Decline’s feature article this month is on a trip I did with the STUND Crew, Mike Kinrade, Steve Romaniuk, Garret Buehler and James Dorfling. So lucky! Sven Martin met up with the crew as we filmed the 4^th STUND Webisode with Tam Forde and put this story together.  Here’s a little peak…

My ultimate goal was to get a shot that would catch ANY rider’s eye and inspire. I wanted them to check it out, think it's a super sweet move, THEN realize it’s a girl! Pretty stoked when Sven figure we got the shot with this naural gap!

Big thanks to master minds of STUND, aka Kinrade and Romo, for inviting me on the trip. You guys RULE!

Also got a great rider profile in the current Freehub Online Magazine.  The coffee table edition goes to print later this Spring.

Pipe Dream, Silver Star - Photo by Mason Mashon

Aline, Whistler - Photo by Mason Mashon

Can’t wait to see where my Rocky Flatline takes me this year!

So last saturday i decided to head over to the mainland to ride with some good freinds of mine i woke up around 7am drove to my buddy Mike Zingers house picked him up then headed to the ferries to get over to Vancouver. On the other side Brendan Howey who recently just got his new drivers liscence picked us up and off we went to the jumps! we met up with Eric, Gully, Aggy Mark and some other friends and shredded all day long it so rad the weather was amazing and jumps were dialed. Mike took some photos from the day check em out!

Mike Zinger photos

Have a Good one cheers, Luke!

Here is a little relaxed ride my friend Grant and I had last weekend. Jason came along and we did some filming on some single track. The rain has arrived here in Australia which is perfect cause it means i can finally build some new stuff to ride and helps make the trails all grippy again

Alan

A few weeks ago I mentioned that I destroyed my knee and it turned out that I’ve completely torn my ACL in half and fractured my Meniscus while shooting for a Race Face web edit. Booo! So now I’m awaiting surgery and getting a ton of design work done. So far, so good! Enjoy! www.taylorleigh.ca

Check out Darcy Turenne’s See Jane Jump Women’s Mountain Bike Festival! ALL WOMEN OF MTB MUST ATTEND! Should be a dope weekend! bye.

Calllliforrrniaaaa.

I am a bit of a sucker for good weather, It doesn’t have to be hot but I just hate being cold and wearing thermals and big jackets all the time. ha. Such a little whinnnner  California is totally my style, loving the hoodies!  It’s great being down here. Been flexing it up in the gym and getting some riding in. I think I am going to go shred some DH this afternoon…

I have a women’s ride day coming up on April 3rd in conjunction with Specialized and Scotts Valley Cycle Sport. Everyone is welcome! It is limited to 20 women and FREE. If you are in the Santa Cruz area give SVCS a call (831.440.9070) or stop in to sign up. There will be 10 Specialized women’s demo bikes available and a couple more men’s bikes will be available if needed. It should be a rad day…I am pumped to get some women out on bikes, teach some basic skills and give everyone the opportunity to make some new friends! Once you start riding, you can’t stop

March has just begun and there has been a lot of snow disappearing in Whistler.  I am super stoked to get out and ride even if its just into town. Last week i went down to the city with a couple of my friends to do an early season ride. So we headed to the Bridge Jumps which is a must if you are in Vancouver, it was to wet to get through the set so we drove to Port Coquitlam to ride the lafarge jumps which are also super awesome and fun to ride. I had a super fun time even though it was only forr a day. Right now I’m just preparing for the riding season and looking forward to getting new bike’s around late April.

The weather has been awesome over the past few days!

Thats all for now.

I built up my new hardtail for the season and went and shot a little video. I built it up using a lot of the new respond parts so check it out!

You can see the whole bike build here.

February and training is getting fun, well maybe not the uphill part.  I had a chance to ride DH with Aaron Gwin in Auburn and then we hit some local dirt jumps.  Not only can Aaron rip at DH he can also shred dirt jumps on a 20″.  Mitch Ropelato also took a couple of days to ride in the Gold Country.  We had a good session of DH shuttles in a a pounding rain storm in the canyon and the next day took a cross country ride with Scott Sharples, Scott is a beast when it comes to climbing hills but Mitch was hanging tight.  Mitch and I then hit up Epic indoor skate park in Roseville, CA they recently opened it up to bikes .  Earlier in the month I went down to Santa Cruz and back out to the valley to  film Fogelsode #16 with Jack, I tested out my Meta 4X I had set up for Slope Style and we had some fun.  Gym, Riding , Sleep, School, Food life is good.

These photos have been languishing on my hard drive since early January, so I thought I’d post them up. I rarely use a remote flash these days, and more rarely shoot dirt jumps, and even more rarely bring a ladder out, but here are a few shots that I liked.

Rider: Wink Grant

My Redline Proline with the new Race Face Respond cranks.

This year, I´m going to race the National champs of BMX, here in Spain, to prepare the World Cup of 4X.
I´m training a lot for adapt to the BMX bike. But I´m impressed with how quickly I´m getting used to the 20″.

My first race is in Madrid, on March 14th. I´ll inform my progress!!!!
Eva Castro