Awesome Mountain Bike

Mountain biker Dean Tennant takes us for a ride along an unusual trail. The defunct Sooke Flowline was used to deliver water into Victoria, British Columbia. The 27-mile-long, moss-covered concrete pipeline winds through a thick forest and has become an impromptu course for skilled and daring riders. There’s one stretch that’s particularly sketchy.

Keep your mountain bike in tip-top shape with this compact tool kit. Its pair of Fix It Sticks combine to form a T-handle driver and include 2, 2.5, 3, 4, 5, and 6mm hex, T-25, and P2 bits. The steel alloy handles also attach to the included tire levers and chain breaker tool. The set includes a lightweight carrying case.

Felipe Vergara knows how to boss around a mountain bike. In this thrilling POV reel he descends a bone-rattling series of steps in Chile that would send less-skilled riders tumbling to the bottom. It’s not as graceful as Fabio Wibmer’s downstairs technique but Felipe had to conquer many more twists and turns.

Athlete Fabio Wibmer headed to the slopes of Kitzbühel, Austria, to take in some winter sports. But his high-speed ride down the challenging course known as The Streif was on two wheels instead of skis. Beyond his brass balls and cycling skills, his only advantage was the studded tires on his bike and a SICK! outfit from Nineyard.

Reed Boggs shows off his mad mountain biking skills with this first-person view of one of his runs at Red Bull Rampage 2023. The video shows just how insane some of the drops are and offers a dizzying look at what it’s like to flip and spin a bike while cruising through the rocky red terrain of Virgin, Utah.

This amazing scene played out in Turkey’s Cappadocia region. Watch as mountain bikers Nikolaj Juhlsen Rasmussen and Korbinian Engstler ride along a gorgeous stretch of trails on hilly terrain as dozens of hot air balloons float in the skies above. The POV footage was captured with the Insta360 Ace Pro action camera with photography by Luke Maximo Bell.

Most backyards are covered with grass or maybe have a patio or a swimming pool. Adolf Silva has a mountain bike park in his yard. MTB rider Sam Pilgrim and his pals Max Fredriksson and Nicholi Rogatkin stopped by Silva’s compound to do some jumps and tricks through this amazing and challenging backyard dirt course.

MTB rider and videographer Nikolaj Juhlsen takes us on a crazy-fast downhill ride illuminated only by the headlight on his bike. We’re guessing he’s practiced the run a few times in the daylight, given how flawlessly he performed the daring nighttime ride through the Austrian forest.

Cyclist Kilian Bron has won the Mountain of Hell race four times. Here’s the helmet camera footage from his 2023 victory run, along with an overlay showing speeds as high as 100 km/h (~62 mph). The brutal 25 km freeride takes place at the Les Deux Alpes ski resort in France, combining terrifying downhills and intense high-altitude cardio challenges.

Cyclist Fabio Wibmer combines his love for riding with video games in this amazing action film. After an accident sidelined Wibmer from riding, he respawned in the Côte d’Azur for this thrill-filled video shot like a third-person sandbox game. The filmmakers deserve equal credit for the exceptional camerawork.

Esperanto is Teton Gravity Research’s latest mountain biking action film. During filming, rider Hannah Bergemann showed off her skills in the rough and treacherous terrain of Southern Utah, which was captured for us to enjoy in this short bonus reel. She kicks things off with an absolutely insane downhill run.

We already know it’s possible to build an entire bicycle out of wood. But how durable are wood wheels when pushed to their limits? Mountain biker Sam Pilgrim fitted his bike with some custom wood wheels and put them to the test on a forest trail, a pump track, and even a staircase. They held up way better than we expected.

A big part of mountain biking is getting out and enjoying nature. But when the weather turns inclement, an indoor trail doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Especially if it’s as awesome as Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Cleveland, Ohio, which is home to a 1.6km (~1 mile) long trail, loaded with a variety of tricky terrain to test your skills.

Mountain bike rider Mark Matthews takes us on a wild first-person ride through a foggy stretch of forest on Vancouver Island. As the greenery and trees whip by, we couldn’t help but think of the speeder bike chase on Endor, only with smaller trees.

If we’re mountain biking and see a trailhead sign that says “Beyond Expert,” we’re turning back. But if your name is Ddangerous Ddave, you’re required to pedal on. Here’s POV footage of Ddave’s first ride down a treacherous trail at Iron Mountain, which offers “an infinite number of mosquitoes” as one of its challenges.

Bicycle component maker Shimano takes us to the woods of Cumberland, BC for a look at how a new mountain biking trail comes together. Chris Snodgrass of the Ridgeline Crew explains the art of building a trail by hand, their efforts captured brilliantly by directors Scott Bell and Mark Matthews.