You DO NOT Want to Fall Off These Trails // Mountain Biking Carter Road Trails in Bartow, Florida

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Today was such a day and man am I grateful to have great friend in Joe. This ride was much needed amidst the stress of the van purchase!
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@andreasnilvander7541 6 лет назад

Thanks for some sweet riding in the sun, swedish winter just wont let go😁🌨️

@TheBikerx13yo 6 лет назад

I am that friend hAha I don’t let friends make excuses pa weather sucks so if it’s a nice day and I know yours available we’re riding! Stay stoked God Bless 😎🤘🏼

@gueroloco6334 6 лет назад

that trail system is sooooo cooool!

@nathanpowell7294 6 лет назад

Update: watched with sound, 1000% better, love the commentary and glad to see you back up and riding!

@thatsnogood 6 лет назад

When I rode the Carter Road Trails 9 years ago on a rigid singlespeed I was in over my head. Looking back, that trip was a turning point for my life and was the beginning of something great. It's great seeing those trails again.

@AlClem 6 лет назад

Just wanted to say a huge thank you to you and your channel! You got me so stoked about Mountain Biking I now have gone out and bought my own. I can't wait to take it to a trail soon! Keep doing what you're doing it's a huge inspiration to a lot of people to see you really enjoying what you do and getting excited every time! Live free, ride hard and get stoked!

@EverydayMTB 6 лет назад

Glad to see the riding video back. Keep it up.

@ClearViewSolutionsMS 6 лет назад

Nonsense. I like hearing you talk in your videos. It’s get me pumped and makes me want to go to cool places and ride. If you ever get tired of Mountain Biking, motivational speaking would be your thing.

@OliverBatchelor 6 лет назад

You aced the middle finger. Amazing to see those alligators! Those trails are crazy.

@RollingAroundwNicknAmanda 6 лет назад

Mr. Tonka seems like a good dude. Sweet bikeys too.

@jonathangriggs477 6 лет назад

Keep riding, Alex! Nice to see you on the bike.

@waltrobinson407 6 лет назад

Keep the mind and body at ease my man and shred on! For it's the rides and videos that supply the stoke! The rest will fall into place. 🍻🤘

@cjt970 6 лет назад

So happy to see you riding! Just purchased my new bike and waiting for the snow to melt up north.

@johndurkee4523 6 лет назад

Alex, thnx for posting this one. Carter Rd. is one of my favorite places to ride and I don't live in FL anymore so it was nice to see you hit these trails! I miss that place!

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

That place has the goods. Tech, flow, exposure, and TONS of fun!

@PedalParadise 6 лет назад

Great to have buddies that bring up the best in us in life. Happy Trails!

@FesteringRatSub 6 лет назад

Good to see you back.

@bradmetzgar7344 6 лет назад

Great looking trails!! Nice evening 'virtual' ride.

@RickyDownhillRDH 6 лет назад

Wow, those trails are "other worldly"!! Cool video. Thanks for posting!!

@andyp6169 6 лет назад

Your comment about being a different person on the bike is so true. I live in my head until I grip those handlebars! Never really realised that until you said it aloud! Kudos man.

@bkxc 6 лет назад

Great way to start the day! This was such a fun spot and the sweet bonus of gators!

@gilbertnadeau7181 6 лет назад

BKXC you need to come down to Florida and ride some XC. Give up all that down hill stuff for a bit.

@KamMui-wd6vj-w8j 6 лет назад

Do you noticed that Alex sees way more animals then you, and you are the one who wants to see them. 😁

@dmtb1857 6 лет назад

Brian your first time seeing an alligator was with Alex on redemption 17’ 😂😂😂 i was hoping to find a comment from you!

@danielthomson1882 6 лет назад

That place has some crazy terrain!

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

That was such a perfect day for riding. Heck, that would have been a great day to just hang out at the end of the 3rd finger. Mid 70s temp, cool breeze, not a cloud in the sky.... Hard to believe we were there in the middle of such a beautiful day and only came across 3 or 4 people riding the trails.

@KamMui-wd6vj-w8j 6 лет назад

Mr Tonka , we already have too many visitors already. Don’t give them anymore incentives. LOL

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

I mean, i barely made it out of there alive. In fact, i lost a couple of toes to a gator.... yeah. That's the ticket! :D

@jimothyTX 6 лет назад

Good to have friends that know how to get us out there and challenge us mentally and physically, especially ones that know when we need it. Great job Mr Tonka.

@daviddembrow6346 6 лет назад

A, great vid! Spanish moss and alligators. YO! Epic trail system.

@2haelsm2 6 лет назад

It’s awesome to see you out there riding trails I learned to ride on! Our trail crews work so hard on these, and it’s nice to see these trails appreciated! Huck ya!!

