Yep for the last 2 weeks I have been on the road with my
good mate and swiss destroyer Ramon Hunziker .
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| 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!
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| 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.
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| Sven Martin ..world traveler, photog and weapon |
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| 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!
Euro life!!! hahahha
Cheers
Kelly
