Riding MTB with Berm Peak and Singletrack Sampler

All right, so the pace is we're here with Alex and Seth and uh Alex is already calling out trail doubles on the climbing trail so it should be an interesting day. That was cool. Well, see you guys. Hey guys, welcome back. We're at Ride Canoga and we got a special action. Seth decided to make some time to ride. Some guy yelling in the background but you can't see who that is just yet. We're here to ride the new Beekeeper Trail and probably some Hemlock Epoch and some Roto-Ruckus. You just mistakenly called it, what, Ladybug? Ladybug again? That sounds a lot more chill than Beekeeper. Okay, so it's Beekeeper. Ladybug's here somewhere too though, isn't it? I like a raking ride but we'll skip all that and let's get right to some POV action. The trees, they just keep your head up but they're small. Everything's small. The majority of the trail are tiny. I'm going to miss. It's got to jump into a tree. I don't like that. There's a tight spot. There's a spot where you're like slotting through trees that's like, oh, your bars. I wonder if your bars are going to fit, bro. I'll make them fit. Just, you know, manual wheel bar turn. Okay, so you're riding blind on this. I'm riding blind and you've ridden it before. I've ridden it one time. So you should have no problem keeping up with Seth, right? I keep hearing about jumps. Like jump into a tree. That's all I heard too. Yeah, that spot got me. But I didn't even see it coming and I was able to stop. I'm going to be all behind you, Alex. Plenty of pressure. Plenty of pressure. Seth just drops me if I ever get close. Beekeeper at Ride Canuga. Might be a little high on my front tire pressure if it's dry out here. I feel like that's next run. We'll lower that down. Okay, that's, oh, that was definitely loose. Got that jump. I'm going to let the front tire pressure down. Oh, that's a weird one. Oh, that is, that is some tight riding guys. I don't know if that's coming across the camera, but we're like tucking elbows in between trees. We're going so fast. I can smell Alex's or Seth's brakes right now. I don't know whose they are, but I can smell them. Here's a step there. Oh, nope, nope. Oh, that was a tight one. Oh, that's quite a rut. And I think that's a completion of Beekeeper. Pretty cool trail. Pretty good blind ride in there. That was fun. Yeah, that was good. I mean, that was, uh, that was intense. Got to get it while you can on those fresh cut trails because that's, that's it. You know what I mean? A few weeks from now. Yeah, it's not going to be the same. Okay, if you think that was one of our brakes, it smelled like fire. One of you guys, I could smell your brakes riding behind you. I definitely could smell it. Did you hear me talking? Well, no, I said, I had just said it. I said it smelled like fire. So you, you're breaking yours in though, I bet. Um, how many miles you got on that thing? I got some miles on it, but I definitely burned up these brakes a lot worse before. Um, it could have been something in my brakes that was burning. It could have been something in him that was burning because I didn't clean it off my bike very well. Yeah, I was like, what is that smell? I'm down a little pressure. I feel like the coring I was slipping on. I'm going to be reserved first time down. Yeah, first time down. Beekeeper went great. So we're moving on to another trail. So let's just keep riding. They redid all that dirt. That looks so fresh. I bet the guys needed a break after all that rain. I know Kevin's like been just redoing everything every single week. It's holding up now. Um, but now it must be tense. Yeah, that's when you need to get a chance to get ridden in until the next like torrential downpour. It, uh, it was riding so good that I only had like a, you know, a little bit more than a half day's worth of stuff to do. And I was like, you know what? This, all the hard work paid off. Like this is park is running amazing. Let me get over here. Alex is iffy on the jump action. So I'm going to, I'm going to roll back in behind old Seth-a-roo. Seth's just going to leave her pinned as always. I know you guys are like, yeah, I'm going to be reserved. Oh, you could send that hard. You'd send that real hard. There's a double at the end now for sure. Yeah. I couldn't hit that a lot harder. That was, uh, those last ones were lippier for sure. