2011 - A Year in Review - Part One

Dec 21, 2011

by Karl Burkat

January 2011

Pinkbike reviews the Yeti AS-R 5 Carbon

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/yeti-asr5-carbon-test-2011.html

Cam Zink joins Evil Bikes

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/cam-zink-evil-monster-2011.html

Rocky Mountain Bicycles signs Thomas Vanderham

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/thomas-vanderham-rocky-mountain-2011.html

Steve Smith joined up with Canadian brand Devinci

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/steve-smith-devinci-racing-2011.html

Bienve Aguado lands the World's first Mountain Bike Double Frontflip!

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bienve2flip.html

First Double Frontflip on mtb - landed by Bienvenido Aguado

by pira

Views: 75,985 Faves: 1,052 Comments: 133

February

Pinkbike took a trip to Trek HQ to take a look at what was to come for 2011

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/trek-tour-29er-proto-2011.html

Ray's indoor park in Milwaukee opened its doors to the world, here Salsbury gets rad on his bike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/rays-milwaukee-experience-2011.html

Norco DH Prototyped explained to Pinkbike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/norco-dh-prototype-2012-explained.html

Ian Hylands joined up with Pinkbike full time in February to bring his photography to the site and ramp up photo quality for the rest of the year

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/pinkbike-hires-ian-hylands-2011.html

Pinkbike chatted with Luis Arraiz from K9 to talk suspension

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/luis-arraiz-interview-2011.html

Sterling Lorence brought his work to Pinkbike and took us on this retro journey of the North Shore from 1998

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/North-Shore-in-1998-by-Sterling-Lorence.html

March

First 3 Minute Gaps footage drops - Brendan Fairclough

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Brendan-Fairclough-Teaser-3-Minute-Gaps.html

Brendan Fairclough - 3 Minute Gaps

by ClayPorter

Views: 111,062 Faves: 1,205 Comments: 84

Race Face had shut its doors (But only temporarily)

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Race-Face-Closes-the-Doors.html

Pinkbike made its way out to Taiwan for the Taipei Cycle Show

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Pinkbike-in-Taiwan.html

British Downhill Series kicks off with Marc Beaumont taking round one

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Halo-BDS-Round-1-Results-2011.html

Pinkbike got a test of a Specialized Evo

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/specialized-Stumpjumper-FSR-Expert-EVO-Tested-2011.html

"She said No, I said Yes"

Harookz wow'd Pinkbike with this Alaska story

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Gravity-Team-Alaska-Harookz-2011.html

We were stoked to see Kyle Ebbett back in action after a serious injury

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Kyle-Ebbett-Back-in-Action.html

World's First Special Flip

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Worlds-First-Special-Flip-2011.html

April

Pinkbike Magazine Launches! (April Fools!)

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/pinkbike-magazine-launches-2011.html

Dan Atherton was back on the bike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/dan-atherton-back-riding-2011.html

RockShox BoXXer Keronite - First Look

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/RockShox-BoXXer-Keronite-2011.html

Pinkbike brought Richard Cunningham into the fold with over 500 years of experience in the industry!

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Pinkbike-Welcomes-Richard-Cunningham.html

Evil Undead - Shown for the first time

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Exclusive-Evil-Undead-First-Look-2011.html

Minnaar writes about the pressures of racing in his home town (First WC coming up!)

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Greg-Minnaar-Rider-Perspective-2011.html

Diamondback unveils the DF5 to Pinkbike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Diamondback-Prototype-DH-Bike-2011.html

Acros shows off their take on hydraulic shifting

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Pinkbike-First-Look-Acros-AEG-11-MT-Hydraulic-Shifting.html

Pinkbike rolls into Specialized HQ to tour the place

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Specialized-HQ-The-Road-To-Sea-Otter.html

First look at Shimano 2012 XT/XTR lineup

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Shimano-XT-and-XTR-2012.html

World Cup #1 was coming up, here is our preview

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/World-Cup-Preview-2011.html

Anthill Films Announces "Strength in Numbers" - New movie slated for 2012

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Anthill-Announces-New-Film-Project.html

Sea Otter takes place - Over 80 stories to check out!

