Riding in snow is sketchy. Riding snow while brakeless is even sketchier. But to lay down some INSANE moves……thats just ridiculous! Black Market “Made Man” Pavel Alyokhin, a.k.a. “Vishneviy” spent a few hours filming on some big, snow covered jumps. Needless to say, the outcome was gold! This guys got plenty of moves, and he isn’t stopping any time soon!!!!! Check the banger……..looks like Greg Watts has some competition coming his way!
Author: Lauren
Again Zeus and I will be packing my trusty Tacoma for a roadtrip to the Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival… come join me, Jim, Lisa, Jake & Mondo for all types of bike shreddery and we love to ride with you. See you there…
A Celebration of Mountain Biking in Santa Cruz County!
Mountain Bikers Of Santa Cruz (MBOSC) is proud to announce the Second Santa Cruz Mountain Bike Festival taking place (SCMBF)April 9th and 10th, 2011 in Aptos Village, California. The event venue includes the Epicenter Cycling Pump Track and the Post Office Dirt Jump park.
The mission of the SCMBF is to celebrate mountain biking in Santa Cruz County by bringing people together to participate and spectate in competitive and recreational mountain bike events, bring the community together and promote the world class mountain biking facilities and riders in Santa Cruz County.
The Festival includes:
- Fox Racing Shox – 831 Jump Contest
- Black Market Bikes/Epicenter Pump Track Pandemonium
- Specialized/Scotts Valley Cycle Sport XC Short Track
- Free Epic XC Endurance Ride
- Shuttle Rides
- Bike Skills Clinics
- Expo and Vendor area featuring Bike Demos
- Beer Garden featuring 6 Santa Cruz County Brewers
Construction to expand Aptos Village may begin at the end of the year or early next year. This may be the last year for the existing Pump Track and Post Office dirt jump facilities. Proceeds from this event will be used to create a new permanent bike park in Aptos, California.
I just got word from our distributor in New Zealand that their Black Market supported rider, Conor MacFarlane will be coming to the US and Canada to compete and see what we have to ride and from what I’ve seen from Conor, he’s not scared to throw down.
Conor Mcfarlane almost rode alway from this frontie off a flat drop during his win of the
2011 Unit Farm Jam in NZ.
Wide Opens Product Launch & Road Trip
WideOpen Road Trip around North Island from firstfloor on Vimeo.
New Zealand’s Black Market crew:
Bret Frew, Karl Benesmann and Conor McFarlane ride the Unit Farm Jam.
Bret Frew, Karl Benesmann and Conor McFarlane ride the Unit Farm Jam.
Unit Farm Jam 2011 – MTB Highlights from Unit Clothing on Vimeo.
Some more links to Farm Jam coverage:
http://timpierceblog.com/2011/02/27/farm-jam-2011/
http://www.spokemagazine.com/2011/02/exclusive-the-2011-unit-frew-farm-jam-photo-gallery/
Here in Whistler it has been a pretty miserable winter for me. there is more snow then I have ever seen, and I have been to strapped for cash to travel some where warm to ride. I ended up having to go down to Vancouver this past week, unfortunately there was only heavy rain in the forecast so the bike stayed at home. on Wednesday the sun ended up poking though the clouds and i got a call from my buddy Reece Wallace, ” yo bud lets ride” unfortunately I didn’t have a bike… lucky for me though Reece was nice enough to offer me his killswitch to ride. so I grabbed my old moto helmet out of the barn and I got my first ride of the year in! I got one shot that Reece took, not the best but what ever! i was just stoked to get out and ride!