Whoa! Yo sick!
yeah buddy!
We are in Costa Rica! Back in February while it was still winter time in canada, I went on a sweet trip down south
Are you excited to leave? Yes! Yes me too! My friend Amanda came along with me and we are doing a trip through Adventure Meraki
and they are sponsoring this video, Meraki offers mountain bike trips globally and here we are in
costa rica for a seven day all-inclusive trip and yes that means all the transportation the
sick lodging and the amazing food is all included. we arrived at the airport got picked up by matt
the head of meraki rides and he brought us to our house in heredia it's a very beautiful property up
the mountain and this will be our home base for the trip this house sits at about 6000
feet of elevation and the weather is pretty unique here! so we're out here in costa rica
it's kind of misting down on us the sun is kind of peeking through but there's like mist
falling on us which is kind of cool this is the bike i took along for the trip it's a diamondback
carbon mission so stoked to try this out so diamondback provided this bike to me to ride
for product development purposes so they loaned it to me for the trip and they told me to ride
it hard and take it to its limits my friend amanda joined me on this trip which is pretty awesome and
then we got some other riders chelsea and ryan from the states joining us on this trip as well
we've got some pretty nice bikes out on our trip here so why don't we go shred them just down the
road from where we are staying is the adventure park this is a really fun place to ride they
offer shuttles and a wide range of trails we've also got another guide who'll be along with us
for the whole trip his name is chris and he's a local for now we're gonna warm up with some
pedal labs before our big shuttle day tomorrow all right should i go first? I'll go blind let's do it!
all right first riding in costa rica sick
yes oh yeah right on oh look at this
oh my god jump whew the dirt here was so nice and i really appreciate all the wooden
features that they've got here there's a wood mill right on site here at the adventure park
so there's tons of wood for them to access to build whatever they want you'll see even
more amazing stuff later on this video that was fun wow some of those turns are crazy
i'm loving all the scenery the views everything is just so beautiful out here
not to mention these trails are so much fun and my bike is feeling amazing
oh yes
yeah man
oh yes
so sick as you can see the people out here in costa rica know how
to make some pretty sweet looking trails oh yeah that was cool damn
so remember how i said diamondback loaned me this bike for product development purposes
well i was riding it hard and it turns out i did find its limit so diamondback has
received feedback on the bike and they are looking to improve it for future iterations
and that's really too bad because it means i wouldn't have a chance to ride this as my
new enduro bike as a result of all that matt graciously let me ride his transition sentinel
for the rest of the trip so a big thank you to him for letting me ride this he had also
realized his shoulder was a bit too sore to ride on anyways from a previous injury so he kind of
figured this all works out in the end i just put on my own grips and pedals and we're good to go
sweet look at these rainbows they're just everywhere rainbows are a real thing out
here especially in this area you'd see rainbows at least once a day or more i have to tell you
about how amazing the food was seriously you guys i love food i love all kinds of food and
we had all the best food that you could have it was absolutely amazing it was quite a highlight
already of this trip there was so much of it and you could easily eat too much every single meal
the next morning weather is looking prime
the plan for today is we're doing a full day of shuttling here at the adventure park now
shuttling is not quite the same as you may be used to back home just make sure you hold on tightly
yeah we've even met a few locals to ride with as well what's your name paul jordan nice to meet you
okay remind me your name again esteban yeah it's debunked yeah all right cool
costa rica shredded we're gonna hit a jump
all right oh here's the jump whoa yeah oh it's like a real gap
yo whoa yes oh look at that sick yeah
that was like a river gap man nice that's nice that's dope yeah another wood jump for the table
whoa sick
that was great yeah yeah that was fun man that's fun that was super sick
after the shuttle drops you off you can actually pedal to some higher trails
which i think is pretty sweet so we're going to check out a couple of those
yesterday we wrote one up here called duendes so right now we're going to check out a couple more
means doll in spanish doll yeah and this one's called like dinosaur cool are you hitting the gap
all right oh yes sick oh getting loose right on stoked to ride behind some locals brian paul here
oh yeah buddy i like the old mesh on there
step down come on
nice yeah oh sick drifty corners yeah man
yeah bro that was fun it's nice yeah man
those corners are fun oh my gosh there's like foot out drifting grease fest yeah yeah
sick nice
right on
sweetie that was fun man that's fun
all right look at this oh that's cool i really love that they like to have fun
with their wooden features here i mean look at that that is something i want to ride so
let's go check it out all right gorilla bros some tight corners sweet
sick
right on
dick look at this thing there
yeah whoa so paul ended up breaking the derailleur hanger on his bike so from now on he's actually
riding on matt's transition smuggler and he was pretty stoked he was really liking that bike
so cool that's nice yeah man isn't that the newest trailer it's the newest one all right
all right
yes
okay this looks cool i think we're gonna have to ride this next roller coaster if you know me you
know that i always get stoked on wooden features wall rides berms jumps bridges whatever i always
love wooden features so all this stuff is pretty sick i'm also really enjoying this
fast and flowy and technical riding but if you want to see some of the coolest wooden features
we're gonna have to go ride this trail roller coaster there's a very good reason it's named that
let's have a look uh paul why don't you lead or something i'll go behind you how about all right
theater daughters it's hilarious that's sick
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oh that's awesome
all right
yo send it
yeah i fell off one of the corners
oh yo sick
yo what that is hilarious
woo nice yeah dude yeah bruh that was so good damn
that was really fun i wanna let's take a look at it again that's cool huh that's super cool
yeah shortcut yeah yeah that's it you wanna do it amanda i think so
you just don't have to go fast or anything yeah all right all right yeah amanda
whoo yeah you do it yeah i did good good i wanted too high at the beginning but send it
wow yo oh sick another one
right on oh that's cool
yes
yeah buddy
whoa yes baby
that's so fun
after our stay in heredia and riding the adventure park we would go out to providencia
de dota where we would stay for three days and ride some real steep and raw trails
this place sits at six thousand feet of elevation and we can even go as high as 9
000 feet of elevation for a nice long descent this is absolutely insane the trails are more difficult
out here being quite a bit more steep but there's no way you can't improve on these kinds of trails
by the end of the trip everyone improved in our abilities riding these steep
raw trails the confidence boost we got from it was amazing wow
since this trip matt has been building up new flow trails out here in providencia
this stuff looks like a ton of fun and i really wish i could have ridden this
there's always a lot of work being done on here so it'll definitely be different this coming year
yo yo
as for today yet let's finish off our day here at the adventure park
on a fun downhill trail called roots whoa gap
all right let's train the road gap
full on the brakes yeah buddy oh yeah let's send it
yes that was great man yeah it's great jordan so much fun dude another rainbow as always i've
got to give a big thank you to matt of meraki rides for sponsoring my trip and sponsoring this
video so big thanks to you and make sure you guys follow meraki rides on instagram and facebook it's
the end of the day here and man it was such an amazing time i gotta say my favorite trails gotta
be roller coaster and roots that was probably the best trail roots that was sick man thank you
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