Today’s best riders have transformed this discipline of mountain biking into a sport of best tricks judged for style and difficulty. Flatspins, can-cans, flips and Supermans wow the twilight crowd and the High Jump bonus round gives all the riders one more chance to walk away with a little more cash by one-upping the competition in height and style points.
Check out these world-class riders as they “step it up” on the jumps at the Ballarat Street car park for the Veolia Slopestyle and Best trick Comp
The penultimate stage of this year’s Cape Epic took place in Wellington.
For the first time in the seven days of the event Mother Nature chose to smile on the weary competitors: some rain early in the day dampened down the excessively dusty conditions of the past few days and added some grip to the many trails which littered Stage 6’s 71km day / 1.500m of altitude.
But Christoph Sauser (SUI) and Jaroslav Kulhavy (CZE) tore through the course with only one team – Kristian Hynek (CZE) and Alban Lakata (AUT) – able to stay with them.
The day ended with a thrilling sprint but Hynek misjudged his line through a corner just before the finish and the Sauser/Kulhavy combination pipped them for their fifth stage win out of six.