all right
the winter is when there's a lot less riding to do which means i tend to get rusty.
well today is a beautiful day in the middle of winter and a great opportunity to shake off some of that rust and keep my skills in tip-top shape.
and this is where i first decided to try out some michelin enduro tires i've been using maxxis tires for the most part but i've been hearing
good things about michelin and so i got their wild enduro tires in the gum-x compound here
as you can see they're nice and dirty from already being ridden and so far they do seem
great but today is my second ride on them and i'm really excited to see how they do out here
on burke mountain this place has really awesome trails i met up with a friend and patron berm unit
and we're gonna do a shuttle lap today by leaving one vehicle way down below we're
gonna be able to ride a really long lap including a trail that we'll finish on called bullet dodger
and it turns out on a winter sunny saturday everybody wants to get out to the mountain but we
lucked out on a nice parking spot and we went up the mountain conditions looked really good today
yeah pretty happy about it we're warming up on a black diamond trail called Red R and
man these trails are so sick you'll see what i mean
let's try this out red r
we rode this trail briefly last spring on uh
when I was on my hardtail
except it turned out it was the wrong way
now we're actually riding it
i love this stuff here at Burke!
oh what am i doing!?
oh
that was fun though it's good it gets everything going yeah it does i'm gonna make it a drop
so that was really fun and now we're gonna hike back up and try deliverance
the gnarly's trails mountain apparently this should be deliverance
it says closed it does yeah right here the blue sign what's going on shall close blow jump line
use elevator till new year please respect yeah so if deliverance is closed we're gonna ride another
really fun double black called upper elevator i first rode this last year on my hardtail and
it was pretty fun if i did it fine on the hardtail it should be a breeze on this bike
but again i'm just trying to wear off that winter rust and prove to myself hey
i still got it upper elevator here because uh deliverance not really open oh yeah let's see here
sweet
sick
okay where is that's sick
yeah continue upper elevator super fun
it's kind of trailer that i rode this for the first time on my hardtail
i don't think i was riding this fast through it though
all right
is this
all right oh yes
oh yeah
what's there
that was a workout send it
nice that was a lot of fun yeah so much fun working dude i feel it in
my arms yeah that's an arm comfortable yeah i was feeling really good really comfortable
so i was pretty stoked but i'm kind of interested in lower elevator because i haven't ridden it
so we're going to lower elevator is it here probably here lower elevator
okay now these trails honestly have such a good balance of
techinar and flow longer travel and dro bikes like my patrol are the perfect fit
out here i still feel like i can monster truck through the techie stuff oh boy
sweet
all right
whoops
whoa wow that was a fun one i'm really feeling in my upper body here up next is bullet dodger
but before we go into that we actually wanted to hike up this shorter trail it's got a few
little jump features on it so i want to check it out and see how it rides nice case pad
that's cool so it's called tony bullet tooth tony it's my hero 9 lens all clear
let's do it into into bullet dodger this should be fun
all right
bullet dodger here yeah got some balls this is a really long trail but it's so much fun and
this is the whole reason why we did our shuttle run my michelin wild enduro tires are feeling
really good i'm definitely a fan i gotta say and as you've seen in last week's video i was trying
those dh-34s on the wilson i like those a lot too and that makes me happy you know it's always
great to find new bike companies that make great products though michelin's not new or anything i
mean they used to make tires in the past a lot but it seems that they kind of got out of it and then
now they're getting back into it which i think is pretty cool i think i just did the easy route
yo nice that stuff is sick let's uh try not to get shot now
in the uh the bullets this is the part of the trail where you could actually hear
bullets flying because it's sort of near a gun range and that's the whole reason why
this trail is called bullet dodger yeah i remember doing this on my hardtail so
it should be even easier i think last time i probably went straight down there pretty much
yeah i don't know if that was i'll probably try that last line all right let's try the gnarlier
oh yeah oh yeah that was not too bad actually it looks the worst from the top yo woohoo
um all right there's a jump here
right on
sick
i was a little goofy i was just really trying not to get sprayed by the by the mud
conditions are so good just the occasional puddle
in this trail's sick we're gonna finish this trail let's not crash like last time
all right
oh my goodness okay almost like fell off okay here you're working spicy
what's that here's where i get spicy uh just after the next one put my gallows on
okay let's uh let's go in with a bit more control how about
like this there we go
all right this gets a little
spicy
is this the harder one whoa wow that was sick wow that's pretty cool yo oh man
that was awesome
all right we're just about the bottom now
that was pretty nuts i sent it down like the difficult lines it was so sweet i'm really feeling
great on my patrol and on these trails it feels really great to just get back into it you know
winter doesn't give me as many good opportunities to ride especially in conditions like this
it does stay pretty wet out here in the winter time but you're going to want to stay tuned for
next week's video also where my friends and i go on an awesome trip to vancouver island
there's amazing downhill riding out there and it's sure to push our limits thank you all so
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