Tag: Crankworx

  • Red Bull’s Behind The Bike: Loic Bruni And Jack Roure

    Red Bull’s Behind The Bike: Loic Bruni And Jack Roure

    In the second of Red Bull’s Behind the Bike series, we get a look inside the relationship between rider and mechanic and how it affects performance on race day, and also in the everyday relationship in the pits, the motel, travelling, life. Words: Red Bull. Photos: Miles Holden LOIC BRUNI ON JACK ROURE (MECHANIC) I…

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  • Red Bull’s Behind The Bike: Matt Jones

    Red Bull’s Behind The Bike: Matt Jones

    Words: Matt Jones/Red Bull. Photos: Miles Holden Early on in my career I realized I wanted to work on my bike myself. I knew I wanted to have direct input into how my bike feels, and have the ability to play around with my own ideas to make my bike as suited to me as…

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  • Slingin’ In The Rain

    Slingin’ In The Rain

    There’s at least a hundred clichés about rain in song or proverb form we could write here, so instead we’ll just say this: watch this video from Dominic Hook and re-live the EWS mudfest through the eyes of a future shredder.

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  • Wyn Win Situation: Mud Masters Of The EWS

    Wyn Win Situation: Mud Masters Of The EWS

    The Whakarewarewa Forest is a magical place, a peaceful oasis on the edge of town set amongst giant redwood trees and enveloping punga ferns, with snaking trails carved into loamy rich soil covered in varicose roots that never fail to fill one with joy. Add in some rain and hundreds of speed-crazed enduro riders to…

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  • Connor Mahuika: Going Bigger

    Connor Mahuika: Going Bigger

    Connor Mahuika is a 17 year old lad from Rotorua, New Zealand. Connor made a name for himself in the MTB world last year by taking out 4th place in the Rock Shox Pump Track Challenge at Crankworx Rotorua at just 16 years of age. Since then Connor has been practicing and progressing his riding style…

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  • TLC Episode 2: The Progression Continues

    TLC Episode 2: The Progression Continues

    Things are really starting to heat up in the great Drew Bezanson slopestyle experiment. Looking at his Facebook this week, there was a clip of him busting out some huge double back flips, and his new-trick bag seems to be expanding every week. Beautifully filmed as always, part two of The Learning Curve follows Drew as he travels…

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  • A Journey To Crankworx Rotorua

    A Journey To Crankworx Rotorua

    At its most base value, Crankworx is a mountain bike festival… and to many people, that’s all it is. After making action videos and taking fast-paced photos for about four years, I stumbled upon the magical world of mountain biking and instantly fell in love. What an epic use of the human body and some simple technology! A solid regime…

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