Darren Berrecloth

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My name is Darren Berrecloth and i live in a small town called Qualicum Beach

I originally started riding bikes when i was a kid well what am I kidding everyone rode bikes when they were kids because we had no cars. The first real bike i had was a specialized rockhopper hard tail, and it didnt take me very long to destroy it, before i knew it the wheels

were bent the bars were bent and i did not have enough money to keep fixing it.

So my local bike shop convinced me to buy a bmx if I wanted to keep doing jumps So I did then I started racing and one thing led to another and here i am.

A professional freerider for specialized, travelling the planet searching for the sickest terrain and riding comps. I am currently tavelling a ton and am super excited to have the opportunities to explore the unkown and push my own limits everyday. I keep pinching myself to make sure its not a dream but yes it is reality and yes I do ride for the best bike company in the business.

hobbies; Snowboarding, snowmobiling, fishing, hunting, skiing, bmxing, motoxing, quading, wakeboarding, and building trails and stunts.

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Achievements

Monster park champion 2 times in a row
Crankwerx whistler champion
Nissan qashqai tour champion
Adidas slopestyle champion three years in a row
Voted rider of the year 2 years in a row at the bike magazine awards
Voted rider of the year 2 years in a row by freeride germany magazine.
Voted best segment of the year at the bike magazine awards
Red bull rampage I have two 3rd place finishes
2 2nd place finishes at the chatel mountain style
This current year was the first year we had a world tour and I ended up in 3rd place for 2010.
I've been featured in magazines from outside to mens fitness and of course hundreds of pages have been ran in mtb magazines across the globe
I was nominated for alternative sports person of the year at the Laureus sports awards in portugal
Voted as one of the 25 coolest people now by Outside magazine

So its been a little while

July 14, 2011

So its been a little while since I returned from france, I wasn't feeling all that hot on my bike after france since I hadn't got to ride very much. I must tell you its been a struggle but I think I'm seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. Its always hard to come back from a injury with very little time on the bike and be thrown right into the frying pan. I will say that this injury has been the hardest to come back from since it was quite a scary experience altogether, I havnt been feeling confident doing my tricks at all and with all the pressure from crankwerx right around the corner meanwhile I have been building my course on mt washington. Not alot of time to just shred like al of my fellow competitors.

I have put four solid days into the course building at mt washington and I would have had all the dirt moving completed if it wasnt for the rain that came down in colossal amounts the past few days. I had to quit working yesterday since all I was doing was creating more mud. So I decided to jump on my freshly built sx and go for a good session which I am pretty thankfull for. I find it quite funny that I turn into a depressed dork when I am not riding my bike well and feeling confident. I shredded my six pack in the yard for two hours throwing down some of my go to tricks by myself while trying to be very quiet and still on my roll in ramp cuz there was a bees nest underneath the plywood.

The my girl came and watch me ride my trails for a while at another location. I am not quite back to feeling like myself on a bike but I am that much closer. wish me luck in training and cross your fingers for good weather cuz my course really needs it.

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