Action from Crankworx Colorado’s 2008 slopestyle competition in Winter Park, CO.

Filmed and edited by Noah Sears of Western Slopestyle Productions (HTTP://westernslopestyle.blogspot.com/)

Contact:
Noah Sears
Sales Manager
Over the Edge Sports - Fruita, CO
Noah@otesports.com

The last couple of weeks I’ve been traveling around Europe for the nissan qashqai series. The first stop was in Milan, Italy where I made it into the finals but my runs didn’t come together and I ended up in 15th. The day after that event we went to the Nissan Town Hill race and slopestyle event. It was a fun course with some step ups, drops and dirt jumps. I ended up taking second place at that comp. After Italy we made our way to Madrid, Spain for the second stop of the tour. The course there was so much fun. It had a jump that went into a berm to step up then a drop into a four pack of jumps. The level of riding was really high so it was a good comp for spectators. I ended up taking 11th at the comp. Now were on our way to the third comp in Munich. I’ll post soon on how its going.

The season is really starting to get busy now. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks traveling around to different spots to get ready for up coming contest. After our trip to Puerto Rico I went down to Woodward west for a week to meet up with friends. I learned some new tricks so it was a good trip for me. It’s the best when you learn new tricks and get them dialed. After Woodward I visited Santa Cruz for a couple of days to do some film stuff for Don Hampton. Once we finished things up it was time to make my way over to sea otter. This year it was a little bit different of a set up. Instead of having a dirt jump contest for us free riders they replaced it with a dual stunt race. It was kind of like slalom but instead of a dirt course it was a wooden course with obstacles. The format was 16 riders that qualified had to race head to head in a dual slalom format. Jamie Goldman bumped me out in the first round but we gave the crowd a good show. There was a step up on to a box at the end of the course and Jamie and I made a pact that we would tail whip up it in our race run. The crowd was stoked. After sea otter was over a lot of people stayed an extra day to ride the post office jam in Aptos. The jam was out of control. Tons of people showed up and some crazy stuff went down. After a long day of riding I headed home to get ready for the first stop of the qashqai tour in Milan, Italy. I got home and had one day to build a fresh new bike and get things ready for the long journey to Europe. Now I’m sitting on a long plain flight with Tyler McCaul, Ryan Howard and Alex Reveles. Were all attending the two qualifiers for the qashqia series. The Main series will take place in Munich, London and Paris, but in order to get to the main events we have to qualify. The first qualifier is in Milan and the second will be in Madrid one week later. They will qualify 10 riders and those 10 riders will compete with last years top 15 that are pre qaulified. There’s going to be around 30 riders trying to qualify so we’ll see how it goes.

AT talks about why he wanted a 5.5-inch versatile bike. Herb at Versus designed the Valor. Available Summer 2008

Rider: Andrew Taylor
Film by: Ambrose Weingart @ CKD Films