We hit SOME of Germany's best freeride MTB spots and get mind blown by the insanity levels of some of these jumps, would you ride these spots?
I hit the road with Alex Holowko on an adventure around Germany to find some of the sickest riding spots available. We start off in Stuttgart to feel part of the Red Bull Cerro Abajo and try some of the course before heading up to Frankfurt where we were able to ride the biggest and best freeride dirt jumps ever, the guys from Krater then invited us to Cloud 9, another sick trails spot! From here we hit endless other trails and fun before ending up in Köln or Cologne and found some sick Urban MTB freeride locations. I used all sort of different Canyon MTB's and had the best time, which spot was the best?
Chapters: 00:00 - Stuttgart Cerro Abajo spot 03:47 - Biggest MTB dirt jumps 05:56 - Crazy long bike park jump line 09:08 - How every pumptrack should be made! 10:20 - Best dirt jump spot ever? 12:35 - Infamous urban MTB freeride spot! 14:16 - Private bike park
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Look how skinny these are!
I'm out in Stuttgart with Alex Holoco. What are we doing mate?
We're on the hunt for some crazy urban doomers.
Here we go, into a big one.
Yes!
We've got some traffic down here.
Thank you.
That was unreal.
Alex is in for the gap.
Yeah, it's good, isn't it?
Yes, I am.
Danke. Just go back in, you won't...
It's fine.
I'll just do another one and then we'll go.
No, I'm going to do it now and then we...
Well, I'm doing it, so call the police or something.
This guy is going to watch this one. It's going to be so good.
How did you like that, mate? Did you get the clip?
Danke.
That was cool, actually.
I'm going to try and ride up the...
Oh, that's not going to work, is it? Oh, yeah.
Oh, so good on the little side.
Whoa, one-handed.
Whoa, crazy.
Here you go then, guys. Look.
Back up. Easy, see?
Yeah, that's the end of the trick show.
We're going to go down the stairs one more time for you.
Yeah.
It's like lily padding down.
Alex is in.
We're both going to Danny Mac this.
Oh, no.
That was always going to happen. Look.
At least it's only a cheap gear set.
So my failed attempt at being Danny MacAskill ended in a snapped derailleur.
Luckily, we found this bike shop, Bikes and Boards.
They sorted us out and fixed the derailleur.
The plan was always to then go to this dirt spot, which we went to.
Unfortunately, the big line was closed.
So as you can see here, we could only ride the small ones.
Then we came back to Stuttgart to give the shop a signed T-shirt to say thanks for fixing my bike.
And then we did a few more stair sets.
Dropping.
Wow.
Yeah, boys.
That was an insane one.
Right, turn up the next spot.
Bike has been switched to the Canyon Torque.
Slope duro'd out.
No front brake.
Look at that.
Dangerous.
We're at Crater Trails.
Let's just go and have a look at them because they're supposed to be ridiculous.
Right, I'm in the woods.
I just had to walk through this line.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, it's really massive.
You'll see right now.
Dropping.
Crater.
Insanity.
That is ridiculous.
An absolutely insane line.
That's so good, man.
I can't believe that.
It's just so flat and mountain bike-y but BMX trails that it immediately feels sort of safe.
Here we go.
I like to lose track of what you're even doing in the air.
I'm just like, oh, he's in a different shape than me.
I'm definitely getting dangerously weak.
You've done a lot of biking on this trip so far.
I've pulled on the flip there.
I'm not taking my hands off.
I'm just a passenger of my own backflip.
Hoping I pulled enough off to take it.
It's the next morning and after a camp up in the new van,
which you can see the full build on my second channel,
we're now at Bike Park Beerfelden.
Beerfelden.
It's actually closed but the owner was nice enough to let us eave here.
Let's check out Beerfelden.
Just made it up the top of Beerfelden.
Loads of tracks.
We pedaled up there and then you just have to do a push or eave to the top where we are now.
We're going to do the jump line.
There's quite a few options, but that's what we're most interested in.
All right, here we go then.
Jump line chasing Alex.
This is what we came for to check out.
Oh yeah, a few gaps already.
Yeah, this is the dream.
Oh, wooden feature inbound.
Oh, look how skinny these are.
Whoa.
Oh, that's quite scary how skinny they are.
Oh, fast wall ride.
So cool.
A little on off.
Oh, it's like a little supercross track.
Oh, look at this big, big road gap.
Oh, inside on there, outside on here.
Oh, that was a techie road gap there.
Oh, I think we're off the track for a bit then.
Okay, well, that is unbelievable.
What a cool surprise spot.
That was cool.
We literally just found this on Google Maps and it ended up being incredible.
There may be some secret lomas.
Secret lomas?
Yeah.
Should we have a look?
Yeah.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Out of control.
I've got so much mud in my eye.
That was insane, weren't it?
Wow.
How are you still alive?
Just fully out of control.
Look at all the mud in my eye.
It's like fully in my pupil.
That's sick.
What a cool stop off.
We've come from that excitement to this little pump track,
which wouldn't be that exciting if it wasn't for the fact there's three different jump lines built next to it.
Germany delivering.
Bike Park Carbon.
Public Park with jumps.
What more could you want, really?
Here's the run then.
You can go from here, transfer that, and then spin that into there.
Jump this.
Flip this.
Blast the sharky.
And then probably no foot cam the last.
Slide on there.
Dreams.
I'll get some clips of you guys hitting the jump.
Look at that.
This is the level of fun you can have here.
Look, training Alex.
It's actually rad.
That's so good.
That is a fun little public zone, isn't it?
Well worth the stop.
We've come from that insane pump track to probably the best dirt jump spot I've ever seen, ever.
This is cloud nine.
We're about to ride a load of the jumps here, but it is just dirt jump paradise.
There's roll-ins everywhere, lights when it's dark, kids lines, big lines.
There's a dirt bowl.
There's cool people everywhere.
And there's a bike rack.
If you want to sit down, you can just put your bike in there.
Look, I'm well excited.
We're going to start off on the kids line now.
Let's get it.
Small line is incredible.
Dropping.
Well, Alex is so close.
Oh my God, you're literally on me.
That's well fun.
It's now time to try this big line here.
It's insane.
It's like pretty massive berms, transfers, a super skinny section.
Look at this.
Scary dropping in when you're coming.
After the excitement of riding the amazing cloud nine trails, it was time to head to Winterberg.
Unfortunately, it was super wet and windy there, but we did make some amazing videos,
and they're coming out in the next few weeks.
From there, we decided to head down to Cologne to hit up some urban freeride in the windiest conditions ever.
Let's have a look.
We're about to find some sick urban spots.
We're on e-bikes.
I'm one of the Canyon's driver on CFR, and we're about to send.
Let's get to the first one.
Oh, look at this, mate.
Look.
Whoa.
So street.
Oh, it's getting huge off the end here.
Whoa.
You've got to clean this section as well.
Oh, section completed.
Yeah.
Here we go.
That's sketchy.
Wheelied out a bit.
This thing's got so much power.
Look at all the locks.
The bridge must be like way heavier now.
The wind, unfortunately, put a downer on the session.
We couldn't hit a load of spots because it was just so blowy, which was annoying.
So we had a quick look on Google Maps, and we found this little bike park,
which is apparently the best and only bike park in Cologne.
Look at this insanity.
We just found a local private spot, even though it's on Google Maps.
It's not that private.
Ready?
Okay.
Secret spot session.
You went the wrong way again.
Oh, no.
What the hell?
We'll see you in the next one.
To the sky.