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/sea-otter-2011-wrapup.html

Gwin and Mosely win first World Cup in South Africa - The Aaron Gwin show begins

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/UCI-World-Cup-Results-Gwin-and-Moseley.html

Chris Akrigg gets hurt - he's fully recovered now thankfully

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Chris-Akrigg-Hurt-2011.html

Mitchell Scott brings his writing to Pinkbike - Life By a Thousand Cuts

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Life-By-a-Thousand-Cuts-2011.html

New media force gets introduced - Silvia Films

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Silvia-Introduction-Dylan-Sherrard-2011.html

Silvia - Graham Agassiz and Ian Killick

by Silviafilms

Views: 49,732 Faves: 1,173 Comments: 88

May

You Like This Film - Premieres on Pinkbike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/you-like-this-full-movie-2011.html

You Like This - Full Video

by artbarn

Views: 210,348 Faves: 2,749 Comments: 155

3 Minute Gaps - Official Teaser

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/3-Minute-Gaps-Official-Trailer-2011.html

3 Minute Gaps - Official Trailer

by ClayPorter

Views: 143,738 Faves: 1,208 Comments: 53

iXS Race Season kicks off - Marcus Pekoll wins it

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/iXS-Round-1-Mounte-Tamaro-2011.html

We find out Nick Geddes gets diagnosed with Leukemia - f*ck Cancer

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/A-Bumpy-Road-Ahead-For-Nick-Geddes-Get-Well-Nick.html

The Diamondback Team heads to Utah - We join em

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Diamondback-Utah-2011.html

Chubey wins Upside Down and Underground

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Upside-Down-Underground-Photos-2011.html

Ranchstyle Best Trick Comp - Voted on Pinkbike - Mikey Mo wins

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Ranchstyle-Pinkbike-Best-Trick-Throwdown-Vote-now.html

Ranchstyle Best Trick Contest brought to you by Pinkbike

by ShelbySmith

Views: 32,856 Faves: 420 Comments: 39

Stund was coming back in 2011, we took a look behind a shoot

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Stund-again-Behind-the-scenes-2011.html

Whistler Bike Park opened for the season - Tip was there to check it out

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Whistler-Bike-Park-Opening-Day-2011.html

Sven Martin showed Pinkbike the behind the scenes for 3 Minute Gaps in this photo essay

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/3-Minute-Gaps-in-Photos-2011.html

Gwin and Kintner win the US Open

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/US-Open-Aaron-Gwin-and-Jill-Kintner-win-DH.html

US Open 2011 Downhill

by dhprod

Views: 41,039 Faves: 330 Comments: 67

First glimpse of the Fox Inverted Fork Prototype

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Fox-Prototype-Inverted-DH-fork-World-Exclusive.html

World's First Triple Backflip

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Jed-Mildons-triple-backflip-The-full-story-video-2011.html

Jed Mildon World First Triple Backflip - The Story

by unitclothing

Views: 56,671 Faves: 1,431 Comments: 104

June

Atherton Project was back with episode one

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/atherton-project-season-3-episode-1-2011.html

The Atherton Project - Season 3, Episode 1

by athertonproject

Views: 39,120 Faves: 525 Comments: 24

Minnaar wins Fort William

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Fort-William-World-Cup-Greg-Minnaar-has-won-the-DH.html

Ian MacLennan catches this shot of Hart at Fort William (One of our personal favorites...and a sign of things to come?)

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Fort-William-2011--The-Story.html

First Look at Yeti's SB-66

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Yeti-SB-66-First-Look-2011.html

Freeride Entertainment unveil NWD Greatest Hits

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Freeride-Entertainment-Presents-NWD-Greatest-Hits.html

NWD Greatest Hits Teaser

by Freeride

Views: 93,332 Faves: 1,079 Comments: 75

Renthal debuts a new direct mount stem

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Renthal-direct-mount-stem-prototype.html

Gwin takes 3 of 4 WCs with win at Leogang

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Leogang-World-Cup-2011-DH-in-photos.html

Semenuk wins Jump Ship

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Dirt-Jumps-on-a-Barge-Brandon-Semenuk-wins-Jump-Ship.html

Straitline shows off their Hydraulic Gyro

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/straitline-hydraulic-gyro-prototype.html

New Straitline Hydraulic Gyro

by IanHylands

Views: 26,246 Faves: 48 Comments: 36

Claymore Challenge - Semenuk wins it

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Brandon-Semenuk-wins-the-2011-Claymore-Challenge.html

The SRAM XO DH family gets a first look

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/SRAM-X0-DH-First-Look.html

Mitchell Scott asks if the term Freeride is taking a new meaning

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Is-the-Free-Ride-Over-2011.html

Commencal Meta AM - First look globally on Pinkbike

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/Commencal-World-Premiere-Meta-AM.html

Trek's Carbon Session 9.9 is shown for the first time

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/trek-session-88-carbon-prototype-aaron-gwin.html

How would the Session fare in its first race at Mt St Anne? Stay tuned tomorrow as we showcase a few more highlights from July and on-wards with Part two

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carterwills (Dec 21, 2011 at 0:22)

what a awesome year, so much stuff happened! Gwin killing it in DH, Semenuk winning Crankworx and the FMB world tour, all the great films that came out but so sad about Dane Searls passing away RIP! hopfully next year will be even better and we wont lose any fellow riders

hoolydooly (Dec 21, 2011 at 4:58)

