Hopfully i'll get a vid put together soon with my gopro so stay tuned for that.
George jam this weekend, chilled as which is the way it should be.
heres afew screen shots from george
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| Cam turning it down |
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| Inward table on the hip |
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| Reon POV superman |
January 24, 2011
Queenstown
In qtwn again bein earning(/spending) abita coin to help me get over to canada later this year. had some sweet sessions at george with the crew aswell as up the gondola which has just opened, stoked! time to pound out some runs. opening day was on sunday and to end the day reon, robbie and me went and hit dream track. I was so stoked to finally get back there and hit it again, hopfully dream goes off this season, i've heard some interesting thoughts thrown around about what people might try up there...
Hopfully i'll get a vid put together soon with my gopro so stay tuned for that.
George jam this weekend, chilled as which is the way it should be.
heres afew screen shots from george
Hopfully i'll get a vid put together soon with my gopro so stay tuned for that.
George jam this weekend, chilled as which is the way it should be.
heres afew screen shots from george
December 14, 2010
Queenstown
I've been slack again, to much riding and not enough taking photos but that's the way it goes. Anyways I'm now in Queenstown and have been for a week or two but unfortunately am moving back home again as my job didn't end up working out but not to worry I'm going to make sure I get back in Jan to ride/work for afew months. Been enjoying gorge road jumps, skyline and wynyard along with afew other spots. Did one of the League Of Gentlemen races and got completely lost up skyline, ate it super hard at remarks DH track and have been getting headaches from it for a day or two after (don't pin it down a DH track you've never done before) and had afew stupid crashes at wynyard but has still been sweet.
Had a sweet sesh at wynyard with phil adam and adrian. Phil was ripping it up and canned the stedown into mini dream and did a sweet superman seatgrab on the hip along with adrian getting all racer on us while still throwing down some sweet tables.
I have wanted to flip the hip at mini dream for awhile now and decided it was time so threw it and on my runin i sumhow managed to get offtrack and ended up taking off the small side of the lip and only pulled back the same amount i should have for the big lip...
So I did it again and made sure i sent it off the bigger part of the lip but went way to fast and landed almost at the bottom of the landing on my rear wheel and came off again. Third try got it sweet though, pretty bumbed that took that many tries to get it but know I can easily do it again now.
I had also been wanting to 360 the stepdown into mini dream ever since i got my killswitch as I had considered it on my hardtail when Tom Hey suggested it to me last wynard jam but I decided Id wait until I had a bike better suited to that style and size of riding which I now have. Stomped it first try so was good to end the day on a high.
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| Table mini dream hip. Photo by Tani |
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| Adrian. Photo by Phil |
I have wanted to flip the hip at mini dream for awhile now and decided it was time so threw it and on my runin i sumhow managed to get offtrack and ended up taking off the small side of the lip and only pulled back the same amount i should have for the big lip...
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| About to eat it. Photo by Tani |
So I did it again and made sure i sent it off the bigger part of the lip but went way to fast and landed almost at the bottom of the landing on my rear wheel and came off again. Third try got it sweet though, pretty bumbed that took that many tries to get it but know I can easily do it again now.
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| 360 wynyard stepdown. Photo by Tani |
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| Chilling |
November 10, 2010
Photos of "The Trail"
Last week i was busy filming with Pieter from 'Aint a big deal' and sent some cool stuff. Not everything worked out as we had a few problems with a lip rutting which isn't to surprising with the amount of rain we've had and the lack of time for it to pack in but I am still stoked on what I got done.
Big thanks to Stefan Gilmour for coming out and snapping some pics. He hasn't done much in the way of biking photography (but has done lots of sporting photography) but is starting to get into it and is looking good.
I've tried to not show to much of what I did while I was filming so photos of that might come out later, otherwise wait till the film comes out with Australian MTBR mid next year.
Big thanks to Stefan Gilmour for coming out and snapping some pics. He hasn't done much in the way of biking photography (but has done lots of sporting photography) but is starting to get into it and is looking good.
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| Cant cleanly ride out of these yet. I think this is the wrong way for me to flair but with this setup it is the easiest way to try. |
I've tried to not show to much of what I did while I was filming so photos of that might come out later, otherwise wait till the film comes out with Australian MTBR mid next year.
October 24, 2010
Wide Open 2011 product launch
Just got back from the sweetest trip, didn't manage to get many photos but if you head over to spokemagazine.com and wideopen.co.nz you should be able to find some videos and photos of the trip.
It started off with me almost missing my flight coz the airport shuttle decided it didn't want to come pick me up at 5.30 for some reason so had to do some frantic phone calling until found a ride. I ended up getting there 10min before my flight left but fortunately they could still load my bike on.
