Riding & Crashing Berm Peak's Biggest Jump

Something is not right here in the last video. I set out to write every incomplete detail in my friend Seth's backyard and after a hard-fought battle I emerged victorious, but he is evil and conquered my fears, which still keeps me up at night. I never understood how high it was until I got here so this is without a doubt the

biggest

lip on Burn Peak oh yeah without a doubt so a lot of people come up to a lip like this and they've never ridden a lip like this and They say what's going to happen when you get out of that thing because of a long winter into a wet spring.

The airbag

jump

has been out of commission since my arrival so unfortunately I couldn't include it in my last video despite having a perfectly good excuse, I still felt like it was something of a cop-out since this airbag

jump

Air happens to be the

biggest

jump on all of Verne Peak, so today we're going to do things right and ship this thing off. There's only one problem if you saw it. From the last video to the end, you will know that my trail bike is broken. Do you want to hear the good news? So what's the good news?

Well, luckily I have a second bike that is even better suited to this air cushion job. I'm here with my dirt jump bikes, which will be my weapon of choice for the day, not only because my other bike is out of commission but because this is a shorter, more compact bike, which I think will be really nice because of how steep what is it. The airbag jump is another great benefit of having the dirt jumper is that it's pretty hard to break down this bike it just doesn't have much to do there's no dropper there's no gears and I'm going to do a couple more things I'm going to do Make this preparation even better for the jump, starting by removing the front brake.

I want to be able to turn the handlebars 360 degrees and currently my rear brake has enough length of hose, but my front brake is stuck now, I won't say. I'm necessarily going to make turns with the bar, but I imagine that by doing the airbag I'm going to get off the bike many times. You know, I'm going to be punching the air and then we'll throw the bike away. Another benefit is that when you hit the ground on the handlebars and you come out, it's not going to break the front brake and a lot of people have the tendency when they land and you grab the brake and you know if you're landing and you grab a whole handful of front brakes, that's not it's going to be nice so okay the next thing I'm going to do is I'm going to change this front tire and these are awesome they're great for

riding

on the street but they have negative tread they're kind. of slicks, so my friends who shot me maxis on this icon, it's like it's actually like an my front end is I won't just slide off.

I'm happy to have knobs there and, most importantly, check it out. I think it's good that everything is ready. I'm still a little nervous about this, but at least I'm prepared. My bike is ready to rock and I turn our attention to the trail. We have some work to do because this trail hasn't been plowed since last fall. Let's start by cutting back the invasive plant life that has grown over the coming spring. We gave it a good raking to clear away the debris and then repaved the entire trail with some fresh dirt. First we'll load land here and this land is awesome because it's free but it has some crazy things like you.

I know construction tape. I have no idea what this is, but there's a lot of this in there and then tons of rocks, lots and lots of rocks, some of them are pretty big too. These are like my favorite jeans, but the only problem is Although on a hot day it always seems like I've constantly peed myself. I swear I didn't pee my pants. This is just it's hot. It's like 90 degrees. Well, the hard part is done. Now is the really satisfying part. let's get the pimp a steamroller is essentially just a large block of metal built for the express purpose of being very heavy and shaking violently they are loud, unwieldy and strangely satisfying to watch, it really is amazing how effective these things are in just In a matter of 30 minutes, this tamper was able to turn our rough, loose soil into a smooth, compact bite like butter.

Things are looking good with the trail repaved and running better than ever. We focused our attention on the long, low jump that Seth wanted to do. make some adjustments, as I have done with all the other functions. I want to press it before changing it. I want to press it in the original way, so we have Kevin here, it's his birthday, he'll show me how to do it. It's amazing, it's like one of my favorite features. Kevin's birthday wishes he would jump on me at the bottom so this is a horrible idea oh man please don't quit happy birthday KeV.

I won't do that again now that we're here. We have solved that. Seth was able to make the necessary changes to the jump and we were finally able to set up the most interesting part of this entire course. The airbag landed for those of you who are not familiar. Mountain bike jumps generally don't have a giant. marshmallow to land, but this is not a normal jump, this one is specifically designed to help us learn new tricks. The idea is that we have a very steep jump that gives us a lot of time in the air and land that hopefully doesn't hurt too much.

It's bad when we fall, which brings us to the burning question on everyone's minds, what exactly will it feel like to land on this thing? It's not soft, no. I liked a group of kids in a bouncy castle at a birthday party and we all wanted to get on with it. The action is good enough every time you crash, that won't feel good with that in mind. I decided it would be wise to watch Seth do this first to get a better idea of ​​how it all works. You read alot. Higher than he thought, but higher than you thought, sure, I mean, yeah, it's ridiculous every time he gets hit.

