Marin Bikes Blog

For your viewing pleasure, AT and company hit the opening lines for this weekend’s slopestyle event at Crankworx Colorado. If you’re within driving distance, pack some Scooby Snacks and come down to cheer for your boy!

Check out this video of AT dirt jumping at the FISE Festival, an extreme outdoor event which brings together various sporting disciplines, that took place earlier this summer in Montpellier, France. Read more »

If you been riding long enough, you’ve probably had a bike stolen. It’s the worst feeling to have any kind of ride snatched away from you, but when AT opened up the Marin van to grab his sweet, custom Alcatraz two months ago to prepare for a jump exhibition at the Portland Bicycle Show he was gutted to find it missing. Ever the professional, he grabbed a display bike and cranked on to complete the show, but he was left without the beloved bike he dialed-in to hit this summer’s jump competitions and events. Read more »

AT drops in again to show you how to roll like a pro at the park or local jump zone. First round was how to perfect Bar Spins. This time around- Back Flip No Handers. That’s right, time to step up!!
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AT checks in from his travels in Europe:

I just got home from an awesome three week trip through Europe for a couple of contest and a team trip for Adidas. I started out the trip in the south of France at the Fise Festival which is a huge extreme sports festival with bmx, wakeboarding, skating, and mountain biking in Montpellier. Practice on the first couple of days was good but on the day of finals it was super windy so they decided to hold the contest on the bottom half of the course. Even though we only rode a drop and a couple of jumps it was still fun and I ended up taking 5th.

After Fise I had a couple of days off so on my way up to the Adidas I stopped in Paris and got to check out some tourist spots. After a couple days of site seeing I drove the rest of the way up to Herzagoh where Adidas has there headquarters and I met up with some of the other freeride athletes. While we were there we got everything dialed in for the trip and got to meet some of the cross country guys from South Africa. Since there was so many athletes there we all got a tour of the campus and later that night they took us to real Bavarian feast.

The next day we all head up to Winterberg for the DirtMasters festival. It’s one of Germany’s biggest bike festival’s with downhill racing, super d, 4x and slopestyle. Since the slopestyle contest took place in the bike park it was really laid back and fun. The bike park was so cool, it had tons of jumps, drops and berms. For the contest I had a good qualifying run but then in my final run I ended up crashing half way through. Even though it didn’t go the best for me it was still such a rad weekend of riding and hanging out with all the riders.

For my last week in Germany we all headed up to Berlin and got on a houseboat for the team trip. I don’t want to give to much away but the trip was amazing and I’m stoked on how it turned out. In the next few months you should see it popping up in the mags and online.

Now I’m headed to the Teva Mountain Games in Vail, Colorado for the slopestyle and dual stunt so if your in the area come check it out, its always a good comp!

Marin/Adidas rider Andrew Taylor checks in with some of his recent travel reports:

Earlier this month was the first ever Upsidedown and Underground at Jamie Goldman?s
house in Bend, OR. So Greg Watts, Tyler McCaul and myself drove up from Santa Cruz
for the contest. Our buddy Jaymo hooked us up a sweet condo with some amazing
views at Mt. Bachelor Village Resort for the weekend so it was easy living. Read more »

AT drops in to show you how to nail bar spins at the park or out on your favorite zone. Check it!

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