Slab city IS super long, but i always figured the ribbon in grand junction was longer? I guess it depends how you measure it 🤷♂️ Both amazing trails though!
Yeah i agre with you (though I haven't ridden the ribbon)! Calling it the longest is a bit of a stretch, but can't say I've ridden any that are longer? Maybe something in north conway could rival it. Either way the whole trail was very cool nonetheless.
Love this place, discovered it back 2015 on a DH trip to Mont Saint Anne that got rained out, so we decided to explore and found this and Vallée Bras-du-Nord. Did you also get a chance to go up to Vallée Bras-du-Nord, Accueil Shannahan? Some awesome stuff up there too.
The thing is , Gold City is made of all doubles and you really need to be on the edge to be able to clean it , and if you case one , you’re screwed for the next 4-5 jumps. Very few people can actually do it, and for 99% of the others, we cannot build our way trough it because it’s all double instead of tables… It’s also a very weird place to put a jump trail so difficult, should be on S1 . Would have been nice to have something a little more accessible to complete the descent of slab city all the way to the buttom
That slow tech trail look gnarly already on camera. I can't imagine how "bad" it must have looked in real life. It looked like an awesome bit of trail.... which I by no way have the skills to ride.
So, I guess this was before your injury. Look forward to your getting well and riding again. Your experience convinced me, an older guy, not to "send" anymore on my rides. I can't afford the down time. Life's too short. Carry on, sir!
Really nice one!! I bit disappointed cause that's my 13yo son and I at 1:54... You were hiding in a bush at the end of Tite-Chevre😄 so we didn't recognize you. It was my son's first time riding Super G and Slab City with his new XL bike. We would have love meeting you. Keep up the good content!!
I only do that when I have a good sense as to where the trail is going otherwise, I am pretty cautious when I’m riding unfamiliar terrain. This is especially true when riding out BC.
One cool thing about Sentiers du Moulin - my house:) It is rather awesome seeing a range of interpretations of our home trail network. BTW _ Phil - really enjoy your videos.
In Quebec we have a tendancy to call everything a Proline, probably somewhat due to veeeery finicky insurance reasons. That said not too far away you have MSA which has waaay gnarlier stuff, "surprise" drops, gaps and what not with no warning signs and apparently its fine 😅 (I'll say it again, you gotta go ride the DH sector there at some point !) And dont worry about Gold City, a lot of people have the same opinion about it, havent ridden it yet but I trust their judgement, and now hearing yours further cements it. It's definitely a trail the builders built for themselves !
It's always tough building trails like that. You never know how much speed you are going to carry until the dirt dries out which can take weeks or sometimes a month. The idea of the trail is good and there's a lot to love but I think the eye may have been bigger than their appetite! I'm probably going to hit up Bromont the next tome I'm in the area. Ive raced a quebec cup on the WC track and it was sick, but i haven't been back since and that was in 2011
@@SkillsWithPhil Bromont is on my list too, probably soon when I take a week off. I hear there's some nice stuff there, but the best is "off the map" 👀 From what I'm told, its easier and flowier than MSA overall, bit faster and more jumps. The latter has more slow tech, more gnar and more challenging line choices. Cheers for the vids btw ! Always nice to see riders of your caliber hit our local trails :)
Wow what a cool place !!!! Well i have learned one thing for sure this week . The elevator drop on Drummer hill verses Hardtail ...Elevator drop 1000 hardtail broken lol. I lived though stuffed the front suspension its stuck and a bit bent . Front and rear rims well are kinda a little umm tweaked. See what the trade in value is at ALPINE in Keene . I just bought it a month ago . I'm gonna need a little tougher one than this lol. Think if i put the reflectors back on it i can get a better trade lol. The looks on there face will be epic !!!!
