Category Archives: The Team

Red Bull Berg Line – Upcoming Gold Event Featuring Antoine Bizet

Posted on 05/15/2013 by eddy

One weekend, one festival, two amazing FMB World Tour events. On Sunday, May 19th Red Bull Berg Line finalists will ride one of the best slopestyle courses ever built. It’s also the final chance for riders to make it into the top 12 of the FMB World Tour 52 Week Seeding List to qualify for X Games Munich. If you can’t be on-site in Winterberg, then tune in LIVE for the webcast on Pinkbike. Read More→

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Connor Fearon trains on a Honzo

Posted on 05/14/2013 by wicks

Connor has been off to a solid start this season, and is cranking out the training miles on his new Honzo. Connor Approved!

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4 Races, 4 Wins for the Kona Factory Team

Posted on 05/13/2013 by wicks

It was a busy weekend for the Kona Factory Team, with Riders competing all over the globe. Locally, Matt Slaven won the Dog River Enduro, on Mt Hood aboard his team Process race machine. Barry Wicks and Spencer Paxson battled it out to the bitter end at the Cascade Chain Breaker in Bend Oregon, with Paxson taking a narrow edge in the sprint finish. Cory Wallace raced the Salty Dog Enduro six hour MTB event, and not only did he win, he beat his old course record by a few minutes, and Wendy Simms won the Stottlmeyer MTB race in Washington. Good work Team!

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Karim Amour in Enduro | a Bike Movie 3 – Episode #5

Posted on 05/09/2013 by eddy

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Matt Slaven’s New Dakine Ad from Bike Magazine

Posted on 05/09/2013 by eddy

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Antoine Bizet and Leo Barsacq at Montepellier Slopestyle

Posted on 05/07/2013 by eddy

The first FMB World Tour 2013 Gold event is upon us as we head to FISE Montpellier on May 8th – 11th 2013. The world’s best riders are chomping at the bit to win some big points for the FMB World Tour overall ranking. The riverside course is renowned for its technical characteristics and whoever can rise above the rest at FISE Montpellier will have proven his contention for the FMB World Tour 2013 title. Tune in on May 11th at 19:40 (7:40pm CEST/10:40am PST) for the LIVE webcast on www.fmbworldtour.com!

The first FMB World Tour 2013 ranking points were awarded at TEVA Slopestyle in February. Since then Sam Pilgrim has almost consistently led the overall ranking, only shortly being demoted into 2nd by Czech rider Tomas Zejda. Today, Sam remains at the top of the leader board, but he will have to ride like never before to fight off his competitors at FISE Montpellier. Big names like Tyler McCaul, Anthony Messere and Brett Rheeder will be travelling across the Atlantic to compete for the first big points in Europe. FISE Montpellier and the upcoming Red Bull Berg Line are the last chance to win valuable FMB World Tour 52 week seeding list points for X Games Munich. Gold events always attract the biggest names and from now on, things really do get serious as riders battle to put points on the board. Read More→

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Video: US Grand Prix Mountain Biking Port Angeles

Posted on 05/07/2013 by eddy

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Spencer Paxson: A grasshopper, an otter, and some whiskey

Posted on 05/06/2013 by eddy

After a month hiatus from travel since the Louisiana trip, the Kona band got back together in Headlsburg, CA for the start of a great three-week race campaign from northern California to Prescott, Arizona. The story of the trip is below, in five parts.

Prelude: Bend transplant
Sarah and I made a temporary move to Bend, OR this April-June for her physical therapy rotation. It’s been great for training, working remotely, replenishing vitamin D, and spring ski touring. Read more

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cyclingdirt.org checks out the new kona carbon bikes at sea otter

Posted on 05/02/2013 by wicks

Kona came to Sea Otter with their 2014 Major Jake, a carbon ‘cross bike equipped with all the latest including discs and internal cable routing. The new Jake with be available complete as the Major Jake and higher spec’d Super Jake, as well as a frameset.

The new carbon Jake features a tapered headtube and a WIDE fork crown that has eyelets for running fenders. Internally routed shift cables keep things looking tight while the rear brake cable is run externally. Read the complete report here

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Cowboys and Bikers: cory checks in from whiskey 50

Posted on 05/01/2013 by wicks

The final stop on our America road trip was in the cowboy town of Prescott Arizona. This town of 40 000 country folk was the capital of Arizona from 1864 to 1889, but more importantly is now host of the annual Whisky 50 mountain bike race. The race attracts most of the top pros in North America, as well as nearly 1800 amateurs for a weekend of high altitude (5500ft-7500) racing. There are saloons all over the old western town with nightly shootouts and cowboys strutin their stuff. There’s also an obsession with elk hunting as elk statues, elk head mounts and elk fajitas are found everywhere. The only elk that couldn’t be found around the area was a smiling live one. Read more over at Cory’s Blog.

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Karim Amour at Avalanche Cup de Lyon

Posted on 05/01/2013 by eddy

Karim reports: This weekend took place the 19th edition of Avalanche Cup in Lyon (France).

During this two days of MTB, I participated in three events and ended on the following places :
- DH : 8th place
- 4X : 5th place
- Short track enduro : 1st place

See results here

Next step, the Open Enduro of Métabief in France from the 9th to the 12th of May 2013.

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Underworld Cup DH Video

Posted on 04/30/2013 by eddy

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