MSR brings home medals at X-Games 16

X-Games
16 is over and MSR was in full effect bringing home 4 medals
throughout the weekend of intense competition. With over 130,000
people attending and ample hours of TV time, this is a huge event for
the MSR brand. The crew was on hand taking care of all our riders
making sure their 2011 gear looked just right. We had a total of 11
riders wearing MSR, MSR/Metal Mulisha and MSR/Rockstar gear as they
went for Gold in their respected events.

In
Super X Men’s, both MSR's
Dan Reardon and Nick Wey rode through the sun and dust to eventually
finish 5^th
and 7^th.
In Women’s Super X MSR's
Tatum Sik
ended up 6^th
while last year's Bronze medalist Elizabeth Bash had a rough go and
ended up 9^th.
Unfortunately Chris Ridgway tweaked his knee in practice and was
unable to defend his gold medal in the Super X adaptive.

In
Friday’s best trick, Taka pulled a huge
backflip-seat-grab-indian-air, to bring home the Bronze medal while
debuting the new
MSR/Metal Mulisha Transfer gear. Taka also rode in the freestyle
event where he failed to make the finals after what most thought was
a great run.

Brian
Deegan brought home 2 silver medals in the Rally events after only
practicing a few weeks in advance. Deegan is looking to go for gold
next year in both of these events. Brian also competed in Speed &
Style where fellow Mulisha rider, Twitch, eventually knocked him out.
MSR's
Ronnie “Kung Fu” Faisst had the most eventful race of all when he
went head-to-head with Twitch in the Bronze medal round. Twitch
crashed, Faisst stalled and both did not hit the final jump until
Deegan ran out on the track to let them know it was not over. The
Staples center was going completely crazy and both riders ended up
getting the Bronze medal.

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