Bongo Bongo Freeride-Trail

Bikepark Leogang news from May 22nd 2009:

Ride the Bongo Bongo and share your point of view

– Bikepark Leogang’s brand new freeride trail, the Bongo Bongo, is now open to the public. If you want to capture our bike park action on tape, you can also rent a helmet cam at the Bike Shop from now on. Enjoy!

Finally it’s done: Everybody can shred Bikepark Leogang’s Bongo Bongo trail. The trail splits up from the well-known “Flying Gangster” freeride trail. Right before the big, Kona bridge, which is located half way down the existing freeride trail, you have to make a sharp turn to the left to enter the Bongo Bongo. The masters of course construction, the „HU Cooperation“, did a great job. The Bongo Bongo looks a bit like a “small BC” trail, featuring a whole bunch of northshore elements, bridges and dirt berms. All located in Leogang’s forest. It’s your personal guarantee to enjoy a lot of flow including small jumps and gaps. The Bongo Bongo is not that technically challenging, but you should be a “little more experienced” rider. Absolute beginners might have some problems with the new trail – especially at wet conditions. To get a first impression, what the trail looks like, please watch a short movie on: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l97-ifkbtCE. The short clip shows about 80 percent of the Bongo Bongo and was filmed, when it was still under construction. What you don’t see in the video: a northshore corkscrew obstacle including a small river gap that marks the end of the trail. To get some more impressions about the Bikepark Leogang in general, please watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2byV0NfeuGU. This footage was taken during the Opening Weekend and includes small segments of the Bongo Bongo, the Flying Gangster and the Speedster (DH-track).

If you can’t wait to ride all these trails and at the same time want to share your good times in the bike park, feel free to rent a ContourHD or POV.1.5 helmet cam at the shop located next to the valley gondola station. A special CamTerminal is waiting for you to burn your runs on a DVD after you filmed each run with the helmet cam. The fees are 25 Euros for two hours and 50 Euros for the whole day. Not that much for having a unique souvenir to share with the whole world online later.

If there are any media related requests concerning the Bikepark Leogang, please feel free to contact high@rasoulution.com

DANKE fürs Mitmachen! Die Verlosung erfolgte im Rahmen des Out of Bounds Weekends.

Gewinnspiel zu Gunsten von Wings for Life der Stiftung zur Heilung von Querschnittslähmung

Hauptpreis:

ein Kona Stinky Out of Bounds Mountainbike im Wert von € 2.199.

2.Preis:

Eine Woche für 2 Personen in Leogang inkl. Übernachtung & Frühstück, Lifttickets für den Bikepark Leogang und Saalbach Hinterglemm, einer kompletten Ausstattung (Kona Leihbikes & Protektoren) und einem Fahrtechniktraining.

3.Preis:

Eine Sommersaisonkarte für den Bikepark Leogang und Saalbach Hinterglemm

GEWINNER

1. + 2. Preis à Maurizio Di Berardino

3. Preis à Andreas Stöffler

Es wurden Losnummern gezogen – Maurizio di Berardino wurde 2x gezogen (= Zufall)

Mehr als 2,7 Millionen Menschen sind derzeit aufgrund einer Verletzung des Rückenmarks an den Rollstuhl gefesselt. Jedes Jahr erhalten rund 130.000 Menschen die erschütternde Diagnose „Querschnittslähmung“, zumeist nach Verkehrs- und Haushaltsunfällen.

Das Ziel von Wings for Life ist klar definiert und lautet: Querschnittslähmung heilbar machen.

Zur Realisierung dieser Vision hat es sich die österreichische Stiftung zur Aufgabe gemacht, die Forschungsprojekte der weltweit renommiertesten Spitzenwissenschafter auf dem Gebiet der Rückenmarksforschung finanziell zu fördern.

Das Gewinnspiel ist eine Initiative des Bikepark Leogang in Kooperation mit Kona Bicycles.

Kona unterstützt auf internationaler Ebene insgesamt über 20 Bikeparks, darunter auch den Bikepark Leogang. Dieser verfügt über acht unterschiedliche, voll präparierte Downhill-Strecken, die alle Könnerstufen abdecken. Der Bikepark Leogang bietet sowohl für Familien als auch Mountainbiker, die den ultimativen Adrenalinkick suchen, das richtige Angebot. Aufgrund des ausgewogenen Programms wurde der Bikepark Leogang auch mit dem Siegel „Kona Groove Approved Bikepark“ ausgezeichnet (www.konabikeparks.com).

