After a successful European and North American summer Aotearoa’s favourite permed freerider is back. And he’s wasting no time, in fact I’m pretty sure his plane landed today and tomorrow he’ll be out in Ngamoti at the Fire Pit building Nelson a sweet set of MTB dirt jumps to go along with Damian Stones’ pump track.

I have just finished jamming three bikes into two bags along with all my other stuff and about to leave snowy Whistler and head to sunny New Zealand! Let’s hope Air New Zealand aren’t too harsh on the luggage allowance.

It’s been all good hangin in Whistler for autumn, I even claimed some powder and made some cash to pay my credit card off.

I am really looking forward to all the cool events and riding in NZ—the Frew Farm Jam, Stoney Hills Trail Jam, Gorge Road Jams, and probably a couple of rounds of the NZ National DH races.

My first project when I walk off the plane is to build some dirt jumps in my hometown of Nelson.. it’s all ready to go, just heard that 20 truckloads of clay have been dumped at the site and they are awaiting my shovel!
Hell yeah ! See you out there.

Got Back? Kelly McGarry does. He’d been talking about flipping the last double on BIG-Dream-Track all week. On my last day and my last hour in Queenstown he was ready, I asked him to hit the Mini-Dream flip one last time (above) and on landing clean, his rear shock blew up! I jumped in the car to catch my plane and just outside of Geraldine got a text from Luke McCombie: “He just did it!”. As soon as Lutze is ready to post the video we’ll have it.