Paul Bass re-signs with Kona
Source: Kona Bikes
Basagoitia’s Epic Kona Ride Continues Through 2011
After a five year partnership that's seen both Paul Basagoitia and the Kona Bicycle Company at the top of the gravity game, the dream team will continue. That’s right, the most decorated slopestyle rider in the history of the sport will ride towards further world domination on a Kona for 2010 and 2011.
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This past year saw Paul continue his reign by winning both the slopestyle and the speed trials at the 2009 Teva games, earning a hard fought 4th place at Crankworx Whistler and 3rd at Crankwork Colorado. He also threw his first invitational event, All in or Nothing, showing big promise to blossom in 2010.
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Paul was also a big part of the Clump Stumps and Jumps tour that finished off with the monumental Hell Barge segment in this year’s NWD film, Dust n’ Bones. Paul played front and center in helicopter footage captured in the San Francisco Bay while a nationally televised Giant’s game was being played in the background. One of Paul’s backflips was later picked up as one of Sportcentre’s top 10 plays of the week.
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For 2010, Paul is going to concentrate on a few more events. He’ll be hitting the regulars like Crankworx Colorado and Crankworx Whistler, the 23-year-old from Minden, Nevada will also be participating in the Claymore Challenge, Teva Games as well as the Red Bull Rampage. Filming and photo opportunities will also be at the top of his list. “We’re confident here at Kona that Paul will continue pushing his style, abilities and all around cojones over the next two years,” says Shawn Nesbitt, Kona’s Team Manager. “It should be quite the ride.”
Going into its 11th year, the industry's longest running freeride team looks to push the limits of what can be done on a bike...again. Watch the Clump take our bombproof, performance bred freeride and dirt jump bikes to new heights in a magazine/film/slopestyle/big mountain competition near you.
Kona’s Clump team is proud to be running Shimano Saint products, Maxxis tires, Easton Bicycle Components, Marzocchi suspension, FSA headsets, e-thirteen and WTB saddles in 2010. Protected by Kryptonite and lubed by Muc-Off.
Basagoitia’s Epic Kona Ride Continues Through 2011
After a five year partnership that's seen both Paul Basagoitia and the Kona Bicycle Company at the top of the gravity game, the dream team will continue. That’s right, the most decorated slopestyle rider in the history of the sport will ride towards further world domination on a Kona for 2010 and 2011.
More details inside,
This past year saw Paul continue his reign by winning both the slopestyle and the speed trials at the 2009 Teva games, earning a hard fought 4th place at Crankworx Whistler and 3rd at Crankwork Colorado. He also threw his first invitational event, All in or Nothing, showing big promise to blossom in 2010.
Paul was also a big part of the Clump Stumps and Jumps tour that finished off with the monumental Hell Barge segment in this year’s NWD film, Dust n’ Bones. Paul played front and center in helicopter footage captured in the San Francisco Bay while a nationally televised Giant’s game was being played in the background. One of Paul’s backflips was later picked up as one of Sportcentre’s top 10 plays of the week.
For 2010, Paul is going to concentrate on a few more events. He’ll be hitting the regulars like Crankworx Colorado and Crankworx Whistler, the 23-year-old from Minden, Nevada will also be participating in the Claymore Challenge, Teva Games as well as the Red Bull Rampage. Filming and photo opportunities will also be at the top of his list. “We’re confident here at Kona that Paul will continue pushing his style, abilities and all around cojones over the next two years,” says Shawn Nesbitt, Kona’s Team Manager. “It should be quite the ride.”
Going into its 11th year, the industry's longest running freeride team looks to push the limits of what can be done on a bike...again. Watch the Clump take our bombproof, performance bred freeride and dirt jump bikes to new heights in a magazine/film/slopestyle/big mountain competition near you.
Kona’s Clump team is proud to be running Shimano Saint products, Maxxis tires, Easton Bicycle Components, Marzocchi suspension, FSA headsets, e-thirteen and WTB saddles in 2010. Protected by Kryptonite and lubed by Muc-Off.
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Paul was a cool guy and very funny, but did not enjoy the freezing Scottish weather!
Kona is a great sponsor for someone like Paul, as Kona have the resources to actually support their riders properly, rather than smaller companies who may be "cooler" but cannot pay a 'living wage' salary to a pro rider
good luck to Paul for 2010
was he renewing his contract with kona or did he switch to another company? i dont understand
I'm not a huge Kona fan but the Bass is a sick bike.
if huffy paid me i would ride them
obviously it would just be some frame from taiwan that could have been made for anybody, just like a kona. so who cares?
When did he become good enough to ride for Red Bull? Did I miss something? He won a few events... yes. However he hasn't stepped up his riding nearly as much as everyone else. I'm not suprised that he's riding for Kona again. He has no where else to go. Slope style is a dying sport. I've watched it grow from nothing and now start to fade away. Money is tight with companies, and the money that they are spending is being focused on racing now that it's becoming more popular again. Everything goes through phases. Racing was huge, then big mountain Red Bull Rampage type riding, then slopestyle, now it's back to racing.
Maybe I just have a biased opinion, but I am personally sick of seeing back flips and 360's. Take the best slopestyle guys and put them against the bmx scene. Not even the best guys in bmx, but the next few levels down from the best. Bmxers would destroy them. just go watch videos like Insight, or Fit Life. The world of freestyle mountain biking is about 10 years behind bmx.
Do you ride bmx? I've tried... man have I tried. I am not made for 20's. That being said 26" are way more forgiving. You can make mistakes and get away with it. Riding a 20" you have to be spot on. People get stoked when a mtb rides a skinny that's 6 inches wide... guys are manualing down 20 stair handrails that are only an inch or two wide... OR EVEN ROUND!!! Ever seen a MTB do that? Didn't think so...
I highly disagree with you about putting a mtb guy on a bmx... Put most any pro MTB guy on a 20, and put him through a set of super lippy jumps that are 12 feet tall and 30 foot gaps... No? Fair enough. Now get a decent guy on a 20... Tricking ever jump? Like I said... BMXer's are more talented. Throw them on a 26" and they will destroy any guy on a MTB.
That's just how it is. BMX is progressing so extremely fast, and Slopestyle has become more stagnant.
Thanks for calling me an idiot as well, name calling is really mature. I didn't know we were still in elementary school... Or maybe you are only 10 and now I look like the jack ass... I didn't know.
really? i'm not being skeptical, just wondering if that's true and how it's judged.