Dave Mirra, Mike Spinner and Mike Laird arrived in Montpellier for the Nokia FISE contest. It took them two days to get to France because of a delay and an extra night in New York. Being on the road is not always pleasant, let’s put it that way.
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On arrival Mike Spinner had a little practice session with Daniel Dhers and Mirraco flow rider Alessandro Barbero. It didn’t look like they had just spent hours traveling to get to the street/park course and things went off straight away.
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Dave Mirra and Mike Laird joined a practice session on Friday to get a feel of the course. The set-up is not the greatest in the world but by far not the worst. It has a massive quaterpipe, a spine, a rail, flat banks, jump box, hip, a slanted wall, quarter to rail, bank to wall and more funny bits. Qualifiers are on Saturday with finals planned for Sunday.
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Mike Spinner is going to enter pro flatland too on his Black Pearl with no pegs and only one rear brake. Should be interesting.
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We’ll be posting more on the FISE in the days to come. Stay tuned.
At the FISE contest in France Mike Spinner decided to enter pro flatland. He was serious about it too. He had been riding loads of flatland but when you notice that he does not have any axle pegs on his bike you wonder what he is going to show to the other pros who have dedicated their lives to riding flatland.
The fellow pros were actually welcoming Mike Spinner on the flatland podium and gave him all the support he needed. Mike’s qualifying run consisted of whoppers, barspin 180-s, backwards manuals and more “street moves” that were brought to the flatland course. Although he pulled most of his tricks, Mike did not qualify for the flatland final (he finished 13th).
