“When you start the day with your forks dropped and your seatpost raised, you know it’s going to be a long one,” says Holger Meyer, about the thousand-meter climb ahead. We’re smiling, but inside we’re all anxious. What is scaring us most isn’t this climb, nor the two-hour hike-a-bike across a sketchy cliff face to come, or the horseflies waiting in the forest. It’s us not knowing what lies ahead, our ignorance of what we’ve let ourselves in for, and it caught us out on day one, leading us on an eight-hour jeeptrack safari from hell.
We’re not to blame. The 400-Km long Alta Via dei Monti Liguri hiking trail we’re dipping into might be waymarked but it’s unknown among mountain bikers, despite it passing within a tyre’s knob of Finale Ligura’s Enduro World Series race. A basic website is all I have to plan our three-day hut trip … Pictures and more
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Johnny Teller, hailing from Mammoth Lakes in California’s Eastern Sierra, was the lone American wolf in the pack Thursday for men’s ski cross. The 30-year-old former alpine racer, making his first Olympic appearance, skied hard, but caught one of the tough breaks the discipline is known for and did not advance through the 1/8 final.
Teller, starting in the far outside position at the pull, tucked in from fourth and jockeyed hard for second position with Jonathan Midol (FRA). At one point, Teller made shoulder-to-shoulder contact … More
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Since filming is in full swing for the Vans video we’ve taken the opportunity to sit some of the team down to look behind the skating. The rest of Season 6 will have your favorite ams, pros and legends dishing the dirt on their classic video parts. This week Daniel Lutheran discusses his break part in Toy Machine’s Brain Wash video and how he snaked the opener part from J-Lay.
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December 14, 2013
The Xensr team takes you into another dimension of surfing with Francisco Porcella, Niccolo Porcella, Kai Lenny and other big wave surfers at Maui, Hawaii’s famous surf break, Pe’ahi aka: JAWS!
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