I just found this video of Casey hitting up the first two huge jumps in the new boneyard.  Sick!  Casey has been riding alot and prepping for the Goat Style event next weekend as well as the Claymore Challenge the following weekend.  Keep your eyes on the lookout for more from Casey soon!

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I have a heard time determining the best clothing to select for my ride.

If you are like me, this video could help!

Yesterday on Canada Day our grassroots rider Sam Dueck made POD on Pinkbike.com and today he's up there again for VOD (video of the day) with a video of him killing it on the dj's!  Check it out for some super rad spinning & flipping action!  Way to giv'er Sam!

I received this email form Tommy titled "thanks for a sick bike." It always makes all of us here feel all warm and fuzzy inside when we get these!

"Hi, my name is Tommy and I'm from Alaska and just bought your new Covert through The Bicycle Shop. It is such a sick bike. It does exactly what you said it would. I just wanted to say you guys did a great job on this bike.

In the pic I'm at the top of one of our local dh runs, but instead of shuttling up, I decided to earn it and the bike climbs like no other. Anyways, thought you would want some feedback. Great bike!"

Thanks Tommy, from everyone here!

Downhill mountain biking is nothing new. Chances are, you're far too young to know anything about this, but the origin of our sport was downhill riding, albeit on dirt roads in California. By the time I got my first mountain bike over 15 years ago, the sport was already twice that old. While it's wildly debated as to which person "invented" the mountain bike, it's obvious that it's always been about having a good time with your bros.

In the words of Gary Fisher, "Cycling is this beautiful connector between what you need to do, what you have to do, and just going out and having fun."

Word.  Here's a clip from the Klunkerz movie that gives you a hint of what it was all about back in the day.

Crested Butte MSC race was two weekends ago and they had a cool new course this year. Fortunately for me I have a light downhill bike with some sick parts, it had some good fund tech riding as well as a lot of pedaling, the most I have seen in a race this year.

 Cadenced works Ti bolts certainly helped with some weight shaving as well as my other components, Deity were strong and reliable as usual with an awesome styl to add. I qualified 18th in pro men, and ran 20th in finals while running 9 seconds faster in finals. Something I have and am learning is how to work with the seeding runs. This being my rookie year, seeding runs are a new concept to me. As always i am super greatful and excited to say thanks to my sponsors, Transition Factory, Deity Components, MRP chainguides, Cadence Works Hardware, and UTI Graphics. PLease check them all out for some sweet parts! Also thanks to Vastaction.com for the sweet photos for this update. you can check out these sponsors links via web.mac.com/ccambern if you need the links.

Sam Dueck is truly an amazing rider, Sam has some of the coolest looking tricks of any rider I have seen, especially he no cans. Here is one that got Sam POD today. Click Here

No Can

Our next featured dealer is all the way over on the East Coast in Berlin Connecticut.  I shipped The Cutting Edge their first Transition order in January of 2007. 

from left to right: Ritchey (T.O.P.), Marc (Blindside), Alex (Dirtbag), Matt (Preston), Lars (Blindside), Eric Z (BottleRocket), Dave (T.O.P.)

Craig is the owner and has this to say about the shop.  "For over twenty years, The Cutting Edge in Berlin, CT has provided our customers with a unique and innovative product mix.  We specialize in snowboards, skateboards, BMX and mountain bikes. The Cutting Edge provides professional service and expert repairs.  We have a great selection of parts, accessories and protective gear. we strive to have the necessities in stock at all times.

The Cutting Edge crew is always on the lookout for progressive, top quality products. We are proud to welcome Transition Bikes to our mix of quality bicycles! Our success comes from a passionate dedication to what we do. All of our employees love to ride and posses hands on knowledge of what we sell.

Shop Crew Member Amanda

The shop sponsors a local BMX race team and has lead group mountain bike rides on Wednesday evenings for 15 years.

Through the years we have always been guided by this simple maxim: treat every customer the way you would like to be treated.

So, if you are looking for a bike shop with heart and soul, drop in and check out The Cutting Edge at 146 mill St, in Berlin, Connecticut."

We love these guys!  Make sure to check out this shop.  They keep their floors stocked with all the latest Transition frames, complete bikes, and parts.

