50 Years of Slickrock ~ In Memory of Dick Wilson ~ Slickrock Bike Trail documentary in 4K

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@growlinbear 7 ай бұрын

Thank you ! Great video . I have been enjoying slickrock since 1985 on a mountain bike. It's great to see all the improvements to the sand flats area . Great job!

@finleyholiday 7 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed the video!

@russelldurtschi 7 ай бұрын

I first rode slick rock in 1987 and several times after that. I rode Slickrock with my brother this past weekend. It was a lot harder than I remembered 25 years and 30 pounds ago. It kicked my fat, 71 year old butt, but oh what a great time we had.

@tedecker3792 4 жыл бұрын

I first rode the Slickrock Trail at the second Fat Tire Festival in 1987. Rode it just about every year since, even while living in DC. Finally got caught in Moab’s big eddy and moved here in ‘99. A big thank you to the Sandflats team from someone who remembers the bombed-out landscape and blowing toilet paper of years past.

@dudeonbike800 4 жыл бұрын

So appropriate to have Bill Groff begin the video. Well done! And thank you. As I've told friends and cyclists over the years, if you told me I could take a week in Moab BUT ONLY ride Slickrock Trail for my entire visit, I'd still go in a heartbeat and ride it every day. It never gets boring for me. So much stuff to challenge yourself on and the views are unreal. Slickrock (eg sandstone) is what made me fall in love with Moab and the Southwest in general. I couldn't believe the unreal feats of steepness that could be ridden on that stuff. Today, it's one of history's funny ironies that it's called "Slickrock." Couldn't be further from the truth when it comes to butyl rubber tires. Today, we'd name it something like "KillerTractionRock!" or something similar. (It's iron-clad wagon wheels and metal horseshoes that find Slickrock slick. Not tires though!) Thanks to a good friend, the owners of Rim Tours and Hank Barlow for my introduction to Moab and its wonderful riding! My wife and I were treated to their "secret" version of Poison Spider Mesa (with Portal, of course!). We had ridden for a while and decided to stop in a wonderful bowl of slickrock for a snack and some water. As we prepared to leave, I wondered, "Where the heck do we go from here? We're walled in." NOPE! As it turns out, we certainly weren't! Matt hops on his bike and rides up a wall. My brain explodes! "WTF MAN!!!!" Then Hank follows him. I, being a pretty serious competitor on and off road with some observed trials under my belt, was up next and definitely ready for the challenge. "Oh yeah, this looks FUN!" And up I go RIGHT UP THE FACE! I was blown away. Holy crap, this is AWESOME! That's all it took. It's been true love ever since! TRUE LOVE! Thanks to everyone in Moab for making it a truly awe-inspiring place to travel, vacation, relax, and most importantly, RIDE!!!! PS And a thanks is in order to Dick Wilson for creating such a wonderful playground that became the center of the mountain biking universe. Muchas gracias, muchacho!

@finleyholiday 4 жыл бұрын

After filming 50 Years of Slickrock, we became big fans too! Hope you enjoyed the video and found it worthy of your experiences there.

@dudeonbike800 4 жыл бұрын

@@finleyholiday I sure did! I hadn't finished watching before posting. So today I finally watched the rest and it was even better than I had hoped! To see Matt & Kirsten & Kimberly after all these years! So cool you interviewed them, as well as the founding "fathers" of Slickrock. Such a great history that you provided for the public. It was a nice blending of old and new; the old guard and the new generation. This is a great way to preserve the origins of such a formative part of the sport for future generations to see and learn from. Many, many thanks again.

@steveanderson4808 4 жыл бұрын

This trail is awesome! I rode this many times in the late 1980’s before suspension of any kind was available. My friends and I could clean this trail without dabs in about 2 hours. Uphills were easy without energy loss of suspension. In the good old days you wouldn’t see more than 10 people a day on the trail or anywhere in the whole area. Camping was remote and peaceful.

@dudeonbike800 4 жыл бұрын

Same here, Steve! Moab rigid!!! And I'd say uphills weren't ever "easy" without suspension, especially the Slickrock Trail. You're forgetting that this trail's difficulty exceeds probably 80% of the general cycling population in the country. And without suspension, you didn't lose any power, and you had light bikes. But suspension does add the ability for a tire to "up & over" stuff easier than without suspension. That said, still on a hard tail myself, so what the hell do I know! Ride on!

@JimPreston 5 жыл бұрын

Great documentary! Excellent production values! We'll be on it again next week. I spend about two months a year MTBing in just Moab and have produced KZbin vids on the Moab trails since 2011. Wish I could have made it to the 50th anniversary of the SRBT last weekend. So good that you captured the founders while they are available. Thank you!

@jonbeesley1306 4 жыл бұрын

Loved this video. I mountain biked it for the first time in 1990. It was magical to me. I probably only ride it every third time when I’m down in Moab, but I still find it magical.

@kdayracing 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent work on this. Brings back so many good memories and gets me excited to spend as much, if not more time there with my kids as my parents did with me.