Mirraco team present at FISE contest in France
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.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:52 am
I was in France for the fise and I talk with Dave, the 2 Mike and Daniel. They’re very cool and they ripped the park. I have a nice photograph of Dave doing an ice pick on the sub, so I can send it by mail if you want. Hope to see you next year and maybe in Greenville one day ! Why not ? bye