Joe Smith at Crankworx 2009. Photo: Joe Sales
Oh yes A-Line et al aficionados. Summer is officially here with the opening of Kona’s signature Groove-Approved bike park, Whistler, BC. Check out the Kona Bike Parks page for great deals on riding the world’s premiere bike park.
WHISTLER, BC, May 10, 2010 – Area riders are tuning their bikes and getting out their gear as the Whistler Mountain Bike Park opens for daily operations Saturday, May 15 with 16 trails and two skills centres to feed their adrenaline lust.
Signature trails to open include: A-Line, Crank It Up, B-Line, Karate Monkey, Ninja Cougar, Heart of Darkness and many more. The current early-season conditions are for intermediate and above skill level. More trails, including more beginner terrain, will open up as snowpack allows. An updated list of open trails is available on whistlerbike.com.
Riders can also get some indoor practice in the Air Dome starting May 15. The Air Dome, an 8,400 square foot indoor bike training facility with foam pit and wooden ramps, is open Friday to Sunday until June 13; then daily until September 6. Read More→
Whistler Bike Park. Photo: Sterling Lorence
BIKE PARKS BC LAUNCHES “ULTIMATE SUMMER OF FREE RIDE” CONTEST
Season Pass To Five B.C. Lift-Accessed Bike Parks To Be Awarded June 19
WHISTLER, BC April 30, 2010 – Win a summer of free riding in British Columbia, home of the highest concentration of lift-accessed mountain bike parks in North America. The Bike Parks BC “Ultimate Summer of Free Ride” contest asks riders to explain why they deserve a summer-long road trip to the best bike parks, and will reward the best blog or photo submission with an epic season of stoke. The top submission on www.bikeparksbc.com or www.facebook.com/bikeparksbc will earn that rider the grand prize of a season pass at each of B.C.’s best bike parks: Whistler Mountain Bike Park, Silver Star Bike Park, Sun Peaks Resort, Fernie Alpine Resort and Mount Washington Bike Park. Plus, the winner will also get two lift tickets, two nights accommodation, two days of bike rentals, and a half day of expert guiding to share with a friend at each resort during the 2010 summer season; not to mention $1,000 so they can create the most epic summer road trip ever. Read More→
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.
So it’s November, and for many of us the days of the bike are beginning to wane. Tires begin to slowly deflate as our trusted steeds stagnate in the garage. Rain, wind, shorter days, smaller lungs, it all adds up to those difficult, trying transition times between seasons. In the effort to ease the pain, we give you this shot of the Kona coastline. It’s where our minds drift when everything goes dark. Thank God we named our bike company after a place that never has to endure the long, awkward switch between fall and winter. For all of you who live in such a place, you are wise. But please, remember to ride, if only out of courtesy to us poor, cursed northern folk.
Follow his journey on his BLOG and watch his video. Good luck Gerald!
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I have recently landed in the beautiful town of Reykjavik, Iceland. I’m here to do a story with Sterling Lorence for Bike Magazine which will have us adventuring deep into one of the most spectacular landscapes on earth. Straddling the intersection of the North American and European continental plates, Iceland is a land of, well, every possible geologic formation available: geysers to glaciers, lush mossy waterfalls to arid planes of dust and desert.
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