Mr McMassive AKA Kelly McGarry has a sweet little post up about the Stoney Hills Jam that took place in Duds last weekend, dam, Henry’s place is looking AMAZING! Afterward Ramon and Kelly hit up the Frew Farm, which is still being tweaked in preparation for the Farm Jam this weekend. Wish you were there? I sure do. READ MORE
Swiss visitor Ramon seems to coping with the Huntly wind just fine. Photo Simeon Patience
The second backyard Coast to Coast dirt jump tour was on again for round two. Venturing from Raglan at Lewis Jones’ joint we visited the Beverland jump farm in Huntly and ended up on the east coast in a place called Hikitia at Casey King’s jumps. The weather wasn’t the best but rider determination was and a good time on and off the bike was had by all! READ MORE
I missed a bunch of calls from Kelly’s longtime sponsor Matt Whitaker from Wide Open yesterday, then my battery went flat and I couldn’t check them. This morning though, when the door to Kelly and his road tripping buddy Ramon’s van opened I could see why Matt was calling. Kelly is on Corsair! and already has a very sexy Corsair Ducat hardtail. He’ll also be riding the slopestyle Konig and the Crown DH rig. Kelly says (from the couch downstairs) that “I’m super excited about my new frame sponsor for 2010 and I’m looking forward to working closely with the guys at Corsair.” READ MORE
After a successful European and North American summer Aotearoa’s favourite permed freerider is back. And he’s wasting no time, in fact I’m pretty sure his plane landed today and tomorrow he’ll be out in Ngamoti at the Fire Pit building Nelson a sweet set of MTB dirt jumps to go along with Damian Stones’ pump track. READ MORE
As featured in issue 33 of Spoke, here’s the video to go with the story Long Distance Locals.
Kelly McGarry, Crankworx 2009
Legendary US snowboard photographer and regular visitor to our shores/hills Tim Zimmerman recently turned his lenses (mainly his tilt-shift) to mountain biking. Without a press pass he pretty much took the best photos to come out of Crankworx in over five years or arguably ever. Mountain biking photography is filled with amazing talent, but as you can see in this gallery there is still room for a people like Tim who bring a fresh perspective to our sport.
Oh yeah! Aaron Lutze has been sitting on this clip for a while but it’s finally found a home on Bikemag.com. Check it out as Kelly busts out arguably one of the raddest backflips ever caught on film!
Crankworx is done and dusted now and it didn’t go too bad for me. I competed in the Deep Summer Photo Challenge which is a competition where six professional photographers are invited to the Whistler Valley for three days to shoot as many great MTB photos as possible (60% bike park photos) and present them as a slide show in front of a massive crowd at the Fairmont Chateau. READ MORE
The mighty McGazza finished in fourth place behind three of the world’s best freeriders and in front of a whole bunch more. Trek rider Brandon Semenuk took first, flip whipping Gary Fisher rider Greg Watts landed in second and Kona’s Paul Basagoitia scored third ahead of Kelly and Gravity teammate Andrew Taylor. READ MORE
Aaron Chase films McGazza as he rolls through the Highland Claymore Challenge course. Not too sure of the final results yet but Kelly did make the top ten. Like last year the event had a close call with some pretty bad weather.
