Our first proper ride of the trip took us on an early morning adventure about 50km west of Melbourne to the You Yangs Regional Park. This little area has really come along in the last few years and now hosts a handful of DH and XC races. It has a decent range of blue and black level trails with some nice features and flow, incorporating the granite boulders that are peppered all over the park. Lots of wildlife and some pretty rad views as well make this place a good little day trip from the city. Getting there early in the morning paid of as the temperature rose quickly. Ill try and head back for some more photos but here is a little tatse!

              Decent trail map helps you get around, the trails arent all together

           Probably the greenest Ive ever seen it here

                   First little climb to the top of Boulder Drop

                 Great views through the fog

               Grippy climb on the rock

              Callum getting his shred on!!

                  More climbing on rock

                        Is it?

                    The Hans Dampf looking good!

              Callum feeling pretty good after his first ride

                   Post ride meal of champions

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We have gone global!!!! ….sort of.

Our stickers have made it around the globe.We are now bigger than apple!

Thanks to our friends for sending these in, we always want more pics!

somewhere in oregon.

Phoenix, F.I.N.S

Even in winter……. middle of the mountains…..

Schaff on the job reppin!

Rad friends matt and mike were in the land of the swiss and rocked out RAD

A few friends made it down to Cuba for some good times and one of the local bike taxi’s was stoked to rep Rad Bike.

Rad in action. Scott was supervising making sure the crowd didn’t get unruly.

 

A stoked bike cabbie in Havana, Cuba.

                                    Bad Erica/Radbike.ca

             Outside Bike and Ski in Melbourne Australia, hanging out with a suspect character!

            Radbike future prospect Ada Hearn, getting familiar with the tools of the trade

 

 

Somewhere in Europe..thanks Mike and Ally!

 

  

Backcountry Revelstoke, British Columbia…thanks Marty!

 

 

I have made to to the motherland for some summer bike action to break up the long stretch of winter in Canmore. Im gonna do my best to post every awesome bike ride i go on while im here. Ill be riding only in the state of Victoria for the 6 weeks in oz but there is some super cool terrain and trails around to explore not to far from the city.

Thanks you Air Canada for the $400 in fees for the excess baggage! oh good! But at least the bikes did arrive still in their boxes on time and not on fire!

First things first, a solid day of bicycle reassembly and for my friend Callum his first look at his new Rocky Mountain Altitude 70 RSL. His daughter Ada also got her hands on a new whip! (less excited than her dad i think)

                    Ada getting the tools sorted (mechanic in the making)

                 Fluro the cat being less helpful.

            Callums ultra tech back yard work shop.

                   Line up the bits!

                    The bikes in true Christmas spirit.

                   Cals outta the box customisations included 70 mm Thomson stem, 30″ Chromag Bar, Custom rubber and RockShox Reverb dropper post.

                     We both ended up opting for a Maxxis Ardent 2.25 for the rear and a Schwalbe Hans Dampf for the front. A great combination of some fast drifty rear and grippy cornering front.

          Welcome to the team Calbot!!

                  Adas Early Rider.

                    Test ride goes well.

                   Bike even gets custom Rad sticker job!

                    The bike is well received….sort of!

It is now the time of year (for the saner folk) to put the bike deep into storage and to pull out the skis/snowboard/sled/snow shoes or even nordic walking poles and get your shred/walk on!!

For Paul and I this will be our exciting comeback  to the winter activity scene. Our 2010/11 season was spent mostly in rehab and recovery after both undergoing much needed knee surgery at the end of November. The 2011 bike season for both of us was for the most part injury free which put us in good stead for a bomber winter. Winter shredding has been a huge part of both our lives in Canmore and it was so ridiculously  awesome to get back into in full force after only 1 season on the bench (so to speak). This may not be biking but it is just as fun! Some early season shots with great friends…and more to come throughout this surely epic winter!

 

           Opening weekend at Lake Louise. Not epic necessarily but fun. Jimmy a little overwhelmed by it all.

                Sneak opening weekend at Revelstoke mountain…promising to be epic? 6am start for lineup.

                    Our weapons of choice Burton Fish, Jones Hovercraft, LibTech Banana Magic, Salomon Grip.

                    Tim Auger,man of mystery, an enigma wrapped in a riddle.

             Captain Jordan….Shred pirate and powder buccaneer.

                      Oh my!!! first on the the Ripper chair.

                  Knee deep stoke laps left us speechless..we literally had no speech.Grunts and hand flailing were our only means of communication.

               Attack of La Ninjas!!!! Alex and Jordan getting their Ka-pow on !!

             Midday and still sooo deeep!!

Thanks Revy…you just blew my mind

                     Self portrait, top of Divide, Sunshine, AB

         Beautiful.

                Eric/a syncro scream up Standish.

               Jimmy up at Spray Lakes getting all crossed up.

                                 Sequence soon to be cover of skier mag.

                  Road side hucking.

                Check out them sweet turns.