I got up to Rotorua and finally met dogboy (the big cheese at wideopen) which was sweet. Matt V who is one of the three main people at FSA was also there so got to meet him, super nice down to earth guy. We then went to summer hill DJs which were awesome, I was super amped on the big line which were around the 20- 30foot mark but it was abit to windy and they weren't rideable at the time.
On thurs we went to Paul Langlands DJs which were sweet, it was abit windy and rainy but we managed to have a cool session. Paul had broken his foot 4 weeks ago and decided he would hop on the bike for the first time and he killed it even though he was taking it 'easy'. We then went back to the launch of the 2011 Wide Open stuff which was good to get an incite into what was coming.
Friday was spent at the demo day and shooting photos with Caleb. I didn't manage to have a ride on my dream trail bike which was a pity, the turner 5spot was a huge hit and was gone most of the day. And sat was spent filming with Pieter from aint a big deal.
I also got my TSG gear which is awesome, the helmet is stupid light and don't even notice it on your head which is cool. I also got pads and a fullface which I will be putting through their paces over the summer.
A big thanks to everyone involved for making it such a sweet trip and especially Matt at wideopen for organising everything and putting us up.
It started off with me almost missing my flight coz the airport shuttle decided it didn't want to come pick me up at 5.30 for some reason so had to do some frantic phone calling until found a ride. I ended up getting there 10min before my flight left but fortunately they could still load my bike on.
I got up to Rotorua and finally met dogboy (the big cheese at wideopen) which was sweet. Matt V who is one of the three main people at FSA was also there so got to meet him, super nice down to earth guy. We then went to summer hill DJs which were awesome, I was super amped on the big line which were around the 20- 30foot mark but it was abit to windy and they weren't rideable at the time.
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| Summer Hill |
On thurs we went to Paul Langlands DJs which were sweet, it was abit windy and rainy but we managed to have a cool session. Paul had broken his foot 4 weeks ago and decided he would hop on the bike for the first time and he killed it even though he was taking it 'easy'. We then went back to the launch of the 2011 Wide Open stuff which was good to get an incite into what was coming.
Friday was spent at the demo day and shooting photos with Caleb. I didn't manage to have a ride on my dream trail bike which was a pity, the turner 5spot was a huge hit and was gone most of the day. And sat was spent filming with Pieter from aint a big deal.
I also got my TSG gear which is awesome, the helmet is stupid light and don't even notice it on your head which is cool. I also got pads and a fullface which I will be putting through their paces over the summer.
A big thanks to everyone involved for making it such a sweet trip and especially Matt at wideopen for organising everything and putting us up.
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| Pimpn top cap |
October 17, 2010
I've been useless at updating this thing lately, all I've been doing is studying, that time of year unfortunately.
I've got some news anyways, I have just signed with TSG safety gear distributed by the guys at cycletech (www.cycletech.co.nz), I'm so stoked and they make the lightest coolest helmet on the market that I am aware of. Stay tuned for more on that after I get back from the Wideopen Product launch which I'm pumped for!
Also in the weekend I went back to my roots and did a team XC race, it was sweet and ended up coming 2nd so was all good. Cheers to Eddie Masters for roping me into it. I've heard that hes going to release a series of webasodes called Eddie T.V....
I've got some news anyways, I have just signed with TSG safety gear distributed by the guys at cycletech (www.cycletech.co.nz), I'm so stoked and they make the lightest coolest helmet on the market that I am aware of. Stay tuned for more on that after I get back from the Wideopen Product launch which I'm pumped for!
Also in the weekend I went back to my roots and did a team XC race, it was sweet and ended up coming 2nd so was all good. Cheers to Eddie Masters for roping me into it. I've heard that hes going to release a series of webasodes called Eddie T.V....
September 30, 2010
New Trick
Thought I'd unveil my newest trick...
Cliffhanger flip.
I wish, cant even cliffhanger. Was just looking through some old photos on my emails and came accross this. Flip bail at Q-town last summer captured perfectly by Eddie Cuthers. Bring on Q-town in the summer!!
Cliffhanger flip.
I wish, cant even cliffhanger. Was just looking through some old photos on my emails and came accross this. Flip bail at Q-town last summer captured perfectly by Eddie Cuthers. Bring on Q-town in the summer!!
September 22, 2010
The trail
I'm the most uncreative person when it comes to most things, like the name of the trail. None of us have had any good ideas of what to call it. I may be uncreative when it comes to naming things but when I build I feel like I get creative. I love dirt jumps but to me they're just to common and you can go anywhere and ride some, so I tried to build this trail as more of a trail instead of trails if you get me.
