Last month Sydney played host to the Grande Finale of the Red Bull X-Fighters — one of the world’s biggest and most respected freestyle motocross tours — for the second time and Big Kahuna Imagineering was proud to be there again to equip the winners with some Aussie-inspired trophies.

Kastner and Partners returned to Big Kahuna to create trophies in the shape of Akubra hats adorned with an X-Fighters badge and motorbike chain bands for the top three winners of the World Final.  We wanted a metal aesthetic without the cold, rigidness to allow the winners to actually wear their trophies.   So we used authentic Akubras and motorbike chains but with a few Big Kahuna tricks of the trade and achieved a fantastic result.

The dramatic showdown was one of the closest finishes in the 12-year history of the event with Levi Sherwood squeaking past Thomas Pagès and last year’s big winner Josh Sheehan to claim his first Red Bull X-Fighters World Tour title.

After the dust settled, these FMX legends stood tall over Cockatoo Island wearing their Akubra trophies with pride.