Hey Phil you should try the trail à Quebec City in the empire47 center or e47 in short it is at lac delage it is 30 minute away from sentier du moulin. There is mont saint Anne and massif de la petite rivière saint Francois. There is some trail at montchatel. And btw the rock at Quebec are REALLY grippy especially at sentier du moulin the are kind of more grippy wet.
euh... please don't go to Le Massif Phil... complete waste of your time. Spend 2 days at MSA instead and 1 other at Empire47 (forget about the small stuff, go for Descente du coude and Nosferatu, so much fun ruclips.net/video/P-AYVbJk4Oc/видео.html)
first off love your content! it's so fun to watch. also I'm a BRAND NEW rider and just got my first mountain bike this summer. not use to trail riding at all and have issues digging my pedals into the dirt. any tips for a rookie?
Sure do, I'll link to a few videos. Beginner Tips ruclips.net/video/n_17-Tvjx2I/видео.html Beginner Skills and Drills ruclips.net/video/1UuqWeJqOTk/видео.html Flat Turns Explained ruclips.net/video/nrHWdScZ0Uo/видео.html Have fun out there!
I completely relate to your sweat issue, I get soaked with not much effort! Reminds me of that scene in Bedazzled where he's in a basketball interview and it's like a sweat shower🤣
That was a great mix of trails and some impressive riding. That "Granitizer" or whatever it was called, with the long wooden bridge climb (imagine that climb on the ground, would take 2x or more energy!) -- that was pure early 00s natural tech, which is very hard to find these days. Some of those rock-to-rock gaps you made on a few of the steep chutes are things that you see naturally, but I wouldn't see. But after watching you do it, I think, "well, that was a possible line to ride!" Last time I watched one of your videos, you were riding with Wyn Masters. Your bike was creaking in that video too. Show it some love, man! But seriously, thanks for this video and the impressive riding.
I don't think people realize how often i take apart my bike and maintain it. Im constantly cleaning it, changing bearings, regreasing my bikes, but the fact of the matter is that if you ride a bike hard, multiple days in a row, it's going to creek. If you go back to the first day of this trip my bike was silent. This was the last day of a trip where i rode the bike hard the previous days. It doesn't help that the first day was muddy, and the other days were humid.
@@SkillsWithPhil I was sorta kidding. At my level of riding, my weight, my age I'm not stressing my bikes much. You ride aggressively and I'm sure put your bike through way more than the average rider. Most modern MTBs, as good as they are these days, are still designed mostly for average riders riding average speeds on average lines. Bigger more powerful riders, faster riders -- they stress bikes way more. I went back & watched the video of you climbing the Slab City or whatever it was called. The kinds of lunges & hops required on that kind of climb is a good example of what I mean -- what you'd put your bike through, vs what Mr Average would. Mr Average would be walking that climb where you're doing power lunges, hops, and if given enough room, gaps.
Mmmm did you watch his videos that were filmed a day or two before that one?! Wet as fuck! I would not have ride those trails in those conditions... he was going down like he didnt care lool
1:50 You say it was a lot easier in that direction as you stop your front tire on an arrow carved into the wood pointing you in the direction you were going. It's amazing how easy it is to miss stuff as you are going along that can stand out to someone watching.
I know right!? Its amazing how many things i catch while editing video that i didn't pick up on in the moment. It's like being able to relive the day but frame by frame. But yeah, that arrow blended in. All i saw was ladder, which means trail, and then my eyes jumped to the trail behind it. That's where having redundant and predictable signage helps like You'll find on highways. That being said, there's so little traffic on that trail the arrow seems like more of a suggestion. Riding backwards up slab city on the other hand would be bit more problematic.
@@SkillsWithPhil So Slab City backwards next time? Kidding. 😉 Speaking of missing stuff, I recently improved enough in fitness / pace to start riding out front with my riding buddies and I realized how bad I was at paying attention to where we are going as I constantly was taking the wrong turns on our local trails once I was in the lead.
@@SkillsWithPhil Oh my god that’s too funny because that’s the one video that I skipped over for some reason because I didn’t want to see you injured! I’m on it now!
