Crankworx GOPRO course previews

Yo ! been busy as hell and havent been doing many posts! sorry!

Back on it now !

heres a couple GOPRO vids from Crankworx fest

Course preveiws of speed and style and also Joyride

yeoooww was a good time fo sho!

GoPro HD: 2012 Crankworx Speed and Style Course Preview on Pinkbike


GoPro HD: 2012 Crankworx Red Bull Joyride Course Preview on Pinkbike

2 weeks , 2 huckers, 2 french free ride comps , 2 meke bro!

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 4^th 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 4^th 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 1^st place

Ramon and myself had pretty clean runs , I grabbed 9^th and Ramon 10^th..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

Crankworx Europe .Les 2 Alpes. France

View from my balcony...sweeeeet!!!!

Im In france for Crankworx Europe
It frickin sweet so far...
Rode the course today ..its loose!
big!!
more updates soon!
cheers

Chatel Mountain style video..check it!

4th place Chatel Mountain Style , France

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!

Champagne!!!!  needed a shower any way!

More Teva Mountain games videos!

Here is an edit the team from Teva put together...it was goood times!

On the road to TEVA MOUNTAIN GAMES in Vail Colorado

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!!

Diamandback road trip , Oregon . Behind the scenes video

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!!!

Diamondback Team Trip on Pinkbike

Portugal surf trip

 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!)

Manual

Our rental took a beating! it loved it! hhahaha

a

King of Air , Flims, Switzerland

the set up 1x 12meter gap,1 x 15meter gap

building the ramps up

 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!

local shrubs growing at our hostel!

the comp was fun ...I ended up 5th

RISE AGAINST!!!

Yeoooowwww  we went to see Rise Against in Interlaken yesterday....so stoked ...amazing venue and good crew to shred 'er up with .

After the gig I ate the massivest burger I have ever eatin !!!!ohhh shit!

ohhhh yeah!!

Shredding Train laps in BEX, Switzerland

Train chillin

 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!

lunch time coffee session!

BIIIG BOOTERS

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!

WOODWARD WEST

Just spent 5 days shredding at Woodward west ramp complex in Tehachapi California.
I had the best time , I stayed with my mate Andrew "Dippy" Bigelow ...we did a bunch of riding ,coaching the campers and hangin out ...
I rode so much ! prettty beat after that week for sure
I even got to ride the Woodward Mega ramp ...that was a highlight for me ....macking into a 50foot long jump at about 50kphand just floating! then hitting a 25ft tall quater pipe! so good and smooth .... EPIC and a  cool experience . (sorry was to busy riding to shoot many pics!!)
I diddnt want to leave ...but I had to and now after a pretty massive days travel I am in Switzerland.

Me and Andrew "DIPPY" Bigelow doing shuttles with the campers

Danny Josa ...Hungarian ripper and all round good bloke

I could live here.

ready for another EU adventure...

Teva Mountain Games - Vail Colorado

Just spent 5 days in Vail Colorado at the Teva Mountain Games...\
it was so rad out there , Teva put in on for us big time... Me and my mate Matty Gilso stayed in a sweet hotel in the middle of town ..Sh*t got pretty rowdy! yeeeewwww!
I got 11th at the slopestyle on a super fun course...over all . SICK EVENT!
will be back next year for sure!

 Tabz flip on the last jump on the slopestyle course

Me and Matty Gilso ...chillin 

View from the paaaaarty! 

Me and Swiss cheese Ramon

 BIG Thanks to the Teva crew