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Our German rider Martin Kiesewetter just finished his new Malice build. I think it turned out pretty good…

What do you think?

Frame: Black Market Malice 22″

Fork: SR Suntour Duro DJ-E 20QLC 100mm

Bar: Black Market Bada Boom 1.5″ 31.8mm

Stem: Black Market Underboss 31.8mm

Headset: Fly Bikes Internal Headset

Grips: Black Market Adam Hauck

Brake: Avid X-0 160mm

Rim Rear: Spank Subrosa EVO 30AL

Rim Front: Spank Oozy EVO 26AL

Hub Front: Atomlab Pimplite DJ 20mm

Hub Rear: DT SWISS 240s

Tires: KHE MAC2 Dirt

Chain: Spank Tweet Tweet Halflink

Crank: Truvativ AKA

Bottom Bracket: Truvativ GXP

Seat + Post: KHE Pluma

Weight: 11.0kg

The events are over and the rain has started but it was a good weekend… Unfortunately none of the Black Market riders made the Super Finals though we did have a few shining moments for sure. Justin Wyper was riding well but couldn’t put it all together. Our New Zealand shredder Conor McFarlane rode very solid and was the ONLY rider to truely trick the high speed berm to berm thingy by some how he was able to 3… It was fast & gnar!!!!

Reece Wallace did well on his polished Killswitch and Kevin Sorchetti also rode well but had a hard time putting together a complete run with his very limited experience at big contests…
Look for Kevin & Conor to be killin’ shit soon.

On a better note, I managed a 3rd place finish in the Air DH on my extra small Roam prototype… man, I can’t wait until Aug. 31… hint, hint.

This is going into the last turn after about 3:30…. my lungs are burning from the 11,000′ altitude…

seriously burning.

Thanks goes out to Winter Park Trail Crew Member Pauly Weston who showed me the way down the mountain at Mach Speed but gave me the confidence to run a good lap even after showing up with a front flat and missing all of practice. No way I could have even come close to that time with out his help.

One more race under it’s belt…

We’re headed for Moab!!!!! But first we’re stopping in to Santiago’s sweet new store… A Culture Of Speed A.K.A. aCOS in Dumont, Co. then to the Fix and Valmont bike park.

Cool edit from PlussizeBMX.com that starts with a course run through with Kevin Sorchetti.

Bike issues kept me from racing dual but I’ve got my Roam dialed from tomorrow’s Air DH and even got in some fast laps thanks to local trail crew member Paulie. Thanks Paul… I’ve never gone that fast on a new trail and hit everything right. It pays to follow the right guy but 10,000′ still hurts the lungs plenty.

Time for some rest…

I’ve been trying to make it down to Danny Daffer’s place in San Diego for at least 2 years now and today i finally make it happen. Suzie and I drove in hellish 30mph 5 South traffic for over 2 and half hours but it was well worth it once we got there.

Danny’s Orchard trails are small to medium sized with 3-4′ steep lips and stepped up landings that start in his backyard with some pump track sized and style rollers and a table to get you started. Once in the pack you have 2 choices… the straight line consists of 3 sets into a 90 berm to pump bump to small step up( watch out for trees ). The other choice is to hip left after the first set the a bigger hip deep in the orange trees to a final small step-up… both lines terminate in the same 135* berm that serves a small pump track/warm-up section.

Quite a few of the Orchard locals came out to ride and Chris from plussizebmx.com was there shooting photos and grilling various meats. Danny and his other half, Leslie showed Lisa Myklak and I the hotlines

around the yard while locals Jimmy Visser, Timmy Gooden and Kevin Sorchetti were spinnin’ and flippin’

about the place. It didn’t hurt that the Crankworx Super Finals were going on line in the living room whenever we needed a break.

The sculpter/ resident shredder, Danny Daffer gets all kinds of flat on his rigid SuperCo.

While his other half, Leslis Slagle throws her Mob around the yard. Different strokes for different folks…

Thanks to Danny and Leslie for letting us invade their spot!!!

I had a great time flowing around and was throwing some clicked turndowns on this hit when my one secure foot blew… it all went horribly wrong taking a rather large deep chunk out of my palm. Good times…

Kevin Sorchetti had the place dialed and was killing it. Look for him, Adam and me at Crankworx Colorado next week too.

Lisa drove in from Barstow where she was visiting her sister with A. No helmet and B. No bike…

Do you think it phased her to ride new trails on a new bike ( the first production Mob to roll off the line in over 2 years) in a new helmet??? Nope… not a bit.

On a side note, I’d like to officially congratulate Jim Tharp and Lisa Myklak on their recent engagement and wish them all the best in their future together. So stoked to have you both riding for us.

Thumbs up on Jim and Lisa’s engagement!!!

All photos by plussizebmx.com

Lisa, Suzie and I had a great time riding and visiting with everyone… I was specially happy to see Danny Meadows show up to hang out. For those who don’t know, Danny Meadows is a long time SD BMX scene member who also had a backyard BMX playground that was always open to friends and new riders. He was also the track director at the new Olympic BMX training center and BMX track in Chula Vista, Ca. Danny was recently diagnosed with multiple scleorsis and is no longer able to ride a bike but with the help of Stephan Murray’s Stay Strong Foundation he may soon have his very own full suspension dh wheelchair to fly on. Can’t wait to see that…

Stephan Murray presents a check to Danny Meadows at the Chula Vista BMX National.

Here is a compilation page of all the video from the first week of Ayr Academy! Everyone had a killer week. The campers were stoked and everyone progressed leaps and bounds from when they showed up! There is still room in the next three sessions for campers so If you are interested don’t hesitate to visit the Ayr Academy page at highlandcamps.com

Ayr Academy Session 1 Day #3 from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day#4! It was an action packed day. A group went up in the morning with Aaron Chase and Adam Hauck and learned how to dig and reshape a trick jump. Then they sessioned it and learned some new tricks. The other group went up the lift with Slim and Geoff Gullevich and raged some downhill runs! Then at the end of the day everyone met up at the HTC and had an editing lesson from Justin at Lucent Prod. After all that some bike rope-swinging and dodgeball was in order!

Ayr Academy Session 1 Day 4, A Day In The Life from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day #5 was an epic day for campers. Right after breakfast they got on the hill and lapped some early morning downhill runs. Then midday the campers and coaches began the hike up the slope style course. The rest is history! Check out the footage below!

Ayr Academy Day5, “Learning to freebird” from Highland Mountain Bike Park on Vimeo.

Day #6 marked the second to last day of camp for the campers. They were all rip roar’n ready to go bright and early. The majority of the day was spent on the lift. The kids had been slaying jumps all weeks with no problem and had even stepped it up to the freebird; but they wanted to get more drops in so they spent the majority of the day sessioning the bigger drops on the mountain. By mid day with the instruction of the coaches they were flowing off all the biggest drops on the mountain with style!

Check out the video of thursdays action below!-