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 yah in europe again hey!

April 12, 2010

Here in Vienna at the air king now and as usual the weather is iffy. But the jumps are fun and all the boys were throwing down. Since the weather was a maybe for rain on sunday we decided to do qualifying and finals on saturday. So that we did, I ended up with a 4th place in qualifying with a run that went like this.

360 off the drop to a tail whip on the first jump to a regular 360 on the second follwed by a switch 360 on the third finishing off with basting the quarter.

Happy with my run I really wasn't too upset when the skies unleashed and brought down the rains.

We all awaited wondering if the skies would clear since we had tarped the jumps they would be fine if the rain stopped. 1 Hour later the rains let up And we got underway with the finals.

Everyone was riding really well since the jumps were fairly small and straight forward it was easy to get your banger tricks fairly dialled.

some of the standout riders were pilgrim, Amir, soderstrom, and plenty of lesser known europeans riding very strong.

It was my turn and my run went like this. 360 table off the drop to superman tail whip on the first set, to 360 table on the second set, to a switch 360 tailwhip. I was super stoked on the run except that on the 360 whip I crashed and smacked my head. So with me whenever I smack my head hard or lightly my vision gets fuzzy for an hour then comes back. My optometrist says it just happens to some people and some not. So yah I was fine but I didnt want to try risking to smack my head again, so I sat the finals out, had i stomped my 360 whip I would have ended in 3rd.... Oh well better luck next time.

Back to north america tomorrow

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