MTB :: Veteran’s Park in Lexington KY (testing the HoverAir X1)

This is mostly the Swamp Donkey and Jetstream trails in Veteran’s Park in Lexington KY. I feel very lucky to have this beautiful, buff, trail system so close.
While I’m pretty happy with the footage I got, you’re seeing heavily edited video here. The downside of using this little drone in this type of environment is it just can’t keep up all that well, and at the same time avoid obstacles. So I had to slow down quite a bit. I mean, I’m never super fast, but this was pretty slow.
There were also many crashes, some of which caused me many minutes of searching for the drone. One time I thought I’d just have to leave it, but fortunately I found it. I braved ticks and poison ivy to recover it from pretty deep cover. I finally figured out to listen for sounds of struggle from the drone and to immediately stop so I could observe where it crash landed.
I will produce a second video of crashes.
The bike is a Santa Cruz Heckler eMTB. I love the damn thing! It’s been about 20 years since I last rode a mountain bike, and while I’m pretty fit, the eMTB definitely has made for a smoother and quicker on-ramp. I jumped straight into some longer combined road and trail rides, and I would not have been able to do that (as soon) on a regular MTB. Of course, now I’m shopping for a regular human-powered MTB as well ;-)