Old Rampage Jumps Session With Braydon Bringhurst! | Blake's Utah Vlog

We're out here at the old Rampage site out here in Utah with a very good friend now that I've met, Brayden Bringhurst, look at him. Pleasure, pleasure. Good to have you, dude. Thank you so much. So good. Well, we're out here, we're going to mess around, have some fun, a bit of downtime, after a bit of Rampage viewing. Yeah. Watching the girls. Special day. It is. They just slayed their runs and now we're out here at the old Rampage site and yeah, it's just amazing. I reckon a few more warmups. Yeah. And I feel like as the evening goes on, more people come out because it's boiling out here. To set the scene, yes, we are in the desert of Virgin, Southwest Utah, an ultimate mountain biking destination, a nucleus of outdoor activity. But more to the point, we are here this evening at an old Rampage site just outside of town, a legendary, world-famous site for dirt jumping and fully sanding it. All right, all right. You could go so big. I know, you could land down there. I know, but it's flat. I reckon it's on here. It's flat. It's the word on the street. I've seen multiple social clips in this particular zone. Look, you got one, two, three, four, five, six, and a tiny one, seven hits. So you can start from really small and work your way up to this monstrosity here where the landing is literally flat. All right, this is another test day. Yeah, boy. Oh, pick up ----. Yep. Oh. Are you all right? You okay? Yeah, I'm good. Good for you, man. So for those of you who don't know who Brayden is, this dude has come from track and pole vault. Now he's riding mountain bikes. He actually told me he started in 2016, which is actually a pretty incredible feat to kind of fast track into mountain biking. That's nice, brother. So here's Brayden, a Canyon Collective rider based out of Boise, Idaho. He grabbed the attention of the internet for his powerful, precise, and stylish riding, featured in films such as 8,600 Feet. No, I've been, yeah, you know, I got my first full suspension, like real mountain bike, back in 2016, and I used to watch the Global Mountain Bike Network tutorials on how to ride, and I just soaked it up. And I haven't stopped. I haven't stopped. I just, like, continue to watch stuff and try to learn as much as I can. Now we're here at the old Rampage site. Yeah, tell me about this place, because in the UK, right, this is called, what do you call this? No, free, road? BLM. BLM land. BLM. Yeah, it's Bureau of Land Management. It's just, like, open lands. Public land. Oh, so that means you can do whatever you want. To an extent, right? To an extent, yeah, yeah. So, like, this place has been very, uh... Oh! We just witnessed someone try, he's gone, Louis, he's gone. But we just witnessed someone try what he's just done, from the middle takeoff, right up to the top, and he cased the hell out of it. That was not good. Brayden, you think you got it? I hope so. I think so. So you're going to go from the middle one, up to the top. Try to go middle lip up to the top. Yeah. So it's going to be a transfer and a pull. Definitely a pull. You nearly got it. If I don't, I might frame case, but... Oh, the TQ will take it. The TQ will take it. Anyway, back to a public land. Yeah, a public land, so you can... Yeah, you can build jumps and do some stuff like that, and it's unique that down here in this zone, I mean, there's such a history here that there's some, a little more freedom granted with the history and what this area is for freeride mountain biking. So, yeah, it's a special place. It's very special, and I've always wanted to be here. It's an absolute dream to come and ride in Utah, to places like this, because you just pointed out behind us over there, which was Josh Bender's huge launch. Yeah. Like, that's, if you're in freeride, that is history right there. History. Right there. Braden Brinkhurst did so good. Did, likewise. I think we should go and find some stuff. Let's do it. Get it! Yeah! Oh, no. Oh! Yeah! Oh, ----. What a fricking animal. Dude, you got it. Thanks, brother. What do you reckon? I'm going to try to do what you did and flip it, but I'm going to do a test jump and just see the pop. Yeah, pop it, see what it's like. Okay. Clear that horrible flat top knuckle. Ha ha ha! Get it, Bjorn! Yeah! XC racer. Top in the U.S., that is. Hey, Braden, who's that guy