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 since hong kong....

March 8, 2010

So its been since hong kong that I have been able to get to my email and man oh man what that a adventure or what.

Since i wrote last I had a 10 hour layover in hong kong and all I knew was that someone was going to pick me up in kathmandu.

After my 10 hour layover I jumped on another plane for another 8 hours of fight time, I was then greeted by laurent, one of the organizers of the event and he said here is your jeep you will be getting a ride to pokhara. Ok so I am extremely tired after 30 hours of travel time! and

he says no you have to drive through the night, ok then 5 hours later on a super bumpy road with no sleep we arrive to meet all the frenchies just waking up and meeting us for breakfast.

So I am now at 36 hours travel time and I'm informed that we have another flight in one hour

grrreat more travelling we get on a super sketchy plane and I'm also informed that we are landing in one of the most sketchiest airports in the world at 8500 feet high in the himalayan mountains.

The plane ride was unreal, towering peaks of the Anapurna mountain range whizzed by as we ascended up this narrow canyon. We land in a tiny village set amongst the largest mountains I have ever seen. Did I mention its been over 40 hours since I've seen a bed. Bikes were built

up and bags packed up for the journey which was a 2 hour bike ride up the canyon to another small village, just for a warm up for the legs yikes.

It was a beautiful ride and I was so tired I was beside myself. I got to the little hotel finally and I had to change rooms since my room smelled the same as the washroom that was next to it.

We ate dinner mostly comprised of carbs and then after lots of fluids I finally hit the hay, after 52 straight hours of hellish travel.

It's safe to say I slept like a baby.

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