NS Bikes riders at White Style 2012 - Day 2 by ns-bikes

Altough Sam Pilgrim did not win the White Style event for the 3rd consecutive time everyone who came to Leogang to see the worlds top riders in action had nothing to complain about. After amazing performance in the qualification round and grabbing the top spot Sam was on a great way to get a hattrick. Unfortunatelly during his 2nd run he crashed at the first jump while trying to do a front flip.

Backflip no hander on the last massive double by Sam Pilgrim.

In the end Sam took 6th place but he was also happy that his good old friend - Sam Reynolds finally won a world class event. The level of this years competition was crazy. Sam Reynolds ended his winning run with a massive double backflip on the last double. This really shows that riders will have to kick it up a notch and pull insane tricks to get themselves on the top spots in the 2012 events.

Sam Pilgrim with a nice backflip from a massive drop.

Sam Pilgrim in a nice backflip from a massive drop.

Final standings of Monster Energy White Style 2012:

1 Sam Reynolds Polygon GBR
2 Martin Söderström Specialized SWE
3 Antoine Bizet Kona FRA
4 Jakub Vencl Rose Versand CZE
5 Teo Gustavson Mongoose SWE
6 Sam Pilgrim NS Bikes GBR
7 Thomas Zejda Dartmoor CZE
8 Thomas Genon UMF BEL
9 Linus Sjöholm YT Industries SWE
10 Bienvenido Alba YT Industries ESP
...
17 Bartek Obukowicz NS Bikes POL

Bartek Obukowicz during the qualification round. It's getting darker.

Our second NS Bikes team rider - Bartek Obukowicz did also really good. He ended up on 17th place and got some experience from his first White Style event.

This will not be the last snowy event for Sam Pilgrim. In less then 2 weeks he is to compete in Teva Winter Games in Vail, Colorado in USA.

Here is another set of photos from qualification round and finals of the 2012 Monster Energy White Style: