The new 2012 Haro MTB Range has hit the store floors, so you can get out on a brand new rig!!!

The Flightline Series returned bigger and better than ever LITERALLY! With a new 29er range edition!

Or if your not keen to hit the trails, we have something for the urbanites too!

Head in and see your local dealer to see them all in the flesh!

Ever wondered how your Haro would look in a new Honda Jazz....?

You don't have to wonder anymore!

Turns out The Flightlines aren't only our favourite, but the chosen bike of the guys at Honda too!! 

Most bicycle companies don't generally advertise on network TV due to the high costs associated with the production of a commercial as well as the price of the TV spots themselves. We're no exception...too rich for our blood...but just in case a suitcase full of money shows up on our doorstep sometime soon, we have a commercial ready to roll!

Adrian Syben, a friend of Greg Watts, has a video production company called Umlaut Productions. He'd like to start producing commercials, so he decided to make Greg the subject of his first project.

"I had been wanting to do this commercial for a while," said Adrian. "After reading the Decline interview with Greg (whom I knew from growing up in the same area), I knew that he would be the perfect rider to bring a certain degree of professionalism to this video that I would not have been able to get from anyone else."

Adrian is a graduate of the UCSC Film and Digital Media program.

So check out Adrian's first commercial project we've dubbed "Greg Watts Daydreaming". If you see it on your local TV station, you'll know that suitcase of cash showed up...

Greg Watts Daydreaming from Haro Bikes MTB on Vimeo.

Greg is finishing the season strong with a win this weekend at AT's showdown at the Cow Palace in San Francisco, USA.

He did way too much stuff to write in this update, but on of the crazier things he did was ride half the course underhanded, ending with an underhanded flipwhip, which I'm pretty sure has never been done before and is absolutely insane. He took the win by just destroying the course and was pretty much untouchable. Greg says this was one of the sickest contests of the year, both for the level of riding and how good the course was. Oh and to finish things off he hopped on his 110 mini dirtbike and flipped the big trick jump on it, just to put the nail in the coffin!!

Unfortunately Phil had crank/bb troubles during qualifying and couldn't get his bike fixed in time to make it to the finals. His buddy David who is now riding a Haro was riding really strong, this was his first mtb contest ever and he represented well, flipping and whipping his way through the course with some big flairs at the last quarterpipe.

You can check out a bunch of pictures of Greg on this Pinkbike post.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/AT-Showdown-finals-2010.html

Also this video has most of Greg's gnarly stuff in it, along with a great shot on the webpage of Greg backflip barspinning the huge stepdown!!
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/at-showdown-finals-video-2010.html

Well a couple weeks ago Porter went on a trip to Jackson Wyoming in the US to ride the famous Teton Pass trails before the snow closed them for the year. Turns out they picked the right weekend because the very next week a big storm came through and snowed them in for the winter! These trails are really unique because they were built illegally on forest service land, and then they were legalized and brought under control of the forest service. Now the same people are building and maintaining the trails, but they get paid by the gov't to do it! Amazing! Anyway the trip was amazing, Jackson is a really fun town with a great local crew, the trails are out of hand fun, and the trails all end at a sweet bar so you can grab tacos and a beer after riding! Enjoy the video!

Eric Porter's road trip to Jackson WY from Haro Bikes MTB on Vimeo

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Haro Trials, Freerider, and Stunt Rider Mike Steidley is the overall winner of the 2010 North American Trials Series, crowning him the number one trials rider in North America, bringing the count to nine career titles.

Steidley took home the gold medal in his most recent round of competition in Arkansas at Devil's Den State Park and locked in the overall series Championship Title. The 2010 North American Trials Series (NATS) events also took place in Colorado, New York, Tennessee, Minnesota, British Columbia, Seattle, West Virginia, Missouri, and Toronto.

This is the ninth National title for in his career since he had his first professional win at Mount Snow back in 1998 where he won the 1998 NORBA Junior National Champion title. Since moving to the pro class, Steidley has obtained 16 regional championships and holds NORBA National Championship titles in both 2007 and 2008. Steidley also holds the 2003, 2004, 2006, 2008, and 2009 North American Trials Championship titles.

Eric Porter heads way, way, way up north to Alaska to do some riding with his Gravity teammates Chris Van Dine and Kelly McGarry. Wish this video was an hour longer...great riding and beautiful terrain. Good stuff!

