4 groups of 4 had 6 minutes to show what they got which came down to 2 runs each and time for a last trick. It was an international field of riders who made the finals but in the end two Brits were on top followed by two riders from the Czech Republic. Maxime Charveron rode his first ever Miniramp contest and landed on 6th place right behind Daniel Dhers (Venezuela). Not bad for a
start. Ondra Slez was looking good coming straight off of a Woodward/Greenville “training session” but it was countryman Michael Beran who had him beat for that podium spot (or third place check if you will). UK bro Ben Wallace showed up with a broken heal. He was gutted to miss out on the FISE but two weeks of healing up was enough for the Amity rider to give it a try. As long as the front end of his foot was on the pedal he could still ride. The heel part hurt but his riding didn’t seem to be hindered much by the situation. Ben rode the shit out of , that mini for 2nd, right behind mini ruler Mark Webb. What can you say about Mark Webb? 900's, flip to a
bubaca barspin in, flairwhips, etc. We’ll let a video of the comp do the talking, you just sit back and enjoy the Webb show. With 5 more minutes on the clock before they were going to shut down the lights, the pros kept on riding. Ruler of the afterparty was Alex Coleborn who managed to pull off three amazing tricks:
1. Canadian toe jam to whip in.
2. Double tailwhip to toe jam.
3. Double barspin to toe jam.
Damn! That was one of a heck of a miniramp comp. Something that just happened because of the riders pushing eachother in front of that giant French crowd.
BdJ
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