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Saturday Night
1st, zink, 2nd mccaul, 3rd strait - propers kids!
alright, here's claw to tide you over
SORRY FOR THE LAGGING. Internet was down and work had to get done. Slopestyle just ended minutes ago. Holy crap. Tailwhips, 3's and assorted nuttiness off the last 20 foot drop. Insanity. McCaul almost had a barspin to tailwhip on the monster booter. Andreu Lacondeguy flipped the stepdown and get wrecked. McCaul flipped it, so did Zink. Paul B. tried 7's but couldn't quite get 'em. Claw 3'd his road gap TWICE and superman seat grabbed the finish booter. Ryder Kasprick had tailwhips to pedals in both runs off the finish booter. Pretty nuts. Pics/vids later. Results too...I haven't heard. Also, since I couldn't close the betting until now, "Kevo" is the last official bet. Sorry.
Thursday Night
Long day on the hill for SS qualifiers. I don't know who placed where, so go surf somewhere else to find it. Maybe the crankworx site or something. Photo report is up from the day. I will say this...trying to qualify with one really solid
trick probably isn't the wisest thing. So many riders just cruised all the in-between hits on their way to their money shot and a lot of those money shots ended in disaster. I guess that's how it goes with open qualifying. I will also say this. Vanderham RULES! So much oozy, flowy style. Good stuff. Sorry, no videos today. Too busy with pictures and sunburn.
Wednesday Night
Air DH today, but some World Cup pros didn't race because they were filming for videos. No crap. decline's Scott Hart pointed out the irony of that whole thing. Racers not racing to go film for non-race videos. Quite interesting to say the least. Lopes won with a 4.19, Gracia 2nd with a 4.20 or 4.21 and Bryn Atkinson 3rd with a 4.21...he flatted a fair bit before the finish too...now that's a run! Spangler rules and his track walk video proves it. Random footy video from today will be up soon and tomorrow is Slopestyle qualifiers. Something like 100 people getting 2 runs each. There are side bets going on regarding 'worst crash', 'most akward crash' and first broken bone, LOL.
Wednesday Morning
LitterOTB betting is up. Off to the hill...back later tonight. Air DH today. Lopes didn't race Super-D (though he was scheduled to), so he's looking for the Triad of victory...Air DH, MTX and Enduro DH.
Tuesday, July 25
A little slow on the action front as riders are picking their jaws up off of the ground as they check out the Slopestyle track. Peaty and Sam Hill had their bikes stolen which sucks. They're getting replacements built up for tomorrow's Air DH. Super-D was today, but I don't know who did what with that. Most of the riders are here and taking runs.
Monday, some date
We're starting early. Bend, Oregon photo and video reports to get you warmed up for the goodness.
Here we go people!
Santa Cruz Bicycles and Litter"Mega"zine have teamed up to bring you the best, most inside coverage of Crankworx 2006. We'd tell you what we're going to do, but then we'd have to kill you. Besides, anticipation breeds patience and patience is a virtue.
Tune in Tuesday evening, July 25th, for the first of many installments, coming from Crankworx at Whistler, British Columbia.