Slip angle is the relation of your friction versus momentum. If you start to turn, you increase the slip angle, which will tend to spin you out of control. If you brake and turn. it causes similar failures. It's why you brake into a turn and accelerate out of the turn. In either case, the goal is to be going straight asap and turn whilst only turning. This is true for all vehicles... hint hint car people who never drive their vehicles in extreme learning circumstances... this is why driving at a track and learning what 'going out of control' is like in controlled circumstances is soooo GREAT!!! learn to loose control, and you learn a lot about maintaining control on the line before falling over the cliff of LOST control.
On that side of SDM, even in pure wet conditions, those rocks will not break traction. It's insane. However, if you crash for ANY other reason, those slabs are like a giant cheese grater.
Phil, we really need some POV from your wife because if she is doing the same trail as you, I think it would be great to have her POV compared to yours.
@@SkillsWithPhil apologies for sounding like I was having a go at you as I was trying to be funny. Difference between Australian & USA humor. I enjoy your videos Phil 🤙🏼
Ah my bad, just the way it was written came across as advice and not jovial. I hate how humor is lost in translation over text. Most of my Austrian friends have some of my favorite humor :)
I like how youre completely out of breath and your wife is just casually cruising along no indication of effort at all. Can she do the videos instead so I don't have to listen to your heavy breathing :P
You hear it from every mountain biker. It's cause the gopro is so close to they face. Have you heard of "Mountain bike matt"? It's the same thing for everyone.
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Slab city IS super long, but i always figured the ribbon in grand junction was longer? I guess it depends how you measure it 🤷♂️
Both amazing trails though!
Yeah i agre with you (though I haven't ridden the ribbon)! Calling it the longest is a bit of a stretch, but can't say I've ridden any that are longer? Maybe something in north conway could rival it. Either way the whole trail was very cool nonetheless.
He will have to visit the ribbon and compare now. :)
You did the Granitosaur like a champ! it's definitely gnarlier in real life without the Gopro effect ;)
Great to see you back Phil! Love your vids, you have some of the best trail-riding content on youtube, keep it up!
Love this place, discovered it back 2015 on a DH trip to Mont Saint Anne that got rained out, so we decided to explore and found this and Vallée Bras-du-Nord. Did you also get a chance to go up to Vallée Bras-du-Nord, Accueil Shannahan? Some awesome stuff up there too.
2:20 it's crazy how easy it looks on GoPro compared to real life. SDM is a gem, one of my favorite (and furthest) places to ride!!
Made me feel better to see you had to pull for the jumps on Gold City haha. It's not just me!
Those jumps were really tough. Maybe on my sensor I'd have more speed, but i just felt like i had to use a lot more yank than I'd like.
The thing is , Gold City is made of all doubles and you really need to be on the edge to be able to clean it , and if you case one , you’re screwed for the next 4-5 jumps. Very few people can actually do it, and for 99% of the others, we cannot build our way trough it because it’s all double instead of tables…
It’s also a very weird place to put a jump trail so difficult, should be on S1 . Would have been nice to have something a little more accessible to complete the descent of slab city all the way to the buttom
Just started the video I already know it’s gonna be a good one Phil never ever disappointed
That slow tech trail look gnarly already on camera. I can't imagine how "bad" it must have looked in real life. It looked like an awesome bit of trail.... which I by no way have the skills to ride.
Those extra lines are SO cool to hit !!! Another good video. ;)
way easier when you ride the right direction! 😂 Slab City looks like so much fun! will definitely have to figure out a trip up there some day!
So, I guess this was before your injury. Look forward to your getting well and riding again. Your experience convinced me, an older guy, not to "send" anymore on my rides. I can't afford the down time. Life's too short. Carry on, sir!
Really nice one!! I bit disappointed cause that's my 13yo son and I at 1:54... You were hiding in a bush at the end of Tite-Chevre😄 so we didn't recognize you. It was my son's first time riding Super G and Slab City with his new XL bike. We would have love meeting you. Keep up the good content!!
Heading this way in a week!!! Can't wait!
