Go Pro!

Last week I had a very cool package turn up with a nice new Go Pro Camera inside! The guys at Go Pro NZ hooked me up to capture some downhill footage so I was excited to test it out.

First thing Saturday I headed up the newly rebuilt Broken Axe DH track with Zerode Junior rider Reuben Olorenshaw and East Takaka local Reece Potter for some shuttle runs and had the Go Pro filming every run.

The footage that came out from it is amazing and its cool to be able to sit back afterwards and watch the run without having to concentrate on actually riding it!

I put together a quick edit tonight of a full run down the track and threw in a little bit of footage of the shock and gear box through some rough stuff to see how the Zerode sticks to the ground!

Keep an eye out on here and my youtube page for more footage soon!

Check it out below

Chad Reed = Bad Ass

If you haven't seen this video of Chad Reeds crash at the Millville AMA Outdoor Motocross National last weekend then prepared to be amazed.

Reed is by far my favorite athlete and this effort just cements that even more, while leading at Millville he washed out off the lip of a big table top and got completely ejected off the bike in one of the craziest crashes iv'e ever seen, to top it off after falling from the sky he gets himself up off the ground, adjusts his brake/clutch levers, starts the race again in last (40th) place and charges back to 14th!

Watch the video and be amazed.

Another huge race for NZ downhill

So I was up early this morning to watch the freecaster.tv live footage from the Mt Saint Anne, Canada World Cup and it was one hell of an exciting morning!

NZ had 7 riders qualified in the top 80 final and 5 of them ended up in the top 20!

Brook MacDonald's run was so smooth and flawless it was awesome to watch and when he came through the line and put 5.6 seconds into the ride who was in the hot seat i couldn't help but have a wee cheer in the living room by myself! I convinced myself

he was going to win after that but in the end he was bumped back to 3rd place only .515 of a second behind the winner Aaron Gwin!

Brook is on fire at the moment and i'm looking forward to seeing how the rest of his series goes, he has a huge future ahead of him.

Next in line the big horse Cam Cole who was one of my groomsmen at my wedding in March charged into 5th place for his first podium of the season, it was good to see him looking solid on the bike again and pulling a good result, look out for

him at Windham next weekend, hes won a US national there before!

Blinky was flying like usual and put in a very good ride for 7th but looked a bit disappointed at the bottom.

Justin Leov put a solid ride in on the new carbon Trek Session to take 10th and Scolsy (best man at my wedding) had an average run (stolen from his facebook status) but still managed a solid 19th keeping him in the top 20 overall heading into next weekends race.

I'm going to miss my world cup fix next weekend because im off to samoa on Thursday for my honeymoon but hopefully the boys will be able to have another good weekend and keep NZ on top of the world!