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. The one out of the berm, I was like, Oh, here we go. I was like, okay, one 70. I love you. And I'm going to hit that off that berm. So the second berm coming out, you can press in and push and jump out to the landing this way. I mean, I did it when it was smaller. You want me to film? Do you want me to film you guys going over the step up? Oh, dude, the step up is, is open to take more speed now than it used to. All right. I'm just going to, no, I'm, I'm not looking at, I'm not looking to take any risks today. I got to go back to work. I got a weekend ahead of me. I gotta, yeah, I'm going to go. Just chill, bud. Yeah. I'm totally gonna hit it. Oh, one footer. Something's loose with my back end. I got the one footer. Yeah. Look how big Seth bars look. He got through everything on beekeeper. I said, I'm going to cut them down. And then I get home and I put the bike away. And then I'm like, oh, next time he comes out, he's like, oh, I'm going to drop the stack 10 millimeters and bring it in by like 30. It's a nice looking bike though. It looks super. And that new Zeb's on there. Yeah. It's nice. It's creaking already. Is that one? What size is that? Uh, 180. 180. You're 170. I'm 170, dude. Well, maybe this is why he's beating us. He's got that extra travel. So we're about to head out and do another lap and we're headed down Roto Ruckus and to check it out and maybe find some trail gaps. If not, we should ride all the way to the bottom. Stay tuned. I bet there's new stuff in there. I haven't been down it, but usually the sight lines are good. They caught me off guard. I didn't hit him last time. A raspy smash. Yeah, yeah. I'm from the streets and I'm like rugged smash. Yo, we about to smash. Smash. We about to smash. I seen, I seen that trail before and I knew we was going to smash. All right. Come on. We're burning. We're burning time. Seth's going. You're in the middle, man. I like, I like riding this. This is everybody's pull out. Oh, oh yeah. Yeah. I was like, what? There's one trail double we missed. Oh, what's interesting here is that there's a, a whole bunch of line choices coming up. I guess they're going to go straight down the middle here. Look my back. There it is right here. I mean, we always could come back. Huh? It was crazy when there was nothing cleared. Man, that's a huge gap. You clear this? I mean, I'll land probably right at the trail, trail break there. The thing is timing it. Knowing it's there. You hit that berm coming to the inside and square up here. Yeah. That is too big. Maybe next run. I mean, you don't have to clear it as a thing. You could take it and transition right here. You definitely could. Or you can make a transition. From there to there is gigantic. Let's get more warmed up then. Let's get more warmed up before we hit the 30 foot gap. It's like 38. It's not 40. I really just, I really just wanted to catch up because they were dropping me. Maybe next run. I can't really see where I'm going. There's a weird one. That one's got a whole bunch of speed for it. Oh, there's a tree. I almost caught that tree. We're at the end anyways. Damn. That was almost crappy. That was a good run. It's just so much fun. It goes on and on. Yeah, it does. That guy got me a little tired. Yeah, I am just, I've been up since 40. I hope I was filming. I love it when that happens. Dude, I just wake up at 4 in the morning. If I sleep more than five hours, I just wake up. Your body's like, what are you, what's wrong with you, slacker? I wish I could stay asleep and I wish I could get back to sleep. I just can't anymore. It's brutal. I'll get to bed at like 8 30 and try and get to sleep. I ended up waking up at 2 30. I was talking to my doctor and I had no idea. After the step up, two berms, two tables, and then there's a double. It's like a little, little hidden trail double. I want to hit. That's what I'm playing on. Smashing. All right, here we go. Oh, I don't know. I just, I guess I could keep going. That was all I was worried about. I need some more tire pressure. Oh, pulled off early. Yeah, that jumps way better now. The step up. I feel like everyone's got a little. Yeah, it was a smash. So now we're down to the parking lot at Canuga. And, uh, that's where one of these parking lot jumps are. We still got some energy. Keep that heart rate going a little bit. Duck, duck, send. So I've actually ridden all of this on my DJ. Oh, more pressure in the back tire. Way better. Way down the landing. Perfect on the landing and cut the corner. Yeah, dude. The first jump's the hardest one. Which one? It's less steep if you go this way, I guess. I don't know. I've already piled up now. I got a crank at that first one to clear it. The other ones are all gimmies. You just gotta go. Look, you gotta steer wide and then just. No, I don't know. I'm just winging it. No, super steep. Alex first. I'm gonna grab this tree in case he falls. Okay, that's not really fair. That's not actually fair that he did that. He weighs a lot less than I do. Yep, so this is where Alex's nimbleness and flexibility just crushed it. You can paddle up, Seth. So Alex made it up. Right up the middle. Not a problem. Yeah, I made the turn and then fell over. I suck compared to these guys. Not a problem. It's stuck way better than I thought it would. Yo, I'm actually so excited. The most reliable, unreliable camera you'd ever own. You're good. I don't get it. Yeah, I like how