Matt – Your New Goal
I am writing this to hopefully inspire Matt to achieve his dreams… of replicating this level of awesomeness. Yes, Matt has hucked the Sol Vista Ménage à trois cold on his first run, backflipped anything in sight without thinking and was the official Guinea pig for the unicorn cam (below), but this is a whole new level of awesome.
Hardcore in a Whole New Way
So I generally measure ‘hard-core-a-ness’ in how many tailwhips you can do in a backflip. For me, thats zero. Not very hardcore. Some shredders over on VitalMTB got a back flip triple whips down. That’s hardcore. However, after checking out Strava times for local segments, Jeff Kerkove is hardcore. I mean the dudes blog color scheme is the same as his jersey. But joking aside, a blizzard hits Fort Collins and he takes it as a excuse to test out new snow equipment, when most of us just look outside and curse. Hardcore.
Mark Webb – The Webbie Show
I just yelled ‘holy shit!’ about 10 times during the course of this video… its THAT crazy good.
Shawn Neer Blasting Boulder Skate Park
Shawn Neer takes advantage of the awesome Colorado weather we’ve been having (if your into the whole not a lick of snow thang!) Can you say skills!
Military Bike Jump Fail
The most dangerous thing while in a combat zone overseas? The Napoleon dynamite style bike jump!
Kyle Rosencrans Edit
Grand Junction Shredder doin’ his thang!! I’m always stoked on a good skate park edit.
Plantation Teen Biker Breaks Guinness World Record – Sun Sentinel
Check it out here: Plantation teen biker breaks world record – Sun Sentinel. 686ft is the world record for a manual? Seriously? And it used to be 334ft in 2008 before this kids attempt… SERIOUSLY?
Psshhhhh….. what you know about 881ft three years ago Zach Hutelin! Of course, I didn’t have my knee pads, the whole city and the Guinness officials on hand. Check out Issue7 for some old school shredding, and an apparently world record breaking manual. Come to think of it, didn’t some super old school New World Disorder video have a downhill manual segment with the dudes going car speeds?? This whole manual record seems silly!
SB Photo!
Go check out Seth Beckton Photo over on Facebook and ‘like’ his page… the dude has got skills and has more drive to follow his dreams than most people will ever know. Below, Matt Beringer’s backyard… wooden capsule or unfinished time machine?!?
Two GREAT Videos
Every once in a while, a video edit comes along that totally changes what I think is possible on a bike. This is one of those edits.
And this is just about the funniest thing I have ever seen. Remember: just because its a foam pit doesn’t mean its safe!
Unicorn Cam
Unicorn Cam (TM) – Take one – 970 Biking TST Leafers Jam 2011 Matt Russel as your pilot:
DJ Brandt Fall 2011
Up and comer DJ Brandt from Grand Junction drops his first(?) edit… and dammnnn kid’s got skills! Can’t wait to see more from the crew on the western slope.
Z’s Tour de Colorado
Zness, super shredder and 34 local wrapped up his ‘Tour de Colorado’ back in the summer. If you missed it, make sure to check out the whole journey over on his blog.
Strava App
As you can see, I haven’t used this app very much yet but none the less… Check out this app for all iphone and android phones. Kinda like the Road 34 bounty, but high tech. It tracks your rides, like GPS units do, however this one goes beyond that and uploads your information to share with friends. It will automatically break down segments of uphill, downhill and total distance and then rank your performance in each. All you do it turn it on and shred. So, Fort Collins trail shredders, lets get some local competitions going on!
Tynans Lives On
As you can see, Erik is slaying 360 tailwhips now. However, if you’ll notice in the background… Erik and Chance have been hard at work on a new line!
970 is Back!
So, the 970 site went down for a while. A long while. All I can say is my bad. Between blogging for VitalMTB, life, lack of computer prowess and no sure idea of where this whole site is going into the future… I let it sit, until enough people complained to me. Even though this isn’t the time of year anyhow for updates, I’ll try to keep on it and search for a new direction for 970. In the mean time, here is an incredible shot from the last ride I was on. Colorado is AWESOME.
