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What elements on a trail stoke you out? Ideally, every trail would have those dream pieces of singletrack, loam, tech, gnar and flow, but if you have some favorite trails, what makes you love them the most?
I get really stoked on flowy, buff singletrack that's sprinkled w/ tech sections to keep you on your toes! The destination also factors in when I think of trails I like. For me, nothing beats the wide open desert on a crisp early spring or late fall day.
I get really stoked on flowy, buff singletrack that's sprinkled w/ tech sections to keep you on your toes! The destination also factors in when I think of trails I like. For me, nothing beats the wide open desert on a crisp early spring or late fall day.
My favorite trail of all time (up until now at least) is in the vosges region in france, starting of a peak of a mountain being virtually unrideable for the first hour, riding a few balls out absolutely insane tech sections and carrying many more, up and down, following a ridge. When you think you are sure going to die because of exhaustion you take a right and drop into a beautiful steep clearing with a foot wide singletrack going through very small and dense herbs that are smelling really good, hundreds of meteres of perfect small maandering turns. Then youre dropping into the forrest where things get a lot faster and looser hitting a lot of nasty flat turns and hitting some rocky gnar inbetween but all rideable at ridiculous speed and this keeps on going for about 10 min unti you cross a small river going into a waterfall at full speed. After that theres a bit of pedalling to do only to hit the most insane loose exposed rooty hairpin shit i´ve seen in my life and you have to digest another hour after, when youre already taking a swim in the lake down in the valley.
It´s all natural, because of the suffering to get there i guess there are not too many people who know, or would do it again and it is 100% the reason why Jerome Clementz and Nico Lau are the fucking madest guys on trailbikes around!
After that, it just depends on my mood. Sometimes a flow trail is what I need, and other days I want a jerky challenge.
Rocky, open, flatout, tight, rooty, berms, jumps, drops, gaps, natural, manmade.
it needs to be full of features, but of all things it needs to flow well.
Those cases tend to work out better for all of the above.
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