Mike in Australian Mountian Bike

I have always wanted to be in a magazine, there was this one time I submitted pictures to a magazine but was turned down for so many reasons. I guess I will have to podium at one of the biggest MTB contests in the world to make it happen.


If you do not know who Mike Montgomery this is your first time on the Banshee Blog ... snoop around you will be impressed.


Keep Riding.

Rob Dunnet

Team Building

A few days ago Mike, Alan, and I missioned out to Creston, BC for Goatstyle!  For the Banshee team, we’re all about team building.  Through Pina Colada smoothies for breakfast, breathtaking games of chess, and seeing who could jump over their foot, the team got real close, real fast.

On a serious note, it was an awesome time and everyone threw down!  Mike took home 2nd place with a crazy run, and the Friday Night Lights Jam went off!  Alan landed a dialed corkflip barspin, and I stuck a superman to tailwhip flip!  I got a chance to meet Paul, who was killing it all weekend as well, qualifying and putting together an awesome run!

There’s not too much video and pics up of the contest yet, but I’ll try to post them as I find em.  Mike, Alan, and I got up at 4:30 to meet with Jason Headley, Mike Zinger, and Aaron Larock for a sunrise shoot up on the course, so stay tuned for the result of that!  Here’s a video of Friday Night Lights that Reece put together.  Alan’s cork-bar and my superflipwhip are in there.

Thanks go out to the guys at Geax too, generously helping us all out a lot!

-Fogel

Goat Style 2010

I posted around 90 unedited pictures on Pinkbike.com last night. You can check them out here. http://home-team.pinkbike.com/album/Goat-Style-2010/

In the next couple of days I will pick the ones that I like the most and crop and edit them. I took over 1000 pictures, deleted them down to two or three hundred and then pick the ones that I thought were the best and then posted them.

I had a great time in Creston I got to see a bunch of friends that I have not seen in a while and got to watch some amazing riding from a lot of Banshee, Straitline and Geax riders. There is an awesome group of guys sponsored by all three companies.

Have to give a shout out to the guys at Geax for the shade, water, stickers and pizza. You guys rock …

It was a great weekend, Team Rider Mike Montgomery finished second behind Greg Watts with a run that could have easily been judged as a first placed run. Casey Groves had the run of the day going until he slipped a pedal.

I was personally most impressed by Fernie’s Paul Genovese. He was the youngest competitor to make it through qualifying. He had great solid first runs and then tried something new on his second runs. If he can keep progressing he will have a bright future in the industry.

More to come in the next couple of days. Jack and Allan killed it, I just have to find the pictures for them.

Keep Riding,

Rob Dunnet

Vital MTB - Teva Games

2010 Teva Games Slopestyle - More Mountain Bike Videos

Watch for Banshee Team rider Mike Montgomery … pretty amazing run …

Keep Riding.

Rob Dunnet

Mike Montgomery on vitalmtb

We have been waiting for Mike to get used to his bikes before we made a formal announcement that Mike is now on the Banshee Team. We are working on something more formal than this but if Mike being on Banshee is a secret it is one of the worst kept secrets in biking. Listen to Mike talked about the Amp (“It’s the best bike I have ever ridden …”) and Rampant (“You can beat the dick out of it off any big hit, but yet when it comes to like pedalling it’s your hard tail …”).

Wait for something more formal … but Mike Montgomery is on Banshee …

Spotlight: Mike Montgomery - More Mountain Bike Videos

Thanks to Justin and VitalMTB …

Keep Riding.

Rob Dunnet