Early Thursday morning Phil and I (Crappis) boarded are plane heading to Cleveland, OH for the Rays MTB 3ride contest. Phil had a chance to go visit Rays while filming for the Atomlab video and was happy to be going back. This was my first time going and couldn’t wait to get there. After a couple of plane rides we were in Cleveland and Getting are bikes put to gather and heading over to the park.

Driving up to the park you would never know anything like this would be happening in this building. When you walk in you see all kinds of wooden structures and a giant wooden berm in the middle of the small box jump rhythm. Then you see the Moen course full of wooden berms and bridges. Then there are the big box jumps that surround the Moen course. Then in the back corner lays the skate park. This place has some thing for every one from all levels of riding.

Tech Tip from Phil Sundbaum…

#1 Use a hockey bag to transport your bike and pay $0.00 dollars

#2 To save the frame from getting pinched, use a threaded rod and wingnuts.

#3 Use Towels to pack the frame and take off rotors.

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This video was filmed for Interbike as a Sponsor video. Almost all of the clips were filmed in one day. Sean Masai and A.J. filmed the vid and Sean edited the thing in an hour. Pretty killer if you ask me.

Check it….

There was tons of great riding by all, the ams threw down and the pros rode well too considering they were on their way to the biggest event of the year. Chris Duncan pulled double bar spins, HUGE turn down 3’s, and much more. Crappis had a big no-handed no-foot can as well as flips and his trademarked Old school tuck no-hander! Phil was riding well almost hitting the roof with his back flips and tail-whips. Phil ended up 3rd over all and Crappis unfortunately over rotated a HUGE flip over the box and landed on his back, bruising his ribs, and mangled toe (That thing is nasty).