Andrew Shandro
SPONSORS: Trek, Shimano, POC, Dakine, Fox Shox, Clif, JBL, GoPro, Lezyne, Adidas, ODI, Leatt, MRP
MUSIC: Zeppelin, GNR, Marley, Mumford and Sons, Neil Young
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: North Vancouver
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Great coffee, loam trails, BBQ with friends and family, cold beers.
Cam McCaul
SPONSORS: Trek, Rockstar, Fox Head, Fox Suspension, Shimano, Teva, Contour HD, Bontrager, Smith Optics
MUSIC: Black Sabbath
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Aptos, California
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Coffee, Morning surf, breakfast burrito, all-mountain ride, burrito, chill for 2 hours, evening dirt jump session, burrito.
Matt Hunter
SPONSORS: Specialized, Shimano, Fox Shox, IXS, Clif, Chromag, Smith Optics, MRP, Dakine
MUSIC: RATM, Deer Tick, Steel Pulse, TMOE, OCMS, Young, Marley, At the Drive In, Zeppelin, Kyuss, The Smalls, Justin Beiber
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Kamloops, BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: It would probably involve bikes and mud and fire and big fish!
Curtis Robinson
SPONSORS: Specialized, SRAM, RockShox, Avid, Truvativ , Chromag, Smith Optics
MUSIC: I can dig most genres, except for country.
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Sunshine Coast, BC.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Coffee, trail ride with my friends at home, ending with beers at the beach!
Jordie Lunn
SPONSORS: Rockstar Energy, Rocky Mountain Bikes, Sram, B-labs, Rock Shox, Avid, Truvativ, Sombrio, Mavic, Sensus
MUSIC: Hip-hop, rock, metal
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Vancouver Island
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Early morning golf round, nap, DH laps and some evening jumping!
Katrina Strand
SPONSORS: Santa Cruz Bikes, Fox Shox, Maxxis, Mavic, Raceface, Oakley, e13, Fox helmets, Fizik, Cocos Pure
MUSIC: I LOVE MUSIC!!! Metric, Of Monsters and Men, Matisyahu, The Sounds, Florence and the Machine
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Whistler
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Wake up beside Prince Charming, all mountain epic in the alpine, air time in the park, lake time with Max, yoga, sushi, dancing - all with my amazing friends.
Chris Kovarik
SPONSORS: Kovarik Racing
MUSIC: Slipknot, Korn, Disturbed, Tool
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Brisbane and Whistler
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Burning rubber.
Kyle Norbraten
SPONSORS: Specialized, SRAM, RockShox, Avid, Truvativ, BlackboxLabs, Chromag, Oakley, Evoc, Easton
MUSIC: Gangster hip hop like The Game, Dre and new stuff like Naked and Famous and Chase & Status
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: The Sunshine Coast of BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Wake up to a brisk sunny morning after a rain and head out with my friends to ride our favorite local trails that would be freshly loamed, shred all day and finish by riding to the beach to hang out and wind down with some beers!
Graham Agassiz
SPONSORS: KONA BIKES, MONSTOR ENERGY, SMITH OPTICS, FOX HEAD, EASTON, SRAM, ROCKSHOX, Maxxis, The Sensus, Bicycle Rockers, Taco Del Mar
MUSIC: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabath, BRMC, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Motley Crue, Metallica, Cali P, Dear Tic, Jack White
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Kamloops, BC
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Kurt Sorge
SPONSORS: Giant bicycles, Rockstar, Giro, Teva, Under Armour, Oakley, SRAM
MUSIC: The Rolling Stones
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Nelson, BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Big breakfast, DH laps all day, evening fish, big dinner, beers and a lil bit of partying!
Claire Buchar
SPONSORS: Kovarik Racing
MUSIC: Tool, Metric, The Sounds, Pink Floyd
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Whistler
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Summer, riding in the woods, lake time, Yoga, BBQ, friends and repeat!
