Yeti-FOX's Graves wins Crankworx Nissan BikerX
Whistler, BC (July 29 and 30) - Everyone knows God loves Whistler, and he
blessed Crankworx with perfect weather and great racing. The Yeti-FOX Factory
Racing Team had such a great time, they're still up there.
Like every course in Whistler, the Nissan BikerX course is sick. You get big
jumps, fast berms, moto whoops and tech sections galore, all wrapped within the
monstrous Kokanee Slopestyle Course. The final contained some serious talent:
Brian Lopes, Mick Hannah, Cedric Gracia and Yeti-FOX's Jared Graves. Graves
Date:
03/08/2006
Peat 2nd, Rennie 4th Garbanzo downhill Syndicate Crankworx re-cap
Rolling into Whistler for the Crankworx Festival the Syndicate?s ranks were a
bit decimated as three of the four riders arrived injured. Kirt Vories,
headlining the Santa Cruz Syndicate All Ride Demo Tour, was medicated during
the week, as he was fresh out of a surgery to plate together his collarbone, an
injury he suffered while filming recently. Jamie Goldman made the most of the
week training and doing photo shoots as his broken hand was still on the mend.
It was just not ready to handle the big drops that the slopestyle course had to
Date:
02/08/2006
Kona Clump Rider Paul Basagoitia 3 rd In Kona JUMP JAMRelinquishes Slopestyle crownCrankworx, 2006
Kona Clump Team Rider Paul Basagoitia placed 3 rd in the final event of the
2006 Kokanee Crankworx festival in Whistler, BC. Paul was looking for some
redemption after relinquishing his crown in the Slopestyle to Cameron Zink. He
was able to get some with a bit of podium time for the Kona Jump Jam.
Basagoitia put together two solid runs in the small final to narrowly edge out
Greg Watts. Bas sealed up third place with some smooth style consisting of back
flips and tailwhips. He was a bit banged up from a couple of crashes in the
Date:
03/08/2006
Cam Zink Takes The Win At Crankworx Slopestyle
Nevada's Cam Zink (Haro/Oakley) had the biggest win so far in his emerging
pro-freeride career in taking the top spot in arguably the world's most
prestigious Freeride event, the Crankworx Slopestyle held last weekend at
Whistler Mountain, Canada.
The Slopestyle is the focal point of a multi-event mountain bike festival held
annually at North America's premier mountain bike resort. In 2005 Cam finished
3rd, but this year the Haro rider took it up two notches to the top of the
pile, ahead of two Californians, Cameron McCaul and Cam's good mate, Kyle
Strait.
Date:
02/08/2006
