Upgrading and shredding a... Ski Bike? (IT'S TOO FAST)

oh man that jump looks big I'm a little scared not gonna lie it's okay if you want to hit the slopes be one of those people skiing and snowboarding aren't for you there is another option as proven Here's the low ranger, wow. oh skiing can do this, I can ride a

bike

, well that's what's as easy as riding a

bike

, wait a minute, don't laugh, I can't ride a bike, let's see, so it was three years ago almost the day I got on a crazy contraption called a ski bike for the first time and that day I had only a few hours to try to get comfortable enough to ride it and film it for a video, so I got a little taste of how much fun it was. are.

Things were like that and we moved forward quickly, two years passed very quickly. I knew I had to give it another chance, so I asked the ski bike company that made the first ski bike I tried if I could borrow a couple of bikes for the day so my friend Joey and I could try to shred the bike. Kicking Horse Mountain with them again. It had been two years since I first tried it, so I was practically a novice and Joey had never ridden it before. Well, it turned out to be a crazy day in the mountains and also one of my favorite videos we've ever posted.

At this point I was pretty hooked on ski biking, so you can imagine how excited I was when tangent, let me keep those ski bikes as a thank you for helping share ski biking. With the world holy smokes, how wonderful is it that having my own ski bike to use meant that once the winter lifts started turning this season, I was able to go out and spend some time getting comfortable with things and after just two afternoons in mountain things. I really started to learn, yes, they even make powder skis for these things, which is actually what I've been into as of late.

The other day I walked into the garage and saw my dh bike next to my ski bike and I thought what. If not, wait, what if I change better parts on my ski bike? Of course the first thing I thought of was that rad mrp bartlett fork. The stock fork is fine, but it would be no match for the extra control you would have. get from the high end mrp fork, so it was time to make the switch. I was excited until I realized the head tube was too long. No, the video is not paused. This is what a defeated man looks like.

Luckily I had just gotten a new mrp tape for that Ripley AF build and it worked great until I realized the ski adapter didn't have a boost fitting so I had to make my own boost adapters and yeah, It's that easy and now that the hairpin is on. I replaced the little pedals I had there with some proper catalytic converter pedals. I swapped out the generously padded original seat for a sleek sdg saddle with titanium rails. I put on some hard,

fast

, maneuverable skis, and this thing is ready to break, so I wanted to go back. to the same mountain where I first tried a ski bike which is Sunshine Village just outside of Banff, it was a blue day and the slopes looked incredibly

fast

and we even started the day on the same chairlift as the first video, except this time We weren't taking that lift for the beginner runs, we were just using it to get to a much more advanced chair right at the end of the path.

Well, this is where my friend Dex, you and I found a little problem that made the ski bike better. It's an absolute rocket in these conditions, so trying to get close-up shots was going to be a challenge and I'll show you how incredibly fast this thing is in a minute. Sorry, I wasn't that close to you, so we charged. to the great divide chair this chair crosses the continental divide starts in alberta crosses into british columbia then returns to alberta and leaves us at almost 9,000 feet above sea level sounds like a good place to start how amazing is this after After From just a few days in a row of skiing on a bike, I felt completely in control and comfortable, especially with the new improvements, and let's make special note of the fact that I'm biking in Canada in the middle of winter lifting. access gravity-fed laps and this mountain is never open for mountain biking in the summer, so this is really the only possible way to ride this cool terrain.

I wanted to see how fast this upgraded bike was, so we set it on a Right away, the grade moved up big time immediately after I had to do a couple of sizes, but all I had to do was do a half fold and I started to win fast by doing a full tuck, it was like I had rocket boosters on ouch, according to my watch I was going 75 kilometers per hour oh that's fast oh and did I mention this race isn't even steep? oh before I tackle my main objective for the day it was time to do some more laps through trees on a ski bike at least the tight trees are really scary for me oh it's this little rock fall yes please yes , look at this amazing, you just explode through this stuff, you don't even have to worry like it's crazy, it probably doesn't show, but I'm going.

Pretty quickly, oh this sport makes all the difference now, with my confidence at an all-time high, I started doing more and more side kicks and even some smaller jumps, but it was time to step things up a bit, so we headed to the park, okay? One thing I've still never practiced or tried to do is the ski bike jumps which I've dabbled in, but it's weird because when I go to compress the rear end it wants to scribble and that's really scary when you're climbing. The edge of a jump is almost like jumping on your bike in a line with flat tires.

We found a couple of good medium sized jumps. I've been doing smaller jumps, that's fine, but now we're talking about a decent amount of air, this would be going up a size if you know that trail in Whistler, the one behind it is definitely more of a line size, I don't know, Let's try it, I can't say I'm not nervous, okay, okay, wait. well that wasn't as scary as I thought it was going to be the fastest jump I've done so far to try the big one oh man that jump looks big I'm a little scared I'm not going to lie okay take this one a little slower, okay, that wasn't fast enough, we're still alive, okay, let's try it, here we go, oh that was fun and scary in person, that second jump looks like a wall when you get close to it. so I'm pretty excited to start unlocking bigger jumps, we had a great time doing a couple more laps after that and at the time I'm editing this, I've gone bike skiing, I think eight times already and I'm really hoping to make more and more progress and I think I need to try to hit 100 kilometers per hour on this, but we'll save that for another video.

If anyone is interested in trying bike skiing, I've put a couple of useful links in the description and thanks for watching everyone and I'll see you next week with a real mountain biking video, cheers.