Haro was well represented at the "Odd Couple" contest at Ray's MTB Park held on January 31st...Greg Watts, Phil Sundbaum, and Brian Miller all made the trip to this awesome indoor riding playground.
The Odd Couple contest works a little different from all the other contests out there...each MTB rider teams up with a BMX rider and they shoot a video. Then the video is put up to a "people's choice" where the crowd votes with their applause.
Watts teamed up with Haro's Steve Woodward, Sundbaum was paired up with Haro's Ronnie Napolitano, and Brian Miller chose to ride with Eastern's Adam Banton. After it was all said and done, Brian Miller's team was the top-placing Haro team with a fine 4th place finish. Sadly, Greg and Phil didn't make the wood, but they did make some pretty cool videos.
We aim to bring you two team videos per month...these videos were actually from January's team road trip. Better late than never, right?!? This just mean's y'all will get 4 videos this month!
Check out Porter, Watts, and Brian Miller shredding Woodward West and Heath Pinter's trails in Riverside, CA. The Watts double back flip is sick!
Check out this photo Cory Tepper sent in of Phil Sundbaum doing a one-hand X-up 360 at the Skate Barn up in Washington state. Good stuff!
Cory will be traveling with the Haro MTB team as the official team videographer at the "Odd Couple" contest at Ray's Indoor Park in Ohio this weekend. Stay tuned for more coverage on that event!
Yes, there are 52 weeks in a year. "52 Weeks" is also the name of a blog on PinkBike.com where John Lee is keeping an online diary of his year-long training program that will prepare him to compete in the world's longest downhill race called Mega Avalanche. Held in Alpe D'Huez, France, this course is about 20 miles long with 8,500 feet of descent. This is considered one of the world's most demanding downhill races due to the overall course length, terrain, and sheer number of competitors. John will be competing in the Mega Avalanche on a Haro Xeon. Check out the video John made of he and his Xeon in action the first day he rode the bike:
Here's a little bit about John:
"After my back breaking crash 10 years ago, I decided to get myself back on a bike and compete in the worlds longest Downhill race - The Mega Avalanche 2010. Since July 2009 I have been training my hardest to prepare for the 33km DH race. I recently won the Hardtail Downhill Race at racers Guild and finished 50th (out of 350 riders) in The Kona Mash Up Technical Race in December. My 2010 race season will comprimise of Downhill, BMX and 4X races.
I am married to my very patient and understanding wife - Julia - and we live in Derbyshire with our son Elijah, who is 19mths old. To pay the bills I work as the UK assistant editor at Pinkbike and I also a manage a newly established youth project.
I love my Haro bikes and I currently ride and race a Haro Xeon, Haro Steel Reserve 8 and a Haro X4 BMX. I am hopefully receiving my Haro Porter and Haro X7 very soon for my 2010 race season".
Want to follow John on his journey to Mega Avalanche? Check it out on PinkBike.com by clicking here.
