RIDING THE BIGGEST MTB JUMP LINE IN MEXICO IS GNARLY!

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Hello everyone, today is going to be epic, so we're out here in Mexico at the Freeride
Fiesta.
This is a huge jump trail and it's about to go down.
We're going to be lazy and take a buggy down.
Ow!
So much pain.
You start up there where we introed, big step down, it's all really slow, you just
roll no pedals, then full speed down there into that road gap, quite a steep old lip
on it isn't it?
It is quite a big lip, yeah, and quite poppy but it's quite fun.
See the first gap out of the berm is actually massive, such a big one, and that sort of
tells you what the rest of the trail is going to be like.
You then blast down there into this sort of hip, similar sized gap, but you're going flat
out and then that leads down into this huge shark fin thing, which is more of like a race
long low, into the biggest jump ever.
Look at it, that's a freestyle motocross jump isn't it?
That's ridiculous from there.
After you hit that huge metal kicker motor ramp, you're faced with this big cannon here.
From the side though, you'll see how big it actually is.
It is definitely the longest gap I've seen on one isn't it?
It's huge, wait till you see the next feature.
You've got this massive drop here.
We were saying if this was on it's own in like a woods, it would be the biggest thing
in the whole of England, but it's just a normal feature here in Medstead.
And now as everyone's ridden it, and you know the speed, it's quite fun and quite enjoyable.
It's so big though.
And that finishes off with a hugely steep step up there, which I went to flat on first
go.
So that's what the course looks like on foot, let's go back to the top and I'm going to
follow Johnny Salido for my first run through this ridiculous course, where I'm definitely
going to overshoot loads of stuff.
Here we go.
Chasing Johnny Salido into this huge freeride line here.
Woah, we're massive!
Woah!
Yo!
Yeah!
First try!
Yo!
Nice dude!
Oh my god, I went so big on so much stuff.
Nice!
Here we go.
Need to be a bit slower on everything because this bike's so quick.
Woah!
Oh my god, that's long!
Unfortunately, my headset blew up because it was an Acros one with a plastic inside
and it couldn't handle the front grip from the last video here.
Wow!
That's where it broke I think, and then I over spun a flip on the big jump, so I've
now got no front brake because I had to take it all apart to get the new headset in.
So we're now like jump bike style, and my small inner tube and tyre didn't work either,
so we're going to switch back to a heavier one for the rest of the session tomorrow.
We've now skipped on through the week to the final day of the freeride fiesta.
It's been a bit of a weird week.
There's been wind every day.
I had a few bike issues, but they've been sorted.
One of them was that my headset exploded, so I've actually had to take the front brake
off because that was running through the steerer there because I had it set up for
bar spins, but now I've just got one brake on which works.
It's super windy again today.
We're just going to session the lower part of the course, do a few little tricks before
we get into the full length runs later.
Let's get it.
Shall we?
Yeah, we shall.
Chasing ice dude!
It's been windy all day, but we got some freestyle motocross we can have a look at now.
To make up for it, we'll hopefully get some laps in this afternoon when the wind finally
dies down.
The wind has finally died off a little bit.
It's still a bit windy.
This makes it sketchy, but we can't sit around all day.
It's been like six hours in that tent.
We're getting up there, some full top to bottom.
Let's see what tricks we can pull off.
Let's get it down here then.
See what it's like.
A little windy.
It's scary.
Oh no, it was good.
Wow, that is so windy.
That's scary.
Just want to push up this lap to show you guys the size of it.
We got Godziak in now on this first road gap.
Wow.
So sick.
He's flying down.
It's quite a scary course because you've got a brake absolutely everywhere.
If you've noticed, I've only got a rear brake.
That's because my headset exploded from an overshoot.
We had to cut the brake off because it was running through the steerer there.
Flying is so cool.
We're going to get up now, smash another lap.
We'll get a little flip on this one.
In again.
Bit windy.
That's scary.
Oh my God.
So much speed for everything.
Why?
Oh my God, that was so scary.
Almost died.
If I'd have over-rotated that, that would have been the end.
I'm going to wait until the sun's down.
You can't see anything up the lift.
It's so dangerous.
And it's windy.
Whatever.
Right, let's wait until later.
I think Godziak's got on a motorbike.
And he's got shoes on.
What's going on, Eiston?
Godziak's just been Godziak and playing on the motor ramps.
Like, stole someone's bike.
He's got trainers on.
And he's doing full moto freestyle tricks.
And then riding the mountain bike jumps as well on the motorbike.
He's down.
We're now in the mining session.
It's going off.
So we ended sort of abruptly of the riding down there,
because I jumped so far to flat,
I had quite a heavy issue of the bike in the fork department.
That didn't allow me to ride anymore.
We did see Simon Godziak getting absolutely crazy on the motocross bike.
But yeah, Mexico has been amazing.
I definitely want to come back soon.
The weather is perfect.
Good vibes always.
And hopefully next time with a few mods and less wind,
we can have more fun on the course.
See you in the next one.
