk example filmed by Jacob, excuse the audio, Adams too loud.
Adams Straitline promo video by Jacob.
And the guy rides too!!
Check out this pumpkin that Dennis carved up. http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5826855/ actual pumpkin with actual burger jumbo patty with all the mixings of a Big Mac. Do not ask us why. It had to be done!
Here is Dennis down at McDonalds receiving the final touches of his combo.
Since this is food related –if big macs are even listed as food, I let my own creative side go last week before the weekend festivities sparked off.
I was a bit humbug this Halloween and laid low but I thought I’d feel better if I brought a few people down with me so I embarked on a suicide cookie binge!
Idea is simple and hella fun, I won’t hold it against you if you want to steal my thunder and try this at home.
First you get a fortune cookie…
Step : This is tricky and it may require some wire and needle nose pliers. Work the wire inside and wiggle the paper message around until it works itself upwards enough to grab it with pliers.
Step 2: Remove original message and insert your own. This is where your creative artistic side comes out. I like to swap out the positive message for an exact opposite one hence the name Suicide cookies. I was out of red ink but the victim will not even know the difference.
Step 3: This takes some balls but I opted for the President and CEO’s desk as a good home for my pre weekend suicide cookie, your choice may vary. I suggest Fridays so that they laugh it off over the weekend.
