The 2008 US Open was a great success for Griffiths Racing and the Norco World Team. With two 1st place finishes in both the DH and the Slalom events Fionn was stoked on her weekends racing.

DH practice on the Friday went well although conditions were extremely un- predictable.

“With the track as rough and rocky as it is here at Diablo Freeride park,
the conditions in practice were unforgivable, just finding yourself slightly
off line in the wet rocks will more than likely end in tears or at least with
a quick nature appreciation visit to a near buy tree.”

Fionn escaped a fairly big crash on the wet rocks without major injury, just a couple of bumps and bruises to show for her efforts.

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So the new Northwest Dirt Culture movie is out and the premier was a blast.  Greg put out his best movie to date and the DVD is on the streets.  He put together a great swag toss and kickoff party.  Heres a few pictures of what went down.

Good Crowd

Heres the man behind the lens, Greg Tubbs.  And the cover in front of the DVD.

The go huck yourself crew getting tuned up.  After the movie things got a little rowdy and Wilsons’ boxxers got removed for him.  Heres right after and the aftermath.

We are knocking down walls and expanding the shop. While there is still a bit of finish work to be done I wanted to share some pics from the past week.

Money Masai and Jesse discuss the myth of load bearing walls. What was our old storage area is now our mechanics outpost. New doorway in the back goes to our new storage area.

New storage space we expanded into. For a frame of reference you can see Masai through the door looking back towards the front of the shop.

AJ’s new office behind the storage space…

and of course the kitty killer. Bonus points for naming the oldschool bmx bike hiding behind the KK.

It’s 11:02 am and I’m watching the opening section of SEASONS (new film from the collective). Peaty is ripping oh and now Cam is making bird sounds and jumping in pools. Come down and grab your copy or buy it from our online store ghybikes.com

Seven Riders. Four Seasons.

Seasons is a film that follows seven of the world’s top mountain bikers through the course of four seasons of one year. The film explores what it means to be a full time rider as told though the eyes of downhill racers, slopestyle competitors, and big mountain freeriders.

Riders: Andrew Shandro, Cam McCaul, Steve Smith, Matt Hunter, Darren Berrecloth, Thomas Vanderham, Steve Peat.

www.thecollectivefilm.com

60 Minute Feature
Making of Whistler Segment
Sterling Lorence Slideshow
Sponsor Videos
Bonus Air Footage
Bonus Trail Footage

The Canadian pricing gods have determined it to be the low low price of $27.99.

Well the day started off with everyone scrambling to get the 6 cases of beer, 100 hot dogs, stop watches, tape, and get everything back to the flow park.  But once we did get everything there it was one of the best times I have had at a bike event in a long time.  The race started after everyone was satisfied that they practiced enough.  The racing was pretty fun since the downhill part has been cut in down to the creek.  The last drop was the place to watch for sure.  It gave almost everyone a little kick sideways.  After two runs the times were stacked like this HERE.

Since everything was so much fun up until then why not fire up the BBQ throw on some dogs and play some Huffy Toss.  Norm and Jake were the test pilots.  Norm had a good launch but nobody expected the NASA commander Jake Hopple was in the house.  He hauled ass into the jump and sent that bike into orbit.  Just check out Coltons face in the background.  Not only is he looking at the bike but the expression is priceless.

Once again we thank all that came out and all that helped.  Thank Travis and Angie next time you see them…thats for sure.  Click Here for more pics.

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More shop hours to serve you starting Monday the 26th.

Weekday 10 – 7 (still closed on NOW OPEN Tuesdays!)

Sat 10 – 6

Sun 12 – 5

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Are you ready to start off this weekend right.  Well we are going to be tearing it up at RMC.  As luck has it Phil Sundbaum is back in town from the Qashqai tour.  So he stopped by yesterday and we talked him into staying up here from Portland to party with us tonight.     FRIDAY, MAY 16,    Full Throttle Xtreme Restaurant and Sports Bar,    3701 E. Valley Road, Renton, WA…   All Ages Welcome — BAR with ID, 8:00pm $5door    READ MORE

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Go Huck Yourself is going to be helping out with the Ranier Cup.  Not sanctioned or affiliated to anything.  Backwoods racing brought to you by bootleggers and lawless individuals.  Bring dollar bills for food & 5 dollar bills for racing.  (All Proceeds go back to Riders or SST Tool fund).

Directions: HERE

Sunday May 18th

Racing starts around noon….12 O’clock

$5 to Race and all of the $ goes back to the riders.

2 classes under 18 years of age and 2 classes for over 18 years old.