How a Perfect Bike Park Day Ended with a Helicopter

Today is a very special day. A day where mountain bikers from around the country and even the world gather in a small Canadian village. Of course this could only mean one thing. Welcome to Whismas. Now long time viewers of this channel will know that I am not much of a bike park guy. I actually only spend about a day or two in one every year. But since I grew up several thousand kilometers away and since life is best spent on two wheels, it was really only a matter of time before I showed up at Whismas. Today I'll be riding with my friends Simon and Jordan, along with many other familiar faces in the YouTube scene. My goals today are to have fun, stay safe, hang out with some awesome people, and hopefully even clean Fade to Black. This video is brought to you by DV8 Cycles, and when they invited me out to Whismas I couldn't say no. In order to survive the bike park I brought my all-time favorite mountain bike, my DV8 Claymore. With 165mm of high pivot magic out back and 180mm of squish up front, it is a fantastic pick for a weekend in Whistler. I'm working on a bike check video before the end of the month, so let me know what you want to know about this bike or any of my choices in the comments below. Thanks again to DV8 and MC, now let's ride! Alright, Whismas is here! Lap one, we're doing a warm-up with Jordan and Simon. Crank it up! It is crazy riding Jesus! That step-up doesn't look too bad. I think it's smaller than the freight train one. I think it is. I just find the little kicker to be closer. Definitely have to ride that again. That is incredible. Alright, angry pirate. It's a bit wet. A bit scary. That one rock chute was exciting. Yeah, there's just like a couple roots where I'm like, I hope I don't slip to the side. Yep, exactly. I totaled a case of jump. Oh, I rolled it. Got all of them nicely except the last one. I just made that last big one. A couple sneaky lines in there. Quite good. Those lines are good. Yep, same. Thanks for towing me in. Yeah. I've not done that. Yeah, it's a bit spicy. Yeah, it does roll. Oh yeah. Yeah. That was awesome. Line's getting better. Yeah, that was way better. I was feeling so good. Just gotta look before you leap. This part's interesting. It is roots. Hope you like wet roots. Scary but fun. Oh, it doesn't get better. Oh goodness. Yeah, holy. Some of that actually got built up compared to last year, like some of that rock was not there before. Wow, that was pretty close. That was scary. That rock, I heard you slide, so I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna square the corner up. The corner was mud. Oh, I see. What is that? I don't know, why did they do that? The heck is this? Looks good. Alright, Jordan, tell me everything I need to know. Paint the block, it first starts... The road gap and do a right. Yeah, so that's chill. Yeah. You don't need to go too fast on the road gap. But then, yeah, I always kind of hit the brakes into the berm because there's a bunch of these like rollers. Sometimes they need to give a pedal for the next drop over a stump. The setup drop. Yeah, and then the on-off thing. And then the next feature is a roll. Yeah, after the on-off thing, then it's all a roll. But yeah, those rollers after the drop, they give you the rhythm for everything else. I always feel weird on them because they're too big. Sometimes I get like too much air or something and I... They're a bit weird, but it doesn't matter. Have you done it? I've done it, not the box though. Oh, I haven't done the box. Well, I have done the box, but I might not do it this time. Alright, fade the black. Never done this trail, but seen enough videos and talked it through. Should be pretty good. Oh, dude. Sorry about that. I nose manualed the whole thing. I did see that. That was hilarious. Everyone's okay. That's what matters. That's the confidence I needed. Perfect. Thanks for the tail. That was awesome. I can do it. I'll have to do it again next time. I'll have to do it again. Oh yeah, wet wood. It's good to know you're chickening out on the dirt trail. I'm so scared of anything above like 20K an hour. So scary. That was a good one, Jordan. Man, I'm the guy who likes riding tech and holy heck is that fun. That is incredible. The dirt here is so good. It's hard to beat that. Nice. I don't know if I noticed like too much difference, but maybe like a little. But you did like tests. I did some science. Yeah. Some science. Yeah, maybe. Thank you, sir. Venmo, venmo. Oh, amazing. All right, we got the party lap with everyone. I guess Swissness is pretty special. This is a big train. Sorry if I held you back at all. No, you didn't. After the first section, everyone spidered out and I'm like, oh, I've got to pick someone to follow. Here we go, guys. Party laps. Oh, dirt's good in here. Good choice going on that one. Just giving her. You sure? All right, we'll see. Tight train. It is. The rider who went down there was Jordan Boostmaster. And to say he went down would be a bit of an understatement. Jordan ended up with a collapsed lung, five fractured ribs, and some internal bruising, and was largely unable to move from the side of the trail. Jordan was taken off the trail by an ATV, which drove him to an ambulance, which drove him into a helicopter, which flew him to Vancouver General Hospital. They certainly don't call in the helicopter for just any crash. Thankfully, Jordan is one tough cookie. And amazingly, he's already back to riding in the bike park. Head over to his channel to show him some love if you haven't already. I'll leave a link in the comments below. It's never fun to watch anyone go down that hard, but it is always amazing to watch everyone come together when someone truly needs help. Every rider in our group managed to remain calm, positive, and helpful throughout this whole event. It was truly impressive how fast Whistler's Bike Park Patrol managed to arrive on the scene and get Jordan out of the forest to the help that he needed. Everyone involved deserves a massive thank you. And in no particular order, Simon, Ollie, Matt, Jason, Andrew, Kaz, Eric, James, and Damian, thank you for being so helpful under pressure. It's been a hard year for the mountain bike community, so it was reassuring to watch everyone come together. Stay safe out there, everyone.