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.

2nd place and I crashed on a flip

July 5, 2009

I am in chatel france for the big mountain slope style and man what a treat it is to ride a big mountain contest where it makes a difference if you can actually ride mountains and not be foam pit trick based. The course was high in the alpine on the side of a mountain, it was

around 1000 feet of vertical drop and it started out with a couple options that most were drops then into some berms and turns straight into the big mountain jump section where a big bike was favored then into a couple of lines that sent you off a drop that ended up into a

steep straight rocky section that had a big turn at the bottom. After that there was a section that was steep and had dozens of different choices which lasted for about 300 vertical feet which spit you out to a big road gap that had a big berm at the bottom which compressed your suspension like a sardine. It all ended with a big booter about 45 feet in size which was good for big bikes as well.

On saturday it was beauty weather and the boys were throwing their lines together and it seemed that everybody was pretty much set to go for qualification. I was late and was hurrying to get on the lift to reach the top for the start of qualification and as soon as I got on the lift the rain started to come down in sheets or so I thought, good thing for my sombrio rain jacket.

So I am huddling on the lift, waiting to reach the top I suddenly rolled over the crest and the heavens opened up and said im angry, The lightning was everywhere and thunder roled through the alps like a freight train. once I reached the start everyone was huddling around

the red bull tent and of course since the course was made of clay it was cancelled for the day.

Its sunday and the sun is shining so up we go to do 2 runs of which the best one counts.

I roll in for my first run and clean the top section with a good flip and spin off the drop that ended in a steep chute and came in a little fast and double flatted on some rocks so my first run is a bust. Being that I am a all or nothing type dude I decide to throw it all on the line and send it for my last run, I spin the top drop that was a good 20 foot with 5 feet of distance and a real steep landing it was complicate to get my head wrapped around how I was going to spin so slow while barely moving except falling vertically. I pull it off and roll into the next jump where I have been flipping it all weekend without a problem and i spin way to slow so I pul the ejection cord and roll out of it. I quickly got back up and was super pissed off I

crashed on a flip so I charge the rest of the course with a ton of speed and throw down some good tricks along the way meanwhile taking some lines that have not been ridden yet and end up in 2nd. pumped on the day and now its off to leogang for 26 trix.

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