Last week, 13 year old grom ripper Harrison Mendel came down to check us out and ride our factory dirt jumps, as well as some dirt jumps at the Bellingham civic park. Here's a vid he put together with some awesome riding!

Just whipped up a vid to show yall how our ship floats over here at Transition Bikes!

Last week we were proud to announce availability of our freshly revamped Covert bike.  We wasted no time in unveiling these beauties and Kyle's bike was the first to be built up and ready for the trails.  Since then, we've been working overtime getting these bikes out the door and in the shops, so if you wanna see one in person, check out your local Transition dealer or just be on the lookout on your local trails or upcoming events like the Hood River Super D this weekend in Oregon.  Cam Burnes, our US Dealer Sales Manager and star of our video, will be in Hood River this weekend racing the Super D on his Covert alongside some other Covert-equipped racers from Hood River's Transition dealer, Dirty Fingers Bike Shop.

Click full screen and enjoy!

Last Saturday was the annual Tanner Jeans Bike Rodeo in Snoqualmie. The Tanner Jeans Memorial Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 2004 to memorialize Tanner Nathaniel Jeans – a local Snoqualmie boy that died in a tragic accident while riding his bicycle. The Dirt Corps volunteers each year at this community event sponsored by the local police to promote bicycle safety, provide free helmets and do basic bicycle maintenance to get the kids ready to ride over the coming summer. Over 1,600 kids showed up at the event this year to learn about bicycle safety and get their bikes ready for summer riding.

License and registration little lady.

The Dirt Corps is in charge of making sure each bike is mechanically sound – loose bolts tightened, tire inflated to proper psi and any easy fixes are performed on the spot while the kids and parents take notes about maintaining their bicycles. The most common problem was underinflated tires and misaligned brakes. But everyone once in awhile you’d get a bike with backwards forks or the occasional English bike that was fabricated by alien forces that defy all common logic.

Tyler attempts to explain why Bubble gum and wire wont fix his derailleur

Tom Kept getting knocked down by the kids.

In addition to the bike maintenance station the Dirt Corps also hosted a small skills park and a demo jump set up for our riders to strut their stuff. At one point during the demo we had two trucks between the ramps with riders going big and the crowd cheering them on. Fox 13 shot some good footage and aired it on Saturday evening.

Team Rider Chase Schmidt Jumps the gap of death

Jimmy Helps out with the exit strategy.

Good times! Good times!

I have been getting some emails from Harrison lately, and over the last couple months he has really been improving. For 13 this kid has some great style and a nice bag of tricks. Gotta give a big thanks to Mom and Dad for letting him build some jumps near the house ;) Keep up the good work Harrison!

Should Buzz'n

No foot Can

Style'n the tuck no hander

Just received an update from our Polish rider "Jaws" Looks like he is having an soild season. Check out the video to see what Jaws has been up to on his Dirtbag.

The new Coverts showed up yesterday, and I gotta say, they are soooo bling!  Allen Young from Drop-N-Zone was here getting a frame powdercoated next door, and started the build on Kyle's bike.  Kyle, Sam, Cam, and I finished it up in about an hour.  The bike, as shown below, looks awesome and weighs in at 31 lbs with our stock build kit, featuring a Fox RP23 rear shock and 36 Talas fork, along with our Revolution AM wheelset, Elixir brakes, and Stylo Triple crankset.

Below are the three frame colors available.  Get 'em while they're hot!

It's been nine months living with the Syren – it's been magical. After wasting years of precious trail time on a man's bike, I'm kicking myself I didn't get one sooner. After a day's shredding at the awesome Silver Star B.C., our guide, host and chauffeur for the week, (the infamous) Johnny Smoke suggested I should think about getting a women's-specific bike as my then current bike...naming no names...was holding me back something rotten! So the next day, with horrendous images of a pink ladies' cruiser with leather handlebar tassels etched in my mind, we headed off to CyclePath in Kelowna, and that's where I met the bike of my dreams...my pearly white Syren.