@JorgeRodriguez-eg1vb 5 лет назад

To you and the guys that maintain these, thank you, even though I dont own a bike, I consider this my favorite trails for sprints and conditioning. I fell in love with these since the first time I was brought here by a friend. Thank you guys again!!!🙋‍♂️

@florida__jack 6 лет назад

You have got to love Florida!

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Always a good time!

@77rockcity 6 лет назад

Fun vid, good things happen when you get out. Rooting for you to hit 100k+ subs, you deserve it bro and have earned it.

@roeeeliyahu18 6 лет назад

WE ARE WITH YOU do everty thing you want the stuff your doing is on all you wish you rhe best with the van

@BIKINGWITHBOBO 6 лет назад

Dang dude, I use to ride Carter twice a month. One of my favorites in FL!

@BrianVaughn 6 лет назад

Just going out for a ride for fun is so good for the soul. Hope you heal up and keep having fun on the bike!

@lforgue8 6 лет назад

that looked like a sweet place guys!

@aldenwilkins 6 лет назад

"We got a bonus finger" is a phrase I do not need to hear on a regular basis. ;) Glad you were able to get a good ride in with a buddy. Best of times.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

LOLOLOL

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Especially during a prostate exam. hahaha

@aldenwilkins 6 лет назад

And then Alex yells out, "That was so tight!"

@Siiimon426 6 лет назад

Im waiting to get my bike out and ride... Becouse it is 80cm or more with snow outside...!! Good thing you are doing the riding for me! LFRHGS 🖖

@Ethelred77 6 лет назад

Wow, man that is a beautiful place. I'd love to ride there!

@hunkyheyward486 6 лет назад

keep up the good work alex.

@Shezaad18 6 лет назад

Great to see you back on the trails, it's getting me stoked for my first ride after a cracked rib tomorrow.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

GET IT dude!!!

@mountaintime4276 6 лет назад

Great trails! Kudos to the builders down there!

@teodelfuego 6 лет назад

I bet an alligator across the trail would be a great opportunity to use your new bunny hop skills!

@jeffsaraiva7099 6 лет назад

Cool tropical like trail!!

@derekjohnson1961 6 лет назад

Sick new vid, good luck with the van purchase.

@FloridaTrailrider 6 лет назад

Can't wait to get over there this summer. Looks epic! Nice one man.

@gilbertnadeau7181 6 лет назад

Hell Man, your in my back yard when I'm home!

@profesam8457 6 лет назад

As an aging man I gotta admit that I always feel better both physically and mentally AFTER I have had a ride. My ride mate that MAKES me get out sometimes is my wife. Bless her, sometimes when I am hanging around to be with her or just not feeling the motivation... she won’t take “no” for an answer and makes me grind out a few miles.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

DON'T EVER LET HER GO!

@Lughnerson 6 лет назад

As I await the 4th snowstorm in a month here in the Hudson Valley of NY, watching that was very enjoyable.

@krazed9918 6 лет назад

I moved from Hudson Valley down here to FL!

@mjjohn7715 6 лет назад

Here in eastern Pa cant wait until spring!

@jimborghini2761 6 лет назад

Lughnerson this snow is annoying the shit out of me here in NY. Just when it dries up, another snowstorm.

@asod187 6 лет назад

I life in germany. 😂

@waynehiggs6529 6 лет назад

Awesome trails there, love the added challenge of not becoming gator food, keep up the great videos and good luck with the van. Cheers form Australia.

@scnomad3626 6 лет назад

Great looking trails

@anthonydiazofficial 6 лет назад

Awesome video Alex! That's how you can tell your good friends. Hang in there and the van will work itself out. Hope to see you on a trail soon!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Thanks Anthony 👊

@garrettvanh 6 лет назад

Its good to have good friends that will get you out. Keep it Up Alex.

@pauldrucker4508 6 лет назад

As far as trails with consequences go, that one has to be up there!

@RyanMarcyesOutdoors 6 лет назад

Awesome, I got to see the early release on Patreon!! This another treat for everyone to see!! Great Stuff... Live-Life-Loud, Brother!!!

@foosballer 6 лет назад

Glad to see you out riding again bro. Ride, get stoked and feel the zen.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Thanks Chris, it felt damn good to be riding !

@TheLoamRanger 6 лет назад

Good to see you out on the trails dude! Oh man, that is an area where you do NOT want to fall off the trail haha

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Funny that now i'm looking at distance the edge of the trail is to the water or a drop into the water, i'm really seeing how close it actually is. lol

@trailselektor3115 6 лет назад

Such an unusual trail. Good luck with the van man.

