After the 1st successful edition, the Barbero & Friends is ready to start again!
On September 10-11 @ Alessandro Barbero’s BMX park, the best national bikers will ride on the structures created by Ale, the most famous Italian bmx athlete in the world.
Two-days of fun and sports, where everyone will have the chance to ride in the park located in Priero (CN), the biggest one in Italy, with miniramp, spine, step up, resi jump, foampit and wall ride.
The former Swiss Dirt King changed its name to Teva Dirt Comp and now also allows BMX riders to battle. Taking place July 30th some of the best dirt mountain bikers and bmxers battle in Switzerland’s largest dirt park in Steffisburg.
The comp is open to anybody.
The course offers diverse lines with different levels from small tables lines (2.5 m) up to huge double lines (6 m).
Win cash and non-cash prizes of TSG, Teva, Dakine and Ace.
The Bike Expo in Munich opened its doors today. We are here to represent and show some of our 2012 gear. Step by and say hi if you are around. We are just next the the dirt course in Hall B6 318.
And don’t miss the Go Big Or Go Home that takes place during Bike Expo and watch TSG ambassadors Bienvenido Alba, Simon Kirchmann and Sam Reynolds.
The course for the dirt jump contest is already finished in the brand new Action Sports Hall and is waiting for riders to hit it with their best tricks. This year, riders will be starting from an 8-meter starting tower and are dropping into a decent step down, which gives the riders the speed they need for the first big sender. The three jumps on this extremely fast course have gaps of 8, 6 and 4 meters. The short but sweet course planned by course designer Markus Hampl, gives great opportunity for big tricks. So, the spectators can look forward to spectacular dirt jump action.
The riders are competing for a total of 10,000 Euro that will be split among the winners of the final. For anyone whose heart beats for spectacular bike action, the Rollei Best Trick Contest on Saturday after 7pm with a prize money of 1,000 Euro for the most impressive move will certainly be a highlight.
Patrick Guimez and Markus Hampl just informed us about Lords Of Dirt 2011.
This year the comp counts 2 stops. First stop happens in Tosse (south west of France close to Hossegor ) on August 20th-21st.
The 2nd stop is in frejus on October 7th-9th during Roc d’Azur Bike Show.
They build a brand new course with big jumps and already have a great list of riders confirmed: Ben Wallace , Josh Stead , Alejandro Caro , Ryan Guettler , Rob Armour , Bob Manchester , Markus Hampl , Dani Josa , Simon Moratz , Matt Priest , Dane Searls, Andreu Lacondeguy and many other riders form USA , Australia, England and more !!!
Expect DJ, concerts, party and a good price money for contest + best tricks.
Floriane Pugin and Emilie Siegenthaler did it for SCOTT11 at the world cup in Windham:
Floriane had some problems getting into the rhythm at the start and lost almost 4 seconds on winner Rachel Atherton to the first split time. But then she found the turbo button, making up 3 of those 4 seconds, placing 2nd, in front of world champion Tracey Moseley.
Emilie Siegenthaler finally did it and stepped on a world cup podium for the first time in her life!
With Emilie in 5th place, there was a lot of yellow at the womens podium ceremony.
Nick Beer and Fabien Pedemanaud were not able to find their speed on the Windham track this year. They will use the national championships next weekend, as well as the next 2 race-free weekends to find it for the world cup in La Bresse, France, that will be held beginning august.
The winner of the 26TRIX fueled by Monster Energy at the Bikepark Leogang is called Brandon Semenuk (CAN). The qualifying took place on Friday in beautiful sunny weather. In front of a breathtaking mountain backdrop, the dirt superstars who had come to Leogang from all over the world showed tricks on an extremely high level. Just in time for the finals, the weather unfortunately turned. Even though the newly designed course was able to withstand the pouring rain relatively well, the finals had to be cancelled and in the end, the results from the qualifying decided who the winner in Leogang was. Instead, the riders showed their best moves in a spontaneous best trick contest.
Judges and riders decided together to take the qualifying results as a final ranking. Because of the bad weather forecast, the riders had been prepared for this possibility and already went full throttle in the qualifying.
The course had gone soft and muddy overnight from the rain and it was questionable whether the riders could complete their runs without risking major crashes. Fortunately, the qualifying was already carried out on such a spectacular trick level that spectators and riders did not feel cheated out of the legendary trick action expected of the contest.
It was the 2nd run that helped TSG rider Sam Pilgrim come in on 3rd place. He showed a backflip tuck no hand, 360 x-up and backflip x-up one foot. After an extremely stylish 360 tabletop, he finished his run with a backflip and 360 tailwhip.
She finally did it! Floriane Pugin took the win at the world cup in Leogang, Austria! It is her first ever world cup victory and also the first ever for SCOTT11!
Floriane, aka the flying banana, enjoyed the whole week on the track in Leogang and was the fastest in training, qualifying and finals. She was 0.5 seconds behind Rachel Atherton at the last split time, but then managed to go 3 seconds faster in the last technical part of the track, winning the race 2.5 seconds ahead of the rest.
Emilie Siegenthaler and Fabien Pedemanaud both had some mistakes in their runs, finishing in 7th and 26th place.
The world cup continues in three weeks with it’s oldest venue in Mont Sainte Anne, Canada.
Fise in Montepellier is history. Here is a short summary of our team rider results.
Sam Pilgrim has extended his winning streak with a third slopestyle victory that puts him solidly in the lead for the FMB World Tour overall points. UK National team rider Sam Reynolds ended up 6th.
RESULTS MTB SLOPESTYLE
1. Sam Pilgrim
2. Yannick Granieri
3. Mehdi Gani
4. Louis Reboul
5. Thomas Genon
6. Sam Reynolds
7. Lance McDermott
8. Daryl Brown
In BMX our ambassador and Dutch national Daniel Wedemeijer aired 3.65 m on the quarterpipe at the new park course in Montpellier and won the Playstation High Air Contest. He ended up 7th in the BMX Dirt final right after Ricardo Laguna who got 6th.
RESULTS BMX DIRT
1. Chris Doyle
2. Ben Wallace
3. Pat Casey
4. Jean Batiste Peytavit
5. Alessandro Barbero
6. Tristan Musso
7. Daniel Wedemeijer
8. Ricardo LAGUNA
Congratulation to our riders! We will post some videos later.
The Super Camp II & The Eddie Wall Ride Invitational is over. Now it’s time to think about your summer plans. Do you miss it? Let’s face it: dry slopes and snowdomes are cool, but you like the real thing. Learn and Ride With SMK Camps from June 18th – August 14th in Les Deux Alpes, France.
