Dustin Greenall 2010 Video

Mike Rides Bikes

Fogelsode S2 #8: Fun Week in Santa Cruz

It’s been an awesome week around here, with the sun shining and friends like Christian in town.  We took advantage of the weather and trail conditions to get in a fun day of riding big bikes.  Another day, Jeff and I had a cool little sesh at the step-up, before heading over to Post Office.  The classic sundown-seshes have become routine this time of year, but what’s new are some of the younger riders like Jared, Simon, and Fin shredding with us.  Just a week ago they were doing run-ups into the line and now they’re flowing through with style and even throwing a few tricks!  Stuff like that always gets me stoked to see!

Down Mall - Four Floors of Downhill

The third happening of DownMall “devastation” of chosen shopping centre by crazy group of bikers is quickly approaching. It became a tradition that this unconventional and in the world unique race right inside the shopping centre, full of madly shopping customers, moves its happening from year to year. After the shopping centre Delta and Plaza in Liberec there is not just the change of shopping centre but the town too! DownMall 2011 is heading to Palác Flora in Prague this year!

Palác Flora offers again very attractive and challenging mall of 4 floors just perfect for the race. If you remember, the last race in Plaza shopping centre took the start at the local discotheque club. This year the start will be in the vestibule of the Palace cinema on the highest floor of the shopping centre. The race will then continue by the passage round the inside gallery on each floor of the shopping centre. The very popular escalators and the finish drop won’t be of course missing. For the audience there is prepared 5 cameras shooting the whole race that will be aired through LCD screens placed throughout the whole shopping centre.

Not very popular custom of this DownMall event is that the whole race is very limited with the number of participants so it is only for 40 invited riders. Thus we can again be looking forward to the top international and local DH and 4X riders.

This year DownMall is not intended for the DH and 4X riders only but there will be also introduced totally different MTB branch by our top dirt and slopestyle riders! The prize money in height of 30.000,- CZK will be surely the good motivation for all the participants so we can all be looking forward to the great show.

And what about you? Will you come to Palac Flora to see this great and exciting event on 12th February 2011? Or you want to participate itself in this great and mad race by taking the wild card? And is it even in your powers to win? Can Michal Prokop win for the third time in a row? Come and you will know it all!“

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Cheryl Moore

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Nicknames: Chucker, Chuckerdoo

Age: The big 30

Riding Since: Well I have always had a bike as a kid and a teenager. Then somewhere in my teenage hood I took up skateboarding and didn’t really play with bikes again till I was able to afford my first “big girl” bike. I got a Rocky Mountain Element XC bike and played on that till I realized I was gonna need a much burlier bike to play on the trails I wanted too! And basically for the last 5 years riding as played a big part of my life.

Current Bike(s): Banshee Scythe, Banshee Rune and a Banshee Morphine and a Legend on the way!
Riding Style: I play around in a bit of everything. Mostly downhill but I like a good xc adventure and spend some time playing on the dirt jumps and pump tracks.

Racing Highlights: Finishing all 7 BC Cup races in my first season of racing without major injury.

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Fogelpod

Today's Pinkbike POD is what I like to call a Fogelpod. Much like a Fogelsode, packed with as much Fogel goodness as you can get from a single image with out the extra calories.


For those of you who want to ride with Jack and make your own Fogelmoment ... then sign up for Camp of Champions.

Keep Riding.

Rob Dunnet

Steve mathews' Legend MkII beat down test!

Hey guys,

So the other day I did something I should have done a while ago - full thorough inspection of the Legend MkII frame. This frame has seen a full season in Whistler, including 70+ days in the park and probably another 10 outside the park, plus riding as much as I can for the last 3 months since I've been back in Aus. I'm ~90kg (200lbs), ride reasonably fast and am certainly not easy on my bike.

So what did I find? Absolutely nothing wrong. Still on the original bearings, they're probably rough to the touch by now but there's no play and when you move the swingarm from the axle you don't feel anything unusual. There's no play. Nothing is cracked, despite my best efforts, including some really f#*king hard landings (like the kind that broke the Mk1 haha!).

So Keith, full points for the structural work. In the meantime I've watched mates write off numerous other frames, and I'm pretty stoked that the MkII hasn't let me down in the slightest. I look forward to seeing whatever you come up with for the Mk3, whenever that may be!

cheers,

Steve

-All Photo credits go to Ross Dunlop, thanks for the great shots!

Island Winter - Loken and LaRocque

Aaron and Strahan teamed up for another video that will be VOD on Pinkbike ... just not yet.



Keep Riding.

Rob Dunnet

Lear Miller Going Slowwwww

Lear just got back from another epic desert trip. Here's the video:



Can't wait to get this guy on a Legend!

Legend First Ride on Reunion Island by Bertrand

Welcome to the BANSHEE Reunion Island !


I deal Banshee here since late 2010, I sold some Rune and Legend, but had not yet had time to built mine because too much work!



Now it's done! This is my personal bike, which is also being tested for promotion to all riders who wish!


Legend MKII White Medium
Fox RC4 (before ELKA famous !)
Boxxer R2C2
Ultimate Deemax
Elixir mag (203 front / 185 rear)
X.0 derailleur and shifter
SDG Ibeam saddle and seatpot
M815 Saint crank
E-thirteen LG1 +
Nukeproof pedal
Point One Racing direct mount stem
Sunline V1 Handlebar 745 mm


First run this Saturday, January 23, 2011, rain is part of the ride ha ha ha ! On a beautiful natural trail rather technical, tight, with lots of roots and lots of mud !
Difficult to try a new bike in these conditions, so I start with some fears !

2 first run gently to take the temperature and then ... it's awesome : the bike is super safe, you get used very quickly, and I begin to attack with joy ! My feelings : player, lively, stable ride with a flawless!
A killer bike, a real rocket which only limits are my driving !

Big thanks to Jay and Banshee TEAM !