Now that we're through our first round of upgrades, its time for all of us to kick the tires and put it through its paces.
We've put in a stable groundwork to build from, and are going to be looking to you to help us make it perfect!

Hello all you monkeys out there!

Welcome to Ridemonkey... uh... 2.69? 3.0? 3.7? Something like that...

Anyways, Ridemonkey has gone through a lot of changes in the past year - some for the worse, and some for the better.
Traffic has been fantastic, an... [Read More]

Fraser Britton was on the scene and gives you the wrap-up on the Maribor WC Downhill

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The legendary Maribor, Slovenia downhill track saw scorching sun, torrential rains, hail and then more sun as the world's best downhillers tried to figure out what tires to run come race day. By the time finals kicked off on Sunday, some riders were on dry tires, some were on cut spikes and some were on full spikes.

At the end of the day determ... [Read More]

This year's Mont Ste Anne World Cup is a lead up to the World Championships that will be held here in September of next year.

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Words and Photos by Fraser Britton

This year's Mont Ste Anne World Cup is a lead up to the World Championships that will be held here in September of next year. GESTEV, the organizer, is going all out to make sure it is their best event ever with everything being just a bit bigger and better.

When racing get's underway, it will be Greg Minnaar (Sant... [Read More]

Wet and wild and then dry and rough, Bromont didn't disappoint.

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Words and Photos by Fraser Britton
Greg Minnaar (RSA - Santa Cruz Syndicate) and Sabrina Jonnier (FRA - Maxxis) have taken home the gold at the 7th round of the UCI World Cup Downhill at Bromont, Canada. Minnaar and Jonnier both dealt with rough conditions and tight competition today as the course changed dramatically from earlier practice sessions, drying out and getting extremely rough. It was beating riders... [Read More]

Strait outguns the 4x stars to take home the giant check as large crowds watch Crankworx's first official event of 2009.

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Words and Photos by: Fraser Britton

Despite cool temperatures and fading light, a huge crowd hung out, drank, made noise and watched Kyle Strait and Jill Kintner take the wins at the Crankworx Slalom event.

The first official event of this year's festival attracted some big guns, with Lopes, Michal Prokop, Johannes Fishbach, Filip Polc and other big name... [Read More]

Leov and Canadian new comer Miranda Miller suffer for dollars on the fabled Monster Energy Garbanzo Downhill here at Crankworx.

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Words and photos by Fraser Britton

When pro rider’s facebook status’ change to “Time to Suffer”, you know it’s a big course. They don’t get much bigger than the legendary Garbanzo downhill here in Whistler. Over 14 minutes long, the course here beats riders into submission, and as one rider put it afterwards “once you get through the upper sectio... [Read More]

The Brian Lopes wins the air downhill for the fourth year in a row.

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Words and Photos by: Fraser Britton

Flyin' Brian Lopes is unstoppable when it comes to racing his way down the most ridden freeride trail on earth. The former 4x world champion was in fine form taking the competition to school once again on the fabled A-Line jump trail here in Whistler.

Rain on and off all week had made parts of the trail slick, as the blue groove turned to slime making berms treacherou... [Read More]

Watts gets backwards off the SRAM box in qualifiers.

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Words and Photos by: Fraser Britton.


Greg Watts took home top honors tonight at the 2009 Monster Energy Slopestyle here at Crankworx in Whistler.


Watts through down a near perfect run in front of 20,000 screaming fans to take home the $15,000 cash that was up for grabs. His score of 96.0 was enough to beat Brandon Semenuk with a 95.25. Watts 360 tail whipped the drop in, talk about getting things started wit... [Read More]

Monster Energy - Specialized's Sam Hill on his way to victory at the Canadian Open.

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Words and Photos by: Fraser Britton

Sam Hill (AUS) Monster Energy - Specialized has taken the win at he second annual Canadian Open, the final event at this year's Crankworx Festival in Whistler, BC.

Hill beat out a world cup caliber field by a huge eight-second margin. The track for this year's Open was a modified version of the course built by Canadian downhill pro Tyler Morland for la... [Read More]