The 2022 bike park season is already over, and what a season it was! Once again, the bike parks and regions included in the Gravity Card managed to top previous seasons and confirm that the concept “Gravity Card” works. Now, advance sales for the upcoming season have begun just in time for Christmas. With as many as 28 bike parks now included in the pass, you will guarantee yourself or a loved one an unforgettable summer of biking. The concept of the Gravity Card is simple. One pass gets you unlimited riding at the most legendary resorts and trails in…
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After premiering exclusively at the YT Mill Showroom in San Clemente, California, a few days ago, Dylan Stark’s new video “Homegrown” is finally available to a global audience on YouTube. Dylan takes us on a wild ride to some of his most favored spots in Southern California. With his BMX background, he is a jack of all trades and seems to be able to trick any bike you throw at him. We spoke to the 30-year-old about his latest edit. YT Industries: You shot some pretty iconic spots in the video, but which is your favorite and why? Dylan Stark:…
The 2022 bike season in Saalfelden Leogang is now just a great memory. On November 3, the last mountain bikers rolled through the trails of the Epic Bikepark Leogang. This leaves the Asitz to the hikers, who will be able to enjoy the golden autumn weather until the season changes again and snow begins to fly. It is the perfect time to recap the incredible 21st bike season while giving a glimpse into what the future holds. For us, the 2022 season was littered with highlights, starting with perfectly manicured trails and smooth lines. Then, mid-June saw the double World…
Danny MacAskill continues to raise the bar, over a decade on from his viral sensation and breakout street riding film Inspired Bicycles, as the professional mountain biker and YouTube pioneer put his body on the line once again to create another epic riding edit: Taking us back to where it all started in 2009 with a pure street riding film, Danny returns to his roots in: Postcard from San Francisco. A long way from Danny’s hometown on the Isle of Skye, this unique journey through a city steeped in a level of cult status when it comes to action sports films features structures…
Riding Culture is looking to add to its legitimacy in bike parks. The young Swiss brand, known for its extremely abrasion-resistant pants for two-wheelers, is expanding its range with the new Sender collection. The line is dedicated to all downhill-oriented MTB disciplines. The collection is aimed at bike park aficionados but will also work great for enduro and all-mountain riders who want to shred the mountain and get all the functions while looking super stylish in their gear. Riding Culture belongs to “THE ROKKER COMPANY,” which has made a name for itself with slopestyle, freeride, and BMX riders, including Lucas…
The final day of the 2022 Crankworx World Tour was action packed from start to finish with the TREK Official New Zealand Whip Off Championships presented by POC followed by the Maxxis Slopestyle in Memory of McGazza to close the 2022 Crankworx World Tour season, followed by the King and Queen of Crankworx awards ceremony. It was a perfect weather day for Whip Off and Slopestyle with little to no wind. This final Slopestyle event of the Crankworx World Tour was quite unique in comparison to the other three events with weather related delays causing a lack of practice time.…
Leatt® is thrilled to announce the launch of their new 2023 MTB range – their sleekest, most stylish range to date. The new range includes a variety of brand-new helmets and shoes, as well new women’s apparel and bad weather gear. Enabling you to go beyond in style in 2023! With the pandemic majorly restricting our freedom to move over the past two years, we are now able to go out again, explore, try new things, and go beyond what we did before on two wheels. With Leatt®, you can enjoy your time in the great outdoors. BRAND-NEW BAD WEATHER…
The second to last day of Crankworx Rotorua served up a sunny Speed & Style Saturday for the spectators. The skies cleared and the dirt dried up enough for top to bottom runs flowing on the Speed & Style course. It’s a beautiful, newly built Speed & Style course with two trickable jumps, a ton of technical rollers, a ton of corners made for some tight racing against some of the best mountain bikers on the planet. Coming into today, Jordy Scott and Caroline Buchanan were tied at the leaderboard for first place in the standings, but then Jordy took…
Day eight of Crankworx Rotorua brought a battle of the elements with the RockShox Rotorua Downhill event. With 75 mm of rain, and wind at the top, riders treated this more like a survival challenge than a typical race run with more tripods than the media crew. From seeding ’til the end of the elite male race runs, the rain came down hard, the ruts were deep, roots were exposed, mud bogs everywhere, and even a newly coined spectator feature called “Heckler’s Puddle.” It was a tough battle out there for riders to keep things rubber side down, and the…
Day seven of Crankworx Rotorua brought spectators an action-packed double header with Specialized Dual Slalom Rotorua in the afternoon followed by Crankworx Rotorua Pump Track Challenge presented by Torpedo7 once the skies started to put on an epic sunset for the riders and fans. Starting the action off with the Specialized Dual Slalom Rotorua, the riders got to experience a completely different track from the dry conditions they rode in qualifiers only two days before. Qualifying in sixth place, Jackson Frew fought his way to the top step of the podium today, and it was no easy battle especially with…
An iconic track, real fruit ice cream, trail doggos, good vibes, and real quick humans all came together yesterday to kick off Crankworx Rotorua 2022, reminding the world of one thing that was abundantly clear: New Zealand knows how to set a vibe to race some bikes. This was classic Rotorua racing, with some of the world’s best lining up at the start gate to take on the Kiwi locals. The Crankworx Rotorua Taniwha Downhill track (described by Crankworx DH Manager Dave Hamilton as “well known in NZ as the OG!”) welcomed 184 racers, pro and amateur, to the Whakarewarewa…
Nikita Ducarroz will compete in the BMX Freestyle World Championships in less than a month in Abu Dhabi (UAE). While the Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist is considered a medal hope, her story of mental health gives hope to others. The daughter of a Swiss father and an American mother, Ducarroz enjoyed the benefits of dual citizenship and grew up in Northern California while spending summers with her grandparents in Geneva, Switzerland. At the age of thirteen, Ducarroz began suffering from severe anxiety attacks, which led her to isolation within her own home. “BMX helped me to overcome my fears” It…
Gabriel Wibmer, part of the next generation of mountain biking’s Trials and Freeride scene, has pulled out all the stops in his latest edit. ‘The Grind’ sees the young Austrian lift his creativity to another level, hitting the streets of Hamburg with a new perspective on what obstacles can be ridden, and how he can ride them. Watch Gabriel’s edit here: Already known for his incredible ability to blend Trials and Freeride disciplines into mind bending edits, Gabriel has added inspiration from BMX street and flatland into the mix to create this truly unique piece of content. Gabriel approached bike…
If you’ve ever been to Whistler Bikepark, you’ve probably been overtaken by a golden-haired rider – her name is Amy Ertel. She has just joined the RASOULUTION team to get support in her professional career, giving Amy the opportunity to focus on riding. Born and raised in the heart of the mountain bike capital, Whistler, BC (CAN). Amy discovered mountain biking at an early age through her father who she still rides with today. With more and more girls and women shredding bike parks and taking on freeriding, it is exciting to watch the progression of female mountain biking. We…