White Style 2015 - 15 Bike Checks
Leogang, Austria, hosted the first stop of the 2015 FMB tour this weekend, with Szymon Godziek taking the win on the snow and Matt Jones and Daryl Brown, both from Britain, rounding out the podium. Photographer Bartek Wolinski was there to catch all the action, including snapping the riders and their bikes between runs.
Photos by Bartek Wolinski
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 Pavel Alekhin is gaining a rep for one of the most technical riders out there, with the Russian and his Bergamont living in some sort of video game world where anything is possible. You could rock a pink bike as well if a flip double bar to whip was in your catalog. |
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| Here's some DIY for you: Alekhin runs his bike brakeless, but the conditions and setup saw him needing to slow down. The answer was to obviously mount up a brake, and taping it to his top tube let him not worry about hose length. |
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| Germany's Max Mey rocking the skin wall out back. |
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| Lukas Knopf with his black on black Rose. |
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| Alex Alanko poses with his Dartmoor. No word on how he got those jeans pulled over his knee pads, but we're impressed. |
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| Matt Jones was pumped, as he should be given that his superman flip took him to second place. |
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| Soren Krahl made the trip from Germany with his Santa Cruz. |
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| Simon Pages was one of the few riders using a mouth guard. |
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| Here's a rig that you don't see often: Daryl Brown's Bulls dirt jumper that he was throwing beautiful 360 tuck no-handers on. |
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| Franck Paulin and his GT. With a Stan's Flow EX rim out back and a standard Flow up front, his bike was likely one of the lighter ones out there. |
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| Nico Scholze pulled out a tsunami flip on the last jump but lost it during the 720 in his second run. Also, check out that dropped Magura Wotan fork on the front of his Dartmoor. By the way, Wotan is a deity often associated with German paganism, as well as a villain in the Doctor Who series. The more you know... |
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| Czech rider Jakub Vencl rode his Rose to 6th place. |
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| Adrian ''6 meters too far'' Tell was going absolutely massive on his yellow Merida. |
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| Mehdi Gani's bike is blacked out, sports a set of trick Hope wheels, and it was his birthday this weekend. You might say that everything's coming up Mehdi. |
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| The day's winner, Szymon Godziek. |
Photos by Bartek Wolinski
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P.S. Tighter stretch jeans are really comfortable and really durable and I wear mine with pride. You get them for 1/16 of the price of riding shorts. So, at the end of the day, it's all about the math, riding jeans for the whole year or riding shorts for a couple of rides. You choose
Let's just call them what they are... jeggings. These dudes are all wearing jeggings. The next time i turn around these dudes will all be wearing straight up roadie tights with an acid wash denim pattern printed on there.
Besides. Blactions are where it's at now, don't ya know