Bikes of the FMB World Tour Riders
Brett Rheeder with his prototype Trek Slopestyle bike. -Ryan Thibault
It looks like Rheeder has learned the ways of the bike-build force from team mate, Cam McCaul. Clean! -Ryan Thibault
Bontrager bars and stem with plenty of cable for barspin and tailwhip hijinx. -Ryan Thibault
Bontrager XR1 XC tires fit the bill for fast, hard-packed courses like Claymore. -Ryan Thibault
Martin Soderstrom with his signature Specialzed P3. -Ryan Thibault
The Trixter hydraulic detangler is necessary when Martin is throwing triple tailwhips and 360 double whips in his runs at FMB contests. -Ryan Thibault
Continental rubber keeps Martin on course. -Ryan Thibault
Brayden Barrett-Hay with his Morpheus Vimana. -Ryan Thibault
68-degree head angle and laser-etched graphics. -Ryan Thibault
Inspiration at the helm. -Ryan Thibault
The Vimana can accomodate 24 or 26-inch wheels with an adjustable wheelbase range of 14.3 to 15.8 inches. -Ryan Thibault
Carson Storch with his Diamondback Dreamliner -Ryan Thibault
The Dreamliner features 4-inches of travel and the frame is made from 6061-T6 Weapons Grade Aluminum, featuring the Knucklebox suspension platform. Carson also custom-rigged his shifter. -Ryan Thibault
Diamondback Dreamliner's tapered head tube. -Ryan Thibault
Carson is so dreamy. -Ryan Thibault
Dustin Guilding with his Deity Cryptkeeper steel hardtail. -Ryan Thibault
Flossed out head-to-toe with Deity bars, stem, seat, post and grips. -Ryan Thibault
Steel is real... -Ryan Thibault
Linus Sjoholm with his YT Industries Romp. -Ryan Thibault
Suntour Duro DJ RC 20QLC air fork with 80 or 100m travel, low speed compression, rebound adjust and 1950 grams. -Ryan Thibault
The Swede threw down some serious runs at Claymore. -Ryan Thibault
Random Photo Bomb! -Ryan Thibault
Ryan Howard with his prototype Trek Slopestyle bike. -Ryan Thibault
Who does Ryan look like more? Bo or Luke Duke? -Ryan Thibault
Clean lines and full SRAM/RockShox spec for maximum R-Dog steeziness. -Ryan Thibault
Insert General Lee horn sound here... -Ryan Thibault
Dougie Fresh helped make the Claymore Challenge run! -Ryan Thibault
SPANGLER SIGHTING! Showing off his Ellsworth Momentum. -Ryan Thibault
While Spangler could basically be a father of any of the FMB tour riders, he's an elder who must be respected, haha. -Ryan Thibault
Ellsworth Momentum linkage. -Ryan Thibault
Reece Wallace representing Chromag from B.C. -Ryan Thibault
Chromag makes some sick hardtail frames, but when Reece needs a little squish, he flosses out a Black Market Killswitch for big blasting. -Ryan Thibault
RockShox/SRAM help make Reece go... -Ryan Thibault
Simon Kirchmann with his Bergamont Kiez Team bike -Ryan Thibault
Aluminum hardtail action with tapered head tube. -Ryan Thibault
Keeping it clean out back with the Kiez Team frame's replaceable dropouts. -Ryan Thibault
Par for the course with plenty of cable to keep the spins and whips coming. -Ryan Thibault
Szymon Godziek with Dartmoor Cody 2 hardtail. -Ryan Thibault
Syzmon came all the way from Poland to compete at Claymore. He runs a hydro detangler. -Ryan Thibault
Keepin' it fresh and dirt jumpy without a front brake and nice, tight cockpit. -Ryan Thibault
Tyler McCaul with his X-Fusion-equipped GT Distortion. -Ryan Thibault
The bolt in the bottom bracket shell is used to limit crank spin during tricks like T-Mac's double tailwhips. -Ryan Thibault
Factory... -Ryan Thibault
T-Mac don't need no stinking knobs! -Ryan Thibault
Teo Gustavson with his Lapierre Rapt hardtail. -Ryan Thibault
A hydro detangler and semi-intergrated head tube at the front of Teo's bike. -Ryan Thibault
Rad homage to Vision Street Wear and Teo's Suntour Duro DJ RC 20QLC fork. -Ryan Thibault
It's good to see Lapierre in the slopestyle scene! -Ryan Thibault





general lee
8/1/2012 8:37 PM
Dougie Smith for the win. Ran the Highland office, wrote the press releases, and kept the media center crew stocked with beer late into the night. All with perfect hair. Cheers!
Mumbuff
8/1/2012 12:15 PM
Love the detailed photos but colour would be cool. Especially for Rheeder's sweet ride.
konaman66
8/1/2012 11:50 AM
go randy the daddy of mtbing