Freeride MTB Began Here

[@DaleStone]

#classicdave #byedave

[@danielkeene3852]

I've now watched the video of this ride from all three participants. The trail looks terrifying in spots.

[@crawbits619]

Nice video, man. Really took me back to my youth riding in the 90’s. Good times.

[@denesk2794]

I actually remember that in the 90s my bike was so short that when going down something steep, as an emergency bail-out I was able to just literally sit down behind my rear wheel...... A bit hard to imagine on my modern, long reach "enduro" bike, even with a 27.5 wheel. My early bikes also had a rigid fork, then my "long travel" bike had 7.5cm in the rear and 12.5cm on the front ... crazy times, now that doesn't pass for a XC bike :)

[@Tequila628]

Riding with Dave and Dale is both dangerous and stony at the same time!

[@swapmotolive.]

You are so gnarly. Still can't believe with how much composure you can speak while riding. haha

[@harrygrimley4352]

Wow. I be scared hiking those trails 😮. Thank you for sharing this with us.

[@sjaan7370]

The riding back then was all about being terrified 🙃

[@leafyfungus5]

Love the purple Knolly bikes! Have a delirium in the same colour and it is SO CLEAN 💯

[@ashleytombs]

She bounces only on weekends lol another great video Nick 800mil bars and tight spaces what could possibly go wrong and at 2:30 and 10:15 sums up Dave’ riding style in a nutshell

[@twowheeler1000]

Nice to see you're actually scared, and still do it.

[@toptenrick]

Gnarly stuff bro ….glad to find you here .cheers

[@bikemanic]

I remember back in the day, riding S_x Boy on my hardtail with canti brakes. Good times! 09:45 that rock shelf was named "Collette's Crack". No, I don't know who Collette is or how the name came to be!

[@pringlewheel]

I had to sit down after sitting down to watch this video. Bloody scary stuff. Great skills in bike control on display.

[@diegovillacrez8349]

Maybe some aspects of it were easier on 26 narrow bars to fit thru trees. Short wheelbase for turning on skinnies and flickability

[@Willard_guy]

Thats 100% it I think. Almost all the trails by me are from the 90's and you can tell they were built for bikes of that era. Very tight turns along with trees that are way to close to the trail for modern bar width.

[@leightaft7763]

Noiiceee bike man! These trails looks so sketchy. I would be walking away with some broken limbs for sure.

[@Whyusadd]

U should do a video riding this on a 90s mtb

[@olik136]

with a 5 min break after the climb to put the saddle down with a spanner :)

[@ridethepow]

Just enough time to crush a cowboy killer

[@jasonkind3035]

classic dave

[@mattunderwood7018]

Good shift there lads

[@lostman65]

those zero speed drops you guys are doing are pretty handy. i gotta learn how to do that.

[@rtgMTB]

Could've sworn I just seen you riding this trail yesterday but turns out im watching you and not dave lol.

[@Breal604]

You can see why short-wheelbase steep-angled high-bb bikes w 8” of travel existed

[@Denizz._]

crazy dangerous vancan

[@reineherrera8897]

This might as well be trials riding. 💪🏽

[@MarioLamRedRebel]

My wife wants to do this ( when she was younger she had a mtb ) but she wants to be out side in natur and have fun. Here in the Netherlands the terrain is different than in Canada but can you give advice for a good bike for a nice price ( we are not ritch and i am invalide ). I want her to be save and a bike that can stand a fall plus what kind of frame ( small, medium or lage ). Thank you for your videos. Greetings from the Netherlands.

[@FVPOV]

Oh yes 🙌

[@frenchyroastify]

We didn't have hydraulic disc brakes back then which were a real game changer, so I'm puzzled as well. I couldn't ride seventh when it was first built because I found it too steep.

