Here are my weapons used in the war against hucks.
Diamondback Assault Dirt jump bike
Yo Bros!
Diamondback Scapegoat all mountain bike
So I axed myself hucking a big ol jump in Christchurch yesterday ... Nothing serious just tweaked my shoulder.
since I am off the bike for a few days I figured it was a good time to give my bikes a bit of a good ol fashioned scrub down and then snapped a few pics for you to check out :)
Yep for the last 2 weeks I have been on the road with my
good mate and swiss destroyer Ramon Hunziker .
final results
Starting from Switzerland , we loaded the van with ourselves
and way too much stuff , and started driving towards the smell of fresh croissants
cooking and the sound of frogs sizzling on the grill and the sight of the beautiful
French alps..
Chatel mountain style
competition , a freeride , big mountain ,pick your own line style of comp
is held at Chatel resort , France , I have been twice before and had a blast so
it was an easy call to choose to show up again.
The weather wasn’t looking too flash on the forecast and the pounding rain on the van
window was complimenting the weather forecast
geeks handsome salary. Damn lucky we
brought mud tires!
L2A!!
The first ride on the course was hectic !, it was insanely
wet and slippery with mud that stuck to your tyres and bike , I spent most of
the run one foot off in no control of my bike whatsoever! The hotel room seemed
like a better a better idea so we headed back and hoped for better weather in
the morn for quals.
We woke to blazing sun
beaming down , drying out the muddy slop, everyone was pumped. By the time3pm rolled around the course was
running sweet!
The weather was looking shady for the next day which was supposed
to be finals…so the organisers said “cut loose …today it might not happen
tomorrow” , I took their advice and went hard in my Quals run , getting pretty
loose on a few fast parts , floatin a backo over the road gap and holding it together down
to the bottom which was good enough for
4th place. Stoked. My travel buddy Ramon scored himself a flat tire
which he was pretty pissed about!
Sure enough the rain came the next day and they canned the
finals …ya cant say they didn’t warn us!!..anyways I was stoked with 4th
place overall and 1000 euros …Paaaarty!!
We Headed back to
switz to grab the hard tails and cruise to Crankworx Europe in Les Deux Alpes ,
France. Driving to the resort was pretty epic, the road winding up with massive
alps either side. We showed up to the hotel and caught up with all the rad team
from Teva , chowed down a few croissants for breako and went to ride the course.
Sven Martin ..world traveler, photog and weapon
from where I was standing
The Event organisation was pretty loose and the weather was
a little shady… but somehow we managed to have a comp on sat morn , people were
getting pretty wild, some crazy shit went down …mega French shredders I have
never heard of juuust throwing down!
In the end Semenuk destroyed the field as per usual … big
tricks on lock .and unbelievably smooth and calculated …a well deserved 1st
place
Ramon and myself had pretty clean runs , I grabbed 9th
and Ramon 10th..I was stoked on Two top ten FMB gold event finishes this
Euro trip . (check out my Gopro footy)
With the comp done and dusted there was nothing left to do
but drink a lot of beers with the crew and paaarty all night and ensure that the drive to the airport in
the morning absolutely sucked!
So we just got back from Chatel Mountain style in france ,
It was a pretty sweet weekend , the course was Big, rough and Gnar as usual ... the guys had made a pretty monster stepdown to start the course off... Bout 8meter x11 meters out...pretty scary lookin , in the end the weather was not playing the game!... super wet on friday then windy on saturday...
The comp went ahead none the less on Saturday ...evryone passed on the big line as it was so windy and it was a season ender if it went wrong!
I had a solid run that landed me in 4th place
we were supposed to get another run on sunday but the weather shit the bed and they cancelled it so i eneded up 4th overall... pretty stoked on that ! .... also 1000 euros! Boom!
cheeers to the crew
Final results
Chilled with Belguim shredder Nico Vink a bit over the weekend ...such a rad dude!
me and Pilgrim looking concerned!
Stoked on 4th place and 1000 Euros! BOOM ...i needed that!
I rode My Diamondback Scapegoat at the comp... its my favorite bike in the DB line! soooo sick! handles the big stuff
like a BOSS and you can still throw it around like a slope bike . STOKED ON THIS THANG!
Yo ! here is a video Me and my Good mate Matt Gilsenan made of my trip over to the Teva Mountain games in Vail Colorado , it was a hellova fun trip ...hangin with Matt and shreddin a few trails in Salt lake city area and then roadying over to Vail.
Check it out!!...
Big thanks to the guys at Teva for a great weekend!!
Haha check out our behind the scenes video from our team trip to Oregon, it was a pretty chill trip and we shot photos for the catalouge.
So many laughs...good times with the crew FO SHO!!!
I just got back from Portugal today ...
went on a trip with my buddy Manual Kunz to have ave a break from 2 wheels and take in some Beach life!...ohhh yeah!
Such a sweet trip!
Sun , Surf and chillin...
few pics below..you get the jist of it! (sorry not many action pics ...to busy surfing!)
Whooa I have been really busy! sorry on lack of posts
I am in Switzerland , last weekend we had the King of air ,Big air style jump comp in Flims, Switzerland
I helped build the ramps and then set the whole comp up with the Flying metal crew.
The comp went off under lights...on sat night.
it was sick and everone went crazy.
one of the BMX guys did a quad tail whip!
I got 5th palce and took home some caaaash! Stoked!
I also competed in the Trail fox race which consists of 3 races.. a night Downhill (with headlamp, a freeride track race and a massive 10minute long (ish) Dh race ...
It was such a maaaasssive weekend!! i was toasted after!!
the whole weekend was really rad ...big thatks to everyone involved!!
Check out the crash at the end of the video!! hahahhaha
Flyingmetal team building exercise....Ramon later smashed me
into the fence so hard it smashed and we got kicked out by the
angry swiss workers..hahaha...it wasnt really a suprise tho!
Had the best day shredding yesterday...me and the boys went to a place called Bex close to the border of France.
It was pretty sick , we just brought a train pass and for the day and rode up on the train and shreddin down on the bikes AAAAALLLLLL DAAAAAYYY!! hahah epic. the trails were sweet covered in leaves and pretty F**kin steep in places ... it was alittle slippery and we rode some crazzey schutes that you couldnt control your speed on ...got a bit loooooose on a few occasions ..but that made it even more fun!
check out a little of my Gopro footy below
will be back at this spot FO SHO!!
takin up some real estate in the train!
Cold beer tasted pretty goooood after a full day of rippin er up!
It seems where evre I go in the world I end up building ramps....which is cool cause I like doing it! check out the big puppys me and my buddy Ramon put together for this weekends King of Air comp in Flims , Switzerland.
The jump is gonna be about a 15 meter gap....whooooaaa! cant wait to try these things out!
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