Yo I'm Brage Vestavik, I'm 22 years old from Mysen, Norway and I'm a professional mountain
biker. I've been a big fan of X Games Real Series. When I first got the email,
I couldn't believe it was real. I can't believe I'm in the same competition as people I've
looked up to since I started riding. It was like a no-brainer. I couldn't imagine working with anyone
else than Oscar and the Blur crew. Brage and our crew all come from the same mountain community.
Looking back at the past couple of years, we've been the best of friends. We're always texting,
watching edits and just hanging out. We're always kind of feeding off each other just to make every
shot as perfect and unique as possible. The X Games Real Mountain Bike competition was
just a golden opportunity to make something next level. My first memory of a bike is just freedom.
When I was about seven years old, I got the mountain bike movie "New World Disorder Seven" and
I started building myself in the backyard, like sketchy jump sketching North Shores. Yeah that was
like how it all started. Brage's really creative young man and he's really into his projects.
He's loved to dig, he loved to ride, he started really early to to ride bikes. I think he was
just one year-old when you start riding your bikes with three wheels. When I find something I want to
build, I normally start drawing it in a book, ends up looking kind of similar when it's done, and
really fun going back after this project, and looking in my book and everything is kind of the
same as what I've been drawing. The whole project feels like a crazy journey, living in the woods,
coming home from digging in the forest past midnight every day is a crazy vibe, and I just
love it. You're just deep in the sesh. We were just out there doing what we love and trying to
create something that can inspire other people then. It was just pure passion and love for the
sport and for this whole format of mountain bike videos. When we're really deep in the session you
know, the situation is like super tense. We just try to, you know, get the Brage pumped.
We're just so hyped, so it's really difficult to just keep quiet after he lands, just to get the
sound right. I've been super lucky to have my two local friends, Sondren Elias, to help me through
the whole project. They've been showing up after school every day and my dad and my grandpa has
helped me a lot. We've been a kind of small group but it's been good. We're just having a sick time
out there, cranking music, sit around the bonfire, it's just a good time. So lucky to just like be a
part of it and look at like the end project and just think I've made that with with my friends.
It feels so good when you spend so much time putting work into one thing and to finally see
it work, it's this feeling ever. I kind of look at the building as arc and I put all my energy
into the build. I've been building everything by hand. After covering all the wet stuff with logs,
we need to go and find the good dirt and the good dirt is normally on the top of the hill,
so we got to walk from the top of the hill and down with buckets with good dirt,
cover the logs, then cover all of that again with plastic to keep it dry for the filming. And
for me, it's as much building as riding. We went all in on every shoot and we've
been pushing ourselves to the next level and yeah, I'm just totally all here alive.
I'm Brage Vestavik and this is my Real Mountain Bike video part.
You could not pay me to try to attempt some of those features that Brage just rode,
not to mention it looked like he had some super harsh winter conditions. But he was able to come
out with a really good piece right there. Yeah, the amount of work they put into this: This is
all-new terrain they built this solely for this project. Absolutely surprising me with every move
he did. So how about all those landings right? You can tell like there's so much work put into these
pieces and the fact that he's pulling him off is completely amazing, but the second he stomps,
he's got to put his foot out and shut it down. It seems like every one of these stunts closes out.
Well this was a big job for our judges to figure out who to give away these three medals to for our
first installment of Real Mountain Bike, but they have their scores tallied and it's time to give
them away. And our silver medal is going to the Norwegian duo of Brage Vestavik and Oscar Kalnes.
What?!