I love how Phil just sends it blind on every new trail he rides. 😂
I only do that when I have a good sense as to where the trail is going otherwise, I am pretty cautious when I’m riding unfamiliar terrain. This is especially true when riding out BC.
"That was a lot easier than yesterday ." As youre passing a massive arrow on the exit bridge of the little trials trail :) 1:51
Nice vid Phil...added to the bucket
Awesome trail 🤘👍❤❤❤
I'm new to Mountain Biking and watching you makes me so shocked, how are you that good???? Keep up the work I love your videos
Phillis Thrillis! Sweet bro! 🤘🏼🤩👍🏼
Phil your the best mtb content creater
Also phill I love your videos me and my dad got into mountain biking because of you so thank you so much
One cool thing about Sentiers du Moulin - my house:) It is rather awesome seeing a range of interpretations of our home trail network.
BTW _ Phil - really enjoy your videos.
15:10 I too, phil, am here for the sketch 😂
7:00 Seeing this video after your wolverine vid makes me regret my comment on the last one lol Glad you did Slab City!
Ha ha no worries man
Love the looks of that tech trail in this!
You should try circuits frontieres in East Hereford quebec right at the border with nh and vt very nice trails there
Just started the video I already know it’s gonna be a good one Phil never ever disappointed
In Quebec we have a tendancy to call everything a Proline, probably somewhat due to veeeery finicky insurance reasons. That said not too far away you have MSA which has waaay gnarlier stuff, "surprise" drops, gaps and what not with no warning signs and apparently its fine 😅 (I'll say it again, you gotta go ride the DH sector there at some point !)
And dont worry about Gold City, a lot of people have the same opinion about it, havent ridden it yet but I trust their judgement, and now hearing yours further cements it. It's definitely a trail the builders built for themselves !
It's always tough building trails like that. You never know how much speed you are going to carry until the dirt dries out which can take weeks or sometimes a month. The idea of the trail is good and there's a lot to love but I think the eye may have been bigger than their appetite!
I'm probably going to hit up Bromont the next tome I'm in the area. Ive raced a quebec cup on the WC track and it was sick, but i haven't been back since and that was in 2011
@@SkillsWithPhil Bromont is on my list too, probably soon when I take a week off. I hear there's some nice stuff there, but the best is "off the map" 👀
From what I'm told, its easier and flowier than MSA overall, bit faster and more jumps. The latter has more slow tech, more gnar and more challenging line choices.
Cheers for the vids btw ! Always nice to see riders of your caliber hit our local trails :)
Wow what a cool place !!!! Well i have learned one thing for sure this week . The elevator drop on Drummer hill verses Hardtail ...Elevator drop 1000 hardtail broken lol. I lived though stuffed the front suspension its stuck and a bit bent . Front and rear rims well are kinda a little umm tweaked. See what the trade in value is at ALPINE in Keene . I just bought it a month ago . I'm gonna need a little tougher one than this lol. Think if i put the reflectors back on it i can get a better trade lol. The looks on there face will be epic !!!!
Hey Phil you should try the trail à Quebec City in the empire47 center or e47 in short it is at lac delage it is 30 minute away from sentier du moulin. There is mont saint Anne and massif de la petite rivière saint Francois. There is some trail at montchatel. And btw the rock at Quebec are REALLY grippy especially at sentier du moulin the are kind of more grippy wet.
euh... please don't go to Le Massif Phil... complete waste of your time. Spend 2 days at MSA instead and 1 other at Empire47 (forget about the small stuff, go for Descente du coude and Nosferatu, so much fun ruclips.net/video/P-AYVbJk4Oc/видео.html)
You guys are really sweet together, love watching your vids Phil
first off love your content! it's so fun to watch. also I'm a BRAND NEW rider and just got my first mountain bike this summer. not use to trail riding at all and have issues digging my pedals into the dirt. any tips for a rookie?
Sure do, I'll link to a few videos.
