Please let me know if you want to see more video's like this of us just out riding trails.... I've always focused on bike test ride/review videos but if you're interested in us just out riding trails, please comment or like this comment. Thanks!
Rode this just last weekend, lower Ahab is where it's at amen! This is great content on top of the reviews, definitely something you should keep doing🤘
Always enjoy watching skilled people ride hard trails. Your video quality is really good. Great mix of trail, bars, and riders. You commentary is fun too. That being said there are A LOT of trail riding channels on RU-vid nowadays. I think if you spice yours up with some “mini” reviews of either the trail (like here) or even products (not bikes per say), you’d have something unique. Thanks for the great content!
yumyum, first off thank you for all the awesome reviews of bikes, but yes definitely more trail videos like this . Beautiful views and trail, Ahab is on the bucket list for sure! Thanks again man
Rode the Captain last April and it was the best loop I’ve ever ridden. I have been to many cool spots over the years. Your video brought back some great memories. Yep I gotta get back there in 2019
MTB yumyum any absolute dangerous exposure? Wondering since I’ll be taking a trip up there and we’re wondering about doing the is trail . My brother and I are doing beginner to intermediate trails . We do double black stuff in spider mountain and some stuff here in Texas but I’m sure Moab it’s a complete different level . Where would you recommend us to go ?
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Enjoyed the vid and really all of them. You do a great job and keep a positive outlook which is great. The Moab vid showed some of the technical aspects of climbing which is also good for bike evaluation. Most of ur bike reviews mostly focus on the downhill characteristics and this is a pleasant change. You do comment "It's a good climber" and you do a lot of elevation but sometimes filming some tech sections and commenting what about the bike makes it more efficient would make it better IMHO. You and ur crew are some great riders which showed in this one. Thanks
Just rode this last weekend for the first time. Hardest 10-mile trail I've ridden (I think). Keep up the good work and some trail reviews would be a nice change in scenery!
When your at the most furthest point of AHAB upper, stop, look around, hear... nothing. It was quite creepy out there, just nothing but you and your bike, I miss that so much man, I wish to be back soon! Some of the best riding out there! P.S.- I did that and portal in the same day! 3300 feet of climbing!
Great video man! The edges definitely had me a little nervous haha. Im hoping to hit my first ever trail maybe next year, and I am just trying to ride my bike wherever and whenever I can before that (also hoping to pick up manuals etc to hit trails better (ambitious :p))
Nice, good for you dude! I honestly wouldn't worry too much about manuals... lot's of other more important stuff to tackle if I'm being honest! Have fun, be safe!
One of my absolute favorite trails. We showed up for a ride there one morning and there were some people camped about 1/2 way up the cliff on a set of Port A Ledges. We stood there in awe for a few minutes. It looked like they were making breakfast before packing up to finish the climb. Oh man...I so love that trail system! Trivia Q for you: Do you know why it is called Captain Ahab?
Nice dood. We were there too! Did you get rained out for the Whole Enchilada on Thursday when the rain hit? We just pedaled the Brands system. Sidewinder & Deadman's and Rockin A, Bar M loop basically friday and sat. It is amazing there. Def going back. Ripped the Ripmo, Tr. Scout, Canyon Spectral, YT Capra & Jeffsy, Evil Insurgent MB... Prob Ripmo, Insurgent & Capra woulda handled Ahab like a champ...but I have to say I think the mid travel Transition Scout was my favorite whip there...tied with Insurgent.
Love what you do Jason. I feel I'm learning stuff but wonder if you could do a little tutorial on the various categories of suspension bikes. I've seen and heard it mentioned often, cross country bikes and downhill bikes but don't really know what the implications are. Are there other suspension bikes besides these?
Hey I done this the other day all the way from 🇬🇧 I’ve uploaded footage from a 34 mile descent from 11000 ft not far from there!!! That Ahab is a great park and ride loop!!
Hello, loving those trails! Good luck growing this channel! Alright, left a like. Keep shredding! All the best, Philipp from PHAM --- P.S.: Any tips for my own channel, assuming I’d like to ride and film in that area? :)
This was a cool video but there are so many people doing this that the bike reviews are much appreciated. I'd like to ask you to review the Stumpjumper EVO. I don't think it's really your style bike but I haven't seen any actual reviews of this and I think it may be a sweet bike.
On really technical trails or if riding a trail blind that is difficult, I switch to flats... I ride clipless 99% of the time. Almost everyone I ride with rides clipless as well.
MTB yumyum nice! Was just wondering. I've rode a lot of new trails this year but have also crashed more than in the last 10 years. Been debating on going flats now & then.
Yeah, just depends on how/where you're crashing... I'd recommend getting a good set of knee pads and gloves. I still crash all the time, it's part of gig... there's a link to the knee pads I use in the description of every video I post.
Slightly unrelated question; how do you think the Giant Trance 29 would do riding that stuff? Thanks, I’m enjoying your videos (as a recent subscriber).
It looks like you are getting a Rocky mountain bikes fan after all ;-) Appreciate that... But it would be way more fun on that trail riding the Altitude PowerPlay 🤩 It is not available in the US yet but Canada. Just switch to the Canada or UK page of them and you will see what I mean. The PP is pure fun...
I know I'm a broken record on this subject, and most people hit Ahab for the downhill, but if you skip the jeep road - Cliffhanger - and just go up Hymasa, you're missing out on an amazing climb. Amazing in the sense that there are technical and aerobic challenges on that section that are uniquely difficult and rewarding in Moab. It used to be, of course, that Cliffhanger was the only way up or down (though I almost never go down it, now that Ahab is there). Everyone should try it twice. Once, just to get your butt completely kicked, and once more to discover that some (and then, most) of those unclimbable sections are, indeed, climbable. I've never cleaned everything on it, and won't, but I'm getting closer.
I wasn't able to access either (I'm guessing it's operator error on my part), but if you bypassed Hymasa completely, and went up the jeep road until you could get onto the uphill portion of Ahab, you did it. The route intercepts Ahab, along the cliff edge, at about 10 seconds into this "Relive" segment: www.relive.cc/view/1859365300
I'm really loving my Rocky Mountain Altitude right now... the Pivot Mach 5.5 would also be a good options of course those are both 27.5 wheel sizes... in the 29er category I've loved my Pivot Trail 429 that I just recently sold although it could get bucked around a bit in Moab... Maybe an Ibis Ripmo would be idea for Moab if you're after a 29er.... I'll be riding the Yeti SB130 this week... who know... just being in Moab on a bike floats my boat!!!
The Giant Trance 29, Evil Following MB and Pivot Trail 429 would all do just fine on this trail... that said, more travel would probably be better for a lot of what Moab has to offer.
My Following MB did well on Slickrock and I absolutely railed Porcupine Rim. But, I kind of would like just a bit more cush than I have on the MB for all around comfort. Looking forward to your review on the 130.
Thank you! Honestly, I'm not the right person to ask about how to make a RU-vid channel... I still don't even have a logo, channel art, or any real branding. This is just a hobby for me... but from what I can tell from seeing other mountain bike RU-vid channels that look like they're growing, focus on making really good thumbnails and have really clean bright/light edits... my thumbnails are terrible.