Falcon Flow: A "Flow Trail" With A Dash of Moab Flavor 🌵

[@nneariah]

My fav trail in Moab. If you're headed East after Moab, I highly recommend Phil's World in Cortez, CO. It's an AWESOMELY FUN trail system. You can even stay at the nearby super van friendly Walmart, as long as you want, NO PROBLEMO. We did.

[@NOBLWheels]

Feeling out the characteristics of such different riding terrain was one of the most fun parts- not sure if the unlimited line choice made it harder or easier but it definitely made it more fun! 🤘

[@incredible5587]

best products ever!!!

[@michaelpfister2226]

Thank you, Phil. As a relatively new MTB rider, I appreciate content less technical to be inspired to tackle. I'm adding Falcon Flow to my list. I only saw a couple high consequence areas that might take me off the bike all the while with awesome desert scenery.

[@Wizler71]

Above Falcon Flow is Eagle Eye which is surprisingly fun. More downhill, overall flowy and not hard but still some chunk to make it interesting.

[@californiapoontappa]

This looks pretty tech

[@mrvwbug4423]

Falcon Flow is flowy by Moab standards, which means it's fairly techy. As someone who has ridden Whole Enchilada myself, Falcon is MUCH easier, it's just a blue and well within the skills of an intermediate rider.

[@IGCchosen1]

So fascinating to see what you can do with a bike! Especially seeing you go from the trek, to evil, and to now the GT! The content no matter the bike is always great!

[@core-i7413]

Yeah, even some smaller bikes are getting a lot stronger now

[@ChronoCard]

I freakin' love Falcon Flow! Rode it when it was brand new and it definitely was hard to follow. Also, the one thing you should know about Moab is....There is no downhill lol.

[@driftertank]

Imagine being on a ride in the middle of nowhere, you're taking a breather on the side of the trail, and Phil and co. just randomly roll through...

[@Nebbzz]

Such an amazing video! Thanks for posting amazing videos all the time!

[@MultiGoodriddance]

This trail is awesome! So flowy with a bunch of natural features and still has good views. It is a blue but I could see how some could argue black. It doesn't have the same views as porcupine or the technical fun as the others but so flowy and great warm up 5.5 miles just a fun ride

[@bradreed625]

Phil, if you haven ridden Free Lunch in Grand Junction its about an hour and a half east of Moab!! Highly recommend it along with Pucker up! Cheers!

[@kizz3r]

Man your videos have single handedly turned me in to a bike guy. 🤟

[@aaronadventure]

I love Moab, but it really is hard to keep on the trail xD I think it was LPS that I lost it and ended up in the middle of a ground-cover cactus patch! But this is a great alternative to Porcupine Rim to end an Enchilada ride. Definitely gonna try it when I go back - because I WILL go back ;)

[@MartianGopnik]

It sucks that you crashed and bent one of your crank arms, but mad respect for getting that bit of video on backwards-facing helmet cam. I find the frame where the handlebars are still straight, but the front wheel/fork are being wrenched sideways by the rock to be particularly fascinating. 😮 I've never thought about it this way until now, but cameras are great to have along for the ride purely from a data perspective. You can go back over the footage and figure out _exactly why_ you wiped out, more specifically than say "slippery rocks" or "landed wrong"...

[@SkillsWithPhil]

Luckily these Sram GX cranks are cheap and widely available. I could have probably found a shop in town with a replacement if i really needed. But I agree with your point, recording video is the best way to learn and analyze things. Had it not been for the video, i wouldn't have realized that it was the shrub that took me out. I thought i bent the crank in the crash, but i didn't realize that it had clipped the shrub. Before watching the video, I just thought my front wheel got caught on a rock. When people are learning new skills, i tell everybody to film themselves because what you think you are doing, and what you are actually doing are often two different things. On a personal level, making these videos and talking to the camera a lot, it helped me realize that i didn't enunciate and often slurred my speech.

[@Chasemtb2392]

Yeww keep sending 💪🤙🤙

[@oak7746]

Loving the vids man. Have a great day phil 🙌

[@noluck8250]

the lines at 2:13 were so cool

[@Harari_]

Yesssss

[@yengsabio5315]

You have a good playground, eh! Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines! #RideOn #KeepBiking

[@BillSkatez]

Ohhhhh it was ur pedal that flipped u last vid. That was a gnarly superman dirt dinner 🤙🏻😲

[@gerrygadget]

I would love to see Phil go to Phil's World Trails in Cortez CO on the way home...

[@Sugernuggets]

Whoa, awesome!

[@drivenlifestyle8136]

Phil I love how you laugh about almost crashing. I use much more colorful vocabulary in those situations LOL

[@ChasingCornfields]

Right you are, I wouldn't consider reading Falcon Flow hard to read, but when this is how most trails are out here. Just different pattern recognition.

