Crankworx, Whistler, and the Future of Slopestyle, with Darren Kinnaird
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 21 October 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Darren Kinnaird is the general manager for the Crankworx World Tour and a board member of both the Enduro World Series and the Freeride Mountain Bike Association. We ask Darren about how Whistler has changed over the past decade, and how Crankworx has become a part of international mountain bike culture. In this episode we also talk about the possibility of slopestyle mountain biking becoming an Olympic sport, how freeride is getting more women into riding, and additional Crankworx stops in the future. For more information about Crankworx, visit crankworx.com.
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| 1:12.0 | My name is Jeff, and today my guest is Darren Kinnaird. |
| 1:16.0 | Darren is the general manager for the Crankworks World Tour, |
| 1:19.7 | and he's a board member of both the Enduro World Series |
| 1:22.4 | and the Free Ride Mountain Bike Association. |
| 1:25.1 | Thanks for joining us, Darren. |
| 1:26.8 | No problem, Jeff. My pleasure. |
| 1:28.7 | So we saw via Instagram that you recently suffered some broken bones in a nasty crash. How are you |
| 1:35.2 | healing up? Yeah, I'm actually, it's better now. It wasn't a crash. We were doing, now we were |
| 1:43.2 | doing some, we did a volunteer day doing some trail work over on Blackholm. |
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