Chatel Mountain Style - 2011 Recap

Jul 6, 2012

by Matt Wragg

Unfortunately the weather hasn't been playing nice on the Swiss/French border. Last night's thunderstorms were pretty heavy, and the rain carried on most of the way through the night... So the course has been closed for most of the days and very little got thrown down because conditions were so shady. So, instead here's a recap of the 2011 event, courtesy of Will Walker.

Strait dropping off the 11m drop at the start.

The course started with this burly 11m drop, that scared more than a few people - they even went to the lengths of providing some toilet paper at the top, just in case... Kyle Strait wasn't scared though - here he is sending it.

Just off the top, this sender into a nice, long landing gave riders a chance to show off their style - here's a few options. First up, Kurt Sorge on a flip no-hander.

Cam Zink with a flip nac

Kyle Strait with a superseater.

Finally, Andrea Lacondeguy, simply with style.

Brandon Semenuk took one of the lines further out to the right and tricked the hell out of it. Because the line wasn't considered that tough, he found himself lower down the podium than he would have wanted to be.

After the first section, it's all about charging down the mountain as hard as you dare. Again, Kyle Strait going hard.

While this jump and stepdown into the finish area are still here this year, unfortunately Amir Kabbani won't be. Here he is with a big, stylish x-up.

Cam Zink flipping into the finish area on his way to the win.

That's where everyone will be looking to be standing come the end of this weekend.

Going big = big money.

A big thanks to Will Walker for the photos. The weather forecasts for tomorrow and Sunday are mixed, so as soon there's a gap in the weather everyone is going to go hard and get points down in case in closes back in again...

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Matt Wragg

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Member since Oct 29, 2006

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Matt has been writing about bikes for almost twenty years now and has been part of the Pinkbike team since 2011. These days, he spends most of his time working as a freelance marketing and communications consultant, but still checks in from time-to-time as our editor-at-large.

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30 Comments

alexmatheson1996 (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:47)

the should be more competitions like this in mountain biking not just dirt jumps. keep the mountain in mountain biking.

aalbmx (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:57)

yeah we should c more types and styles of mountain biking not only dirt jumping but don't get me wrong i love dirt jump.

heyjsdad (Jul 6, 2012 at 12:14)

absolutely agree !

ninjatarian (Jul 6, 2012 at 14:59)

I was thinking the exact same thing. This reminds me of the orginal slopestyle contests where they had features like these and people rode with everything from dirt jumpers to dual crown free ride bikes. Nowadays they all ride the same bikes and the big mountain features are gone. Even Rampage went and got slopestylie recently with wood kickers. Long live big mountain free ride!

Novic (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:49)

"Well since we have nothing relevant to report today lets just use last years..."

alexshirley (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:57)

lol

DARKSTAR63 (Jul 6, 2012 at 11:23)

Better than nothing on this lazy friday afternoon at work.... makes me want to ride when I get out. Mission accomplished.

spaced FL (Jul 6, 2012 at 12:47)

Well since I have nothing relevant to do today, lets hate on something

potatoracing2 (Jul 6, 2012 at 14:22)

^sums up where most of these conversations eventually go...

manhattanprjkt83 (Jul 6, 2012 at 11:29)

really no photos from today? Guys were riding they were tweeting about it...no bike shots, setups, interviews about the mud...CMON pinkbike.

holyrider3 (Jul 6, 2012 at 12:48)

they spelt Cam Zinks name wrong :L

DandelionDan (Jul 6, 2012 at 15:11)

oh yeah!

J-sawtell (Jul 10, 2012 at 4:51)

hmm

mtbfraser (Jul 6, 2012 at 13:06)

I think with the huge amount of choices riders at mountain style have it would be awesome if they were scored on three different runs so that they aren't punished for trying out some of the different 'easier' features

larryssman7 (Jul 6, 2012 at 17:12)

ok, so when the heck is this anyway? and will there be a live feed? sorry, ive just been so focused on riding that even when i go on pinkbike nothing ever registered until now. because the live feed from windham was awesome- i was yelling and cheering on stevie smith louder than the soccer world cup last year. so i dont want to miss out on this-specially since cam mc caul might be riding it?

MadMax883 (Jul 6, 2012 at 11:11)

I will never be good enough to ride any of these red bull events....... but I am ok with that since I dont feel like dieing.

hickeyspecialized21 (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:42)

Cam Zink is at the top of his game for sure!

StinkyKieran (Jul 6, 2012 at 10:50)

Some sick photos there

d-razor-b (Jul 6, 2012 at 11:25)

kurt Sorge will be their this year , he was just at the Bike Ranch in Kamloops practicing some new tricks into the foam pit.

moloch (Jul 6, 2012 at 18:44)

that photographer is so amazed with the tricks he forgot he got paid to take photos

motrvatd (Jul 6, 2012 at 17:02)

will the main event be broadcasted in here?

soemarlien (Jul 7, 2012 at 4:16)

i like how his take that money....

wuzupjosh (Jul 7, 2012 at 10:12)

anybody elsee se the andrea lacondeguy not andreu

TWANK (Jul 6, 2012 at 13:22)

dammmm

thenos09 (Jul 6, 2012 at 15:06)

Give us some video!!!!

mchenrya FL (Jul 6, 2012 at 12:07)

Linsanity

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