As you all know we have been mad at work on Awesome Land: Women Of Dirt. But the DVD is almost to the market and we have content we need to share with you.
Video: Alan Mazuti and his crew over in Port Orchard, WA. puts on indoor BMX and 4x racing. Check out the video and see you at the next races: February 6th, 20th and March 6th.
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Halloween is my favorite holiday. Not just for it’s invitation to be inventive and put on a persona that embodies your wild, evil or funny side, but for it’s invitation to throw out the ordinary and dawn the different. Miles and I put together a couple videos that embody this craziness. We got help from Lisa Myklak and Emily Johnston while shooting with them for Women Of Dirt. We also got help from Andy Voight and Scotty Warner from DWB Racing. Have fun!!!!
Dodgeball X - with Andy Voight and Scotty Warner
Dodgeball X - with Lisa Myklak and Emily Johnston
The final race in the 2009 Fluidride Cup finals has come and gone. It’s raining in Seattle today, but this weekend there was sunshine, wind and a dusty blown out track. Due to chairs falling off the upper lift during practice we ran only from mid mountain. This didn’t make the race any easier. The duff was thick in the corners and the ruts were legendary. Especially, that one off-camber one in the woods above the bridge. Many of you know what I mean. Continue reading ‘Fluidride Cup 2009 Finals - Results’
The track was dry and fast, but about as fun as they come. It was great to get a chance to race the King Diamond. Fall line tracks are my favorite for sure. This was the last one of the Fluidride Cup series at Port Angeles for 2009. Bryn Atkinson beat Lars Sternberg, Brad Oien, Kieran Bennett, and J.D. Swanguen to round out the Pro podium.
Video Of Luciano Worl’s Practice Run
Video By Andy Tran
Photos By Carl Warren
It’s Monday Morning and the rain has come. Whistler has been very dry, so this moisture is giving the trails a much needed perk up. There are no events today, but tomorrow is Women’s Worx and it would be great if the rain stayed away for that event. So far, we have seen the youthful riders come out on top of the experienced riders. Kyle Strait over Brian Lopes in the Dual Slalom, for example. Or, Miranda Miller on top of the Pro Women’s Garbanzo DH. However, there were expected results. Jill Kintner showed why she is one of the most talented gate racers on the planet, by winning the Dual Slalom handily. Sam Hill was on the Garbanzo Podium. Crankworx is proving to be the best bike event on the planet.
Photos By Yorick Carroux
Last weekend we attended two events. I got to Mt Hood early so I could run the DH course for Sunday on Friday. This freed me up to help Miles shoot the Super D in Post Canyon on Saturday. The national Super D champion Adam Craig won this event. However, from my observations there was something more important than who won. For the more than 100 racers, It was how much fun were people having. Unlike most DH competitions that I have been too, the Super D crowd seemed excited to just be out on their bikes having fun. Continue reading ‘Hood River Super D’
This weekend under sunny sky and with the last patches of melting snow we raced for the first time since 2007 from the top of Ski Bowl at Mt Hood, OR. This is an epic course with 6 distinct zones. JD Swanguen won with a 4:02. There were 270 racers at the start line making this the largest racer count at Ski Bowl according to Greg Aldrich of Ski Bowl.
Continue reading ‘Fluidride Cup # 3 Results’
Lately my ride life has been tainted with what I want to call life’s little momentum vampires. These little soul suckers come in all varieties. And they are unique to each individual. And contagious for sure…
Mine are too many to list, but have something to do with Unemployment and a site that seems to be popular, but no known EFFECTIVE way to monitize it. So, in search for a solution to these mental parasites, I called up Miles ‘Shovelpick’ Sullivan in Hood River and told him that Kim Sturts and I are coming down. You’ll know Miles from his work on Bones Over Metal (see video on this post.)
We showed up late morning and meet Miles who’d already been riding with some of the Transition Bike community down from Bellingham, WA. Miles is always good for a ride in and around Hood River. After a quick rip around the yard on Miles’ 50, we joined Anna from IMBA and headed up to the top of Post Canyon. By the time we were bouncing our way up the shuttle road my malaise was already drifting away. As long as the wheels are going round, it’s difficult for me to have a frown.
Post Canyon has it all. When you start well above Two Chairs you even get a fair amount of Downhilling. So, you’re nice and warm by the time you hit the jump lines. This works great for me, since I am just getting instinctive with jumping. That being said, Post Canyon is one place besides Whistler where you can learn to get your jump on. It’s all there. It was late afternoon, by the time we had sessioned all the way down to the bottom of Post Canyon. That’s more than 12 linking trails. Enough to call it a day? No.
This video is from a similar trip two weeks earlier.
For the evening romp, we meet up with Mike Estes, Steve Pinner and more for a couple shuttle runs down from Nestor’s Peak. This run is on the Washington side of the Columbia. It’s like Syncline, but better. By this time, my problems only existed deep inside me and all I wanted was vertical. Their was no limit.
This last run dropped 3,000 feet over six miles and is fast. FAST, I tell you. Old school singletrack that can be ripped as fast as your nerves will allow. The kind of fast that has you yelping and hollering to the guy up in front. We even got Carl Warren to put his camera down and join us. (This is why you see very few action shots in the following photos.) It was good to see Carl have fun.
By the time, we sat down for beer and pizza in Hood River it was dark. My soul was put back together. I felt that inner glow that we all know as our relationship with the bike and the dirt. The perfect threesome. But, just to make sure that it would stay that way for awhile, we did it all again the next day. Yeah!!!!
Check out Carl Warren’s Main Gallery for more from around Hood River.
Carl lives on the Washington side of the river.
On our recent trip to California we stopped in on a few ride spots. The following videos show the Santa Cruz area and Auburn, CA.
We ran into a cool grassroots group that rides and builds. They have a site, www.nodignoride.com and offer really cool apparel that states this mantra of “No Dig, No Ride.” We wanted some shirts for ourselves and so we shot this video of them and Eric Porter on their favorite dirt jumps. Check out their site for more.
On the way back form Sea Otter we stopped for a few days in Auburn, CA. This town is east of Sacramento in the foothills. The dirt is that dry red clay that packs like cement. This video shows two of the places we rode. Cheers,
I traveled out to Boise and met up with Anna from IMBA for the Ride On event at Eagle Bike Park. I showed up earlier and stayed later than Anna so got in quite a bit more wheel time than her. We spent most of our time waiting out the rain, because it does dry rather quickly once the sun comes out, but it seemed like as soon as it got dry enough to ride the rain would come back. Bad luck I guess, because I hear that doesn’t happen that often this time of year. So we’re planning on making another trip back to cover the race that has been rescheduled for early next month. Meanwhile, enjoy this short video that I came up with on the fly.
Photos by Anna Laxague Article and Video by Miles ‘Shovelpick’ Sullivan
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