Bike magazine caught up with Canadian mountain biker Brandon Semenuk recently, when he had just got back to British Columbia after a leisurely road trip through Oregon on a skatepark hunting mission as part of a Life Behind Bars webisode. But this trip was also to help clear his head now that the slopestyle season has ended. For Brandon, 2012 had proven a great season, apart from a disappointing Crankworx finals. Now it is time to retool himself for the last event of the year: the unique and terrifying Red Bull Rampage in Utah. To read the Bike magazine interview, click here.

Semenuk upon winning Crankworx 2011; photo courtesy Bike magazine, Anthony Smith