We’re here at the X-Games where Ryan and Dennis just did their qualifying runs for Park. They ended up tying for 11th, and Nyquist thinks he may have broke his foot. Not the best day for us today, but we’re hoping Ryan is alright. Dennis still has Street practice later today and we’re guessing he will be a favorite to take home a medal. We’ll see…
The X Games is on again for the 16th season. Downtown LA is the venue and Haro Bikes is being represented by Ryan Nyquist and Dennis Enarson. Both will compete in Super Park and Dennis will battle it out in the Street discipline.
We will be hitting twitter hard (@harobmx) and updating the site daily so keep up with us!
This last weekend was the opening round of BMX at the Dew Tour. Nyquist, Nastazio, Mackay, Tooker, Napolitan, and Enarson all in the house to kick the back end out in the windy city. Thursday was open qualifier where Cory, Dennis, Colin and Marcus all had a shot to qualify in dirt. The conditions couldn’t have been much worse. The dirt course could have flowed way better but the head wind was a killer. Just making it through the course in your run was more than half the battle. Nasty and Dennis were the only two to get through open qualifier for dirt. All the guys got through OQ in park qualifying pretty easily. Friday was on to the qualifying rounds for dirt and park, Nasty had two wind blown runs and ended his day early while Dennis was on deck in 11th after run #1. Being the last rider to go in run #2 it was make or break time for D. Dennis dropped in and owned the course moving all the way to 2nd to qualify for the finals later that night. While it was the hottest day of the year in Chicago, I opted to walk back to the hotel early skipping park qualifying and return for dirt finals at night. This later proved to be the best decision as right after second run of park started, the rain started dumping and thunder and lightning were hitting hard downtown Chicago. So gnarly, that the Dew Tour was forced to evacuate the grounds and hide everyone in an underground parking garage. While everyone was waiting out the rain at the event, I was at the bar having a couple cold ones waiting for the dirt finals later that night which obviously ended up being canceled. This meant that Saturday would be finals for all 3 events (Dirt, Park, Vet) weather permitting. The rest of the guys made it back to the hotel around 8:00pm and met up at the bar. Marcus had a couple brews and shortly after, Colin got a txt from Nyquist saying, “Second run of park is tonight at 9:30 – no shit.” I decided to stay at the hotel but Marcus had to go throw down some stunts after he thought the night was a wrap. Marcus, Dennis and Ronnie ended up not making it on to the final which left Nyquist as the lone Haro guy in the park final for Saturday. Dirt was scheduled to run at noon on Saturday and after Chicago got 4 inches of rain Friday night, that was not going to happen. Dirt got pushed back to 6;00pm and park finals went first. Ryan’s first run in the final was a banger and at the end of run #1 he was sitting in 3rd. In run #2, Ryan went for a 7 transfer and slid out, this put him back to 5th in the final. By the time dirt final was set to go, the wind had stopped for the first time. Dennis, in both of his runs ended up making it half way and getting stuck up on top of a step on step off crate. Not the runs Dennis wanted but after all he still ended with a big smile on his face and that’s what it’s all about!
Next weekend, Dennis and Ryan will both compete in Park at the X-Games while Dennis makes his debut to the X-Games street course. Check back here next weekend for an update!
Here is one day in the life with Ryan Nyquist at Dew Tour this past weekend in Chicago. This is day 2 out of 3.
Friday July 23, 2010
7:50am Alarm goes off in the room
8:15 Interview for Fuel TV in the lobby
8:45 Breakfast
9:45 Pedal to the event
10:15 Pad up for dirt practice
10:35 First run on dirt ($5 bet to 360 first set, first drop in bet offer by Chris Doyle. Ryan Won)
11:00 720′ed 2nd set
11:09 Pulls out of the Vert open qualifier. (Reason being- too busy to put 100% effort in 3 events)
12:26 Lunch time
Ryan gets to sit out of dirt prelims as of last years standings. Straight in the finals
1:00pm Park practice
4:30 First qualifying run on Park (not good enough for finals)
5:00 Rain comes down
9:00 Back at the park course
10:15 Second run on park. (makes finals!)
11:00 Pedal back to hotel
11:45 Dinner
1:30am Bedtime
The Dom Cathedral in the city centre of Cologne.
This past weekend Rob Darden and myself got to travel to Cologne, Germany with Cory “Nasty” Nastazio. Cory is probably one of the funniest guys to travel with. He’s always got something going on that cracks me up all day, like getting a row to himself on the 8hr flight and then a giant over weight guy spotting some open seats and sitting in the row with Cory, ruining his plan to stretch out on the flight and Speaking to anyone in Germany in pure English like he’s still in America, there’s so much going on with that guy its ridiculous.
We didn’t get our bike’s from the airline until the last day of our short trip so we had to practice real quick, qualify and ride finals in one day.
In the finals under lights, under a bridge in Cologne, Nasty put on a show for the thousands of BMX Fans. Flip turndown to massive frontflip to 360 flip the last set may have been his highlight run. Nasty had even bigger plans but when he slipped on his first run he needed two solid runs to count.
Nasty finished 3rd and he was pumped with that considering we received our bikes so late and missed 2 days of practice.
Nasty heads off to Dew 1 in Chicago on Wednesday.
Ryan Nyquist Vert Session from Haro Bikes on Vimeo.
“Ryan Nyquist signed up for Dew Tour Vert this year, making his come back to the big ramp after 9 years. Here is a session at Woodward West where he gets some moves back and has a little fun in the process.”
Filmed and edited by Jarrod Allen
Khalen Young and Nic Long just got back from the Great Salt Lake National up in Utah. Khalen finished up 3rd and 4th on the weekend, and Nic finished 6th on Sunday. These two have had a great first half to the 2010 season. Khalen with multiple podium finishes and Nic with the same, along with two wins. Both these guys are sitting in the top 5 in points as we head into the back half of the national season. Should be an interesting next few months for the title chase. Late July, Khalen will fly to South Africa to represent Australia at the UCI World Championships while Nic takes a short summer vacation and prepares for The Blackjack Nationals the first weekend of September in Reno, NV.
Haro Bikes rider Dennis Enarson won the China X Games just a few weeks ago and now wraps up the Nike contest in Barcelona, Spain.
With only a few riders to drop before a giant storm came in from the ocean, the Premlims scores were taken as final scores and with Dennis Enarson qualifying first on Saturday, he took the win!
Ive checked 2 major bmx sites this morning and they both talk about Ryan Nyquist riding the best run of his career! Check this video link here to see Ryan absolutely kill it! (Because Ryan qualified 9th, he also placed 9th in the final due to rain)
I love it when Ryan goes off!
Congrats to Ryan and Dennis for shredding in Barcelona.
This might be one of the funniest things you watch all week, Cory “Nasty” Nastazio getting personal with his neighbors horse.
Kosman put this together so nicely.
Go to BMXwonderland.com for more videos.
Check this highlights video from Barcelona, Spain at the Nike contest. Enarson qualified 1st, Nyquist sits in 9th.
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