From the reasoning of the Dawg name to the best comic book authors, from the history of the Hot to a timeline of industrial music, Cory has the trivia, and the opinions to mouth off about it.
Here’s another one from Rapid City, SD. It’s no secret (at least not anymore) that the Black Hills has some great trails, but did you know that some of them are just a couple blocks from downtown? Check out Kona fan, trail builder extraordinaire and all around really great guy Kelly Halter showing off the M Hill trails and the Rapid City DJ park.
Leogang, January 29th – At the Monster Energy White Style presented by Kona, the European riders clearly dominated the contest this past Friday in Leogang, Austria with Sam Pilgrim taking first, Sam Reynolds and Yannick Granieri taking second and third. The two riders who had travelled from overseas made it to the finals but barely missed the podium: Canadian Graham Agassiz came in fourth and Jamie Goldman (USA) fifth.
More than 2.500 visitors flocked to Leogang’s Schantei lift to get a first-hand impression of the Monster Energy White Style course, designed by Grant “Chopper” Fielder. After the snow had been too soft for complete runs during Thursday’s training session, perfect weather conditions awaited the riders for the finals on Friday. This year, Kona Clump rider Chopper once again outdid himself: the step-up step-down with humongous drop was so massive the riders referred to it as the “Monster”. The impressive course was so daunting that it inspired awe in the toughest pro.
Obviously, the obstacles’ gigantic dimensions could not scare the riders away and most of the athletes who had travelled to Leogang from twelve nations showed the best tricks in their repertoire. One such trick combination consisting of a backflip table, 360 into the satellite dish and flip off, tailwhip, flip tabletop off the monster drop, and backflip x-up onefoot catapulted British Sam Pilgrim to first place. The second-time winner was super stoked: “The course was really gnarly this year. It’s not easy riding on snow, also because your fingers tend to freeze. But Chopper built an awesome course and I am really stoked to take first place again. I’m starting to become a White Style veteran!”
18 year old Kona rider Antoine Bizet (FRA) had a few surprises in store for the judges. Not only did his tricks land him second place in the qualifiers, during his first run in the finals he impressed with a backflip no hander at the last sender and attempted the same trick at the Monster drop. Unfortunately he did not manage a clean landing and broke his collar bone. We wish him all the best and a quick recovery!
Our boy Graham Agassiz had already given up on riding the contest at all after a heavy crash during practice. Luckily, he changed his mind. With a battered ankle and despite the cold without gloves, he delivered an impressive second final run – including a barrel roll at the monster and a backflip no-foot cancan at over the sender – that secured him a solid fourth place. Atta boy Aggy!
Tom Allen and Andy Welch travel overland to Mongolia for a Kona supported, epic mountain-bike adventure. In Part One, the chaps depart from Ulaanbaatar and get to grips with off-road cycling with heavily-loaded bikes. They pass through a strange town in the mountains and begin to worry about the culinary preferences of the local wildlife.
From the reasoning of the Dawg name to the best comic book authors, from the history of the Hot to a timeline of industrial music, Cory has the trivia, and the opinions to mouth off about it.
Do certain songs ever get stuck in your head as you ride?
Like most people, I tend to take the same path every time I go somewhere. Whenever I ride to downtown Bellingham, the path take me on Texas St. through the “bad” neighborhood, past a lumber yard, on to Kentucky Street, which passes under I-5, past the high school, and in to downtown.
Since this is also the way to the brewery and bars, I often travel this route in the dark. For the last couple winters, a homeless guy has been setting up his meager camp under the interstate, one of the few dry patches of land this time of year. Most of the time he’s asleep or pretending to be, but occasionally he’s setting up his bag or sitting upright, with his back to the concrete retainer wall. We always wave to each other when he’s up.
I cross paths with all sorts of people on this little three mile ride, but of all the people, I always think of that stooped over homeless guy. Funny the things that stick in your head when you ride. Like this song.
Jan 18th 2010 – Abbotsford BMX re-opened their doors after a 15 hour track build that introduced riders to a new flowy track filled with fun challenging jumps and a third straight decision-maker pro set that will test riders as the track hardens and riders speed up. The 2010-2011 Rockabilly Racing Series is brought to you by Kona Bikes, Chromag, Smart Water, Clayton Racicot Photography and Abbotsford BMX.
The doors opened at 4pm and riders got to it. By the time the rider meeting was called up, and motos were posted, riders in every class were dialing in the second straight and 3third straight rhythm section. No one had yet swung over to hit the new decision maker, but the night was young. Clayton Racicot was there to snap all the pics and they’re up posted on his GALLERY!
There were a couple class mash-ups Tuesday night. Pro Men, and Vet Pros ground it out while Pro Women, Open Women, and Junior women all made up a sweet 7 rider class. All points are still recorded in their respective classes, but larger race classes mean more racing, so the class mash-ups stoked up the riders and the crowd watching.
From the reasoning of the Dawg name to the best comic book authors, from the history of the Hot to a timeline of industrial music, Cory has the trivia, and the opinions to mouth off about it.
