The Ride-a-Rama roadtrip started with a bang this weekend. The trip features Black Market / Atomlab riders traveling from Southern California to Austin, Texas in the Pita Pit Winnebago. The first stop was Woodward West. After riding skateparks on Friday morning, the crew headed over to the hillside slopestyle course. It wasn't long until we worked our way down to the big drops and the 50 foot double. After everyone started getting warmed up, Joe Perrizo jumped the big double. We all laughed when he said "I think I can flip it". On only his third time hitting the double he did the unthinkable - he flipped the monster at what had to be at least 40mph!!! Keep in mind the set up for this double is a 20ft drop with an 18ft gap then tearing down a hill. Joe did it all on his Atomlab hardtail with the new GI60 fork and a little skateboard helmet!!! The first flip was measured at 63ft, but Joe flipped it three more times on Saturday and went even further. This has to be a record for a backflip on dirt jumps.

The Woodward leg of the Ride-a-Rama is the last section of the new DH Productions movie, 'Latitudes' which will be out soon. It is also the first section of the new Black Market / Atomlab Team DVD which will come out around the end of the year. Keep your eye out for 'Latitudes'. It features a bunch of great dirt jumping and mayhem. Our little Quicktime movie doesn't show the flip, but it does show Carter Holland of Black Market jumping the double and Joe leaving the lip - so you will be able to see just how huge this is. It looked way bigger in real life!!

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Follow the whole Pita-Bago Ride-a-Rama at Thrashbike.com. Thrashbike will have daily updates of the trip which features Carter Holland, Joe Perrizo, Thomas Hancock, Steve Bafus, Jim Tharp, Rick Nolte, and Camera men 'Millhouse' and Ben 'Caveman' Tobin as full timers in the Pita Pit Winnebago. Adam Hauck, Jeremiah Work, Emily Johnston, Lisa Myklak, Nadia Steinbrecker, Travis Hart, and Mike Metzger will be part timers. No, not the mountain bike Mike Metzger, the motocross Mike Metzger! This is going to be a hell of trip!!! The photos and video with this press release were just some things I shot. DH Productions and Ben Tobin took some amazing shots and video which should be available soon! Source: Mike Flaherty