Eric Porter - Alaska 2010 from DH Productions LLC on Vimeo.

Phil busted his foot way back in April...needless to say, he's been jonesin' to get back on the bike. He's finally getting all healed up so here's a little video of him shredding some of his local ride spots.

Phil will be competing at AT's Showdown at the San Francisco Bike Expo on November 6th.

Thanks to Tony Archibeque for putting together this clip for us!

Videographer Justin Olsen caught up with Greg Watts at the Red Bull Rampage to get his take on his first experience competing there, what went into choosing his line, and what bike he was on.

"I crashed in my first run, so I took my second run as a safety run and just got down to the bottom", said Watts. "I wanted to get some points for the FMB world tour...I ended up 7th in that".

Next stop for Watts will be at AT's Jam at the San Francisco Bike Expo on November 6th in the US.

We've got two Greg Watts contest videos for you so we'll just call it a double feature! One video was shot at Kokanee Crankworx and the other was shot at the Goatstyle Jam.

So go grab a bowl of popcorn and a brewski, kick back, and enjoy the show!

Greg Watts Crankworx 2010 presented by HARO bikes from peter bailey on Vimeo.

Watts shreddage at Goatstyle from Haro Bikes MTB on Vimeo.

A couple of guys from the Gravity team made their way over to Malaga, Spain in February. Check out the video, it was a really great trip, and despite the rain we got almost every day and the flooding, we still managed to fit in lots of good riding. Here's the video, enjoy!

Gravity - Malaga, Spain Team Trip 2010 (Part 1 of 2) from ridegravity on Vimeo.

Well another Crankworx is in the bag now, with our man Greg Watts making the super finals again! Unfortunately they ran things super fast after the first 2 final runs, so Greg didn't have time to get a new tire on his bike after a major blowout sustained by landing on a sharp rock off the 20' x 30' massive judges tower drop in his second run. Because of this he ended up in 7th place overall, which isn't too bad all things considered, but he was definitely gunning for the win to defend his title from last year. He rode great though anyway, here's a few photos of him riding and on the jumbotron in front of the tens of thousands of screaming fans in the village. I also threw in a couple photos from his best trick contest win.

Haro-sponsored 4x/DH pro Martin Ogden was crowned the UK National Champion in Master's 4X this past weekend at Southwest Extreme aboard his Haro Thread. He also won all 6 races in the national series with the National Championships being the series finale.
Nice work, Oggy!

Here's a short video of Greg Watts during practice at Crankworx CO. Awesome!

Watts ended up pulling a 4th place finish in the slopestyle finals yesterday. Next stop: Whistler Crankworx so he can try to defend his 2009 title!

Greg Watts Rules, 2010 Crankworx Colorado Practice... - More Mountain Bike Videos

Greg Watts wins session 1 of the VW Best Trick Showdown at Kokanee Crankworx with an amazing backflip double tailwhip combo.

The action continues up in Whistler with Greg trying to defend his title in the Monster Energy Slopestyle contest on Saturday at 5:30pm.

New Haro Range Out!

Check out the all new Haro range! We’ve had a huge revamp of the Flightline’s with an all new frame and some wicked components. There’s some real nice Steel Reserve’s coming in for plenty of spontaneous jumping, carving and tricks.

The Ashphalt bikes are looking good to, check out the new fixies! Simplicity at it’s best with deep dish rims and flat bars they look cool and go fast.

Find them in store soon!

Check out Porter's crash during his final run at the Claymore Challenge! Unreal that he walked away from this one.
 

Highland Mountain Bike Park Claymore Challenge 2010.. Eric Porter Crash from Disasterous Film on Vimeo.

Greg Watts wins Goatstyle up in Canada! After spending the past couple of weeks in Whistler coaching for Camp of Champions and refining his skills, Greg takes the top prize in the slopestyle event! Here's some video of the event...check out the winning run Watts throws down! Good stuff.
 

Greg Watts, Eric Porter, and Brian Miller give a run down of the course and the vibe at the Teva Mountain games.

Check out some of the tricks Watts throws down...crazy!
 

Wanna learn to tail whip? Phil Sundbaum shows you how in this video.

The Tail Whip w/ Phil Sundbaum from Kris Jamieson (Jaymo) on Vimeo.

With contest season coming, Brian Miller decided to pack his boot and hit the road. Check out his video below, this was filmed during his last few sessions at the trails.

