Crankworx Colorado - attempting to run this shit...

Well I'm up here at the 2009 Crankworx Colorado where John Cowan has laid out a very interesting course. It is super testing for all the riders and has some major jumps/stunts that fuck with your mind at the start to say the least. Practice was supposed to be Wednesday but it was thunder, lighting, and more rain then you could imagine so it was post phoned till Thursday. That meant that it was going to be practice in the morning on Thursday and qualifying Thursday afternoon, but we woke up to the exact same weather we went to bed with on Wednesday and the qualifiers were canceled and said to go Today (Friaday). Riders got quite a bit of practice in on the course yesterday when the rain and wind would stop for a couple hours at a time and it looked like it was going to run pretty smooth today. Riders were up on course as early as 9AM and shreding until 20 minutes ago... and then the rain came down once again!

pretty much the course looked like this in the morning...


and looks like this right now, plus it is still pouring rain and about 50mph winds!


Judging by this and the riders thoughts, the qalis might be held off till tomorrow... I'll let you know by tonight what is going down.

OH, and this fucking thing is SO gnarly! If that case pad wasn't put up then every rider in the entire contest would be in the hospital by now... such a cool stunt but so fucking intimidating! Then you add in sideways 50mph wind and you have a bloody scary mess. Greg Watts fell off the backside (the biggest part) but he is OK and then another kid fell off the inside and snapped his wrist.

Brandon Semenuk

Claymore Challenge Highland Mountain

Boobies

http://www.tittaycitay.com

Thank you Ryan Denehy.

Thunderhauck edit

Thunderhauck Edit from Thrashbike.com on Vimeo.

Aaron Laroque - Goat Style 2009 edit

for those of you who think we are style ratz

The training grounds

Heres a couple shots from todays session at Jeff Lenoskys back yard. Adam Hauck and Mike DeMarzo doing work.

Spy Shots for July

Just got word that Ben Boyko robed another Decline cover shot. Guess that makes up for his K.O. 3 drop crash in France for Chatel Mt. Style.


I have also got word from the Canadian, Troy Lee Designs rep, that the all new D3 helmet is going to be reveled at Crankworx Whistler on the Friday right before the sloep-style.

New Gear

Im a little late on this one, but Republik's got some sickkkk look'n new hats. I'll take two! 

WALTER!!

Walter from austria just hooked up some fresh photos.

 

Making moves

Carter is going none stop right now to being you the BEST of the fucking BEST from Black Market in 2010.... Here's a peek at the new Contraband. 

Thrashbike flipbook

Thrashbike Highland Mountain Flipbook from Thrashbike.com on Vimeo.

Photofind

Thrashysteez found over on dontshaveyourtwat.blogspot.com

POST BMX

Summer BBQ

Bummed i missed this one.

Light test.

This is a great little blog i just happened upon. Being a photographer, i have a ton of these photos. Well because you usually test out your light. There is some real good ones on here. 

http://light-test.com/ 

JW & MC GoPro

Justin Wyper and Mitch Chubey put a little vid together from their trip at the Claymore Challenge last week. Here is some POV from the GoPro.

Untitled from justin wyper on Vimeo.

Van homan will save us.

This is great...

Van Homan Will Save Us.. from james cox on Vimeo.

Follow Me: Semenuk & Smith

Brandon Semenuk Profile - FOLLOW ME... from Anthill Films on Vimeo.

Go ride your bike.

Airik Elstracular Spectacular from North of Ten on Vimeo.

The ThrashBike crew is up at Highland Mountain in New Hampshire this week, shredding and bringing you coverage from the 2nd Annual Claymore Challenge. 

Chile Shred'n

From chile from PHOBIA on Vimeo.

Tricks 101 from 1901

Looks like you flat land riders haven't accomplished much in the last 110 years...

The Paulm is really here again..

When you all saw the videos on LitterMag, I'm sure you were as interested as I was to see what was going to actually happen with Shaun Palmer's re-entry into the MTB world. Well it is safe to say that some people are just born with that talent and it will never leave their system. The man has done so much for our sport 10 years ago and I feel he is going to be bringing back that furry we miss so much.

Paulmer with a 2nd place finish at the California Golden State Championships in Fontana, his first race in over a decade... right up there and out of no where, just like it all started. I'm pumped!

