Get your own, brand spankin’ Crankworx hat from the Kona Canada store. $30.00 retail, with a free Kona Sharpie to boot. The first 50 people that walk into the Kona Tent at Crankworx Whistler with a Crankworx Hat on (any year) get 20 bucks off thier webstore purchase (Kona Canada). That’s called love.
Thursday, the day of arrival in the Paraiba do Sul, where did the Brazilian Championship in 2010. After spending six hours traveling, we arrived it was already late afternoon, but finally arrived. Time of litter bags, store the bikes, pack the equipment and get ready for practice the next day.
Friday, a day incredibly beautiful, too much sun and heat absurd. Nothing more than just a ride to meet the so-called downhill run of the city, always a thrill to walk into a new track. After some Weather you think it can not describe the route is a short track with many jumps and turns, what’s for fun a lot, lol, some parts of speed but a bit slippery, which had to be very careful, though in other parts of slippery thanks to the hot, dry weather had a lot of dust, which hampered a bit. After that we went to the track FourCross, I decided to go down only once because in addition to failing to rescue, knew he had to push myself a little more in the downhill, to be a tougher competition. The track was very technical and very fast, did not that time walked on a track like this, but my experience helped me a lot, what did I identify very much with the circuit.
Kona Factory Team rider Matt Slaven won the Idaho state pump track championship aboard his Kona Lacondeguy Inc. bike, check out the winning run. Nice one Matt.
http://www.vimeo.com/12935857
We ran across one Pieter Blokker, on a little cycling beach session while working in Vancouver last weekend. Pieter claims to be one of North America’s top bike polo players. He’s sponsored by Pilsner beer, has a hot girlfriend and was recently given a Kula by Bow Cycle for bike polo playing. He just sent us a link to his new website, which features this video. Question is, should Kona be making a custom polo bike? Let us know.
Kona Super D shredder Matt Slaven is featured in Decline’s September issue. Click on the image to read the article.
Another interesting cycling sidebar story we found in our digital wanderings. The bike portable coffee bar, only in NYC…
Kickstand is committed to providing the best possible cup of coffee to community events in NYC with the smallest environmental impact possible. We achieve this goal by using bikes not only for all of our transportation needs, but also for a portion of the power we use in brewing the coffee we serve. At Kickstand getting people outdoors and bringing them together over coffee is our primary goal.
With Crankworx Colorado coming this weekend, and Crankworx Whistler mid August, it’s time to start thinking about what the world’s slopestyle superstars have up their sleeve for 2010.
The Evolution of Slopestyle from Crankworx on Vimeo.
Joe Sales photo
Hi Guys,
Coming to you from Canmore Alberta and the 24 Nationals last weekend. Race went super well. Went out cross country style and put the hurt on the boys for the first 6hrs then set it into cruise control. Leighton Poidevin who has won alot of these was hot on my heels in second place for the first 8hrs but fell ill in the middle of the night leaving a big gap between myself and the other riders once he dropped out. Read More
Air travel may not be the most sustainable mode of transportation, but it’s becoming increasingly easy for consumers to choose a greener ride to and from the airport. Back in 2008 we saw the Seattle-Tacoma airport begin offering free electricity for plug-in cars, and now the Portland International Airporthas set up a bike assembly station.
Located on the airport’s lower terminal roadway, the new bike assembly station will enable people travelling with bicycles to more easily assemble and disassemble their bikes before and after flights. Portland is already well-known for its bicycle-friendliness, of course—it even has a bike path connecting to the airport. Accordingly, the assembly station can now be used by travellers and airport employees alike to get ready for a commute along that path, as well as by visitors to the city needing to disassemble their bike for a return flight home. As an extra service, Travel Oregon and the Port of Portland have made basic bike tools available for check-out at the airport’s State Welcome Center along with literature about bicycling resources in the region.
With many travellers visiting Oregon and southwest Washington to take advantage of bike tourism and to participate in the region’s many bicycle events, the Portland airport’s bike-friendliness makes extra good sense. Given the countless universal advantages of the bicycle, however—and the corresponding explosion in its popularity—Portland’s example is ripe for emulation in any bicycle-friendly city around the globe.
Website: www.portofportland.com
Contact: contactus@portofportland.com
