BENT FORK RAIL JAM BIKE FEST.........Knoxville TN

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u087fYWuVT8

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3rd Annual Bent Fork Bike Fest Rail Jam 2007 *$10,000 cash purse

The 3rd Annual Bent Fork Rail Jam presented by Malibu Boats will take place on September 14-16, 2007 in Knoxville, TN at the World’s Fair Park. This 3 day event will be held in coordination with a Bike Fest to support the St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital. Last years attendance reached over 10,000 guests and included media coverage from television, radio, billboards, and magazines. This year’s attendance looks to be over 20,000 strong! Overboard Watersports, Knoxville’s exclusive Malibu dealer, have committed a $10,000 cash purse for the rail jam contest. The rail jam will be limited to 40 of the top riders and consist of 3 heats beginning Friday morning with finals on Saturday night under the Knoxville lights. The top competitor wins $5000, with second place taking $3500 and third going home with $1500. In addition to the rail jam contest, a line up of vendors will be setup under the sunsphere promoting local businesses and selling gear from Oakley, Ronix, O’neill, CWB, Crunk, Slingshot, Salomon, Ride, K2, 686, Nitro, Burton, Volcom, Sidewayz, ProTec, Oak Wakeskates and Flyhigh and many others. A skate park will be setup at waterfront provided by Plutos Skate Shop. They will be offering demos on their skate and mountain boards as well as taking donations for the new Knoxville Skate Park. There will be live music Friday and Saturday night for additional entertainment plus much more.

Rail setup as of now
60' A-frame over a 2007 Malibu Response LXi
*Thanks to John Sision -Malibu Boats, Andy, Russ, Gib -Goddards, Randy, Jessica, Doug, Jason and the other crew of Mission Boarding Co/Overboard Watersports, Mykol & Russel -Label Industries, Jeremy Edgar -Roswell Towers.

60' Fun box *Thanks to Matt Bishop and Tony -XTP Xtreme Towers.

60' Flat bar *Thanks to Matt Bishop and Tony -XTP Xtreme Towers.

40' Kinked rail down over a waterfall *Brought to you by www.KnoxWake.com

Rail Jam Registration Form (print off and return)
http://www.knoxwake.com/files/release.pdf

Rail Jam Schedule
http://www.knoxwake.com/files/schedule.pdf

Local Accommodations
http://www.knoxwake.com/bentforkaccommodations.html

Rail Jam Vendor Application
http://www.knoxwake.com/files/2007_Rail_Jam_Vendor_App.pdf

Directions to Rail Jam (Worlds Fair Park)
http://www.knoxwake.com/bentforkdirections.html

Live Band Entertainment
http://www.knoxwake.com/files/flyer.pdf

2006 Bent Fork Rail Jam Photos
http://bentforkbikefest.com/album/index.html

Local Shops
http://www.knoxwake.com/localshops.html

Local Lakes
http://www.knoxwake.com/locallakes.html

Knoxville Night Life
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=79547538

For all information please go to: http://www.knoxwake.com/bentforkeventinfo.html

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

pics are here

there was $1000 given to the best skater there.........

and some pretty cool shixzzle went down too

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV0_xuhmoQ&NR=1

JEnna · Ollie Joined: 12 Nov 2007 Posts: 86 City: ATL, hoe

Yeah that $1000 went to good use buying jim jones shots and orange beers all night long....

good times.

POPTART · 360 flip Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 7621

i bet

he was killing it

this year will be fun too.....

tyler killingsworth was just awesome to watch