hey guys I'm Matt Jones I'm a
professional freestyle mountain bike
rider welcome to my home in the middle
of the English countryside
this is my dog moose and we're gonna be
showing you around my backyard as a
mountain bike rider I'm so used to just
traveling around hitting different bike
parks learning tricks writing foampit
progressing my riding and with the
burden of having so much time at home it
was so important straightaway to find a
way of riding my bike this was the only
solution from day one there was nothing
here to ride has been over a hundred
tons of dirt imported and we've shoveled
it all by hand wheelbarrow dydt and I
got these awesome jumps to show for it
we've been behind the camera listen
don't give me that this is Ben here he
is he's been living with me throughout
this process because we film a lot of
stuff and it was kind of all or nothing
really you had to bite the bullet didn't
you come on board so originally me and
my fiance wanted up some nice grass
starving for a dog to run around now
we've sort of come up with this
agreement where 50% of his trails and a
pit bike track which I'll show you in a
minute
and 50% is still a nice lawn which I
think moose likes the trails more though
yeah he seems pretty made up
it was a difficult sort of process
figuring out what to do because I'm used
to riding quite big jumps
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with no hander
and obviously the game wasn't to just
try and do massive massive tricks it was
about just staying on top of riding
staying on my bike and just keeping fit
and active with my riding so from the
start we start on a wooden rolling three
rollers we've got a pump track line
we've got a fireman tip then everything
starts splitting get hectic what starts
with one line on a roll in splits and
here we've got one almost five options
that all stem from the same start point
and that again it's kind of what the
goal was it wasn't to build one line it
was to merge so many different features
together but you almost have ten twelve
fifteen routes call this the chunky
spine all built by hand with this really
really rock-hard clay it's so so hard
Oh
this feature is called the Narwhal it's
like a big tusk on that crazy whale
animal almost vertical just clay lip
that you transfer left and you actually
pull backwards out of this take off and
land on this landing the one of my big
jump I say big jump this is very very
small in comparison to slope style
competition it took over 400
wheelbarrows of clay to build that
landing so my back and my body tells me
it's massive
one thing that's absolutely changed the
game with building this place isn't just
this keeping the grass down but it's
this the distance has been getting
longer and longer and wheelbarrows
although a great invention we're just so
time consuming and so physically
demanding whereas this can take about
five or six wheelbarrows of dirt pop
that out the other thing it's been this
guy a hose this has been extended like
three or four times it's now a hundred
meters long from the house to here and
look at the water pressure in the
English countryside don't we do well
don't we do well
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this is my garage where all the
tinkering goes down playing with bikes
fiddling sixteen punches which clearly
but not been going on very much the pit
bikes and a few cool memories through
competition wins over the years
Colorado freeride first of all was a
very very memorable one because I got a
wild-card to then go to Red Bull joyride
Whistler that was like a tipping point
in my career and we came in here to grab
a pit bike so let's go via the swimming
pool during the long day's digging one
perfect thing to do in the midday Sun
it's come to the pool you just have a
little cool off dip
this is the Home Office I'm extremely
lucky
I can't wait to share it with more
people have sessions here with all my
friends
it's an incredible setup to know what
you guys think and what you guys would
love to see with the remaining space if
we can saw that out in my fiance but
thanks guys you're absolute legends I
see you soon
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