Matt Brooks was injured on his training runs on one of the built up ladder sections at the Crankworx Colorado competition. It looks like he's compressed one of his vertebrae and will be traveling home to Kamloops either today or tomorrow. He seemed ok but was bummed about having to leave before competing, but we both agreed not to chance further injury and just take it easy until a doctor could give him the all clear. We're hopeful he'll be healthy enough to ride at Whistler's Crankworx later this month.Chris Soinnenen and Alan Hepburn have both won the Crankworx lottery to qualify for entry and Keith informs me that they're woodshedding in the Airdome to prepare. Chris is working on some backflip variation thats never been done before so I'll try to get some more details on that.
Chris will be riding the Wildcard and hopefully we can get Alans here in time but with the clock ticking he may opt to ride his chap which he's comfortable with right now. I think he's got it down around 37lbs so it should work for him.
Nato aka Nathan Kamilla will hopefully be lining up some filming with Rebel Media when they pass through Vernon and Kelowna and they've promised to give me some of the footage.
I'm still waiting for a reply back from Scott Alleyn to see if he also received word he would be able to compete in Crankworx. It would be great if we could have 4 pride pride riders competing this year.
Jarl Jensen has confirmed he will pilot the Rampant at the 4X competition and although we don't have our DH bike ready yet we'll get him on a bike for the DH course.
Update: July 8/07
Matt called me today and the doc gave him the all clear so we'll be sure to see him at Crankworx.