WOW

I dont normally like to pull post from other sites, but i grabbedthis from dontshaveyourtwat.blogspot.com and just holy crap.

Colt from Thomas Smithford on Vimeo.

Chatel Mountain Style 2009

Two weekends ago was the 2009 Chatel Mountain Style contest in France. This is a very different freeride contest for our sport because it is a true big mountain freeride track... just watch the video to see what I'm talking about.

Chatel Mountain Style Course Run from http://coastalcrew.blogspot.com/ on Vimeo.

Photofind

Another all time favorite photo. 

The Land

My friends built this place in Upstate NY. 

Goat Style

Nick Meyer, Toff, and myself drove 9 hours yesterday morning, over to Creston, B.C. for the 2009 Goat Style contest. Dustin Greenall and Casey Groves were the head course builders and got the dialed set up finished in under 3 days! (Take notes Crankworx Whistler…) All the guys were throwin’ down last night for a late night / sunset session which I was filming, so look for the edit coming out soon.

After the light went away we all started the PBR train and got a little loose over at the curling rink. They had a pretty good party going on there and we had a killer dance party till the wee hours in the morning… but in typical MTB party fashion, there were way too many dudes there and it’s safe to say that no one of us picked up an std.

Riding pictures and video coming soon!... qualifyers are on Saturday and finals are on Sunday.

David Holzer

17 year old NYC native David Holzer slaying it. 

Photos cred Arava 

Summer shreds

Word on the street is Adam Hauck steals cop cars for fun. 

Mike DeMarzo slaying the hip. 

BILLY AND LOOCH

Two of my favorite from the endub. 

NWSOF.com from corytepper.com on Vimeo.

Joe

Hafjell bikepark shredding

Hafjell dirt sessions from Andreas Johannessen on Vimeo.

Hot damn!

I didnt think i would ever use the word steezy to describe fixed gear riding. 

hfwido's summer weby 09 from hfwido on Vimeo.

Thrashbike

We like to keep things OG around here at thrash bike. Heres some Gems, i've kept tucked away... And now i give them to you, these have all been shot over the last year or and i have alot more to come. Expect big things to be coming from Thrashbike... 

EPIC

I love nothing more then a sick table. 

Wolfpack+rain=suckage

So i thought it was the Northwest that got tons of rain, but i guess things are a change'n. Its been raining like a mother fuck here in the Northeast and it sucks. But the hard winters have made us crafty for shitty weather. 

Thrash photo find

Matt Mcduff

matt macduff taz session from Vincent Allard on Vimeo.

Brian Miller

Brian Miller killing it.

Typical Vancouver

Here is an edit that Ross Measures put together from MTB Ville. This would be a normal day at the trails over here... I find Erics front flip attempt the funniest thing I've seen this week.

Steez attack photofind

Im fairly certain the first photo has become my all time favorite photo ever.

PHOTOFIND

I'm going to start posting random photos find of all things that Thrash.

Vic Murphy.

third dimension

Thrashbike Street Coast Jam- Brooklyn Banks, NYC from TRUTH and Beauty on Vimeo.

Go steal some 3d glasses and watch this bitch.

THANKS NAT!

What a set up

MTB EDIT from Drahoslav Panek on Vimeo.

The riding is pretty good, but this spot is the tits.

Kenny from the Block

another Ken Block edit... the man makes me wanna switch sports so badly.

What's Next? Nick Meyer

Here is a 30 second clip of my brother Nick from the soon to be released movie "What's Next" by Aaron Larocque. What's Next is going to be premiering in whistler during the Crankworx festival.

Premier Date: August 14th @ the Longhorn.

30 sec. Bonus Section V.2.0 from Aaron Larocque on Vimeo.

WOOT

Im 50/50 on the whole fixie tricks thing... I've seen this dude ride in person and if you throwing hop bars on a fixed gear, your fucking OK with me.

bunny bar from hfwido on Vimeo.

Mayhem

Enjoy the "Mayhem" v2.0 -09- from Aguanta Pira on Vimeo.

WEBEDITZ

Thrash bike Chase life edit. from Thrashbike.com on Vimeo.

Wash out Jam

The Washout Jam from Cycle Jerks on Vimeo.

Tyler McCaul - Gamut video

T-mac shreding to some Death From Above... filmed by JD Swanguen and edited by Tyler himslef.