Beginner Tips ruclips.net/video/n_17-Tvjx2I/видео.html
Beginner Skills and Drills ruclips.net/video/1UuqWeJqOTk/видео.html
Flat Turns Explained ruclips.net/video/nrHWdScZ0Uo/видео.html
Have fun out there!
awesome man thank you so much!
“slow down… in my lingo that means speed up”…. Says it all!
you need a "hailey rides" segment, full run down a trail with camera :)
I agree
exactly! Hailey gained a lot of skill over the 2 last years. I remember the video in Hawleywood with the 2 songs that switch between. so funny
I completely relate to your sweat issue, I get soaked with not much effort! Reminds me of that scene in Bedazzled where he's in a basketball interview and it's like a sweat shower🤣
That was a great mix of trails and some impressive riding. That "Granitizer" or whatever it was called, with the long wooden bridge climb (imagine that climb on the ground, would take 2x or more energy!) -- that was pure early 00s natural tech, which is very hard to find these days.
Some of those rock-to-rock gaps you made on a few of the steep chutes are things that you see naturally, but I wouldn't see. But after watching you do it, I think, "well, that was a possible line to ride!"
Last time I watched one of your videos, you were riding with Wyn Masters. Your bike was creaking in that video too. Show it some love, man! But seriously, thanks for this video and the impressive riding.
I don't think people realize how often i take apart my bike and maintain it. Im constantly cleaning it, changing bearings, regreasing my bikes, but the fact of the matter is that if you ride a bike hard, multiple days in a row, it's going to creek. If you go back to the first day of this trip my bike was silent. This was the last day of a trip where i rode the bike hard the previous days. It doesn't help that the first day was muddy, and the other days were humid.
@@SkillsWithPhil I was sorta kidding. At my level of riding, my weight, my age I'm not stressing my bikes much. You ride aggressively and I'm sure put your bike through way more than the average rider. Most modern MTBs, as good as they are these days, are still designed mostly for average riders riding average speeds on average lines. Bigger more powerful riders, faster riders -- they stress bikes way more.
I went back & watched the video of you climbing the Slab City or whatever it was called. The kinds of lunges & hops required on that kind of climb is a good example of what I mean -- what you'd put your bike through, vs what Mr Average would. Mr Average would be walking that climb where you're doing power lunges, hops, and if given enough room, gaps.
You make it look easy my friend!
Phil you should take a trip out west and ride the slick rock trail in Moab
Looks like you hit some super nice weather/dirt/dry rock conditions.
Mmmm did you watch his videos that were filmed a day or two before that one?! Wet as fuck! I would not have ride those trails in those conditions... he was going down like he didnt care lool
Let’s go! Can’t wait to watch, how’s your wrist feeling?
Did you do magneto at sentier du moulin in your trip if not you missed something really cool
I did not. But it's good to have things to look forward to checking out on another trip:)
0:00 Have you been watchin Rainman Ray's Repairs recently Phil ?
No I haven't but i went and checked out his channel. Are you referring to the intro similarities?
@@SkillsWithPhil Yes
Nice uphill tricky ridin
1:50 You say it was a lot easier in that direction as you stop your front tire on an arrow carved into the wood pointing you in the direction you were going. It's amazing how easy it is to miss stuff as you are going along that can stand out to someone watching.
I know right!? Its amazing how many things i catch while editing video that i didn't pick up on in the moment. It's like being able to relive the day but frame by frame. But yeah, that arrow blended in. All i saw was ladder, which means trail, and then my eyes jumped to the trail behind it. That's where having redundant and predictable signage helps like You'll find on highways. That being said, there's so little traffic on that trail the arrow seems like more of a suggestion. Riding backwards up slab city on the other hand would be bit more problematic.
@@SkillsWithPhil So Slab City backwards next time? Kidding. 😉 Speaking of missing stuff, I recently improved enough in fitness / pace to start riding out front with my riding buddies and I realized how bad I was at paying attention to where we are going as I constantly was taking the wrong turns on our local trails once I was in the lead.
