so while I have Diamondbacks carbon Sync'r hardtail as a part of their 'Youtour'
I really want to send it big. I am limited right now with the weather and
the conditions, and also because I need some time to get used to this bike more,
so I'm gonna be working my way up and seeing how big I can go with this thing
So what I really wanna do today is go to 'Da Plow' and see what kind of jumps I
can hit up there, so Da Plow has the biggest jumps on the mountain and so I
wanna see what jumps I'm comfortable hitting. My goal is to at least hit the
35-footer with this bike in the time that I have it I have done the 35-footer on
a hardtail before but that was a long long time ago
I was riding this on a 2006 Brodie Helion
it was actually a really sweet hardtail, I really enjoyed that bike
other than that I only ever did on full suspension bikes so, I'd love
to do it on a hardtail again but I need to get to know this bike more and also
have good conditions for that. Today the ground is all frozen so things will not
be too good but we're still gonna see how the jumps look and see what I'm
comfortable riding. Alright let's actually see what the trail is like
not ideal that's for sure yeah man I don't know I don't know if
I wanna do these, looks pretty bad, I guess I wasn't quite expecting all this ice
Look at all this like a run off, it's still totally doable
all right here at the top of Da Plow about to hit some jumps.
look at all this ice pretty bad
I don't know, let's see how it goes
that was a pretty bad fricken case! oh man
It felt like I was gonna break the wheel
looks like it should be good
Ya dude I'm feeling good on this bike
There we go!
I'm feeling pretty good it would be fun to hit this big one but I don't know man
like all that ice and you pretty much have to hit this bigger jump too on the
way which I'm just not feeling right now so the lip doesn't actually look that
terrible honestly when you're coming in with all this ice that's kind of sketch
so I'm feeling it I might end up hitting that would jump at the end I really was
surprised with how fast I was getting so comfortable with this bike the 25 footer
is quite easy and then here I am hitting the wood jump with it just fine I was
not expecting to do that I am definitely feeling optimistic about this bike sick
so I don't know about you guys but I'm not much of a fan of carbon bars I get a
bit paranoid about them and if I want to hit the bigger jumps on to plow with
this bike I'm gonna need to put on some aluminum bars the gold bar had on my
Wilson won't fit because it used the 31.8 mill diameter while this stem is a
35 mil diameter so I had to buy a new bar yep we're putting gold bars on this
thing I thought it would fit perfectly with his bike because of the Kashima
coating on the fork and the dropper post as well though admittedly it is a
different shade so it doesn't quite match as well as I thought it would but
I'm still pretty stoked on this Diamondback I'm just saying if you can
get a bar that perfectly matches the Kashima coating that would be mint now
that that's been done up let's go back to the jumps I'm riding today with
Christina aka sketchy trails and a friend Bobby they were in town and want
to check out the local trails so I was happy to show them the conditions
weren't all that great there's a lot of wind in the last few weeks and it was
pretty wet not frozen this time around some trees had fallen over a lot of
branches down everywhere some erosion no what a mess
this is ridiculous I always leave a shovel by this trail so that I can
always do last-minute work whenever needed you want to hit this jump yeah
sure so we were fixing up a 25-footer me and
Bobby were gonna hit this one for sure not too sure about 35 but I did fix it
up just in case
and the 25-footer has always been way too easy to overshoot take a look at the
first time I ever hit the 25 footer this was also on the hardtail that I had
alright let's see 35 is like I know I'm gonna do like a run up and just see what
it feels like I've written this 35-footer countless times I honestly
have no idea how much times I've hit it if you want to see the very first time I
ever hit it take a look at this clip I
totally ended it overshot that jump he was on a Norco Shore
that was my first full suspension bike
honestly I'm actually feeling pretty good might be doable all depends on how
good I'm feeling pretty attached is it clear I really was not planning on doing
the 35-footer today but you know what I'm feeling surprisingly good and we'll
just see how it goes oh man
well I did it Thomas it yeah I wasn't it interesting did I kind of on fire what
yeah I just wanted to make sure I wasn't gonna kt6 I feel really bad about you
well cuz I've hit this so many times and I've done a hardtail like long ago so
it's all like in my ability just been a really long time side down a hard time
yeah pretty much
I'm so glad I actually hit that and I didn't even have to wait for better
conditions either it shows how comfortable I am with this
bike well now it's time to ride some trails legio is great for smaller travel
bikes anyway so this hardtail will be a really good fit for these trails we're
riding Charlie's canned chicken which is one of my favorite trails here a good
mixture of some flowy bench cot and some pretty sweet steep parts
Oh
oh man I won't do this I guess maybe it's rollable I mean like just barely
actually kind of is I was that oh man well some of this is get getting like
kind of steep like that's some of the steepest stuff on the mountain honestly
all right nice steep art here
Oh baby
so here go left for the easy route or go right for the really weird sketchy route
oh yeah
quick yeah when my seats up high it's like it screws me up we hike back up for
another quick little run we're doing junkyard zombie into a trail called dead
reckoning these trails are really great for a hardtail
they're pretty flowy not steep at all not technical at all and just fast fun
trails
that's Gracie so left is where we do dead reckoning
all the footage you're seeing today is just from the hero seven with a
stabilization just attached to the normal chest strap no gimel this time
around the stabilization is actually pretty good
so I hope you guys like this I don't intend on actually doing this very much
or anything but let me know what you guys think
well
once in a while you come across some weird structures what do you guys think
does this look appealing to you it's pretty cool this might have been built
four to five years ago and I do remember hitting this a good few times but when
you look at the landing you can tell that no one actually rides this and I'm
not surprised it is pretty cool huh as you can see no one really hit this high
I did this probably like like two years ago when this trail was newer do you
want to do this
I won't beating it today I'm not sure if I ever will do this it's just I don't
know it's just so weird well that was pretty sweet I already hit the 35 footer
and honestly since I got this bike throughout the winter there is not
really a guarantee that you'll have good conditions to ride those big jumps so
I'm just so stoked that I actually hit it already and if the conditions do get
better then I can ride it even more and then of course there's that 45 footer
afterwards which I've never done on a hardtail in my life and yeah that is
definitely on my mind we'll see how the weather goes but otherwise thank you
guys for watching I really hope you enjoyed the video I just got to give a
huge thanks to diamondback for providing this bike for me throughout the winter
time it was such a blast riding this bike and it really is great I got some
more videos shredding on the hardtail so make sure you guys watch out for that I
actually am now full time on this YouTube channel as of a few weeks ago
and I'm really excited about that so if you guys want to support me check out
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