Red Bull Round Up

FROM MOVIE SET TO MOUNTAIN TOP:

VANCOUVER, BC – July 18, 2008 – British Columbia: birth place, breeding ground and possible afterlife of freeride mountain biking. Too long for a license plate, but perfect enough reason to cull the local trails and parks to find the next great talent. On July 26 - 27, Red Bull Round Up will bring together 30 carefully selected local riders for a two-day bike battle, with Day One a street/dirt course built through a classic movie set, and Day Two featuring a slopestyle course ripping through Whistler Blackcomb Bike Park.

Red Bull Round up is the first mountain bike competition where riders will be challenged to test their skills against an extreme of elements and environments. Riders will be competing for a $6,000 prize purse, bragging rights as the next best all-around rider, and a coveted spot in Darren Berrelcoth’s annual Berrecloth Invitational.

GOT CAMERA, START ROLLING
If you’re going to round up the region’s best riders, you may as well invite the cameras. In partnership with PinkBike.com, Red Bull Round Up is placing an open call for amateur videographers to grab some dirt and shoot both days of the event. Both active and homebody editors will then have an opportunity to cut their own highlight clip using either their own footage and/or a library of community footage, uploaded by two principal event camera operators. To learn more and register, please visit redbull.com/roundup.

COURSE OF ACTION
Drawing on the vision of “The Claw” – Darren Berrelcoth - the course construction for this two-day showdown will be part mountain and part street and dirt jump. On day one the riders will teleport to a 1930s movie set in Chicago Town. Like any good script, this North Clark Street warehouse district will feature an innovative and challenging mountain bike lines through a classic backdrop. Among the features are a scaffold drop which will turn into a six-pack wood quarter into a street line with a variety of wall rides and step ups.

Leaping forward to 2008, day two will transport the riders to Whistler where they will be confronted with a timed run down Double Vision in the Whistler Blackcomb Bike Park. Following this timed run section, riders will continue through a judged area consisting of big mountain hits.

JUDGEMENT DAY

The Round Up posse of emerging riders will be judged by the sport’s established legends – Darren Berrecloth, Robbie Bourdon, Tyler Morland and Dave Watson - on overall style, technique and time.

Red Bull Round Up is free to the public:
Chicago Town Movie Set – July 26, 6 – 8 pm PST
Whistler Blackcomb Bike Park - July 27, 1 – 3 pm PST

For more information visit www.redbull.ca/roundup. Following the event, hi-res images will be available following the event at redbull-photofiles.com.

MEDIA PREVIEW
Media are invited to check out the Chicago Town course as both the Round Up amateurs and judges take a run at the Set on Friday, July 25 from 4 – 9 pm PST.