$150,000 in prizes. 20,000+ spectators. 100′s of competitors. 45 bands. 10 jam packed event days. One outrageous party – Kokanee Crankworx 2010. KonaWorld Travels puts you up front, dead center, smack dab in the middle of the world’s numero uno gravity fueled freeride mountain bike festival.
Kona and Whistler Mountain Bike Park have put together a week-long Crankworx bike experience that’s all about you. Your package includes six days of daily equipment rental of a Kona Garbanzo Stinky or Stab bikes, helmet, gloves and armour, daily lift tickets with Bike Park guide and instruction, a welcome reception, one of the best seats in the house for some event viewing, a celebrity ride with a Kona pro, meal discounts, and more.
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John Gibson’s images of the Kona Clump trip to Argentina (2006) are being featured in a slideshow of mountain bike photography next week in Calgary. Way to go Gibtron! Read more here
Because Iceland is so in the news these days, and you can actually still fly there (from North America anyway), consider taking a trip with Magne Kvam. Check out his site (click on the image below), and make sure to click on the video, featuring Regular Joe shredding lava on his Abra Cadabra.
It just so happens that about six months ago, I rode my bike to the base of the glacier that once covered the volcano that’s currently erupting in Iceland. I was there with Kona Cadabra ripper Joe Schwartz and photographer Sterling Lorence, doing a story for Bike Magazine. It was a fairly strange day. We thoroughly pissed off this German dude hanging in a little camper truck. We were making too much noise apparently. He drove off all mad. Then, as we were riding the 3kms or so from the parking lot to the toe of the glacier, on our way to touch 20,000 year old frozen water, we watch a search and rescue helicopter land on the other side of the lake and pluck a hiker who’d fallen and donged their noggen. Then Joe did this crazy shaman ritual thing calling for the fire gods to blow forth their heated guts. (Not quite so forthright). But here’s proof we were right there, a before and after. The big blue ice that silhouettes Regular Joe so nicely in the bottom image is gone like Donkey Kong. It’s been replaced by the big grey wash of the first, taken from a very similar position. Anyway, nice to touch you glacier. And sorry, mister Volcano, that you’re so upset. To see some blog posts of our trip, search for “Icelandic Adventures”, or go here.
Run the Bongo Bongo in Leogang, Austria with KonaWorld Travels July 6-12, 2009 at Austria’s finest Gravity Festival, Leogang’s Out of Bounds Weekend.
Out-of-Bounds runs July 9-12. But you arrive pre-festival to get your groove dialed and kick ass in freeride heaven. Take in the recently opened North Shore styled Bongo Bongo – a new trail for 09 – as well as the Speedster, Flying Gangster, Terminator and 4Cross.
Get it in before an action packed weekend of gravity racing that includes the legendary international dirt jump contest 26trix, the iXS European Downhill Cup and the Austrian Downhill Championship.
Since opening in 2001, Kona Groove Approved Leogang is widely recognized as Europe’s most highly recommended bike park and the Out of Bounds Weekend is an institution on the European summer mountain biking circuit. The mountain and the event have something for everyone – young, old, beginner, expert or pro. Nail it downhill, cross country or freeride style.
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