I love going to Kamloops! Just 2.5 hours away and you enter a totally different environment
as you can see it's much more of a desert out here
Alex, Matt and myself just went on a day trip to Kamloops today
we're just riding the Kamloops bike ranch and this is the main place that we ride whenever we go to Kamloops
What's up bro!
oh that was a bit weird
come on!
The Bike Ranch isn't too big but it has a whole lot of jumps to play around on,
and other fun steep lines and chutes to explore
sendin it
higher up on the hill there's a really fun jump trail called Wrangler
We'll always ride that for a bit as like warm up
but the main reason why we love this
place is a trail called Fistful of Dollars it's a double black pro line so
far I've never linked the full trail together but that's what I'm aiming to
do this year and I know I can do it it just takes time to get comfortable with
the jumps but I'm not always in Kamloops that often so I don't always get the
opportunity are you thinking of doing it? What's the worst that could happen? I mean I want to at least
do like a run-up or if I'm feeling like really good then I'll just boost it
I think I want to just wait till I get my wrist brace
I was feeling pretty good
with my run-up so I'm definitely gonna hit them later today
Matt was not having such a great day I didn't get on camera but he totally
bailed throwing up the lip of one of those big jumps he says that his bike
just feels terrible and he's just not feeling it today
Poor Matty L huh?
I want to see what your bike actually feels like.
One of my fans Brandon joined us for a bit
we're about to ride Pale Rider right now it's a trail up they always host races
on I have done the race once in the past
with not a lot of success
Brandon let's do it there we go hey which order should we go
all right that's what we're doing then
where the heck are we going?
oh man! A bit sketchy
as you can see riding downhill bikes on a trail like this is a bit overkill but
the downhill bikes work surprisingly well on all the big jump lines that we
love to come here for, whether it be fistful of dollars or the big dirt jump
set in the lower area. Some of that wind I tell ya! you just kind of got to avoid
the smaller jumps because those feel really awkward on big DH rigs
jump to flat bro!
oh yeah there are even shuttles here
it's about $3.00 per ride up it's really only about a three minute drive up you
can always just shuttle yourself with your own vehicle if you can or you could
always hike up as well which sometimes we end up doing as well so we're just gonna go
ride the upper part of Fistful of Dollars now before we get into that
though we just got to ride this little trail called quick-draw it's just got
all these burms
so this is where Fist Full starts it's this classic set of jumps right by the road
you may have seen them in other videos and this is the first time coming back to these jumps
since I broke my wrist that was November of 2016 so it's been a while
I still cased it! well I think I hit the brakes before it
yeah some of those other jumps like I was hitting the brakes for a couple of
them yeah you had to
all right so they kindly leave us these water bottles or
water jugs I should say with big cans of water so we can all water the jumps it's
actually really cool unfortunately it dries super quick here though that's the
problem yeah watering the jumps is totally
necessary otherwise the jumps will just crumble and break apart Kamloops is
really dry as you can tell so even when it rains a lot it does dry out pretty
quickly we could always water it again I actually forgot my wrist brace in the
shuttle so to play things safe I didn't want to ride these drums until I got
that back again
oh look bag dude oh I dig that's sweet though after we took a break for a bit I
decided to go for this cool shoot that was staring us down in the parking lot I
wanna send this shoot so look at all these different little lines you could
do there's a few them it does look a bit like Utah though huh Utah just doesn't
have any the greenery though we had to pick one of the hotter days of the year
- it was in the low 30s and of course there's minimal shade in the bike ranch
where is this it is this it yeah I was kind of nervous about this it's
not something I'm very experienced with and I just had to take a bit of time to
examine it you ready yeah ready
yeah haha sick fighting yeah that was fine actually wasn't too bad the last
half just gets fun because then it's a little bit straighter dude really
oh here we go hold that thought
yeah brah hahaha look how much dust there was dude that was crazy
yeah when I did that last compression at the end I was like crunching on
something I was like what is this it's just all dirt just like all up in my
bike well with that out of the way it's time to go back up and shred more
fistful of dollars this was around the time that the wind seemed to kind of
pick up as well and especially on these jumps by the road the wind really
affects you a lot it can make it really easy to clear the jumps or to make it
really hard to clear the jumps but these are not the jumps that were you like to
session anyway as you get a little bit lower down the trail the wind doesn't
affect you phrase much
why am i overshooting that so badly
Matt ended up crashing for a second time today on Wrangler it was also off camera
so he was done for the day basically I just kind of put him on camera duty so
he could record us a bit on Fistful of Dollars
then I cased that pretty bad yeah I think if I need a lawyer for that one
oh really yeah yeah yeah that was totally me sand in it Oh baby I gotta
hit that burn better I just gotta like commit to that berm
and start sending the whole line that's doing me
Wow
all right well I did it all better that time
all right well that's enough for the upper section for today off to come back
another day to practice that some more but for the manner of the day we're
gonna do some more than the lower section at this hole oh where am I going
there that was pretty sweet I didn't even know where that jump goes I was
like right on the edge so I took a foot off that's fun though yeah what's cool
about these jumps you know is you can ride them on a dirt jump bike or a
downhill bike and everything in between basically alright our last send of the
day for us so we met this guy totally forget his name but he's kind of
couchsurfing sort of homeless I guess but he was just there for the day
shredding the jumpsuit seeing him ride and just hanging out with him for a bit
and yeah he was definitely a good shredder okay so for these jumps you
basically don't want to hit any breaks coming into them and you generally
should line them just fine whoa baby whoa
there and I just sent those so hard yeah dude I went like no brakes and I just
went like halfway down that landing I really wanted to rematch
on that dual slalom course I was actually practicing it a bit and I felt
like I can do it really good so let's just do it one more time go oh I totally
his way in this lane
now my foot fell off my oh man my football oh alright well that didn't
work out very well but you know it's still a lot of fun I didn't send the big
set today you know I didn't have time it's all well we were definitely done
for the day with that heat and all that riding couldn't go any longer but man I
always loved going to camels I will definitely be going there again soon
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