Filmed by Larock, Mike Goldstein, Mike Zinger, and Nic Genovese.
Anthony Messere blasting off
Andreu doing the double
Semenuk finishing it off with a solid flip whip
What move was the highlight of the Red Bull Joyride event for you? Anthony's front flip drop or him blasting to the moon on the massive dirt quarter? Andreu Lacondeguy's double backflip? Semenuk's flip whipping the final step down? Lets hear it!
Anthony's front flip was the highlight for me. I honestly had a feeling that he might go for a front flip off that, just because I seen him practicing front flips in the foam pit off the drop, and cuz he's just a crazy kid.
So when he did that, I was surprised just to see it, but I also just thought, yup... he's crazy, and he's going far.
People were hardly tricking the first drop, so the front flip was probably the biggest trick pulled. His crash is similar to Semenuk's last year, who knows what would've happened if he had landed it and not crashed.
Its bores me to see the same things out of semenuk every time though,hes not throwing anything huge like a double flip or a front flip.
Not saying thats bad because it gets him the wins,its just not as good to watch.
Semenuk's flipwhip/stepdown was so smooth! that was probably the difference at the end of the day. Everyone is so overwhelmed by messere's tricks/boosting they have forgotten to mention how f*ing smooth he is. I actually think he was one of the most stylish and flowy riders I've seen yet.
@ c-bernier. I agree but I think that if Messere finished his run well it would have put him in first place and made Semenuk have to step it up. The picture of Anthony boosting is massive but it doesn't do justice to what it looked like in real life!
McCauls run- it is underrated for sure. Maybe if he did a super flip to finish he would have been up in the top. To win c-worx you need to be 100% healthy.... gotta have a ton of respect for his run with the injury.
So many things - need a list: - Anthony's whole first run, most of us didn't see it coming and it was sick, as well as his front flip and boosted hip jump - Semenuks winning run was just pure class, tricked everything and made it look easy - McCauls front Superman - Montgomery's leg through the bar thing would have been awesome - Pilgrims horrible bad luck was a big story - Andreu's double back - Zink's off axis front on the final drop
This was such a great event, I could go on and on with things that got me stoked.
The joyride was pure gnar.
Semenuk was clean, claw's gettin old, messere has lost his sense of fear, pilgrim had mwga bad luck, lacondeguy wasn't on his a game, and all the rest were also gnarly as fuck!!!
the claw is still really sick and is def one of my fav riders of all time but i do feel like he isnt in that top 5 anymore. he is more of a top 10 guy which is still f*cking awesome. I think the claw could get back up to being a top 5 again if he would just stop hurting himself. now if your not bailing then ur not progressing i say so once hes healed up he will banging as hard or even better then the rest of them.
broken back for sure, but i hate to say it because berrecloth's big mountain style is the best, but i think a guy needs to go upside down these days for the slopestyle judges ... shite but right i think.
lol the guys on the chairlift were like wtf that kids half my adge but twice as high as me right now. Messere has so much potential hes gonna go far in the slopestyle world and in life. i feel really bad for pilgrim though thats just awful luck i wanted to see what he would throw down. i wanted to see one of these babies: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgbNDvSrEDc
If Sam Pilgrim didnt have such bad luck I reckon that he would have won but thats life. To be fair though I think Semenuk did deserve the win but Anthony Messere's front flip from flat was just amazing along with his height off of the dirt quarter. Everyone rode amazingly well but the front blew my mind so that has my vote!
no offence to you cause your brittish or what ever but i dont think sam pilgrim is a crankworx rider yet, to me he seems like a big trick machine street rider. but i almost cried when messere crashed, he deserved to win and was offered a perfect score if he finnished his run. his boosts were for sure the highlight for me though!
I dont follow Sam Pilgrim because Im British, I follow him because when he first got sponsored by Diamondback I started watching his videos on Youtube and ive watched him improve his riding for the past 2-3 years and to be fair to him, NS haven't really established themselves as a company who are good at making slopestyle bikes but as the bike gets better for the job, so will the rider. If Anthony hadnt crashed then he probably would have won but Semenuk's "tricking every jump" run was amazing. The best moment defiantly does go to Anthony because of the flat front and his boosts though!
I know he did but he took his Soda with him and was riding it at some trails so he must not like the way it rides or something, i dont know :L Either way, he's an amazing rider.
No one mentions Anthony's flip whip and SMOOTH flat 3... these alone were amazing... he wouldn't had crashed he would have: front off the grnaly drop - über stylish flat 3 - huge back - huge tail whip on the hip - HUGE AND STYLISH air - tail whip - and huge flip tail whip... there's no question he would have won!!! Every trick beside the dish was higher than the others...
uber, now there's a word i don't see very often. It should be used more, instead of saying super steep, people would say uber steep. were gonna have to get this word in the biketionary!
that was sick!!! I would have liked to see a few tricks from the other guys that were risking it for the crowd...Sorge,Watts and Goldman looked smooth through out the contest.
Anthony Mass air eh !!.. kid damn near scooped the big cheque with that display...all the fronties were unreal !... as was the super Spanards double back & Mike Monty's bar hop backflip attempt, combo tricks gallore...Solid full tricked run iced with a textbook flip whip was a worthy win, but Brandon's lucky the boy lost it falling out of orbit cause he bagged it with that fronty start final run on my score card... ALL riders dealt spectacular displays of super human cycling skills way beyond what anyone imagined possible when i was 15.
Zink's backflip super seater ...huge trick ..i am surprised none didn;t even mention it. for me Zink took risks and puled a risky run off ... he is the winner.
for myself watching messere destorying every feature and the front flip which i was only about 50 feet away from was the highlight of the finals... that being said i loved watching how pumped andreau got the crowd and himself everytime he landed a huge trick... that guy can rip. i also thought geoff gulevich and greg watts were arguably the most consistent riders as they landed every trick they did with ease and style. geoff had some of the smoothest corkflips ive seen.
Congrats to everyone, these kids are amazing. Seriously, Anthony's front flip and massive boost out of the quarter were some of the coolest things I've seen in mountain biking. Thanks for the show.
This was the first time going to Crankworxs being there and watching Anthony Messere in person going huge was awesome to watch!!! this event is like the superbowl for Mtn Biking can't wait for next year!
Epic vid. Classic rock totally suits this vid... for some reason. Great idea. Messere's front flip off the drop! Are you kidding!? SHUT THE FRONT DOOR!
Music totally sucks, cause it doesn't fit at all. The biggest move? Well Anthony's frontflip for sure, but you forgot to mention McCaul's Frontflip Superman.
First of all i thought the music fit perfectly with the vid. Probably better than my shoes fit my feet. And second of all they did show McCaul's frontflip. Ya knucklehead.^
It was like rock n roll action and music was totally chilled out, but maybre it didn't fit for me, cause I was drunk. What I meant writing about McCaul's frontflip was bold text at the bottom of the article. Ya knucklehead.
- Anthony's whole first run, most of us didn't see it coming and it was sick, as well as his front flip and boosted hip jump
- Semenuks winning run was just pure class, tricked everything and made it look easy
- McCauls front Superman
- Montgomery's leg through the bar thing would have been awesome
- Pilgrims horrible bad luck was a big story
- Andreu's double back
- Zink's off axis front on the final drop
This was such a great event, I could go on and on with things that got me stoked.