@mrsubaru5367 3 года назад

Dude, I'm the same way when it comes to living in my head riding helps sooo much love it

@stianjarnass 6 лет назад

Double exposure and if You roll in, You'll end up gator lunch🤣. Nice video & trail! I also like to mtb and cross country in nature! Moving meditation. Cheers from Norway😃🐣

@fbmowner 6 лет назад

Talk about the floor is lava.....Fall over either side and fall into gator filled waters... nope nope nope, I'll stick to running from bears. Glad to see you on the bike again.

@katrinaharvey9952 6 лет назад

I'm glad you posted this. I live a quarter of a mile from there and I now know I no longer want to ride this trail.

@sangeetaadu 6 лет назад

Still loving those “Yeaaaaaa” ‘s

@greetthemind 6 лет назад

Definitely can relate with the spending time in your head thing, riding bikes helps but unfortunately I don’t have anyone to ride with so I’m still in my head while I ride haha it’s still fun tho. Sweet vid brooooo

@Planes_Engineering_Stuff 6 лет назад

My Home Trails! Some great trails at carter road... Actually in Mulberry not Bartow but rad!

@chudyja 6 лет назад

yeah mountain biking is awesome. same thing with snowboarding for me. just focus on the ride and don't think about anything else.

@jasontaylor9485 6 лет назад

Trail system I started riding on. GREAT TRAIL System!!!

@nanettebarling1222 6 лет назад

Beautiful place!

@craigelliott12 6 лет назад

Hey Alex..... so great to see you back on the bike where you belong..... take it easy Bud .. Greetings from South Africa !

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Thanks Craig!! Great to be back on the bike and out filming trails. It's where I belong indeed!

@biketothetop 6 лет назад

Cool trail! Thanks for the stoke! I know that I would never want to live in Florida because it's so flat, but if you were to live there having Trails like this would certainly make it much more enticing!

@bestlightimagesphotography 6 лет назад

Great video. Glad he convinced you to ride. Nothing like an extra finger. 😜

@Friskee62 6 лет назад

Always good the second time around...great ridin'.

@monclof123 6 лет назад

So fn beautiful!! Thx Alex!

@johncast9565 6 лет назад

Gloves are sick dude. Some 70s Retro.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Check out HandUp Gloves if you like them man, there's a whole bunch more similar styles and I dig the overall quality

@reishadrajab3538 6 лет назад

Sweet ride brother.... nice bike as well... 👍

@mattdsteacy 6 лет назад

Excited to see you back brah!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Thanks Matt :D

@WoodCoxfurniture 6 лет назад

I didn't realize you rode bikes...im just here for the van. Just kidding haha im stoked that you're stoked!

@garrettlizee7596 6 лет назад

Great to have a ride video again!!. Though the stretches you showed seriously made my last ride better (or it was a mental thing, either way it seemed awesome haha)

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

DUDE! I'm so stoked to hear that and happy you are trying them out :D

@garymoser7584 6 лет назад

Another good video. Only ridden this place once and it was super fun!!!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

Yea man I was really surprised at how fun it was!!

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

This video was my 4th time and it gets more fun each time! The more familiar you are with it the more you can lay off the brake and turn the pedals. :)

@Kerobinson15 6 лет назад

Glad to see you back homie🤘 best of luck with the van search

@gfackender 6 лет назад

Been in the water there a couple times. You tend to get out quick!!

@BCpov 6 лет назад

Wow.. this place is so interesting! I've never seen anything like it!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

That's what I was sayin'! couldn't believe I had never been; all around just a super pretty place to ride in the sun during the dead of winter!

@BCpov 6 лет назад

I clicked for the gators but got the finger!

@pedalsandplants5725 6 лет назад

When I was much younger, like 1998, this was my go-to ride location back in college @ USF, GO BULLS! Does any here remember the GRAN CANYON in Brooksville? I went to so many races there and saw so many gnarly wrecks, that place was insane for 1992-94.

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

I think i rode there once. There was a moto track at the entrance, right?

@pedalsandplants5725 6 лет назад

I don't remember that but, I was only there for MTB races. There were many races there back in the 90's, it was private property and the owners were always worried about injury and insurance. Do you remember the awesome trails at Reddick?

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Maybe it was Reddick that i only rode once. I remember riding some sick trails up in that area a LONG time ago. But again, only once. Up until July last year i had only ridden off road trails a hand full of times.

@ryanstrembicki5234 6 лет назад

I love Carder Road!! Also I was riding at Snowhill Trail in central Florida and I saw like 9 gators one of them had a dead deer in it's gaws just swimming down the river. Only In Florida.

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Dang!! That's a cool sighting!

@lakelandfl9328 4 года назад

You should come back again. A ton more has been done in the last year an a half. Great to see our trails getting some footy!

@lakelandfl9328 4 года назад

Holy cow, the more I watch, the more I see has been done in the short time. Tree line is gone. Jump lines are added. More wall rides. A few doubles. YOUR MOM!! You really need to come back. Hit up Ridge Riders on Facebook.

