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Claymore Challenge

Hey Everyone,

Well I'm in America, At Highland Mountain Bike Park for Claymore
Challenge, Gold FMB event.

I flew in on Tuesday last week, met up with a few buddies and was
stoked to see the course and what was in store for us riders. Got to
the bike park around 8pm so had a quick look at the HTC which is a
sick indoor training facility with Foam Pit Resi and some fun box
jumps. We checked into the hotel and went straight down for a swim and
chill in the hot tub. Had my first day of practise on Wednesday, built
up the bike then played a bit in the HTC learnt a few things then went
up to check out the course.

The course was amazing zigzagged down the hill with drops, Boner Logs,
Berm jumps and some sender jumps. Had a good day of practise never
came off which was good and managed to whip the boner log which i was
stoked on. Went back to the hotel and of course straight to the pool
and hot tub with a beer in hand. chilled there with a couple of the
riders then headed out for dinner. Thursday was Qualifying day and I
was feeling nervous with this being my first US comp.

Had a bit of practise in the morning then found out what heat I was
in, it was the last one and I was pretty much last. it was a 2 run
best 1 counts format. I dropped in for my first run and it all went to
plan. flip table the step down to whip on the boner x the drop 3 table
the Geax booter Whip the death jump down whip the quarter hip flip
table death jump no:2 table out the wall ride to flip no hands on the
last 30 footer. stoked I got my first run good and after waiting what
felt like hours I was up for run 2, wind had picked up but dropped in
did pretty much the same run but 3 whipped the Geax booter. second run
went even better than the first. Had to wait ages for the results and
out of 60 riders that were there they only took 15 so it was very
tight.

Results came in and unfortunately i had missed out by 2 places so i
was bummed about that but still happy to have experienced the whole
event. For the rest of the time there I trained in the HTC got some
new stuff and learned to 360 drops so I should be good for the next
event which is Colorado Freeride Festival. I had an amazing time
chilling, riding, meeting new people and learning new stunts. Ill be
posting loads of pictures on my Facebook and Instagram so keep
checking to see what I'm up to. Just waiting in Boston airport now.
got loads of time to kill before i fly to Denver for my next
adventure. So until then look out for photos and updates of my trip
through Facebook and Instagram.

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted from Tilton, NH
Posted by Morvélo 

Rocket Air Switzerland

Well had a fun weekend and a freezing one. Been out to the 2nd stop of the FMB World Tour Rocket Air in Thun, Switzerland. Definitely one of the hardest if not the hardest comp i have been to.

Arrived on thursday checked out the course which looked sweet, its been the same course for the last three years and every year they tweak it a bit to make it better. This year the down ramps were not so steep which made for a much better comp. Unfortunately the weather was wet and cold but luckily it was all undercover so the rain never affected us just the freezing temperature.

Spent Friday practising and watched the prequalis which looked hard. The level of riding is like the finals a few years ago. It's crazy how fast the sport and tricks have progressed. Saturday came and we had qualification and finals to do. The qualification went ok managed to do a clean run and just made finals in 14th place. Finals only started at 8:30 in the evening so i was getting pretty tired from riding all day but thankfully i managed to hold it together and put a good run together.

Ended up with 12th so was happy with that considering how good everyone was riding. Stoked on being ranked 10th on the FMB World Tour so I pray I can stay there throughout the year. Now going to train my ass off for the next comp and hopefully do well. Here is a few highlight videos:

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

Californiacation: Part 3

Well I'm back from Cali now, had an amazing time riding, chilling and making new friends. We spent 4 days at Woodward shredding the step up, learning and dialling in new tricks. Getting ready for the start of the season. Had an Amazing time thanks to Jake Kinney for sorting it out. After we rode woodward we basically chilled out down in San Diego plus I have broken my Toe so I couldn't really ride. 
Partied a bit chilled at the beach and watched the guys ride a local spot.

Thanks to Mike, Lobes, Kevin, Chris and Jake for helping us out and sorting places to ride. Cant wait to get back there soon.

Here is the last video and link to some pics from our last days in Cali.

 

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

Californiacation: Part 2

Second part of our super cool amazing road trip video and blog is up check it out. 

Basically we have been riding a lot of trails and thanks to Kalin Law aka Lobes we have been able to hit up some sweet trails. not to mention giving us a shower to use, cooking us tasty BBQ's and letting us chill in the hot tub. I am now up in Tehachipi riding Woodward, this place is so sick rode with so many BMX pro's today, met Steven Murray which was so good and to top it off Nasty invited us to a jam at his trails tomorrow. This week is going to be Epic...

Stay tuned for the next video, its going to be interesting haha 

Cheers Yaaall

Ray

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

Californication - Part 1

Morvelo Test Team rider Ray Samson is out on a Road Trip around California. Here's the first installment. Not that we're jealous or anything.

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

Happy New Year!

Morvélo Test Team riders Ray and Harry welcome in the New Year. Here's to more bikes, more fun and more riding in 2012.

 

Filed under  //   Harry Steele   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

December Fun

Went for a little ride last saturday, met up with some guys and had a sweet sesh at the MOD step up and Mandry's. It was a good sesh. Learnt Flip whips and tried Double whips. Got close going to get them both dialled this weekend down Famous.

Check this out....

Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo 

Winter Training

Hi,

Ya I Know its been a while since my last blog and I don't have an excuse for it but hey.

Well now that the season has ended for another year and although I did not do as well as I would of like to it was fun. The last thing I did was go out to District Ride in Nuremberg Germany for the final round of the FMB World tour. It was an amazing contest and a sick course, I am not going to go on about it because you have all probably seen the videos and Pics.

Basically what I am doing now is training and getting ready for next year. Just went out and bought myself a new Macbook Pro which is so sick. Been out yesterday to our amazing winter spot filming and getting into editing videos and what not, was a sweet day was there most of the day on my own and around 2pm Sam Ren and Seb turned up which was cool had a good power hour with them. 

But I am basically spending my Sunday finally put together a short edit on my new Macbook. Just some riding at Lym (Famous) Was good fun filming and editing, really look forward to bringing you another edit. 

So Enjoy..


Filed under  //   Ray Samson  
Posted by Morvélo