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Chris Akrigg @Mega vid…
One more time, Chris Akrigg is bringing sme sweet riding and actions. This time he’s riding the Mega @Alpe d’Huez with his Mongoose bike. All french clichés are here with cows, great mountains and Edith Piaf’s singing…Nice riding, and cool point of view on this amazing race…
Life Cycles Recut Contest.
Guys @Life Cycles are giving you the opportunity to show your editing skills with the best footages that you can imagine…16mm, RED, HiSpeed, HVX200, you will find all footages needed on this link. Once you will have create your masterpiece, put sponsors logos and upload the whole thing on PinkBike. You could may be one of the winners of great prices from SCOTT, SHIMANO and PINKBIKE.
I really like this concept of contest. Let’s see who is the most creative with same raw material.

72 hours in the Life of the Claw.
Specialized teamed up with Freeride Entertainment to create a mini serie on their athletes. The first one is about Darren Bearclaw and his JetRider lifestyle. Follow him during his trip to Europe to ride the Châtel MountainStyle in France. Axel from Freeride did a super sick job and i really like the style of it. Sweet buddy !
Crankworx Colorado recap by Ian Hylands…
Ian Hylands did a super sweet recap of the Crankworx Colorado’s Slopestyle on Pinkbike. Hope he won’t get me wrong by just grabbing the one from Yannick to illustrate the link…
Semenuk, Granieri, Soderstrom, Watts…here are the results, sick for Yannick !

Crankworx Colorado…
Justin Brantley just posted some cool pics from the training @Crankworx Colorado on Pinkbike. Following the Twitter of Darren Berrecloth, it seems that the rain is kind of invited in the party…Hope that they will ride again today. All support to our french rider Yannick Granieri, and buddies Martin and Sam !

“Adiridas” edit by Lukas Tielke
We already knew that Lukas Tielke was putting together some sick videos, cf “Think Big” project. Check this video that his creative mind and skills put together for the “Back in My Yard” video contest….sweet. Remind me “RobotFood” crew, not a bad reference…
Riders are : Niki Leitner, Marius Hoppensack, Tobi Wrobel
thinkBIG ll Back in my Yard 2010 – Team Adiridas ll from Lukas Tielke | thinkBIG Prod. on Vimeo.
FMB world tour ranking update after BIB…
Big in Bavaria made some changes in the FMB world tour ranking. Sam is back at the top of the list with his second place at BIB and Martin’s win allow him to reach the 3rd place. Brandon is on the 2nd place but some big events are still to come : Crankworx Colorado and Whistler, Rampage…Big points which can make huges differencies… Big up to frenchy Yannick Granieri whose solid riding allow him to take the 4th place.

“Back in my yard”- Team Felt edit…
Check out the winning edit of the “Back in my yard” session featuring Joscha Forstreuter and LowFi rider Simon Bonicel. Enjoy !
Back in my Yard from Action-Shot on Vimeo.
Loosely Tour teaser…
What happen when Aaron Chase, Cam Zink and Dave Smutok decide to take a ride…Sick trailer, Cam hitting the BonerLog @Highland MountainPark is f…..n’ insane ! Poor Yamaha…
Exclusive Vital MTB Hold on Loosely Tour Trailer… – More Mountain Bike Videos
LIVE LIVE LIVE from Claymore Challenge…
Starting at 6.45pm European time…don’t miss it !!!!
Claymore Challenge day 2. Qualifications.
Yesterday was the qualification day. This would allow to pick up 14 riders + 2 wild cards. Actually in the result list you will see 17 names. It’s normal as Brandon, Aaron and Cam were already qualified. The level was pretty high, and you can expect a lot from the Finals on Saturday LIVE on LowFi let me remind you….The only little unsure thing is about Alex Pro who get KO after a big crash and get by this way his second head concusion of the week !!!! Maybe better not to ride man !
Here’s the list of riders and some pics. Today is practice so it gonna be time for me to film some little stuff, so expect a little edit asap…
Cameron McCaul
Brandon Semenuk
Darren Berrecloth
Adam Hauck
Ryan Howard
Geoff Gullevich
Tyler McCaul
Yannik Granieri
Kelly McGarry
Cam Zink
Aaron Chase
Paul Langlands
Casey Groves
Logan Peat
Ben Glassen
Alex Pro
Mitch Chubey
Eric Lawrenuk
Nick Simcik
Paul Basagoitia- Prequalified, no score
Greg Watts- Prequalified, no score
Andrew Taylor- Prequalified, no score



Highland Claymore Challenge day 1
Here’s some pics from the first day of riding at Claymore Challenge. The course looks perfect and all riders agree to say that it’s a lot of fun…Tomorrow is qualification and i can even tell you that you gonna have a present for the Final on Saturday with a LIVE on LowFi…yes !
“Back in my yard” Jam
One more time, the hyper-active Joscha Forstreuter is coming with a dope event. The “Back in my yard” Jam, is a 4 days, 4 teams, photo/video jam. With a big help from his friends and sponsors, Felt and Adidas, Joscha puts down a really cool concept. Not only riding ! Each team has to make a little gallery of killer shots as well as a 3 min video…For sure good things will come out from this weekend ! Teams gonna be annouced soon…keep posted !
BACK IN MY YARD – the course buildup from Joscha Forstreuter on Vimeo.

Welcome to Highland Mountain !
Here we are ! Just arrived in Highland Mountain after a long day travelling but it worths it !
The location is in a beautiful countryside and i can’t wait to be tomorrow to see all guys training on the course which looks pretty sick. More news tomorrow night !
Scandinavian Photocontest by Stef Candé
Last week was the Sandinavian Photocontest in Sweden. The french team including, Yannick Granieri, Pierre Edouard Ferry and Tony Rocci was shot by photographer Stef Candé for the occasion. A slideshow had to be made at the end to choose the winner. Here’s the one from the french team…sick pics, nice work Stef ! It’s actually no the one from the contest, but ore the one that should have be made for…photography contest is all about presentation…








