Emily Johnston in upcoming webseries… “Seasonaries”

A new film from the UK’s Tom Grundy focuses on 5 athletes who migrate yearly to Whistler and their lives on the mountain. Here’s the trailer… enjoy, looks like fun to me…
Here’s the dirt…
Each summer a growing number of lads and lasses come from far and wide to Whistler to live the life of bikes and bikes and bikes. It’s the dream of riding bikes that brings them, but the reality is that there are deeper reasons that keep them here. Some people come for a visit and never leave. Some come to find something specific, but end up learning something entirely different. Some come alone, some come with friends, but everyone leaves with more.
People uproot from their lives elsewhere to be in Whistler. Some make giant life changes, others have had their lives changed by one short visit to Whistler. Some are here for just one summer, some will be here forever more, either as a permanent fixture or a seasonal migratory bird.

There are thousands of stories and tales to tell, but film-maker Tom Grundy, super shooter Mattias Fredriksson and WriterSeb Kemp grabbed just five of them to give you a brief glimpse of living the dream.

On the face of it this series is just about riding bikes in Whistler. However this series hopes to look beyond this and explore the motivations of people to radically alter their lives just to ride bikes as much as they can. We chose five people and used their particular experiences as a magnifying glass to be able to discover more about a few of the motivations for some people to make bikes their life.

The following is five short stories, five characters, five windows and five motivations.

Seasonaires is a five part series that will be aired weekly.

Seasonaires Trailer from Tom Grundy on Vimeo.

Webedit From Matt Jamieson In The Works…

I just got home from my 2nd XC ride today on the Roam proto and saw and e mail from Matt Jamieson informing me he’s been filming for an upcoming webedit and sent me a screen capture of a sweet 180* air pivot that I wanted to share…
BTW… the Roam is performing exceedingly well and we’re looking forward to revealing the production renderings of what the Roam will actually look like when released.

Jake and Josh Kern Team Up For POD

Jake Kinney By Joshua Kern


A few weeks ago Jake Kinney Went to the Folsom Bike Park Jump Jam where he rode well enough to win Best Style.

Joshua Kern was there shooting photos and got some really nice shots of everyone… Just so happens that his photo of Jake stretching a suicide no-hander at sunset is P.O.D. on PinkBike.com right now.

Here’s a few others I found in Josh’s Album of Jake from that day.

Enjoy.
How many Elite 4X racers are tailwhipping hips???
Not many is the answer…
This moto whip helped net Jake the style cat title on this day.

Jake Kinney Finishes 3rd Overall At South Ridge


Jake Kinney has been putting in fast laps at Fontana all year on the rocky-ass 4X course and it’s paid off with a Top 3 Finish for 2009 and a great way to start 2010.
Jake Follows Dale Holmes out of turn 2 at the Cal State Finals In Fontana, Ca.

So. Cal. Champs
1st Blake Karney 2nd Dale Holmes 3rd Jake Kinney
Pics by tonytarumoto.com


Jake helps get the show on the road… this ultimately turned into yet
another rubber band race…

Fright Night DH NIght…

Fontucky is holding a Halloween DH night race!!! It sounds awesome… I’m assuming that “Under the lights…” means under their lights and not your little AAA powered strap ons…
Get out the pedal friendly costumes and head to Fontana…