[@antigravity19]

I'm definitely not from there and did have a hard time finding the line/dots. Looking for parallel deadfall or lined up rocks did help in some areas. I'm used to just getting lost in the prairie grass that's in the middle of the wooded and desert west. This is definitely a good warmup ride for the rest of Moab. Definitely felt like I went into the deep end going Half Enchilada to Capt Ahab

[@stevehall7542]

you are a mortal after all 😂. awesome content I hope to ride moab in ‘23

[@juliannichols137]

Thanks for the amazing content ❤️

[@trill1029]

That trail looks so good I wish I could ride it!

[@blahkaymtb5127]

You should ride bootleg canyon right outside Las Vegas and I think it’s super gnarly and I would love to see you ride it!

[@tomassanesson902]

Awesome trail 🤘👍💪❤❤❤

[@David-rb3tk]

11:29 Well...I guess you're famous, Phil.

[@BillSkatez]

Damn it looks like Moab might only be for the fit 😂 some grueling climbs there bud!

[@mrvwbug4423]

Falcon Flow is shuttleable. The non-shuttleable stuff isn't usually too bad such as Captain Ahab or Navajo Rocks, with the exception of Mag 7 if you do the whole thing, Gold Bar Rim is supposed to be hellish with one punchy double black tech climb after another.

[@gamex4759]

Nice

[@sirjus10]

Hi Phil!

[@landemossel]

and here we see a rare phil learning how it is to have to paddle to get speed

[@mrvwbug4423]

That's Moab for ya, even the downhills are pedally haha.

[@Ben_Kasper]

I’m loving the desert riding but in my opinion it seems like it doesn’t fit your style

[@SkillsWithPhil]

There's a reason i live where i do and not in the desert :P

[@Ben_Kasper]

@@SkillsWithPhil ya I live on the east coast and I’ve never ridden on a rock slab but it seems fun

[@mushieslushie]

I was only in Moab a few days and rented some off-road vehicles too. This is one of the only trails I rode and I thought it was pretty fun but not much of a 'flow' trail.

[@freethommy]

9:45 think that's perfect fun with emtb

[@SkillsWithPhil]

No emtbs allowed on this trail

[@David-rb3tk]

@@SkillsWithPhil Not allowed on Moab trails at all.

[@WilliamAlomar]

❤🎉

[@Memesfromthemonkey]

I have a question do you speed up the riding because my dad says you do

[@SkillsWithPhil]

No, that'd be pretty dumb. Hypothetically speaking if I did, I would have been called out for doing that a long time ago.

[@Memesfromthemonkey]

@@SkillsWithPhil oh ok that's what I thought, but my dad said otherwise I figured it was reg speed

[@slant1378]

What grips do you use?

[@SkillsWithPhil]

Ergon GE1s. I actually prefer the GD1s but they don't come in Yellow, so I'll compromise.

[@deccarr7940]

Just on Saturday lay week I fell off my bike and nrly got knocked un contius luckily I was weirning a helmet

[@ramapra7ama]

Cool video, is that arizona? 🙏🏼💫

[@SkillsWithPhil]

There location was shown in screen in the first 10 seconds of the video. 😉

[@ramapra7ama]

@@SkillsWithPhil 😊🙏🏼

[@danle2106]

Having ridden in Moab and SLC, locals always find it hilarious when riders show up and find out that after a shuttled ride, it’s not always “mostly downhill” 😂.

[@mrvwbug4423]

Yup, WE especially is full of punchy tech climbs, and one long ass tech climb at the start of Porcupine Rim. Not to mention the climb up Burro Pass if you can start at the top.

[@orkakayaking4441]

Great video but if you are breathing that hard I know I’m out lol. Keep the videos coming

[@jakebeaudrie]

This is the least flowyiest flow trail I've ever seen but also the most flowy trail I've ever seen in Moab.

[@SkillsWithPhil]

You summarized it perfectly😂

[@BWiley711]

Please tell me you’re making a video on the trail “portal” while you’re in Moab

[@SkillsWithPhil]

Yup! Thats the next video. Technically its the whole mag 7 route.

[@BWiley711]

@@SkillsWithPhil sweet can’t wait 🙌

[@mrvwbug4423]

@@SkillsWithPhil Is there an Ahab video too?

[@mymorristribe]

I was duped into riding that trail...new name "Falcon Don't Flow" imo. Lol

[@mrvwbug4423]

Nothing in Moab flows haha. Maybe the fast section of Porcupine, but 25mph through a several mile long rock garden is probably not flow per se haha

[@jkmania7705]

When I do cross-country races or fun runs my resting heart rate is an average of 200 lol, I'm 18.

[@NawafDhamri]

hello c:

[@stevenkilleen8149]

For a place with so much elevation they really like to traverse and climb I feel like alot of trail builders are doing this and I don't understand it

[@mattrusso7923]

Man me and you gotta go get a donut together. A crueler or something dude

[@jeffreying]

If we don’t see a captain ahab video I’ll be forced to unsubscribed, it just wouldn’t be fair

[@MichaelRei99]

Not sure how you can ride all of those dangerous rocks without full protection.

[@mrvwbug4423]

No worse than trees haha.