Hi all,

here is my feedback on the Big Air FISE Marseille. A big contest to start the season live on Pinkbike, 26in, FISE.fr but also on TV channel MCSextreme!

I finished on 7th place in this event. I am not really satisfied with my place but as I told you I was going to did an objective, a special trick. A double backflip no hand (a world first ever) unfortunately I failed to achieve during my 3 tries. I was very close on my second attempt but my hand slipped on the bar…
Good overall but the contest is still well. I plate a big cliffhanger, one backflip superman, as well as during my first of two qualifying run in and a late double backflip (first rotation tense and slow and second rotation folded and fast). So I leave this contest without regret. I think I marked some spirit.

Highlight – Big Air Marseille 2013 – SFR FISE… von fise

Text: Antoni Villoni

Like the title says this post is all about the desert style landscapes between Kamloops and Kelowna. Unfortunately in Kelowna we didn’t get that much riding under our belts, same like last year. But who is complaining about five days of rain during a three months road trip?
The following pics are one part of our favorites from the last journey. Hope you enjoy and have already big plans for the upcoming season…. read more

Canada Recap

Like the title says this post is all about the desert style landscapes between Kamloops and Kelowna. Unfortunately in Kelowna we didn’t get that much riding under our belts, same like last year. But who is complaining about five days of rain during a three months road trip?
The following pics are one part of our favorites from the last journey. Hope you enjoy and have already big plans for the upcoming season!

The second part of our photo recap is all about the Kootenay Mountains in the western part of BC. Big, vast mountains, cedar trees and old mining sides from the silver rush in the 19th century are significant for this area. We stayed around Nelson the Kootenay Capital for a few days. After that we’ve checked out an area somewhere in the mountains and stayed at a winter cabin between old mining features. The whole area is pretty impressive but the photos gonna speak for themselve…

Williams Lake was already on the list for last years journey but because of several incindents we didn’t make it. Due to this fact in 2012 we were looking forward even more and it was no disappointment at all. Williams Lake and the Cariboo County are little different to other places we have been to in BC. Its more a vast landscape with loads of hills, gullies and rivers.
Biggest business of the region is logging we’ve noticed and in their spare time the folks like to be in the outdoors. Mountainbiking has got kind of a long history there and it doesn’t matter if building or riding, they do it on a freakin’ high level. We were lucky enough to ride with some ballsy locals showing us what Cariboo gravitiy mountainbiking is all about.
If you are planning to do a bike riding trip to BC go to Williams Lake and surroundings. They do not have any chair lifts but as long as you go to Red Shreds Bikeshop and get in touch with the locals you can’t get wrong.

Text: C. Fiene & P. Rasche
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The 4th place at Prague Arkády DownMall – Congratulations dude!

Arkady Ultim8 DOWNMALL on Pinkbike

Read his racereport (german):

Kurzfristig hat mich Tomas Slavik zum Down Mall in Prag eingeladen und ich sagte sofort zu! Solch ein Rennen kann nur witzig werden und außerdem war es schon immer mal ein Wunsch von mir durch ein Kaufhaus zu racen und dann noch legal. Hier in Deutschland wohl undenkbar, solch ein Rennen zu veranstalten, zwecks der ganzen Sicherheitsvorkehrungen aber in Tschechien kein Problem. Ein paar Rolltreppen-Setups runter, auf rutschigen Granitboden hart rechts und kaum Grip auch mit Slicks… was will man mehr. Dazu ein super Publikum dass ordentlich für Stimmung sorgte, Daumen hoch an die Tschechischen Fans! Nun Zum Rennen, wir hatten ca. 1h um uns mit der Strecke vertraut zu machen und los gehts, schon bei der ersten Abfahrt die Rolltreppe runter und direkt nen Platten …… Ich dachte mir, dass kann ja heiter werden. Aber dank meiner Spezialkonstruktion einen extra Schlauch, als Pannenschutzeinlage hielten die Reifen die kompletten 3 Rennen.
Insgesamt waren ca. 28 Fahrer am Start, darunter unzählige starke Tschechen, ein Österreicher Hannes Slavik und ich als einziger deutscher. Um sich ins nächste Final zu Katapultieren musste ich unter die ersten 20 kommen und ich wurde direkt 6ter Jeaaahh. Den Lauf darauf musste ich es unter die ersten 10 schaffen um ins Finale zu kommen. Erste Kurve gegen das Geländer… zweimal weggerutscht “fail” -> ich war schon im Lauf am verzweifeln, wollt aber nicht aufgeben und gab trotzdem Vollgas und schaffte es trotz der Fehler wieder auf den 6ten Platz. -> Final whoop whoop, fast fehlerlos landete ich auf den 4ten Platz, endlich ein Podiumsplatz mega cool und das alles konnte man bei extrem.com als Livestream sehen! Ich hoffe es kommt bald das Replay raus, dann kann ich mir auch nochmal das Spektakel ansehen. Fazit: Prag super Saisonauftakt und hoffe, dass mein Training auch im Fourcross Früchte trägt. Aber lassen wir uns einfach überraschen.

Text: Aiko Göhler

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