How many vertical feet do you think you put in on your downhill bike in a year? Twenty thousand? Two hundred thousand? Maybe a million if you shuttle a lot? Whistler local Adam Billinghurst took the term ”park rat” to new heights this summer when he managed to throw down one million feet of descending in just fifty seven days aboard his Trek Session 9.9. Let us break that down for you: If he was doing the same vertical every day – which wasn’t possible due to the upper Garbonzo zone opening later in the summer – he would have had to descend 17,543 feet every single day for fifty seven days. So if your mountain offered 3,000 feet of elevation drop, you would end up having to do nearly six runs every day for fifty seven straight days. There’s a good chance that your local hill down the road isn’t Whistler, though, and anyone who has spent time … More
Following the Lapierre Gravity Republic team on their 2013 UCI World Cup and World Championship season, this film is about the characters and personalities behind who makes the team tick. From the riders to the mechanics and the management, everyone plays a part as we find out from the inside what the team is really like.
In the fourth and final episode, Loris forgets where he is, there are more podiums for the team in Norway and the season comes to a close in Leogang with a bang!
Starring Sam Blenkinsop, Loic Bruni, Emmeline Ragot and Loris Vergier and Directed by Aaron Bartlett.
Jon McCabe has taken out the Xensr Big Air Invitational, held at Hookipa Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii.
The 12 invited male and three female riders were sent out on the water with a GPS-based Xensr device that measures the riders’ jump height to within 3mm.
The Xensr Big Air Invitational final was won by … More