Newquay, August, 2006 The Rip Curl Boardmasters 2006: Britain’s biggest lifestyle festival of the year took place last weekend in Newquay, with BMX, Surf, Skateboard and Freestyle Motocross contests and demo’s and a two night, sold out Music Festival. The Ripcurl Boardmasters played host to the third and final stop of The Braun cruZer Tour 2006 on the biggest mobile spine ramp in the world. Braun cruZer Tour Spine Contest: The exposed Newquay coast blew a cold, harsh breeze at the 12 BMX cruZer Tour Finalists, but the impressive location of the festival site, with it’s close proximity to the ocean meant that the riders forgot the wind and pushed to ride even harder and higher. With top pro riders like
Mark Webb,
Phil Aller, Mike Miller and of course
Ben Wallace the final was destined to be an explosive contest. In the first qualifying runs on Friday evening the audience were totally stoked as the riders cracked the ramp with tricks like “540 barspin” or “540 lookback airs”. Everyone was really looking forward to seeing the final on Saturday and they weren’t disappointed. On the Saturday final runs,
Phil Aller pulled out his “fufanu on the backrail” and a “360 tiretap to footjam nosepick”.
Mike Miller took every ones breath away with huge “lookback airs”, “talewhips” and a superstylish “360 over the spine”. But the highlight of this last final run was the “double downside whip” of
Ben Wallace. He was the first rider to ever complete a downside whip within competition, nailing it smooth. Everyone went crazy: judges, riders, crowd! But this was not enough to beat the “machine”
Mark Webb. He won with an incredible run and tricks like “flatspin 540”, “truckdriver over the spine”, “360 no hander”, “manual to barspin in off subbox” and the “double talewhip tiretap” for the second time taking the Braun Cruzer Tour title. Hard earned second was
Ben Wallace and
Phil Aller should be proud of his third place.
Braun cruZer Tour Spine Ranking: 
1 Webb, Mark (Eng) 3000
2 Wallace, Ben (Eng) 2970
3 Aller, Phil (Eng) 2900
4 Miller, Mike (Eng) 1950
5 Osato, Dave (Can) 1950
6 Elcock, Ryan (Eng) 1850
7 Jones, Brendan (Aus) 1830
8 Nyquist, Ryan (USA) 980
9 Doyle, Chris (USA) 970
10 Stephens, Craig (Eng) 970

11 Cooper, Martyn (Eng) 950
12 Hennon, Ben (Eng) 950
13 Watkinson, Tony (Eng) 950
14 Garcia, Hector (Mexico) 940
15 MacKay, Colin (Aus) 940
16 Smith, Louie (Eng) 940
17 Cresswell, Toby (Eng) 930
18 Cools, Hannu (Bel) 920
19 Jeffries, Paul (Eng) 920
20 Carter, Lee (Eng) 910
Demos In addition to the contests, the Braun cruZer Tour Demo team will ride a show at Leeds Festival, Music Festival, 24-27 Aug, Leeds (UK)
Photos: Woodage.