sometimes you push the button, it makes no beeps. And you're like, oh, okay. All right, Alex, the pressure's on. I'm coming behind you. Man, I knew you were gonna do that. Yep, yep. We got one lap and dropping in. Alex is clearing the first jump. I'm cool with it, let's go. Be on the gas. I'm cool with it. Because I'm. Check yourself before you wreck yourself, son. I like how it's all fancy with some cursive in there. Yeah, just look at this way. If you mess up, I'm only like 230 coming at you through the air. Well, you should know that you probably go fast. I don't know. You, you handle it. You're behind me. Yeah. Oh, we're dropping right in. Okay. Oh, okay. So I guess we had a little oopsie there with the boys. Something happened. At least they pulled over to the side of the trail. Let me get around. So this climb back up isn't too bad. It's a little punchy, but it's not very long at all. Oh, oh, see back at the park. There's no one here. But what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get this climb. But both those guys got. So I need you to stay pressure on the wheel. Line up the bike, lean forward and start pedaling. I'm in my 50. So no reason to be in a rush. No reason to be in a rush. That's just really steep for me. Oh, I suck at that climb. Yeah, I did. I see what you guys meant. I did need a little bit more speed to clear that. That's the only one. Every other jump on here, you can hit with no extra effort. Getting the right gear first. Yeah, you guys drop it. I'm trying to catch up. I got these. I got little legs. Here we go. All the way down. And jump the corner. That was good. I'm landing. I'm like landing deep where I can. I see you guys land. And then I'm like halfway down the landing. And I'm like, OK, this is good. I love my suspension. On a dirt jumper, that would have hurt. That felt so smooth, actually. Those are great. Those are like the perfect height jumps for me. Oh, man. Hey, man. Thanks for making the time to get out and ride, bud. Thanks for inviting. Yeah, this is. Yeah, that was sweet. I gotta do that more. Shit, we would have just waited. We probably would have stayed cooler. Because I didn't record this first one. But I definitely made it up with Alex's harassment on his GoPro, I bet. Alex is showing off behind me. I'm also filming, so you cannot mess up. See what I mean? I got you. Get out of here, Jack. Now we're like one last run. And we are. Well, I'm going to do one. I'll do a run around here. And then I'm probably going to hit this one. The drops are coming for sure. Huh? You're done? I don't know if it was from the breeze or what. But I got a little sketchy on the step up. That's good for me. Yeah, it was a little. See, for me, it was a little breezy, right? It was a little breezy. And once I get comfortable, I start going deep. And then that's when something bad happens. Yeah, I'm done. I am actually so stoked I just got that line, though. That's good. That felt awesome. And dude, it really is like dusty now all of a sudden. Yeah, it was. Every time I hit that step up, I go to the right and I land in that ditch. Yeah, you go deep on that thing. It'd be scary to hit that any faster. It's like a land into that tree. That's an accomplishment for you. Nice job, man. A little bit of baby step back. Baby step forward. Nothing weird happening here. Nothing weird going on here. Naked in my house. Naked in Alex's house. There's not even a bed on the bed platform. Don't even think about it. So nobody's smashing. Nobody's smashing. There's none of that. But it was a great day riding with Seth and Alex at Canuga. I'm actually in the van because it's raining right now. Dude, out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. I was already so wet. You wouldn't have been able to tell if I jumped in a pool or not. So it doesn't really matter. I'm just wet. And we were at the end of the ride anyway. So it was perfect for us to have a reason to wrap up. And I cleared the blue line, baby. Let's go. I know it doesn't seem like much, but... Have you guys done the jump line in the Canuga parking lot? It's pretty awesome. I hope you guys enjoy the riding footage today of Seth and Alex. Both those guys are always killing it. It's always good to ride those guys. Always great to ride with you, bro. I think Alex, you're headed out to somewhere in the world. Colorado? He's going to Colorado. We're not going to see him for a while. So I'm glad we got this last minute ride in. Glad we got to ride with Seth. Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe. Check out Alex's channel. And Seth dipped before the paparazzi. That thing was gone super fast. He was. He's not letting the paparazzi get him here at Canuga. So... Great ride with you, man. I'm glad. That's two we got in before heading out. It was. Super solid. Pedal a little harder. Don't hit the brakes. Get out and ride your bike. Oh, now it's coming down. Yeah, bud! Dude!