Thomas Vanderham
SPONSORS: Rocky Mountain Bicycles, Shimano, Dakine, Oakley, Fox Suspension, Maxxis, Pro, OGK Kabuto, Acros
MUSIC: Almost everything.
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: North Vancouver
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Bike ride, golf, BBQ, beers
Wade Simmons
SPONSORS: Rocky Mountain Bicycles, RaceFace, Oakley, Bell, Shimano, Marzocchi, Lezyne
MUSIC: Pretty much like it all except Classical, Country and that new-age Rap/Rock ballad crap.
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Lynn Valley, North Vancouver, BC Canada
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Little night precipitation, good sleep, strong coffee, greasy bacon and eggs, technical winding singletrack climb, loamy swooping trail descent with plenty natural features that all loops back to start, wicked dinner with wife and strong red wine = Good day!
Brandon Semenuk
SPONSORS: Trek, Red Bull, Troylee Designs, SRAM, Smith Optics, Maxxis, GoPro, MRP, Chromag, JBL, Etnies
MUSIC: Most Anything
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Squamish, BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Blue sky's, 25 degrees, friends, bikes...
Kyle Jameson
SPONSORS: Scott USA. Chromag , republik apparel
MUSIC: I don't like all music but i like most, form rap to folk such as dubbie ( aka suga wolf pimp ), misfits, devil makes three, and pretty lights
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: I live in Santa Cruz, California. Right near the beach.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Prefect day would consist of a skate park session in the morning, then some kind of trail ride xc or dh, then a burrito. Finish off the day dirt jumping with some homies.
Brett Rheeder
SPONSORS: TREK, Bontrager, Shimano, Fox Shox, Fox Head, Smith Optics
MUSIC: Anything
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Ontario, Canada
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Get up, breaky, work on my bikes while blairing some tunes, buff the yard, ride the yard, have a swim, have a sick dinner. Repeat.
Kirt Voreis
SPONSORS: Sram, Specialized, Fox, Clif Bar, Camelbak, Smith Optic
MUSIC: Zepplin, The Doors, Wu-Tang, Dead Kennedy's, Scarface and anything played acoustic.
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Bend, Oregon
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Wake up early to a breakfast burrito and Coffee, hike the Cone at Mt. Bachelor and snowboard down 2 or 5 times til all powder is gone then out to Dh Shuttle Klien Butte or XC ride at Horse Ridge, Ride ramps into the eve, beer, food, sleep. I do this all winter, spring and sometimes early summer.
Ryan 'Rdog' Howard
SPONSORS: Trek, SRAM, Bell, Chromag, Bontrager, Smith, Dakine
Joe Schwartz
SPONSORS: Kona, Sombrio, Osprey Packs, Bell Helmets, Chromag, NRG Enterprises
MUSIC: Broken Social Scene, Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and more...
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Canada. More specifically BC, and the true homeland being the Kootenays.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Sunny breakfast on my deck, big alpine ride with a ripper crew, good beers, and dinner with my lady.
Adam Billinghurst
SPONSORS: SRAM, Chromag, Bontrager, Trek
MUSIC: Metal
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Whistler BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Perfect Day- Coffee, Breakfast, Bike Park. Lunch, Bike Park, Coffee, Bike Park, Beer, Dinner, Bed
Lorraine Blancher
SPONSORS: Raceface Factory Rider
MUSIC: Anything live or good to move to - Parov Stelar
WHERE DO YOU CALL HOME: Revelstoke, BC
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR PERFECT DAY: Dawn patrol surf or sunrise yoga by some water. Blending a kick ass green smoothie and pulling a quality espresso shot.
11am Heli-drop to a remote high alpine xc or sweet 5k descent around Revy.
Evening sesson BiG jumps like the Crabapples or random doubles around Kamloops.
Brendan Howey
SPONSORS: Commencal, Chromag, Maxxis, Spank
Brett Tippie
SPONSORS: YT Bikes
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