Kona Presents The Inaugural Process Challenge
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What happens when you take three bikes, three first class team riders, drop them on top of one sweet looking mountain in BC and set them off on a no-holds-barred race to the bottom? Kona riders Spencer Paxson, Connor Fearon and Graham Agassiz did just that on three differently spec’d Kona Process mountain bikes, avoiding bears and manners at all costs. Check it out!
“Take one of the fastest cross-country racers in North America, a Top 10 World Cup downhill racer, and a Red Bull Rampage podium freeride superstar, plop them way up high in the middle of the mountains, and let the battle rage. Kona Team riders Spencer Paxson, Connor Fearon and Graham Agassiz met on the top of Retallack Lodge’s Reco Peak, each with their own hand-selected model of 2015 Kona Process all mountain steed, and prepared to see who could tally the most points over 16 kilometres and 6,000 vertical feet of singletrack bliss. With points awarded for cross-country power, downhill steeze and freeride flare, the goal was to see what Process-to-athlete combo would emerge the winner. Would it be Paxson on the 29-inch wheel, shorter travel Process 111? Fearon on the super-capable, 27.5-inch wheel, mid travel 134, or Aggy on the burly 153? And who might get a hold of the Rasta-hued 26-inch wheel, park-oriented 167? So many questions, so much stress. With a mountain of singletrack ahead of them, who will emerge victorious at the first ever Kona Process Challenge?”
