This weekend for the 10th time Whistler, Canada will be the place where the best slopestyle riders including our NS Bikes team mate Sam Pilgrim (Official Sam Pilgrim Page) will be competing in the legendary Crankworx slopestyle event. This time the Red Bull Joy Ride Contest will have a slighty changed course. Add a 50000$ CDN price purse, massive number of points for the FMB World Tour Diamond event and a very close gaps in the FMB ranking and we should have an epic event with some sick tricks.

It can be argued that the action from throughout the season has been accumulating, to explode in a single spectacular competition, the one we all wait for every year, the Red Bull Joyride at Crankworx Whistler. The course has been redesigned to present the riders with new challenges and the FMB World Tour Championship title is far from certain. Sadly, the current leader, Brett Rheeder won’t be competing at Crankworx Whistler this week due to an injury. This leaves the door wide open for Sam Pilgrim sitting in 2nd and Martin Soderstrom currently 3rd, to take away big points. Saying this, let’s not forget the world’s best are coming to compete. Last year’s champion, Thomas Genon will be there raring to steal another win and despite attending fewer competitions this season, there is no chance that the FMB World Tour 2012 Champion Brandon Semenuk is going to miss Red Bull Joyride at Crankworx Whistler . Take a look at the rider line up and you will see that the odds are tight.
The stakes are sky high for the FMB World Tour championship contenders and the suspense is reaching boiling point as we enter these last few days. Obviously, the last thing you want is to hear about the gnarly action that is bound to go down, second hand from your friends or Facebook. So Tune in LIVE here on pinkbike.com, crankworx.com, fmbworldtour.com and redbull.com/bike:
Red Bull Joyride at Crankworx Whistler LIVE webcast
North American viewing time: Saturday, August 17th – 4pm PDT
European viewing time: Sunday August 18th – 1am CEST