Kelly McGarry, the 32-year-old Kiwi who backflipped his way to global internet fame during the 2013 Red Bull Rampage, will be riding for YT Industries for the upcoming season. We checked in with Kelly to find out more about this move, and his plans for the future. What prompted the move to YT?I knew a couple of the guys over at YT and had been talking to them as they are fast growing company that are looking to expand to the Southern Hemisphere market where I can be a real benefit to them. I had four great years with Diamondback and I really appreciate all they have done for me in that time, but I am excited for this change to YT Bikes and a new chapter of my riding career.
I really enjoy riding a wide range of bike disciplines but I feel my strengths and passion lies with gravity orientated aspects of the sport; YT bikes is a perfect match to my style of riding and has an epic range of bikes to cater for everything I would ever want to do on a bike. They also have one of the strongest teams out there full of riders I have a hell of a lot of respect for, and I'm honoured to be included on the team and looking forward to a big year of shredding bikes!
What events will you be attending for 2015?2015 is going to be another big year of riding bikes and traveling for me, usually my summer at home is relatively cruisy in comparison to my Northern Hemisphere season but things in NZ are really starting to kick off, especially in Queenstown where I live, and my schedule is more packed than ever! I am going to be sticking around New Zealand till around May, myself and my bizo partner Tom Hey are going to be building the Crankworx Rotorua Slopestyle course so that should be fun, then I will be competing in the event in March. We also have the Queenstown Bike Festival Slopestyle in downtown Queenstown in March, which we have built for the past 3 years and is a super fun event at night under lights.
When May comes it will be time to get on that big ol' plane and head to USA/Canada /Europe, I will be hitting some events there such as Colorado Freeride Fest, Crankworx Whistler and of course my fav Red Bull Rampage! In between all that I have a couple trips to Europe planned and I'm sure some more adventures will pop up along the way, so there won't be to much time to be working on my stamp collection or foosball career! (*I don't really collect stamps or play foosball)
Any big goals for the season? I think my goal for the season is to ride more big bikes, its the part of the sport where I am the most stoked, I'm loving the new bike and planning on shredding the hell out of it this year. In saying that, I plan on getting out on some big adventures on my all-mountain bike (Capra) up in them there hills.I guess my other goals would be to do good at Rampage again, the usual goal of remaining stoked and basically punching life in the face!
Kelly's 2015 Bikes:DJ - YT Dirt Love
SS - YT Play
FR - YT Noton
AM- YT Capra
DH - YT Tues
YT Tues Parts list Frame : YT Tues
Suspension : Marzocchi C2R2 380 ti fork , Marzocchi Moto C2R shock .
Drive train /Brakes /Cranks/Pedals : Shimano Saint
Bar /stem /Chainguide : Gravity light
Grips : ODI Ruffian lock on
Seat and post : SDG Duster Ibeam
Hubs : Hope Evo2 Team Green
Rims : Atomlab 27.5
Tires: Kenda Honey Badger 27.5
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Camelbak
Muddy Tyre bikepark App
Yakima Racks
Lezyne
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Clif Bar
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Interesting thing about yt is they are pretty much always sold out so it's clearly working. Who are they going to get from the world of enduro for the capra? (Or have I been living under a rock?)
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Von: Pat O'Rourke [mailto:orourke153@gmail.com]
Bereitgestellt: Samstag, 17. Januar 2015 15:16
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Betreff: // 19.01.2015 // MA_H // AW KD // YT Bike
I have heard some rumors that yet may be coming to the US and Canada. I have been holding off on getting a new bike, but if this rumor is false i will not wait. Please let me know.
Thanks,
Pat O'Rourke
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I thought I heard somewhere they are going to start selling YT's in the US through REI of all places. Anyone know if that is true? I've heard the same about Ghost Bikes.
YT Tues Parts list
Frame : YT Tues
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Rims : Atomlab 27.5
Tires: Kenda Honey Badger 27.5
I have 3 YT industries bikes and they all have holded on everything into what i have rod them.