Top To Bottom with Sam Blenkinsop in Queenstown - Video

Apr 4, 2018 at 12:24
by Pinkbike Staff  

In a new series that we are running on this channel, we'll hang out with pros and follow them down a trail or two while asking them your questions - top to bottom! First up is probably the most stylish racer in the DH game, Sam Blenkinsop.



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  • 76 4
 No pads, no full face and holy shit l
  • 25 14
 Isn't that what most of us wear when riding trail/AM?...
  • 41 2
 @nvranka: yeah, but usually not while smashing park laps...
  • 12 21
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 @YouHadMeAtDrugs: nothing out of the ordinary here man...sure blenki is a beast, but it's all relative.
  • 10 1
 They're copying instabangers from SLVSH
  • 11 2
 @nvranka: bruh you don’t ride like him
He’s riding downhill style with an all mountain bike
  • 4 0
 thats what i thought straight away, looks like its new fashion if your pro riding without pads...
  • 4 0
 Question #21: So Blenki, why are you without any pads??
  • 7 6
 @MJ4LIFERIDER: people really are brain dead on PB aren't they
  • 1 2
 @nvranka: Like people who don't know what the word relative means.
  • 6 1
 @cdmbmw: tf are you talking about? Oh look another brain dead PB user, welcome to the party.

relative: considered in relation or in proportion to something else.

My use: "nothing out of the ordinary here man...sure blenki is a beast, but it's all relative."

Translation: Blenki is riding faster than most, however speed/approach is relative to skill level. In the same way that when some pleb decides he doesn't need a FF or pads to ride his local XC loop, Blenki doesn't need a FF and pads to casually hit sections he hits in his sleep at less than race pace for a PB video.
  • 1 3
 having no kneepads on his super distracting it’s all I could concentrate on. They’re obviously going through so kind of no knee pad fad in that part of the world.
  • 41 0
 I think he officially reached ludacris speed. Looking like a podium threat more than ever coming into this season. Lucky for the Enduro crew he is staying on DH for now.
  • 7 0
 Hell yeah been rooting for him for a decade. He looks so fast when u see him on screen. Thought it was a conspiracy.
  • 7 2
 He can ride Enduro, maybe he’ll be back after UCI employs the IMBA robot to make DH World Cup tracks.
  • 13 0
 so chill from blenki to let Sam Hill win some EWS rounds
  • 36 0
 Worth every cent of the $175,000 on my fantasy team. Go Blenki!
  • 5 0
 I went for Eddie. I reckon he's due a big win.
  • 3 0
 Best value pick imo too
  • 24 0
 3:40 how can you survive
  • 6 0
 that was fking insane
  • 7 0
 Blenki riding his Range like it's an Aurum!
  • 7 0
 No clue how you do that without going head first into the other berm, madness
  • 3 0
 Would have ate my stem. By accident.
  • 5 0
 Between Blenki and Atkinson its hard not to believe there is something special about that Norco Range when its time to turn!
  • 5 0
 When the camera man ask if he wants to do it again and he like 'na I think that's it' thinking I just about carked it the first time????
  • 1 0
 Magic
  • 2 0
 @dkidd: The current flavor of the Range has the Aurum pivot hardware in it. The frame can handle whatever an Aurum handles.
  • 14 1
 Do a . . . . . . pass the hosting duties to Eddie.
  • 11 0
 Possibly now my favourite downhiller. How cool is Blenki? And how ridiculously fast? And that nose bonk to manual? Think I'm going to have to edit my fantasy DH team!
  • 7 0
 Nose bonk to manual was pretty sweet!
  • 3 0
 So legit
  • 8 1
 HAHAHAHA feeding those Pinkbike trolls. Priceless...
  • 5 0
 I am hoping for a big year from ya Sam. And for the record, all the Kiwis I've met are just as chill and fun as we see in this video. Top notch dude/dudettes.
  • 17 0
 I too like kiwis - taste like chicken.
  • 7 0
 “Taste like children” - Hannibal Lecter, Dunedin 1989
  • 5 0
 Whenever I hear Blenki talk I keep thinking about all the goofy lines from Watiti's movies like Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
  • 7 1
 Omg is that Carl Jones?
  • 10 0
 who is carl Jones
  • 3 0
 @Nella-Bella: Carl Jones likes to party!!
  • 3 0
 @Clarkeh holy shit that's Carl mother f*cken Jones!
  • 4 0
 He was on fire at Rotorua. Something's up, did he sell his soul to the Lord below?

Bruni, Gwin, Mick... Shake in your pants
  • 2 0
 I raced against Sam in my qualifier for the mega avalanche some years back. He beat me. Nice bloke though, you can see how much he loves to ride, always got a smile on his face. Wish him well this season.
  • 2 0
 Was that the one he rode on his Turner DH bike,road cassete and all? I was there too!
  • 2 0
 @nozes: It was 2012 I think... can't remember the bike (I've had too many sleeps since then!)
  • 4 0
 Ridiculous skills and speed. Seems like a good dude too. Good stuff PB
  • 4 0
 He wants us to vote for him in the DH Fantasy League!
  • 5 0
 Sick
  • 4 0
 Interesting to see his stem length on that bike... looks like 60+mm
  • 1 0
 Minnaar has a similar longish by modern standards stem on his DH bike. Maybe there is something in it.
  • 2 0
 In a recent bike check it was said he runs a 65mm
  • 2 0
 @hsv313: cheers. Doesn't make me feel so bad running a 50mm.
  • 1 0
 60mm for me @fartymarty:
  • 1 0
 I read in an older bike check from 2016 he preferred to run a size L frame and run a longer stem.

www.pinkbike.com/news/ews-bike-check-sam-blenkinsops-norco-range-2016.html
  • 1 0
 Well if he's running a longer stem... maybe I should.
  • 4 0
 wear a FF helmet kids ! Helmet
  • 2 0
 Hope Blenki canmake it to the top I really want to see him win or be top 5 World Cup series
  • 3 0
 Me too. Plus he is on my fantasy team, so he should better push hard Wink
  • 3 0
 One of the most stylish in the game - that was ridiculous!
  • 2 0
 Yep, come Crimbo thus year, i'll be that dude on a rental...can't wait! Blenki making us Kiwees proud
  • 2 0
 Whanganui massive. Respect.
  • 3 0
 What ever happened to hot laps?
  • 3 0
 Winter. A long hateful winter.
  • 5 0
 @liamg-alex: this is what happens when sales of Teslas, Priuses and E-bikes go up... gotta roll out those lifted Diesel V12s
  • 4 0
 @WAKIdesigns: I was actually thinking of putting mud tires on a container ship with a 4 story lift...should be a good daily driver.
  • 1 0
 Props to Sam. That's riding on a world cup level. Wonder how Gwin will ride that?
  • 2 0
 Probably without a chain
  • 2 2
 @ajayflex: and faster ?
  • 3 0
 FAKE NEWS
  • 2 0
 what an animal! nose bonk to manual to Roost...love it
  • 3 0
 no gloves nutter
  • 2 0
 That huck on Ants was ridiculous and on a wee trail bike too sick.
  • 1 0
 so awesome. stoked for this series
  • 1 0
 dammit I gotta live by better trails..
  • 1 0
 Cheeeeiiirs haha
  • 1 0
 Good C@#T.....!!!
  • 1 0
 @jimmychoo401 you're a good kant x
  • 1 0
 whooooaahh #trailriding
  • 1 1
 in BE we call this downhill ... gotta do with what we've got!
  • 1 0
 What a cool Vid!







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