The cream of Australia’s downhill skateboard and luge riders gathered in the tropical heat of Townsville, home to The Great Barrier Reef , for a weekend of thrashing themselves on the steep and winding Mt Stuart road.
For the most part there was no competition; this was a charity freeride to raise money for prostate cancer; the “bastard” that has to be beaten.

And beatings were the order of the weekend as all riders took some hits on a road that challenged everybody. It started with a high-speed section leading into a right-hander with shiny new Armco just waiting to tear up bodies. It then continued to wind itself down the mountain into to a hard left immediately followed by a massive high-speed sweeping right hander that spat riders out at maximum speed.
The Scandinavians continue to give the Aussies a fight with Haggy Strom coming in at 4th and Jonatan Lundmark from Dampling at 8th place.