@tn8584 6 лет назад

Wooooooow. Gaitorrs. Amazing

@wavecrasher917 6 лет назад

I Like your tallking.. keep yapping away as you ride.

@omarmartinez7277 6 лет назад

Everyone needs a friend like Joe... Carter rd park, the trails that made me love MTB... Finger #2 was my challenge, it sketched me out on that drop... Back when that drop was nothing but steep dirt.... And that was a small gator... Lol, u guys were close to lake parker, there u may see some bigger gators.... Its the most gator infested lake in central Florida, and my old jet ski spot.. Lol

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Yeah, that drop on #2 wasn't even there last July. I rode Carter for the second time about a month ago and that one took me by surprise. I thought it was just a roll and i didn't have my saddle down. Made it, but it was less than comfortable with my saddle all they way up. haha

@randyabad9771 6 лет назад

Tonka almost became Gator food, twice! Anyway, you keep riding Alex will keep backing you, brother.

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

It's inspired me to develop an energy bar for riding. :) Tasty Tonka Treats

@jonwhite182 6 лет назад

Yeah Boy!

@Pawneezr 6 лет назад

Mulberry FL, My local trails. I ride there at least once a week!!!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

that place is fun!

@chercleveland3375 6 лет назад

I love that park. It's pretty serious so I hope your shoulder felt okay afterward. Don't check out the flora and fauna... It's dangerous there are gators down there! Lol I ride for the sane reason....get out of my head. Thanks for sharing such am awesome video.

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

HA! I'll try to leave the wildlife checkup to Joe :P I think it turned out well as my shoulder didn't bother me afterwards and I had a ton of fun! I see what you did there.... "sane reason" :D

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

I'm a friend of the plants.... they call to me.

@stuartpilling6190 6 лет назад

Nice ride guys. Reminds me of Townsville here in Oz! We have Crocs there!

@kevinb2366 6 лет назад

This trail system looks like a video game I'd lose many lives on.

@bradg8682 6 лет назад

Kevin McCalister I was thinking the same dude

@gilbertnadeau7181 6 лет назад

Those fingers are what is left of an old phosphate mine. There are lots of them in Florida, especially Polk County.

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

After riding trail in FL, i look at piles of tailings in a new light. Imagine if all of those mining facilities opened up to trail builders. Would be super cool!

@gilbertnadeau7181 6 лет назад

I've lived there for 12 years. I hung up biking for a while as my bikes (one road and one mountain) got trashed riding around on the back of my motor home. I've got two new mountain bikes now. One stays at home and one travels with me. I got my first two rides in at Carter Road last month. It will be a fun place to get to know.

@Christopher_R 6 лет назад

I laughed too hard at "bonus finger." Context is everything.

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Ha! My first ride back after 15 years was also at Carter Rd.! :)

@yeitsluk 6 лет назад

You'll soon hit the 100k subscriber count! 👌👌

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

SO STOKED!!

@Don-Michael 4 года назад

That berm after 2:55 is so sickkkkkkkk

@Sycoholic 6 лет назад

I'm worried enough in Asheville about going off the side of a trail and getting tore up and broken. Florida you fall off you get wet. By wet I mean you become alligator poop. Screw that! But those trails look sick!!!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

LOLOL

@endurofordaboys1768 6 лет назад

100k subs == new van, im calling it

@curtisnewkirk6112 6 лет назад

"Come for a ride, I will let you ride the Yeti." I think that would motivate anyone to get out on the bike

@Gamebit450 6 лет назад

Great video! Mountain biking, sure seems like there's always has to be some sort of impending doom LOL!

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

hahaha you talking about the alligators or the cliff on both sides?

@Gamebit450 6 лет назад

Yeah cuz in mountain biking a cliff just isn't enough... may as well add man eating alligators to the equation lol!

@48Nugget 6 лет назад

Howdy from England! Great to see you out riding again (Phil Kmetz just posted his first ride in a while too). Sorry if I am behind the (news) curve, but do you have a new bike? Where's the pumpkin - what happened to it?

@The_Sampler 6 лет назад

I still have the pumpkin, but the brakes need some work, so I had been riding the DB 5C, but now that has an issue with the shock!!

@TwitchyNick 6 лет назад

Such unique looking trails. It’s like they created small connected islands and hills of dirt in the swamp. Pretty cool. Do they flood in the rainy season?

@MrTonka 6 лет назад

Most of the MTB riding areas are old mining quarries. So the "hills" you see are generally piles of tailings, or discarded material that didn't hold anything of value to the miners. Some of our riding areas flood in the middle of summer, but everything drains off really quick. It can rain an flood Monday and be ridable Wednesday. Even then, there are usually just a few spots on certain trails that flood over.