Ruined – Day 5

Posted on July 9, 2008 by Smoke

OK, we’ve farted around enough for now. Time for the real goods.

That’s Andrew McIntosh, one of the builders in the Postill zone throwing down on the Ski Jump for the camera.

All the boys were getting a few good hits in here.

Even “What Has Poews Done” dropped a couple of good lines today.

Still, it was ‘Locals Only’ on the big boys lines.

However, there was time for payback a pllenty on the wall. Once Scott got going on this one there was no stopping him.

Jimbo had a few issues at first. It’s a big and intimidating line for sure, but once you get over the fear…

….Giddyup.

We also went for a little inspection lap of a new trail that is apparently just for Cyborgs.

It will be ready for human consumption sometime in 2009.

We finished off with another line called “Technical Difficulty” which incorporates some rad rock lines and a few ramps into a sweet combo of gnar for dessert.

Ruined – Day 1

Posted on July 5, 2008December 20, 2008 by Smoke

What was supposed to be the Padwan Tour (the young Jedi council riders) has sort of fallen apart. We have a few riders coming out, but it’s not really the full slate we’ve come to expect from this crew.

Not to worry, Barb and I are working on some numbers…..

Actually, our pal Wyld Willy brought up some more riders to help the process out. So in no particular order, here is our day….

Shortround steppin down.

Sherri hittin a gap.

Shaums getting some love. Oh yeah, there’s random superstar talent in them thar hills.

Sherri getting a bit bent on a drop. Thanks to WW for the fisheye shots.

Norco Jesus..uhhh, Jim seeing the light. He’ll be showing us his stigmata marks later.

Hey, I know that dude.

Oh yeah, the airlines conveniently left all the bikes in the UK, so Poews had to ride Barb’s bike. Looks sorta cute on him….

Jim came out on an earlier flight, so he had his own rig.

Shortround nails a couloir.

Mongo scored this rad rental with a blown Dropoff fork on it. Wait until you see what he does with it…

Poews is all about balance. Here he is stalling on a teeter.

Doh! Jim breaks his finger.

Brad on the insanity of Dr No.

Cody following suit.

Ride that rental, boy.

More couloir madness.

Check that distance that WW sends on this booter near the bottom of Boss Hog.

That’s a rental with crap forks there.

WW on the same Boss Hog stepup.

Mongo doing a front wheel tap…

…but it wasn’t exactly planned.

Whatever, it’s only a rental.

Like all Okanagan ride days, it’s just not complete until we hit a beach.

Team Banana Bread – Day 2

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Smoke

Schnepf!

Gesundheit. Ok, we crawled our way out of a bit of a hangover from yesterdays adventures and went over to Gillard again today. We thought we’d get Lindsay (whe’s new to the riding game) a bit of a confidence builder. Here she is sneering at our spotting attempts on a nice teeter.