We could have almost lost Aaron Gwin today, he was hit by a truck! Only a DH racer could get away with this!

www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/Aaron-Gwin-Hit-by-Truck-while-Riding-No-Injuries-Sustained,405

hoolydooly (Dec 21, 2011 at 5:11)

It's less than $10 off iTunes, buy it you cheap ass.

mtnbikes4life (Dec 21, 2011 at 7:38)

Can't wait to see what 2012 will bring us! What a crazy year this was.

nouser (Dec 21, 2011 at 8:12)

Because it's not worth $10 to watch an hour of face close ups, 15 minutes of what you've seen in the teasers and s**t music

RaleighVoid (Dec 21, 2011 at 15:09)

look out for the aaron gwin story an hour later on pb people!

hoolydooly (Dec 21, 2011 at 17:15)

Its old news now. Vital MTB had it up yesterday morning. Pinkbike is a great website and all, but Vital MTB is so much faster in getting stories up.

Tim94 (Dec 21, 2011 at 1:37)

Nice year! The moment, when I saw the run of Danny Hart when he became World Champion that moment was so f*cking great! But I think we shall see that, in the next part. Good summary!

grantprezence (Dec 22, 2011 at 1:29)

forgot how sick that double frontie was!

epavichthesavage (Dec 21, 2011 at 4:27)

Ah 2011. maybe the most memorable of my life, here's to 2011 guys, to the fallen rippers, and the future rippers....., and to 2012! I'm glad I get to spend it with everyone here on Pinkbike

jamespayne FL (Dec 21, 2011 at 0:30)

ROLL ON 2012!

Protour (Dec 22, 2011 at 23:14)

Wow, that took all day to read, including reading everyones comments about every article. It was a great 1/2 year, cant wait for the 2nd half of the year, even though its December.

Congratulations to PinkBike reader Dogshat, he was the only one to predict that Gwin would win the WC overall.

nouser (Dec 21, 2011 at 2:19)

the best part about christmas this year is knowing 2012 pinkbike is around the corner

sionr644 (Dec 21, 2011 at 4:09)

"Pinkbike brought Richard Cunningham into the fold with over 500 years of experience in the industry!" ???

rhys-the-rider (Dec 21, 2011 at 4:23)

500 and still going strong!!!

rigodon777 (Dec 21, 2011 at 4:26)

500 years. That's right. Richard is The know it all of the biking world!

feldmana (Dec 21, 2011 at 7:30)

Yes, very tech savy.....first to bring aluminum frames into the world of mountain biking;( he has good vision/ foresight for someone who wears glasses

........and the numerous years of contributions to MountainBikeAction Magazine.....must be amazed at the progress from KLUNKER to Carbon Fiber Full Suspension.....the industry insider 4 sure

hoolydooly (Dec 21, 2011 at 5:10)

You should have seen Nick Geddes Wall on Facebook when the news came through that he was clear of cancer, the amount of messages was phenomenal! It has been a great yeah and i hope next year is even better.

F*ck Cancer!

www.letsfcancer.com

kentb276 (Dec 21, 2011 at 0:27)

One hell of a year!

jucof (Dec 21, 2011 at 14:46)

I miss Danny Hart's World Championship Winning Downhill Run at Champery, certainly one of THE peaks of the last years...

jucof (Dec 21, 2011 at 14:51)

www.pinkbike.com/news/World-Championships-2011-Danny-Harts-Winning-Run.html

GregoryQuire (Dec 21, 2011 at 6:30)

i just love pinkbike.

lanes (Dec 21, 2011 at 7:19)

they skiped the 3 minute gaps premier. Other wise a really cool trip down memory lane.

rave1980 (Dec 21, 2011 at 7:41)

record year ... many good videos to enjoy at home now. Offer good for Christmas

unclemiha (Dec 21, 2011 at 7:35)

I love special flip. Let us see next year what will bring us.

simooo (Dec 21, 2011 at 9:01)

that Norco prototype is the sexyest bike ever.

dirtnapped (Dec 21, 2011 at 11:09)

still waiting on the Pinkbike magazine...

madbiker786 (Dec 21, 2011 at 16:04)

that double front flip was sick but at the end they had sort of a gang bang which was a little weird

rob-c (Dec 21, 2011 at 8:52)

bring on the special front flip for 2012

nouser (Dec 21, 2011 at 11:41)

Me want inverted Fox fork!

DownhillDustin (Dec 21, 2011 at 10:16)

my only concern is 500 years of bike expirence from one guy?

GermanyFreeride (Dec 21, 2011 at 9:28)

very nice

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