28 Photos from Crankworx Rotorua - Slopestyle / Speed and Style Practice
First day of Slopestyle practice in Rotorua with primo dirt and all the riders having a blast riding the course weaving through the redwoods, designed and built by Tom Hey and Kelly McGarry (Elevate Build and Design). Being the first big contest of the year, all the riders are feeling out their bikes and keeping things pretty mellow for the first day.
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 Gearing up for the first day of slope practice. |
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| Martin Soderstrom busting out laps on the slope course before heading to Speed and Style practice and then on to the whip off's. |
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| Lining up for the first day of practice, all the riders were anxious to ride and get as many runs is as possible before the potential rainfall this week. |
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| Kelly McGarry sniping through the redwood forest. |
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| Semenuk bar spin off the boner log step down. |
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| Cam McCaul boosting over Martin Soderstrom. |
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| Kelly McGarry knows this course better than anyone else as he was part of the build along with course designer and master shaper Tom Hey. |
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| R-Dog taking a mid ride lunch break. |
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| Cam Zink giving his new carbon YT a fresh sticker job. Note the brace around his left hand, broken only a week ago and cut the cast off early to ride. |
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| Brandon Semenuk revelling in the chaos. |
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| Sweet mirrors Mitch Chubey. |
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| Wonder if Martin has mis-matched socks too? |
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| Ryan Howard adding in a little front stopping power |
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| T-mac checking out the course. He approves |
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| Lyle style. |
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| Crankworx Speed and Style is technically the first event Ryan Howard has ever pre-qualified for and clearly making his mark today during the first practice session. |
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| R-Dog fixing what he destroyed like any honest rider should. |
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| The Kiwis won't just be pinning their hopes on Kelly, Queenstown local Connor Macfarlene is taking part in a lot of events this week. Could he be crowned king? |
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| The Martin Soderstrom focus. He's competing in speed&style, slopestyle, whip offs and pumptrack. Hoping to be the king of Sweden. |
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| Andrew Taylor staying low in the humps. |
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| Lyle the philosopher. |
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| Kyle Strait was busting out hot laps all day long. |
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| Cam Zink is ready to rock and roll. Bring on Crankworx Rotorua. |
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Come on martin ! !! !!