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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So a few weekends back we went to Levenworth for a little riding and October Fest. The drinking part went great, but we missed part of the riding. Crappis, Masai, Cory, and our new G.H.Y. Junior Team. One of the members pictured here has the new nickname of Poopis…Crappis’ little look a like.

We spent the night at Cory’s parents cabin. We arrived late Saturday night and proceeded to get drunk enought that we missed the morning shuttle session. After the morning blues went away we made it to Das Rad Haus the local bike shop. There we met up with directions to the BBQ at James House (the owner of Das Rad Haus). On the way we stopped by the skate park and rolled around for a while. Masai and Crappis were killing it. Fun little park with a bowled end.

We finally met up with James at his house where he just finished his side yard. It was filled with nice big table tops with a step-up at the end. There were tons of little groms and locals havin a blast. He had beer and food for all of us. The kids were the best part of this trip. They went non stop at those jumps. By the end of the day one kid was clearing the jumps on a huffy style bike. Thanks to James and everyone who went on the trip. Oh ya watch out for the junior team they are learning from Kim Eakin, Travis Erickson, and Lars Sternberg.

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.

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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).