R-Dog – The man who can’t ride in a straight line.

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This just came in from SRAM and we thought it was too good to keep hold of. See R-Dog (Ryan Howard) on his home trails in Santa Cruz. The guy can’t ride in a straight line to save his life.

You might be surprised to know that the rider who has become synonymous with stylish whips made his first-ever trip to Whistler to play hockey. That’s right, recent winner of the Oceana Whip-Off Championships at Crankworx Rotorua, Ryan Howard, wasn’t always the master of two wheels we now know as “R-Dog.” Lucky for us, though, R-Dog found mountain bikes, the Aptos Post Office jumps (RIP) and the incredible trails of Santa Cruz County, California. Just try to be uninspired by this edit of R-Dog shredding a bit of his home loam.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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Comments (5)

    hodge1365hodge1365 April 2, 2015 at 8:38 am

    That’s a Motor bike surely…..

    bwakelbwakel April 2, 2015 at 9:51 am

    How come he has so much time to think when he’s in the air? If I get six inches off the ground, all my concentration is on how many bones I’m going to break if I land on that rock or clip that branch or catapult off that root!

    sandwichsandwich April 2, 2015 at 11:54 am

    Like bawl I worry about bike and me getting damaged when airborne. Shame he was dragging the brakes to get some of those rooster tails on the combo turns. Deliberate trail damage is not cool. (Being able to see the rear tyre tread pattern stationary at a couple of points drifting requires a moving tyre).

    sandwichsandwich April 2, 2015 at 11:54 am

    sorry Bwakel autocorrect loused up your username.

    SamSam April 2, 2015 at 2:21 pm

    I’d like to think I ride like that

    ….

    but it wouldn’t be true 🙁

    The guy’s a genius.

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