Hey dude, I just caught this a few days after the Bentonville festival. Sitting in a hotel room waiting for my windshield to be replaced because it was destroyed in the tornado. This was a very good video. I think it might be my favorite that you've made. It was informative, interesting, entertaining, And I was in it! Can't beat that! Let me know if you want to do a trip to Durango. I have a guest room. It's yours if you want it.
Sounds like a good time. I don't think I'd be able to make it out that way this year, but its definitely a contender for next year! I'm glad ya liked the video. It was fun to make.
Twice! I realized I had a spyderco in my pocket after being dropped at the airport. Both times I rushed outside and buried them in a planter and retrieved both upon my return.
March is still ski season for me, but it sounds like a good place to try and visit sometime. Its an issue though that places that are too hot during summer and people usually visit in winter kind of makes it unlikely I'll visit, because a MTB trip in the middle of winter is just not really in the cards for me.
I live in the Sedona area and really only super hot late June through August. Temps are reasonable the rest of the year. If highs are mid 90s or higher just try to ride early. It’s more humid then but temps are better. You can always ride Flagstaff or Mingus Mtn as a cool off day.
Nice video Rob. And yes I’ve not done a bike event in a long time. I planned doing a long bike camping thing with a friend this summer. Not a mtb event but a long ride. I’ll be doing videos on it.
I had the pleasure of meeting you at the festival this year. You had me, I was like, he's no longer going, then I watched till the end. Anyway, for me, I brought my bike but... I wanted to demo some bikes and many of them were out because some of these companies barely brought enough. Yeti was the only company that looked like they brought like 50 bikes. Ibis and Pivot, they didn't bring much. Not sure I would justify that amount just for shuttles. We waited for a shuttle to pick us up from Hi line for an hour and 20 minutes. There were like 35 people waiting. It wasn't good. I'll remember to check VRBO next time. I would say if you are booking in late January, the prices are insane! So book a room quickly.
You should check out Prescott, just a little over an hour from Sedona. Lots of great trails in the pine trees. Keegan Swenson has won the 50 mile MTB race there the last 5 years.
I lived right next to South Mountain in the late 90s as a college student at ASU. Rigid steel frames with a couple inches of front suspension is all I could afford. Really did damage on those bikes. I became very good at making things work lol
Is Spartan Rides the former mobile shop you did a piece on a few years ago? Didn’t they let you rent suspension components to try out like a different shock? Do they still do that?
I went to Sedona MTB Festival in 2022 and it was freezing cold and raining for the whole trip. Because of that I did not chose to go the following year. I am glad they moved it back a few weeks. I might go again next year because I did not take advantage of all the demos available and I regret that.
That year was a bit of a bummer. But the plus side is I rode some fun stuff outside of Sedona in Cottonwood that I never would have tried. We also drove back to Phoenix one day and rode Hawes. Mother Nature can be an asshat sometimes.
Phoenix TSA seem especially ornery. True story, they didn’t let me through with the torque wrench I had shipped to my parents house at the beginning of the trip. Fortunately I had to to go back to the ticket counter and check my carry on bag (with torque wrench) for the trip home to. Chicago.
TSA is so undpredictable. I'll have one experience for like 3 trips then one day at some airport that guy is like, "NO, th'at's the way it's always been." It's so annoying.
Man, I fell for the click bait. I do the same thing with traveling to other spots or festivals then wind up at Sedona again. I do wish they would've moved it to November like the Covid year, the weather was perfect. Thanks Robert, see you there next year probably.
Alaska airlines doesn't have the 50lb weight limit on bikes. They by far have the best policy for flying with a bike, standard bag fee, must be in a box or bike bag, no weight limit, no ebikes.
That's true, the downside is they partner with American. I bought an Alaska flight and when I showed up to the airport it was an American flight and they charged me for being overweight....facepalm.
@@B1KER from what I see in your videos I agree. It does look like some of the AR state parks have good riding. I’d like to check that out some time. I’ve done Bentonville and not my favorite either.
Good idea with the assembly in a-bike shop lot. Running to demos?! Never understood why people try so hard to be around other people. There are so many other better places to ride than Sedona. Leave it for the kooks!