Video courtesy of Jackson Allen 

The Haro team just got back from the Upsidedown and Underground comp in Jamie Goldman's backyard. The team killed it there riding nonstop all weekend, his yard is so much fun!! More than anything this event was about fun, there was a best trick jam, a pumptrack race, and a jump comp on the big line as well. In the best trick jam Porter was working on some 360 tailwhips, Brian Miller was doing 360 tuck no handers and some other good stuff, and I can't even remember what Watts was doing, he's wild! On the big line Porter crashed just before finals started while tailwhipping the biggest jump, and bruised the crap out of his tailbone! It was a fun 12 hour drive home.... Anyway Miller put together a good run with some good variety, and Watts brought back the heelclicker on the start drop, which is pretty damn gnarly! There's no riding shots of Porter, cause he was riding, but he did take a minute to shoot these photos of the Brian and Greg! They all had a good time, got some great photos for the Decline article and web, and rode lots, thanks Jamie!

Team Haro looking good, I mean reeeaal good.

Brian with a 360 xup during his run.

Brian and Greg on top of the roll in.

Greg doing a heelclicker on the stepdown, ridiculous.

Greg scoping the course.

Greg 360 off the last drop.

 
Brian dumping in a 3 on the second jump.

Milo learning how to dig, he wouldn't let go of the shovel, he loved it!

Phil Sundbaum flew across to Europe to compete in the Rocket Air event in Switzerland and now he can't get home due to the volcano in Iceland. There are FAR worse places to be stranded in than Switzerland!

Phil checked in and sent us some pictures this morning....

"My trip has not gone to plan, but we are making the best out of it. I flew over to Switzerland for the Rocket Air event in the town of Thun. It was a fun comp for sure and had a couple good size drops and big jumps.

We have been a bit of a story in Thun. Since this was a first-time event here and it was a bit of a success, it turned into a big story about us all being stuck here. It's funny cause lots of locals recognize us now. Here is a shot of the news article that you can't read since it's in German.

My flight was to depart on Monday, but somewhere in Iceland a volcano blew up and left me stranded. I am still sitting in Europe now waiting for a flight and I hear that they just started flying today, so hopefully I get home by the weekend.

Even though we didn't plan for this we are still making the best of it. I am trapped with Mike Montgomery, the Samson brothers, and Blake and Raymond from the UK. We have pretty much been touring around Switzerland with our friend we just met at the event and staying at his place for the most part. Here are a few pics of my view where I "live" now and a couple of the course we got to ride".

There's a reason why Greg Watts wins contests. Check it out here....

WTF with Watts - More Mountain Bike Videos

Got some fresh video of Phil Sundbaum and his friend Zeke Vargas sessioning the Trails last week. Peep it, peeps!

 Video courtesy of Tony Archibeque Jr

Phil Sundbaum and Zeke Vargas at the monroe trails. from Tony Archibeque JR on Vimeo.

Check out Greg Watts pulling off a double back flip! Sick!

They’ve got light weight aluminium frames that makes commuting a breeze and they’re not as steep as a road bike so they’re heaps more comfortable. You can reduce your carbon footprint if you commute and these flat bars have a built-in tail light for added safety, check them out, they’ve got pretty tidy specs: FLAT BARS

Check out Greg Watts pulling off a double back flip on the resi at Woodward West! Sick!

What do you do when you have a video camera and an hour to kill? You make a riding video, of course! (I mean, what did you think I meant?!?)

Phil and his buddy Tony Archibeque Jr had some time on their hands and decided to make a little video of Phil shredding the skatepark. Enjoy!

We just took the day to go on a full pipe mission , it was super fun!! It was really cold, probably a high temperature of 34 or so, and the fullpipe was like a wind tunnel, but it was still worth it! Anyway check out the video! 

Friday Full Pipe Fun - More Mountain Bike Videos

Here's some cool video of Phil Sundbaum aboard his Steel Reserve at the Eurobike jump contest in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Check it out 

Media praise for our patented Virtual Link suspension technology has been universal and unanimous. Every Haro MTB with Virtual Link delivers confidence-inspiring performance without compromises. But why is it better? It delivers efficient climbing, rapid descending and better balance. Check out this discussion from Neal Saiki, the creator of Haro's Virtual Link System suspension platform used on our Sonix mountain bikes, he discusses what makes this technology so efficient on the trail.