[Transcend]

Crankworx is having a second event now on july 5-7 at Winter park, co. XC, DH, Slopestyle. Sick!

 

[mattmatt86]

link?

 

[Transcend]

http://www.transcendmagazine.com/archives/2007/03/crankworx_color.html

 

[mattmatt86]

Thanks :biggrin:

 

[WheelieMan]

That's pretty interesting considering that Winter Park has never held any kind of Freeride or Downhill event. (At least that I'm aware of...) Holding an event like this will definitely help them to kickstart their summer operations.

Any schedule conflicts?

 

[Mike Buell]

That's pretty interesting considering that Winter Park has never held any kind of Freeride or Downhill event. (At least that I'm aware of...) Holding an event like this will definitely help them to kickstart their summer operations.

Any schedule conflicts?

Only conflict is with Sonoma, which doesn't count anyways. Then the next weekend is the MSC Snowmass race which is only a few hours away.

 

[Broken_Spoke]

That's pretty interesting considering that Winter Park has never held any kind of Freeride or Downhill event. (At least that I'm aware of...) Holding an event like this will definitely help them to kickstart their summer operations.

Winter Park has been building up their freeriding for about 3 years now. I was there the first year they started when hired on some local freeriders to help them plan and build and they had some pretty sick ideas but I haven't been able to go back to see what has been built and what not.

 

[Transcend]

Only conflict is with Sonoma, which doesn't count anyways. Then the next weekend is the MSC Snowmass race which is only a few hours away.

And I will finally make my return to Boulder! Gonna have to hit these 2 events up on my way to Whistler from Montreal.

 

[muddy beast]

oh damn thats like a week before I go down there.

 

[CRoss]

Guess Winter Park is going to try and back up the title Mountain Bike Capital USA. I hope it is a huge success and pushes other resorts in the area to step up their games.

 

[stiksandstones]

That's pretty interesting considering that Winter Park has never held any kind of Freeride or Downhill event. (At least that I'm aware of...) Holding an event like this will definitely help them to kickstart their summer operations.

Any schedule conflicts?

They have held 2 NORBA Nationals...they were back in the stone age, but I did goto them and they were fun-but what wasn't back in the day.

And fraser, your little newsblurbs have been showing some really wacky characters for the last couple months, weird spellings of things, etc...

 

[BRIANBUELL]

SWEET!! I really hope that this idea will push other mountains in the area to fallow the growing trend of Gravity mountain bike festivals. Really interested to see how everything will look! Things are looking up around here! Mountain Bike Capital? Maybe soon!

 

[slobeone]

Unfortunately it conficts with the World Cup in Austria.

 

[Metal]

And I will finally make my return to Boulder! Gonna have to hit these 2 events up on my way to Whistler from Montreal.

Fraser,
Just sent you an email. This sounds like it will be a ton of fun, and I think it will be better to hit the road and go to Winterpark than to sit around your house for 3 weeks. In 3 weeks, I think I would start to talk all funny and I would be eating my Freedom Fries with cheese curds and gravy.
Also I think it would be great to hit up the Snowmass MSC race the following weekend, unless you need to shoot more stuff up in the Whistler area.
And I'm getting the same stuff that Stik is over on Vic's computer..."“Every year Whistler’s Kokanee Crankworx outdoes itself,” says Rob McSkimming,"

 

[Transcend]

Fraser,
Just sent you an email. This sounds like it will be a ton of fun, and I think it will be better to hit the road and go to Winterpark than to sit around your house for 3 weeks. In 3 weeks, I think I would start to talk all funny and I would be eating my Freedom Fries with cheese curds and gravy.
Also I think it would be great to hit up the Snowmass MSC race the following weekend, unless you need to shoot more stuff up in the Whistler area.
And I'm getting the same stuff that Stik is over on Vic's computer..."“Every year Whistler’s Kokanee Crankworx outdoes itself,� says Rob McSkimming,"

Sanjay both of these events are after Ste Anne, so we'd be outta here and on our way to whistler anyways. Gona look into the nonsense characters today. I thought I had it fixed before, I guess not.

 

[hellonasty]

Any chance this just a big April Fool???

 

[Transcend]

Any chance this just a big April Fool???

Naw, it was sent out yesterday by the chick in charge of intrawest publicity.

 

[cannondalejunky]

Any chance this just a big April Fool???

nah, there was rumors about this a while back

 

[Bikerpunk241]

AWESOME!!! More racing/DH action just out my back door.......in a sense.....

 

[AusRottenVirus]

Wow. I'm shocked. This is gonna be sweet!

 

[StunZeeD]

Not buying it....why wouldnt it be at keystone or somewhere wih more of a Bike scene

 

[Mike Buell]

Not buying it....why wouldnt it be at keystone or somewhere wih more of a Bike scene

Cause Keystone isn't owned by Interwest, and winter park has a huge bike scene they just haven't fully broken into gravity, yet.
They do claim to be mt. bike capital USA
They've had lift serviced terrain for years, its just been more XC/Super D style.

 

[CRoss]

Pretty simple Whistler is owned by Interwest and Winterpark is owned by Interwest. Keystone is owned by Vail. Whistler is not going to host an event at a competitors mountain.

Edit: Damn Mike beat me to it.

 

[Mike Buell]

Edit: Damn Mike beat me to it.

And the Day is Mine

 

[TheInedibleHulk]

Dave Camp for the slopestyle win. What are the requirements for entry at crankworks? Is the slopestlye stuff invitational or open? Dh for anyone?

 

[Mike Buell]

Dave Camp for the slopestyle win. What are the requirements for entry at crankworks? Is the slopestlye stuff invitational or open? Dh for anyone?

I'm pretty sure last year at crankworks slopestyle was open entry for preliminaries and you had to qualify out of your group,
as for the DH, I'm pretty sure the Air downhill was open to all who wished to compete and was broken into categories. Garbanzo was only open to Pro's with a UCI elite licenses and they caped it at 80 entries. Correct me if i'm wrong, I might have this backwards.

 

[Transcend]

Slopestyle was open entry as of last year in Whistler. Was invite only before that.

 

[bizutch]

Now if only they had announced it sooner to allow more riders to put it in their travel plans.

Aww...what am I saying..I couldn't go anway.

 

[funkendrenchman]

as for the DH, I'm pretty sure the Air downhill was open to all who wished to compete and was broken into categories. Garbanzo was only open to Pro's with a UCI elite licenses and they caped it at 80 entries. Correct me if i'm wrong, I might have this backwards.

The Amateur class of Garbonzo did not require a UCI elite. I'm not sure the pro did either.

 

[Transcend]

It was however a UCI sanctioned event, i think you needed a UCI license of some level to enter. They were anal about checking licenses and IDs.

 

[rky mtn srfr]

Awesome news. This will be a stop on my mtn biking vacation tour fo sho

 

[funkendrenchman]

It was however a UCI sanctioned event, i think you needed a UCI license of some level to enter. They were anal about checking licenses and IDs.

For the Garb DH, they didn't require a license. Who knows what the rules will be at WP.

 

[dexter]

i had been hearing snowmass for the past month or so, but winterpark will be dirty dirty. oh yea and i will be tkaing camp for the win hunlk man

 

[Full Trucker]

Same press release posted on the Winter Park site:

http://www.skiwinterpark.com/media/Current_PR/03.07_Crankworxs.htm