I feel like they're taller than I think every time and it seems like they've already gotten over it and landed on the floor. It is not like this? Oh I wanna see it from out there yeah you're right let's go down yeah Jesus the thing is every time I get to the lip I feel like I'm going too slow and then I end up being perfect so what you do is you just take two cranks , hit the long and low, like just catch it and just roll into it, if you go too slow you're going to found this softest holster pad you've ever made propeller, you're really going to lock down targets, yeah, well you know you will.

Flying on the handlebars, while watching it probably made me even more nervous, it also showed me how incredibly fun this can be. Just check out our friend and fellow YouTube creator Kevin, this was his first jump of the day with no fear of falling and zero qualms about removing limbs from his bike. Kevin gave us the perfect demonstration of what this craziest jump is for. It's all that I was the one who took the sky for his first mountain bike ride just two years ago now here we are with me on the sidelines looking to him for inspiration it worked hey Dawg watching Kevin have so much fun sending the bag of air, gave me amps to finally try it myself, you know, the problem with your places is that there is nothing to heat, well, it's not like you hit lips like that, they even look remotely like that, no, it's not, yeah, I'm sure I haven't had one today, you know, look, I think the last jump I did, my bike broke on the approach. new features that make me nervous.

I like to break them down so I can get comfortable with each individual piece before putting them all together, so that's what I did first. I focused on the takeoff making some slow climbs to the top. I might get an idea of ​​how steep the jump is, no it's not crazy, and you look at me, can you look over there and tell me if I have enough speed coming out of that? Yes, yes, once I felt comfortable with the jump itself, I began to focus on my approach. feet, which turned out to be a little trickier than I expected, so I suggested Alex follow Kevin and then stop so he could feel the speed after following Kevin.

I felt like I understood speed much better and with my speed and takeoff dialed in, there was just one more piece to this puzzle, right, yeah, I think I have to give it up, I have to try to let go of the load, I really don't want you to get hurt in my yard butt, so I've seen your ability. I'm very comfortable even though I did jumps, I know I can, it's just that you know how things are, I just know it's with Alex, it's always a mental thing, he taught him the skill, he has the experience, he's done much bigger jumps. than this, Alex is totally against it. himself third.

I can do that, okay. I'm going to go back up and drop, it feels so weird dude, I have to do it again the rest of the day. I continue to make myself as comfortable and consistent as possible. I took a little more. good jumps oh yes certainly some more bad news. I even had my first two crashes, now I know what it feels like. That wasn't bad, it wasn't so good after all that initial anxiety. I actually ended the day feeling pretty good, but I still knew it. that tomorrow there will be a completely new challenge.

I mean, after all, this is a trick jump okay, so here we are on the second day of the airbag session now that I'm feeling pretty comfortable with the jump. I want to start trying things, you know, it's a trick jump. I want to try some tricks. I've never done that so here we are, it's the mechanical area because it has a soft floor and I think that's a good place to start, yeah, just leave that puddle of sealant, maybe I could do it without a footer, you should keep the knee stable bike tries to pinch that and now it tries and ok that works much better now I feel like holding it there indefinitely right oh the most amazing dough hitter ever.

Everything Todd now bans me. I'm not doing minute bars today. Test it. You've done this before. Yes. I've done this before. Well yeah, I felt really good on the jump and I finally started to relax enough that I could start manipulating the bike below me while I was in the air, it almost felt like I was in the beginning stages of learning my first trick. , something interesting. It happened, I just hit it really, really well and because I set it up so perfectly, I think I started the beginning of a table. I think I'm going to start trying to figure out what the move is to make a table.

Well, I feel like this is the beginning. of getting some kind of trick, I know that this little ray of hope would eventually lead to my demise, oh that was bad, looking back I don't really know what I was thinking, the idea that I could just learn. a trick after barely feeling comfortable on the vault the day before it was actually a bit ridiculous definitely seeing some stars but I didn't stop there and with my confidence deteriorating I had a few more bad slams after these slams I can only imagine how I feel . tomorrow morning I don't think, I don't think future Alex is going to be excited about future Alex here and I can 100% confirm that I'm super bummed because I didn't stop right there, unfortunately, I did, so I present to you how I crash. slow motion, I'm done, oh, the taxi, yeah, wait, that's definitely it, dude, that was the reason for the loudest bang I've ever heard from above from someone in the airbag, as you all might have guessed by now. , I didn't learn my first trick, although the airbag is kind of soft, my bike certainly isn't and I ended the day with my body and ego pretty beat up to be completely honest with you, I was definitely disappointed in myself to the point where I almost don't do it.

Make this video but hey, if the airbag jump taught me anything it's that trying something new and failing is okay, sure it may hurt a little but at least I'm not afraid to try anymore. Thanks for watching guys. I really hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, don't forget to subscribe to my channel and turn on notifications so you never miss any future videos. Finally, I would like to give a big shout out to the people who make this channel possible, my sponsors, thank you. Thank you so much for the amazing support in doing what I love guys, this really means a lot to me.

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