Helping Jackie Harmony to World Cups!

It all started on a beautiful sunny Phoenix morning with a mountain of pancakes and South Mountain ready for shredders. The vans were gassed up, the griddle was hot, the rippers were arriving and stoke was in the air, all to help Jackie Harmony (Vixen Racing) on her quest to Dominate the World Cups this year.With help from a hundred riders from the Arizona DH scene we raised thousands of dollars to help with Jackie's traveling expenses.

Everyone who showed up to ride made a donation to get a limited edition "Jackie Harmony for World Domination" T-shirt and Pint Glass printed and donated by local screen printers Info Screen Printing.

Jackie and Bonnie Miller (Lear Miller's (of Team Geronimo) Mom) were working the pancake grill and Dante Harmony and all the Gnar Gnar Tours guys were driving the shuttles.

Two 15 passenger vans and 3 trucks were hauling riders to the top for various runs transporting 50 riders a run. Around the second run Aaron Gwin (Trek) and Melissa Buhl (KHS) showed up to support the event and to sample some of SOMO's Gnar!

It was great having those two pros riding with the crew, stoking everyone out and showing what world cup speed looks like. In between runs, riders were grabbing hotcakes and drinks fueling their shred.

Jackie had her Canfield Jedi frame that was fresh off the boat on display for everyone to hold and feel. It's gonna be sweet watching her race on the internet and saying, "I touched that frame!"

In between grabbing food, the riders where buying raffles tickets for the slew of donated goodies by Smith, MRP, AtomLab, Canfield Bros, All Mountain Cyclery, Cactus Bikes, Pivot Bicycles, Soul Cycles, Gnar Gnar Tours, Cove Bikes, and many more! After a few more runs, the BBQ was fired up to grill a few cases of bratwurst that were donated by Johnsonville Brats!

After another run, we cranked up the auction and kicked up the action. Bob Ehlert co-owner of Gnar Gnar Tours and a professional Auctioneer took over the auction duties for the day. Items donated from our sponsors and BetterRide.net, Cartridge World, Downhill Mike (Whiteface), SunRingle, Kali Helmets and a jersey that Jackie wore during the world champs last year and her Cove Bike that she rode all last season at numerous World Cups, Red Bull Burners and the bike she won the Nevada State DownHill Championships this last February.

There was some intense bidding action and a bunch of local riders taking home some pieces of AZ Downhill history and one lucky and smart buyer that got a one in a lifetime chance to own a true World Cup Race Bike!

After the auction we had a slow race/bike derby for a set of Gold AtomLab PimpLite Rims. One lucky and resilient rider got to take them home! At the end of the day over 100 riders got plenty of shred and gnar, almost everyone took home some raffle items, a handful of bidders got some great items and they all helped Jackie to raise $7500 to help her in her travels to Dominate the World!

Since Jackie auctioned off her Cove Shocker and did not have her new Canfield bike built up yet, Melissa Buhl so kindly lent Jackie her KHS Lucky 7 for a couple of runs. Jackie had a blast riding with everyone and even signed her Cove Shocker, for the lucky winner, on the trail.

Visibly emotional, Jackie comments, "This day has been the most amazing day ever with everyone who showed up to support this wonderful dream that I have. I don't think I can thank everyone enough for all the help and support that has been given and is still coming in."

We want to thank the event sponsors:
Info Screen Printing
Johnsonville Brats
AZFREERIDE
Cactus Bike
Soul Cycles
Pivot Cycles
MRP
AtomLab
Canfield Brothers Bicycles
All Mountain Cyclery
Cartridge World
Downhill Mike
Kali Protectives
Cove Bikes
Smith Optics

Jackie would like to thank her sponsors and everyone for being so generous and ripping that mountain up and eating all of her pancakes!

Jackie Harmony rides for:
Vixen Racing
All Mountain Cyclery
Canfield Brothers Bicycles
Kali Protectives
SDG USA
5.10 Shoes
AtomLab
Hayes
Smith Optics
Camelbak
Marzocchi
MRP
Troy Lee Designs
ODI
Schwalbe
TXTR-LITE
Eco-Sphere.com

We also want to thank the Phoenix Parks Department for letting a bunch of dirty downhillers take over the mountain for a day of shuttles, BBQ and fundraising! Also want to thank all the riders for an epic event and making an Arizona Local rider's dreams come true!

Gnar Gnar Tours
facebook.com/gnargnartours
Bob Ehlert, Auctioneer

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12 Comments

gnargnartours (Mar 22, 2011 at 14:39)

I totally forgot to thank our other two sponsors: AZFREERIDE.COM and Cactus Bikes at cactusbikes.com. Thanks for helping us make some dreams come true!

mtnfox37 (Mar 25, 2011 at 4:29)

Holy Crap! I want one of the "Shuttling my bike is not a crime" stickers!!!

ajcroft (Mar 22, 2011 at 7:53)

Perfect display of the Dh community in AZ. It was an awesome event for a great cause. Good Luck Jacki!!

dirtmonkey1 (Mar 25, 2011 at 8:41)

That Jedi frame looks sweet

NoxBox (Mar 25, 2011 at 11:12)

It seems like yesterday I was surfing a couch and Jackie was making a delicious breakfast for us! I am so stoked for you Jackie! Shred Dragons!

realityloop (Mar 22, 2011 at 10:18)

Good job guys! Way to stoke everybody and help out!

skibiker (Mar 25, 2011 at 14:26)

Go Jackie, Will we see you at any MSC races? If not we will miss you, good luck

cesslinger (Mar 25, 2011 at 10:56)

That was an epic day. Phx DH'ers PWND the mountain. Good times and good people.

skippy888 (Mar 26, 2011 at 2:48)

Where can I get the GNAR JUNKIE stickers???

ajcroft (Mar 26, 2011 at 22:53)

www.gnargnartours.com they also have shirts

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