Watch the team’s debut in BMX racing at the new indoor track in Manchster for the 1. round of the 2012 British Cycling BMX Nationals. This was the 1. time that all of the team came together, as the riders are from all over the UK, and with the impressive team pits all set up and riders in full factory kit they aimed to start the season with a bang.
TSG ambassador Daniel Wedemeijer won the Fise Experience Tour 2011. He won 4 out of 6 tour stops. And he also won the highest air and the best trick in Paris.
Angie Hohenwarther came, saw and conquered at the Nightsprint at the Bikefestival in Riva des Garda, Italy. It’s a 4X Race in the flat.
Darlings of the public were dirt bikers Timo Pritzel and Amir Kabbani who both gave it a try. But it was our ambassador Flo Gottschlich you ended up in front of Timo and Amir on a lucky 2nd palce behind Guido Tschugg.
We have added the young hungarian snowboarder Viktor Szigeti to our team. Viktor has been supported by our hungarian distributor since quite a while and is now officially part of our ambassador team.
Viktor just finished with a sensational 1st place at the Plan P contest at Horsefeather Superpark Planai (Qparks Tour 2011).
Viktor rocking the snow parks. He visits the ski sports college in Schladming, Austria, what gives him great opportunities to practice with brilliant coaches. Being a very motivated and positive thinking rooky, Victor is constantly on the road, traveling from contest to contest with photo shoots in between. Victor has already some great sponsors on his side and will prove soon that he can compete with the big names. He is aiming at participating at the X-Games and the Olympic Games in the future.
TSG Ambassador Bienve Aguado stuck the worlds 1. double frontflip on a mountain bike. It only took him 3 weeks of practice. When he felt confident he invited the Master of Dirt Crew together with some video cams to Barcelona to witness his mission. All turned out good and after a few crazy crashes Bienve stuck the double frontflip Unbelievable!!! Ride on Bienve!!!
At the Monster Energy White Style, the European riders clearly dominated the contest this past Friday in Leogang, Austria with TSG`s Sam Pilgrim taking first, TSG ambassador Sam Reynolds and Yannick Granieri taking second and third.
More than 2.500 visitors flocked to Leogang’s Schantei lift to get a first-hand impression of the Monster Energy White Style course, designed by Grant “Chopper” Fielder. After the snow had been too soft for complete runs during Thursday’s training session, perfect weather conditions awaited the riders for the finals on Friday. This year, Kona Clump rider Chopper once again outdid himself: the step-up step-down with humongous drop was so massive the riders referred to it as the “Monster”. The impressive course was so daunting that it inspired awe in the toughest pro.
Obviously, the obstacles’ gigantic dimensions could not scare the riders away and most of the athletes who had travelled to Leogang from twelve nations showed the best tricks in their repertoire. One such trick combination consisting of a backflip table, 360 into the satellite dish and flip off, tailwhip, flip tabletop off the monster drop, and backflip x-up onefoot catapulted British Sam Pilgrim to first place. The second-time winner was super stoked: “The course was really gnarly this year. It’s not easy riding on snow, also because your fingers tend to freeze. But Chopper built an awesome course and I am really stoked to take first place again. I’m starting to become a White Style veteran!”
The riders had good reason to be wary of the Monster’s huge proportions. Only after Sam Reynolds broke the spell with a backflip off the feared mega-drop, one rider after another tricked off the obstacle. Sam completed his winning run with a backflip no hands, tailwhip, flip off the Monster drop and a superman seatgrab.
TSG ambassador Simon Kirchmann ended up 7th.
Congratulation to our riders!
We would like to welcome the Canadian mountain biker Brendan Howley to our ambassador team.
Check him out in our ambassador team site, keep updated in his blog www.brendanhowey.blogspot.com and watch the video above from his California Trip end of last year.
We are stoked to support and sponsor the Identiti Factory BMX team. They will be racing at National UK, International and Worlds in 2012.
