SissyDarko

Added some more pics I took with my phone... https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3697837813062.2136250.1488883934&type=1 The stone is a lime/sandstone called Anröchter-Stein/-Dolomit (in German). By the way, my intention with my comments were not to start a campaign against Camelbak etc. or to get attention for my ego & work... I just felt the need to speak up as an artist/crafts(wo)man and a fan of freeriding, the riders & co, wether that was a smart action or not...

Link somehow doesn´t work, but copy & paste will I guess https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.3697837813062.2136250.1488883934&type=1

I wanted people to know that it´s handmade and not a soulless piece of concrete etc, because I honestly love this sport and have so much respect for the riders and also for what the FMBA (a non-profit-organisation, see article above) is doing to help progress and push the sport... They are passionate about what they are doing and it hurts me to see that some guys think the trophy is just pure marketing. I promise that I put a lot of good spirit & love into that stone! Thanks for your words obee 1.

Yes I made it with my own hands out of a piece of rock... The letters are covered with real gold too and only the little tiny letters are sandblasted, the rest carved from hand. And let me tell you that everyone I showed it to was kinda shocked that a drinking bottle (!) should get mounted on top. I didn´t put it together... it looks wrong to me too, almost photoshoped, but I don´t know what I could really do about it... was really stoked working on it (for the riders that kinda risk their lifes somehow to win) --- Good to hear something nice tho, cos I put a lot of my heart into the stone.... :/ Thanx

...agreed and "thanx" =)

To all the haters: I made the stone part of the trophy. I´m a biker myself and a huge fan and I put a lot of work into it and this is the first time I see it with this golden thing on top, and I honestly am not at all happy about the bottle... :/ But you just have to deal with sponsors in this case/sport --- just the way it is... Bet, on the other hand, you guys are the first to scream for high def webcasts, videos, films, megaevents and all that stuff... U seriously think this would be possible without any sponsors? There would not even be riding on this level I guess... Sad but true. But, after all, I feel exactly the same way, that a trophy should not be an advertisement... :/ Let´s all speak up and change the look of it for next year!? ...Maybe Camelback just kicks my ass for that comment now anyway! ;P