By Caleb Smith on Thursday April 26 2012 in Off topic
The 4th and final episode of the summer and we spend our week at the Queenstown Mountain Bike Festival. Literally too much stuff going on to cover everything but we pick up Australian rider Christian Tucker who competes in the Super D against JC. Then… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Monday April 16 2012 in Off topic
We’ve been waiting for this Teva Slopestyle clip of Haimona’s to drop all week, considering half the footage was filmed by us. Anyhow it’s here, and you can find out why you need to be in Queenstown for the WHOLE of the Bike Festival next… More ›
By johnoldale on Tuesday March 20 2012 in Off topic
Fancy a weekend of riding trails with New Zealand’s top trailbosses? Get along to the Coast 2 Coast. More ›
By Caleb Smith on Tuesday February 7 2012 in Off topic
Waikato rippers Lewis Jones and Ryan McCrae have teamed up to bring you this rad little clip. Since the Spoke article on Lewis Jones dropped last issue, ABD picked up Lewis and this is the first we’ve got to see of him shredding his new… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Wednesday December 21 2011 in Exclusives
A few weeks back ABD brand and team manager (and spokemagazine.com blogger) Jon Oldale hung out at Chris Beverland’s recently revamped jumps. Lewis was there too and Jon was well impressed. Actually he was so impressed he offered him a spot on the ABD team… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Saturday November 12 2011 in Exclusives
Well after today’s excursion to Chris Beverland’s recently revamped jumps (See Red Bull Back Yard Digger post here) I can’t say much, although we did turn out of the town after about only 50m of it… but it was an all right 50m. After the… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Tuesday May 24 2011
Despite the fact that on the Wednesday before the main event, the jumps in the Monster Energy Airfield were being drenched with yet another mood-dampening assault from Mother Nature—the event was on the verge of being called the Mud Jump Open—the three main players on… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Monday January 10 2011
I don’t think I need to say anything else, it’s all the poster. Lewis and Dave Jones are throwing another jam at Manuka Valley Jump Park. Some recent-ish photos of what they have been below. More ›
By Lester Perry on Friday December 17 2010
Ryan McCrae comes correct with this quick edit from round two of the NZ Dirt Series a couple of weeks ago. That’s Lewis Jones repping for the MTB crowd and finishing 4th. Is he the best MTB dirtjumper (besides ‘part time’ MTBer Langlands himself) we… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Friday November 12 2010 in Exclusives
Lewis and Dave Jones have put some serious shovel work in over winter to upgrade their Manuka Valley Jump Park and to celebrate are throwing a little jam on the 27th of November from 10am and they want you to be there! Check out what… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Tuesday April 27 2010 in Racing
The New Zealand Dirt Jump Open this past weekend was, for lack of a better phrase, “OFF THE HOOK”. The event started off with a bang on the Saturday with 50 riders at the qualifying and nearly 200 people showing up to watch that. Amongst… More ›
By Caleb Smith on Saturday February 20 2010 in Exclusives
The second backyard Coast to Coast dirt jump tour was on again for round two. Venturing from Raglan at Lewis Jones’ joint we visited the Beverland jump farm in Huntly and ended up on the east coast in a place called Hikitia at Casey King’s… More ›