By that afternoon, with my holiday travel money severely depleted but still enough for some sweet Okanagan cider, Johnny had built her up into full working order. All those days being a wrench-monkey for Barb had paid off and we were straight out the door and hitting the Builders trails in Westbank. I was loving the new confidence-inspiring ride...big smile from top to bottom as I started hitting stunts left, right and center...well a few more than I'd done a few days before!

Day 2...morning breaks, but sadly for my other half, Oli, that wasn't the only thing! With my new rig lapping up the bumps and inspiring me to push the envelope, Oli, my other half pushed it a bit too far on a 7ft step-down and ended up in Kelowna General with a broken left humerus (and no, he's not on Transition tubing!).

But after an afternoon in hospital with a broken but morphined-up boyfriend in tow, I didn't want to stop riding, so after a day of convalescing in Westbank, we all headed out to Oliver (no, Oli didn't see the humorous side of it either...pun intended!), to hook up with Transition royalty in the form of Sir Brad Walton and a bunch of other riders, for a spot of backcountry heaven. In short, Oliver rocked!

For the rest of our holiday we travelled as planned – despite Oli's broken arm – onwards to Whistler, where the Syren really shone. It was eating up all the trails and as the Oli was out of action, it left just me, the bike and the helmet camera to discover the Mecca of mountain biking. It was a whole other world and I was loving it thanks to the new steed. Every turn, berm and table was so much easier, more controllable and so much more enjoyable on a rig that fitted me! It had to be the Syren as I wouldn't have even contemplated riding some of the trails on my old Ellsw...umm, the other one! The Syren was my long lost friend and we were having the time of our lives on the big mountain – sadly though, there was no one to take any action photos as I was riding on my own for the week we were out there!

Back in the UK, I spent the rest of the summer riding local spots like Chicksands, Penshurst, Swinley and the Bull Track, but there's nothing like the Canada flow...just short courses, a little uphill (ugh!), and certainly no chairlifts, so it was really good to find that the Syren wasn't averse to a bit of uphill and not just a ladies' gravity rig. Towards the end of the year, a fellow female gravity junkie friend Beth was so convinced of the Syren's performance after taking mine out for a run, that she convinced her other half that a Syren would be good for her too. So, on Christmas day, low and behold there were now two Syrens on the Chicksands scene!

Come the British winter, I had a call from a friend who was writing an article for a UK women's health magazine 'Zest', who were doing a feature on bike tribes. Apparently I was perfect to represent the 'extreme' end of the scene, but explaining that 'free ride' was a state of mind and not just two words was lost on them, but hey, at least I could pose with my rig, freshly fitted with matching pink Oury grips at the photoshoot!

To be totally honest, the Syren has given me so much more confidence over my old bike, so much so that I've even started to hit the amateur racing circuit too. This season I've entered two amateur DH races, notching up one win at PORC in Kent and one...well, let's just say the other girls were a lot younger than me!

Fort William... here I come!

Katie Hayes was recently  interviewed on MarthaHucker.com and talks about the love of her life- her Transition Syren!  Even better, she has a great vid posted online to showcase her riding her hometown trails around Whitefish, Montana.

"...that’s the Syren and I love it. I went from a Kona Stinky to this bike and the differences in having a women’s specific ride are incredibly apparent. The Syren frame is shorter, making the bike more compact and easier to move around. It is a six inch bike, but feels great shredding anything from tight and tech to fast and jumpy." full interview HERE

Here's the vid so enjoy!

Katie Hayes Promo from 406 Productions on Vimeo.

Freeride Foundation chose Transition Rider Steph Nychka as their June featured rider. There is a nice write up as well as some great shots of Steph killing it on her bike from over the years.

"Stephanie Nychka is one of those riders who’s simply inspiring. She’ll hit jumps and stunts with the same confidence and aggression as the pro guys, and she bounces back from setbacks and injuries a stronger rider than ever. She created and produced the two SlopeSistair women’s slopestyle events in 2005 and 2006, and is in the midst of preparations for the 3rd SlopeSistair, which will be held at The Ranch in Grand Junction, CO on August 28-30, 2009."

To read the complete artical click HERE

Steph Nychka

Just watched the Whats New Trailer, and it was off the chain!! Some shots in there of Frankie Vass on his Transition TOP. I cant wait to see the finished product of this video.