Baxter Maiwald
Age: 19
Height - Tall as
Bike or Bikes: Canyon Sender, Torque and Stitched 720, Mutiny village and a Husky TC250
Achievements: 2017 Junior National champion, overall series winner and Junior downhill rider of the year. 12th 2017 world Championships in Junior men and 1st Crankworx nz open men dual slalom.
Other Sponsors: Canyon, Fox racing, Ethika, Oakley, Fist, Maydena bike park, Spank, onza, Sensus.
Home Trails: Maydena Bike Park / Narbethong
Favorite place to ride:
Race track - Barbs thing or Rotorua crankworx course
Bike park - Verbier or Maydena
Race track - Barbs thing or Rotorua crankworx course
Bike park - Verbier or Maydena
When did you start riding?: Moto when I was 3 and MTB when I was 12
Most memorable moment on a bike: My first Crankworx Whip off event that I qualified at, first laps down King Brown at Maydena bike park or first laps down a trail I built in Europe last year.
What do you have planned for your riding career this year?: This year I'll be stepping back from Professional racing and focusing on Professional Fun having. Basically that means loads for Media stuff, fun events like Crankworx and heaps more time riding all of my bikes.
Describe to us why you ride bikes?: FUN
Whats your favourite things to do outside of riding: Outside of riding I'm trail builder, wanna be photo AMD video guy, and I draw / design a fair bit of stuff. Mainly just little illustrations, find my photo page @_B_Visuals