don't be a dick of course bender has, along with those people. Aaron Chase and Berrecloth kick all those guys mentioned asses when it comes to progression my boy, I don't care how good you are.
OMG YOU RACE ALL OVER THE CONTINENT!? Sweet, don't give a fuck. Under 15, is the key thing I saw you post. First let your sac drop, then proceed to learn about shit outside of what you see in the movies and on the race course. Oh you didn't know Bender was once a really amazing downhill racer? Hahaha yeah that's right because you know only what you seen on your tv screen.
man your really stupid. You dont know much do you. im not saying Josh is a bad rider, he just hasnt helped out the sport much. you clearly dont know about nico vouellz, john tomac, hb, or any of the pionears and contributors to the sport. JR expert hapens to be fastest behind the pros in case you didnt notice.
Hahaha, I love how you're just naming off racers. Take a look at your bike, the suspension mostly. Without Josh you'd still be riding on 4-5" travel suspension. Care for me to go more in depth on why you are wrong?
get off your horse bro no one cares, I have ridden with bender too, hell I have ridden withm alot of them, any event you go to they are around man, I went to the Red Bull freeze ride and hung out with lots of those guys NO ONE CARES.
Yes as you told me, 3 runs. Amazing things can be learned huh? Did he happen to mention to you how he had to learn how to bike by himself and no one else? Yes that's right, he learned how to bike by himself in Utah living by himself in a trailor. How to huck and even to huck in the first place was his idea and had only himself to push the limits. Not to mention this was all before the original NWD. Companies saught after him for research on their products greatly increasing their technology and what was once though incapable on a mountain bike. Oh shit, wait... The Red Bull Rampage? Ever heard of that? Yes that was Bender's brain child. As you know that event got mountain biking (especially freeriding) reconized greatly though it's 4 years of running. This in turn helped get downhill biking some publicity as well because of 1. The World Champion automatically got an invite, along with many others in that discipline to compete.
2. People who watched the Rampage got interested in freeriding (including downhill) bringing more money into the sport that I hope you enjoy while doing.
All this once again not possible without Bender. Care for me to go further?
has bender ever won the rampage? no i think a racer has one it every year. Im not Gonna Lie i like bender and hes a cool guy for shure but there are many others who have done more for the sport. i think you need to chill out.
Hahaha, dude it doesn't matter if Bender won it or not (oh and by the way, Wade Simmons is a freerider and even though Kyle Strait downhill races, he's more known in the freeriding aspect) because he put the damned thing on. Without him there would have been no Rampage.
chill out man. Benders cool im not trying to be a hater. thogh there are more events than JUST the rampage. Im not saying the rampage aint sick. World champs had 16,ooo,ooo spectators this year.
i think i win i ride for a shop here skyride cycle(www.skyridecycle.com) and possible varix this season and oakley and i have 2 bikes a 2005 flow f.3 and a 2006 switch S3 all rad
yea the ns for all the bikers is more like www.pinkbike.com and about this bender thing he isnt helping progress the sprt really anymore he did for a while but now its all about the style and flow more then the size and theres riders out there like darren berrecloth who have done 50 footers with plenty of style so i think tha whole thing of bender droppin 45 feet and not landing it 4 times is getting old. thats my 2 cents
Naw, no one really has except for him still my friend. And of course he's getting out dated, he's getting old and just recently had major spinal surgery.
i feal left out...i dont know anything about urban mtb haha or racing or any freeride mtb shit...i just ride my p2 and sometimes the big bad we the people if i wanna grind...although....if yu want some radd bikin the idun team is rad