[@olik136]

Idk some "normal" brakes worked quiet well especially with softer pads. That is as long the rim stayed dry... 2 drops of rain and the brake was basically useless.. I remember having the hydraulic magura brakes that go onto the rim- I bend a lot of wheels with them.. but well set up V-brakes would still work better. Modern brakes are obviously a lot better- but I still encounter some really awful disc brakes these days.. for example the tektro ones that came on my ebike..

[@frenchyroastify]

@@olik136 The main problem was the seat stays were thin and deflected a lot (that's why the horse shoe brake braces were invented) and we do live on the wet coast so our rims were pretty much always squeaky. I do agree V brakes changed things.

[@josephgraham3807]

mountain bikers are the kind of people who will crash and have 3 broken ribs, 1 fractured wrist, and a cracked skull and ask if thier bike is okay -but are the same people who when they do break something on their bike say "ahhhh shucks my chain snapped, my frames bent, and my rear wheel is missing more spokes than i am dollar bills which i spent on my electronic shifter instead of our Mortgage that was due 14 days ago. good thing I'm only 50 grand n debt now and better yet just 9 miles till i reach the bottom of this double black diamond trail!"

[@christiannielsen8107]

I love it how everyone stops right in the trail and doesn't care if you run into them or care if you can get by safely 🤣

[@brucemacdonald5532]

8:28 Yeah, that looks horrible. No half committing to that turn!

[@RobbyKing]

Did anyone else notice the Mark Rober theme?

[@sendyboiii7]

Bike is looking really sick. I´ve been thinking about repainting my bike to a purple like yours for quite a while now. But why´d you switch back to 29 and how is the sr suntour feeling?

[@lakaldrak]

He Said He is gonna make a Bike Check soon..

[@sendyboiii7]

@@lakaldrak yea true, I´m just impatient. Can´t wait for that bike check as the sr suntour is really enticing

[@josefwild2318]

My first bike had a steelframe and also no suspension, the second one had 4 cm frontsuspension🫸🫷 The bikes got always better, in the era they were cool, nowadays they drive shitty. 2005 to 2010 bikes were really light(crosscountry) and had good brakes, suspension was good enough.

[@ampa666]

this was film in insta 360 regular video mode or hdr? can you share your settings. i just started using one now but i could not get the results that i was hopping for. thanks in advance. awesome content by the way!

[@VanCan]

360 mode. Vivid colours. 0EV. Auto everything.

[@ampa666]

@@VanCan thank you 👍

[@zwingler]

I rekon because the trail was in smoother condition back then with less riders and at lower speed. Like, if this is the only trail you could ride are you just gonna say "yeah, i quit the hobby" or muster up and slowly learn your way up to where you can confidentally do it ? Also I think people just ran DH bikes with normal gearing to have the suspension for the big hits.

[@raivkka4313]

Thought you were riding a 27.5"? When you get a new bike?

[@PuffinPass]

I remember it being difficult but the bikes were built different too. Although these trails may be originated in the 90s they have definitely been changed along the years in line with geometry changes.

[@patrick_jaq]

new chilcotin sooooooo getting rid of the warden...?😏 I'm interested 😅

[@VanCan]

eventually! but not yet

[@GaedeRafael]

Be honest... do any of these features really scare you? It seems that you ride them really naturally! When I'm afraid or anxious before hitting oa gap/jump or another feature and I do it, almost always I think "Ok, conquered it, doesn't need to do it again" 😂

[@VanCan]

This stuff mostly wasn’t too scary, but I definitely roll up on features all the time that make me scared.

[@mylo_0]

New Bike?

[@VanCan]

😉

[@drinkycrow2623]

We were special.

[@MTBMcPhee]

I'm sorry but I still can't stand this camera. Love your work otherwise, and can't wait for the bike check and to hear about the suntour suspension

[@RoughRidersMTB]

That is some seriously nice trail man. I am pretty envious. It's like you just cannot ride all the trails because there are so many. Our local trails in the center of Germany are not so diversified. 🥲