Hey Phil have you ever ben to cyuna in Minnesota and if so what di you think of it
Et puis Phil tu déménage au Quebec quand?? You seem to like it and you would have just as much fun in the winter. + Poutine. :)
Hehe Non, mais Vermont n'est pas trop loins!
Hey Phil, love your videos, what hip pack do you use?
I like the way Hailey was mimicking you at the end of the video. I don’t think she even knew she was doing it.
Good stuff man 🤟🔥
9:40 Mario 😂 😂
2:52 me when I’m looking in the fridge for food
Come to WI and check out the cam-rock trails
Thanks for the suggestion
Phil i know this is off topic but do you have any vids of you shredding Maine trails? Thanks man!
lol the video where i injured my wrist!
@@SkillsWithPhil Oh my god that’s too funny because that’s the one video that I skipped over for some reason because I didn’t want to see you injured! I’m on it now!
Slip angle is the relation of your friction versus momentum. If you start to turn, you increase the slip angle, which will tend to spin you out of control. If you brake and turn. it causes similar failures. It's why you brake into a turn and accelerate out of the turn. In either case, the goal is to be going straight asap and turn whilst only turning. This is true for all vehicles... hint hint car people who never drive their vehicles in extreme learning circumstances... this is why driving at a track and learning what 'going out of control' is like in controlled circumstances is soooo GREAT!!! learn to loose control, and you learn a lot about maintaining control on the line before falling over the cliff of LOST control.
On that side of SDM, even in pure wet conditions, those rocks will not break traction. It's insane. However, if you crash for ANY other reason, those slabs are like a giant cheese grater.
What kind of anti-gravity boots were you wearing on gold city?!
That section you rode by yourself was proper jank!
Love the jank.
Going too mt creek next weekend
♥
At 1:52, the guy passing, that's lol
Insane Bro:)
When do you think you’ll get back to riding?
I'm basically back. Just needed another weekend off to give it a bit more time to feel better. It still hurts in some positions but not intolerable.
That’s good
Total jank trail. 🤩
Phil was dead in this video haha 😆
Phil, we really need some POV from your wife because if she is doing the same trail as you, I think it would be great to have her POV compared to yours.
Sorry I don't remember in what video u said your bike model
It’s a GT Force carbon
Norway 😍
Would be chin if someone was filming on the side of the techy line to show the sketch factor better
I agree I need to hire a full-time drone pilot to follow me 😊
why is your bike always so squeaky? is that GT thing?
I don't know. I fully tore my bike down before This trip
Outta breath, bahd? More Rowing, Running, & Burpees to build up that lung capacity!
Whoever figures in airbags for suits and bikes might save some carnage points.
Slab me silly, Philly
First one let’s goo
ahem... how are you in the video industry and still recording with a phone in vertical mode...
Hi
Hi
i cant stand the camera angle or lense or whatever is making it look off. i cant tell how far away things really are or how high the jumps are.
There’s not much you can do about that. Nothing trail related ever translates onto camera.
When your wife says ‘ I look good in the lens’ you need to reinforce that with a compliment and not say the lens has mud on it 🤦♂️
Thanks for the unsolicited relationship advice, but we’re doing fine
@@SkillsWithPhil apologies for sounding like I was having a go at you as I was trying to be funny. Difference between Australian & USA humor.
I enjoy your videos Phil 🤙🏼
Ah my bad, just the way it was written came across as advice and not jovial. I hate how humor is lost in translation over text. Most of my Austrian friends have some of my favorite humor :)
@@SkillsWithPhil All good & yes it is hard to tell the tone of a comment sometimes ..... Austrian or Australian?
I like how youre completely out of breath and your wife is just casually cruising along no indication of effort at all. Can she do the videos instead so I don't have to listen to your heavy breathing :P
You hear it from every mountain biker. It's cause the gopro is so close to they face. Have you heard of "Mountain bike matt"? It's the same thing for everyone.
Hi