up there? Bjorn Reilly, one of the hot XC riders, crushing it, just won the U.S. Championships. Oh! Yeah! Ha ha ha ha! Oh, hey! Yo! You might have seen time there. I went a little, that was, I might have not turned. That was nasty, dude. All right. The double drifter. Dude, I got to get it. Yeah, it was real quick. I love it, dude. He does that in World Cup. He what? He does T-bogs in World Cup. It's because we got our cameras on you, dude. I know, I'm stressed now. Yeah! Ha ha ha ha! Yeah! Woo! That was a flip to stop! Thanks, bro. That flip to stop. You went right, as I said, you go, clear that knuckle. Well done, dude. Should we go ride something else? Yeah, I'm fine with that. Are you sure about that, or do you want to go back? No? It's just fine. Let me get a cleaner one of those. All right. I need to take like another crank. Yeah. I went pretty fast on that, my last one. I went so fast, I went to the moon. Ha ha ha ha! Go on, brave. Go on! Ha ha ha! Are you? I think I'm, I think I'm okay. Both of them. No. Both of them. No. Both of them. Oh, I burped them. Both of them. There. It's got dirt in there. Where? There. There's dirt in your bead. And there. No. Shake some sealant in there, dude. Look, you're a ton. Oh my gosh, that was big. Look. Look how big it is. I misjudged the speed a little. Yeah. Look, and then you landed, because you flipped straight. I almost got off. I almost, I almost landed it, dude. Fair play. I think that's a thumbnail. Look at that. Ha ha ha ha! I have no idea how I landed. How was that? That was insane. Oh my gosh, that was nuts. Did you bend the wheel? You just gotta clean your bead out. If that's all it is. That's it. I think you just gotta clean your bead out. That's it. Ball egg, innit? What's that? Ball egg. A ball egg. Sorry. Ball egg. Ball egg? Yeah. What are you talking about? Pain in the ass. Oh, yeah. It's a ball egg. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha! I don't think it's British humor or British slang. Sorry. To an American. Sorry, I don't. It's a pain in the ass. It's a ball egg. Ha ha ha! Right, so we're pretty much riding the same name bike, right, it's a Spectral, but yours is the Spectral OnFly with the TQ motor. So that's the e-bike. Yep, yeah, this is the e-bike. It's a little over 300 watt battery. It's still super light and nimble. Has a lot of the same characteristics as the main regular Spectral. Yeah. But, yeah, it's got a little e-power on it. It looks literally the same thing, but it's got a motor, it's ridiculous. Yeah, it's crazy. And like you said, the kinematics exactly the same. It rides the same, it's progressive, fun, flicky. A little bit heavier than this. A little bit more travel, obviously, because it's an e-bike, but man, two bikes, killing it out here. Oh my gosh. Ha ha ha! And it's getting dark. There's one thing about this place that does not cease to amaze me more than the sunset. Everything just goes gold. Literally, golden hour is made in Utah because of these red cliffs and the sun going down. Just makes it all orange. Incredible. It's jump heaven. It's crazy, dude. Hey? It's crazy. There's drops everywhere. People camping out. This is the dream. Hey? Have you camped out here before? Yeah, a couple times. Not a lot, but yeah. It's crazy. Dude, this is unreal. The desert is like cooled right down. It's not baking hot. So good right now. But at this time, light goes like this. It gets dark real quick. We got 30 minutes. 30 minutes and we haven't even touched the surface. Oh ho ho ho! Going to be sagging on an airplane going home. Ridiculous. Man, I cannot get enough of this place. Look, look at this dirt. Look at this dirt. So the time now, right, is a quarter past seven in the PM. It's getting dark, but everyone's still shredding everywhere. Look, sunsets. Mate, what a day to ride with you, man. But I think, should we come back tomorrow? Please. If we've got time. Let's knock off some shoots. Let's hit some other spots. Yeah, some shoots. I want to hit this again in the normal light. Yeah, it's kind of dark. It's a little sketch. But this place, right, is a hive of activity. Oh my gosh. Unreal. What is here? It's the buzz, okay? Everyone's just out here to have an absolute blast, which is incredible. This is freaking insane. Dude, oh my gosh. So stoked to be out here with you. Let alone in Utah. Likewise, dude. Oh, this place is unreal.