King Of Dirt + Richo News

The weekend is over, and so much cool stuff went down. Almost the whole BMX team was in town including Cam Pianta, Dane Searls, David Girsch and of course local Nick Cooper for the King Of Dirt contest that goes down every year. We also had the pleasure of catching up with Beenleigh legend Richo, and are proud to announce Richo is the newest member of the Unit BMX Team.

Richo is known for his amazing style, and ability to go huge on any setup he rides, so we are stoked to have him repping Unit.

King Of Dirt is one of the last remaining Aussie dirt competitions left, and although the rider line up this year was incredible, the dirt jumps left alot to be desired. The huge amount of rain lately has made it hard to keep the jumps in prime condition, but the small size of the jumps in general had alot of riders wondering how the competition could possibly claim to be the 'KING' of dirt.

Colin Mackay took out the top spot, with some crazy 3 combos and 720's, while Dave Dilleward was a very close 2nd. Ryan Guettler also had a go, and in the 'best run counts' final format, was forced to give it everything and unfortunately went down on a midest 720.

Unit athlete Dane Searls was on fire, and although he couldn't  nail his last run perfect, still managed a strong 4th. Searlsy was throwing down all day, with massive supermans, flip no handers, dipped 3 whips and more.

Dave Girsch rode well, and nailed some bangers like a 720, 3 truck and more, but messed up a couple of heat runs, and missed out on the final by 1 place.

We will be putting an edit together this week of all the action that went down, so stay tuned to the Unit Blog for that to drop.

• By Allan H