It all started when I was asked by Pieter Reichwein if there was anywhere that he could film me in Dunners when the Oceania MTB champs were on. There wasn't really so I build a quick stepdown to hipped drop in a day or two. After I had filmed on that I showed Cam Dunn the area and we decided to build a trick stepup and it just got out of control from there.
Not the best photos and was rather wet when I took them but this is the 2nd feature a nice solid 20 footer, yes it is a dj but whats in between the 'regular hits' is what makes it different.
Yes another dj but again its not just dj after dj. The next feature is one of the best feeling jumps I've ever hit, along with Dream Track, but it depends what line you take out of it...
Further on down the trail is this landing to a speed jump into a big stepdown, I'm pretty excited to see what can be thrown down on it.
Theres a few wooden features on the trail but this is all I'll show you, this one is abit different and as far as I'm aware theres nothing like it in NZ.
I couldn't have done all this by myself so big thanks to all the guys for helping especially Cam Dunn. We're just starting to ride it and dial it in but next winter there will be lots of new lines getting built. Watch out for more Photos of this place in the future as well as videos.
It all started when I was asked by Pieter Reichwein if there was anywhere that he could film me in Dunners when the Oceania MTB champs were on. There wasn't really so I build a quick stepdown to hipped drop in a day or two. After I had filmed on that I showed Cam Dunn the area and we decided to build a trick stepup and it just got out of control from there.
Not the best photos and was rather wet when I took them but this is the 2nd feature a nice solid 20 footer, yes it is a dj but whats in between the 'regular hits' is what makes it different.
Yes another dj but again its not just dj after dj. The next feature is one of the best feeling jumps I've ever hit, along with Dream Track, but it depends what line you take out of it...
Further on down the trail is this landing to a speed jump into a big stepdown, I'm pretty excited to see what can be thrown down on it.
Theres a few wooden features on the trail but this is all I'll show you, this one is abit different and as far as I'm aware theres nothing like it in NZ.
I couldn't have done all this by myself so big thanks to all the guys for helping especially Cam Dunn. We're just starting to ride it and dial it in but next winter there will be lots of new lines getting built. Watch out for more Photos of this place in the future as well as videos.
September 18, 2010
Strike
On Wednesday the secondary school teachers decided to strike, why couldn't they do that when I was at school.. anyways this gave a few of my riding mates from down home the chance to come up and hangout for the day.
We went to all the parks around dunners, most of which I have never been to as they are to far for me to be bothered biking to them.
The Fairfield ramps are a sweet setup but the copings stick out a mile which makes it abit harder to ride.
At mornington I stole chazes BMX to try t-whips so he jumped on my bike and t-whiped and barred second try on each, jealous. I've been told so many times that once you get to a certain stage with tailwhips its all in your head so maby one day I can get my head around it...
Was supposed to be doing a 6 hour team XC race this arvo but the weather decided it had to crap itself, been so long since I've dun a XC race so was really looking forward to it and was even going to get a sweet XC machine from Bike Otago (who aren't here to fk spiders apparently). But before the weather crapped itself I managed to get my first ride of the season in on the trail me cam and afew others have been working on over winter.
I'll get some photos of it at a later date but heres one of the stepup before I rode it today. Before the ride today I had dun a ratio of approx 1:300 hours riding to digging and after I had dun a ratio of about 1:70. Rode for 2 hours today so you might be able to work out how many hours digging I've put in. I've been wondering lately how much better my grades at uni might be if I didn't dig so much.
When I came to dunners most people I talked to said how there was nowhere to DJ around the area, simple, if you go dig you'll reap the rewards.
Get busy
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| Nico |
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| Chaz destroys anything he rides |
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| Fairfield ramps |
The Fairfield ramps are a sweet setup but the copings stick out a mile which makes it abit harder to ride.
At mornington I stole chazes BMX to try t-whips so he jumped on my bike and t-whiped and barred second try on each, jealous. I've been told so many times that once you get to a certain stage with tailwhips its all in your head so maby one day I can get my head around it...
Was supposed to be doing a 6 hour team XC race this arvo but the weather decided it had to crap itself, been so long since I've dun a XC race so was really looking forward to it and was even going to get a sweet XC machine from Bike Otago (who aren't here to fk spiders apparently). But before the weather crapped itself I managed to get my first ride of the season in on the trail me cam and afew others have been working on over winter.
I'll get some photos of it at a later date but heres one of the stepup before I rode it today. Before the ride today I had dun a ratio of approx 1:300 hours riding to digging and after I had dun a ratio of about 1:70. Rode for 2 hours today so you might be able to work out how many hours digging I've put in. I've been wondering lately how much better my grades at uni might be if I didn't dig so much.
When I came to dunners most people I talked to said how there was nowhere to DJ around the area, simple, if you go dig you'll reap the rewards.
Get busy
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