New Zealand native Kelly McGarry, Diamondback DF5 team member, touched down on North American soil this weekend, ready for the upcoming race season. We’re stoked to have him back and just a little envious of his “winter” in his homeland.

Introducing the 2013 Diamondback Mason Hardtail Mountain Bike. The Mason All Mountain hardtail is slack and low slung – meant for today's shredder who wants to pedal up but charge down with aggressiveness.

Rider: Billy Lewis
Production: North 40 Productions

Pointing a certain finger at current categorization convention, the Diamondback Mason sports the build of an all-mountain 29er on a beefed up XC hardtail should average out to a rig that falls squarely in the trail category, but Diamondback’s Mason is a very different beast than its all-capable full-suspension colleagues. 

After a 6 month trip of globe bouncing, huck sending ,couch surfing, comp riding mountain bike madness... I've finally made it back to good ol New Zealand. Its good to have a place to live , a car, and to catch up with all my Kiwi buddys who have been freezing their butts off while I was enjoying the northern hemisphere summer ...suckers haha!

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Diamondback DF5 factory rider Eric Porter gives us an inside look at the new 2013 Sortie 29er Black. With knucklebpox suspension technology, aggressive geometry, and a high end parts spec; this bike is the perfect XC/All-Mountain 29er Rig. Watch the video, and fill out the questionnaire at diamondback.com/2013-sortie29-launch for your chance to win a bike!

The 2013 Diamondback 29er Mason Hardtail has been getting a lot of buzz since it was introduced at Interbike last year. With shorter chainstays and a slack head tube angle, this bike is built for aggressive all-mountain riding. Marketing manager Jon Kennedy gives us an inside look at the bike, and his own personal take on it. Also, don't forget to sign up for your chance to win one of these beauties.

Diamondback DF5 team rider Kelly Mcgarry gives us an overview of the gravity inspired 2013 Scapegoat at the Diamondback 2013 product launch in Park City Utah. The Scapegoat is the long travel freeride offering from Diamondback; and is built to take some serious abuse. With a weapons grade aluminum frame, knuckle box suspension technology, and a top of the line parts spec it is truly a shred ready ride. It is Kelly's bike of choice from the DB lineup, and here he explains why. Like what you see?

Diamondback DF5 riders Kelly McGarry and Eric Porter took an epic adventure last fall through the cavernous Green River in UT. The team navigated 68 miles between the towns of Green River and Mineral Bottom armed with a map, their bikes and a camera crew.

The town of Green River, Utah has been on the MTB radar for over 10 years now. Many riders and film crews have come to this remote location searching for new and unique terrain to ride. In an attempt to access areas that had never seen a bike tire, Diamondback DF5 team riders Eric Porter and Kelly McGarry teamed up with Bike Magazine, and a rambling crew of media misfits to go on a different kind of bike trip. Using human powered whitewater rafts they made their way down the Green River, into the unknown, searching for the unridden.. This is what went down.

Diamondback riders, Eric Porter and Kelly McGarry, take you on a tour of the trailside bike park flow trail in Park City, Utah. Wallrides, table tops and berms await riders on this fun, gravity-fed trail.

With Bike Jam Baltimore a week plus behind us, the buzz is still humming from the event and all of the Kelly Benefit Strategies Elite Team accomplishments over the past few weeks. The team has been rocking with multiple weekends in a row of stellar results and great feedback surrounding the Diamondback Podium 6 and Podium 7 bikes that the team is riding.