Mit dieser Aktion möchten der Bikepark Leogang und Kona Bicycles ganz gezielt mehr Aufmerksamkeit für die Stiftung Wings for Life generieren, deren Ziel es nicht nur ist, Querschnittslähmung heilbar zu machen, sondern auch entsprechende Präventivmaßnahmen zu entwickeln, um das Verletzungsrisiko im Sport zu minimieren.

Ready – Set – Go

Bikepark Leogang launches the season 2009

Leogang, May 15th 2009 – The Bikepark Leogang celebrates the season start during the opening weekend from May 21st to 24th. Perfectly shaped bike park trails are waiting for you. Enjoy freeriding at its best including a special discount on lift tickets: 15 percent off.

Just a few days left until the long waiting period for the beginning of the bike season 2009 is over. From May 21st until May 24th, the opening weekend is celebrating the start of this year’s season. All gravity fans have to be prepared to put on their protection armor and bike clothing to obey the call of first class freeride action.

Since eight years, the Bikepark Leogang stands for innovative and varied bike tracks for every kind of riding skills. This year, the experienced course builders of the „HU Cooperation“ rebuilt and shaped the trail so they will appear in new glory at the opening weekend. The whole bike park, including the freeride track „Flying Gangster“ and the „Lumber Jack“ northshore trail have been pimped with some new details. A broad bandwidth of tracks is waiting for you. To get more information about the different trail options the Bikepark Leogang offers, please visit: www.bikepark-leogang.com. The brand new bike clothing and gear of the season 2009 is already waiting for you in the bike park shop.

Because of a hard and long-lasting winter season, the upper section of the „Hangman“ single trail above the middle station will stay closed for the first days. But all the other tracks will be in perfect shape and a special discount of 15 percent on every ticket is promising an awesome opening weekend.

The deals don’t end here. Season passes to Bikepark Leogang (valid also in Saalbach Hinterglemm at Kohlmaisgipfelbahn, Reiterkogelbahn, Zwölferkogelbahn, Schattberg X-press) are on sale for 204 Euros, and GraVity season tickets, covering all leading Austrian bike parks (Bikepark Leogang, Bikecircus Saalbach Hinterglemm - including adidas Freeride & X-Line trails – as well as Mountainbikepark Wagrain, Bikepark Zauberg Semmering and Planai-BikePark) are only 320 Euros.

Besides the potential savings, the new additions to the park and the opening weekend, the upcoming events also promise lots of fun and action:

The Gap Camp, June 27th- 28th and September 12th-13th:

A two days freeride camp offered to beginners and advanced riders under supervision of the sports scientist and multiple Austrian downhill champion Michi Gölles.

Out of Bounds Weekend July 9th to 12th:

The legendary Out of Bounds weekend in Leogang emerged to a fantastic freeride festival including the 26TRIX contest (one of world’s most popular dirt jump events), a tour stop of the iXS European Downhill Cup and the Austrian National Downhill Championships as well as an expo-area, BBQs, live gigs and much more.

FREERIDE magazine’s youth camp August 2nd to 8th:

Big names of the freeride scene stand for individual practice possibilities and professional supervising. Among the pro coaches are Timo Pritzel, Rob-J and Tibor Simai. Get more information at www.go-alps.de.

Closing Weekend October 24th to 26th:

Year by year the closing weekend builds a glorious end of the bike park season including the traditional „Bikeabtrieb“ with reduced prices for the lift ticket and special offers in the bike park shop.

For any further information please check out the Bikepark Leogang website: www.bikepark-leogang.com.

If there are any media related requests concerning the Bikepark Leogang, please feel free to contact high@rasoulution.com.

The 18 minutes video highlight clip of the Nissan White Style presented by Kona is online now. Watch Trond Hansen winning the one and only winter slopestyle contest in Leogang, Austria.

Beside Trond’s runs, qualifyings’ and finals’ best tricks - like the huge 360° from Benny Korthaus on the big drop - can be seen, too. Get stoked by Andreu Lacondeguy`s double backflip attempt or just enjoy the various interviews of Europe’s best freeriders.

The whole clip is being streamed on konaworld.tv:

www.konaworld.tv