DON'T LOOK DOWN - Mountain Biking Portal Trail - Moab, Utah
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- First time down Portal Trail in Moab. Don't go left....
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I was thinking it might have been a bad idea to ride that trail without gloves, but then there was the cliffs. There's no point even wearing a helmet. A parachute might work though...
It is specially important to war gloves in these kind of terrains. I helps the forensics team to obtain your fingerprints to identify your body when they find it at the bottom.
lexugax lmfao
They absorb shock for me and help me grip when my hands tens up. Plus, if you go down...
Lol
Helmet is a must. The head is more important then any part of the body... penis too.
He's like: "Damn" or "Phewww"
I'm like: Having a full on heart attack just by watching this lol
It has 255 likes but no replies
You have to be prepared to throw your life away for a simple mistake...count me out.
The video stabilization was amazing. Best I've seen.
Jeff Meyer amazing indeed, wonder how they got to that quality
69 likes. Ha ha!
@@PatVandenBosch it's the Go Pro
maybe a gimble
Totally agree with your points
“Super windy!” He casually said, while biking on a track that could plummet him to a very painful death.
0:17 Me: "I wonder if this is going to evolve into one of those 'nope' trails where you're basically riding on the side of a cliff."
2:25 Me: "Yeah...NOPE"
Looks a lot worse from a GoPro. 12 inches of trail is plenty for a 2 to 3 inch wide tire to travel on. Just fall towards the hill not the cliff if there's a hill to fall toward...I've ridden trails worse than this totally on my own for miles. No big deal, you can do it or don't bother.
@@xolomartinez6036 I don't think risking my life is worth a mild adrenaline rush.
Hk 4lyfe according to your logic a rollercoaster would be considered risking your life.
@@kevynlub2655 Don't ride those either.
In the immortal words of the great Borat "WA WA WEE WA!" So cool!
Very nice!! Haha
Yes! Lower Portal is the shit! Probably my favorite section in Moab. Pure violence.
So violent! My bike was making ALL the sounds by the end. Probably my favorite trail from the trip 👍🏼
Trail Peek I have a mountain bike (3/7 speeds) but I want to get a cyclocross bike, what do you think about the Mongoose Selous Comp Gravel Bike for $899.99, I'm saving to buy a house so I do not want to expend more than 1000 dollars, I live in California
Nate Hills bb
Nope nope nope.
crazy wheel to the max Did you get the house and the bike?
This trail is actually a little sketchy
Oh for sure! Don't go left
Only a little though...
Seth's Bike Hacks ayyyye Seth haha, I need to make a few vids showing some street skills after watching you, you're the reason I bought a $900 diamondback on ebay for $350 lol, to start mountain biking and fool around with. The previous owner even put an integrated dropper post, and new derailer
you should have bought a bitcoin! lol
Seth's Bike Hacks hah just slightly, death threatening, nothing much....
Geezus. I was puckered lying on my couch just watching this. I don't think I could even walk that trail.
Just finished riding this trail
This video as crazy as it is doesn’t do justice to how insane it is
untill now I never new a mountain bike could tackle terrain that technical at that pace. I've been racing dirt bikes for 25 years and I'm buying a mountain bike to add to the experience, thanks for enlightening me....loved the video, good job.....
2:24 wow, from here you can see the ER I would be taken to!
.....or the morgue
John Smith 3:22 this is where I stop to change my shorts
Guys, you are all wrong 0:00 through 9:00 was the scariest part
I can smell the brake pads through my screen
The Derflinger 😂😂😂😂me too, imagine loosing ya break on there🤐
@The Derflinger Runnin' out of breaking power, on a trail like this...Ooooooh
First rule of steering: "Focus your eyes where you want to go".
Somehow I'd still be looking left!
That guy can shred! As an off-road motorcycle rider I can appreciate the skill he displays, floating over rocks which are often at an angle to his line of travel, and the speed at which he is going is impressive. Through all that mess he got off his preferred line just once. Awesome rider.
I just did that trail a few weeks ago for the first time and damn it is gnarly. I like that the exposed part at the top is easy and the technical stuff isn't exposed but I mostly walked that top part man, my knees were shaking and just didn't want to have a mistake be my story. Sick riding and video!
Straight No Braker did you die?
I would've done the same thing and walked the super sketchy parts
gotta go change my underwear
You mean your whole outfit? 😂😂
Random
@@thepizzatop478 no
7:41 That noise tho😂😂
Very dangerous
just imaging hitting my leg on of those rocks and dying
Paved roads: "Am I a joke to you?"
Wow! That was PUNK ROCK. Best free adrenaline buzz in ages.....Hats off to some full on riding. Cheers from Scotland.
Great beginner trail, gonna take my hyper havoc walmart bike there
I have a scary memory of riding it 25 yrs ago, having forgotten my helmet and then doing a header on the lower section. I rode it at about 1/100 of your speed and was puckered up the whole way and now I 'm puckered up again watching your amazing vid. Thanks for posting it.
Damn!! 2:46, that is nuts!! Awesome riding, as per usual.
Don't blow the corner lol!
I think I squealed at 3:20...
Nuts?? nuts doesn't even come close to describe :D
I can't believe there's only 24k views. Spectacular film.
Dude, very impressive ride down, and super fun to watch. I'm a newcomer to mountain biking
(at age 61), and although I'm quickly getting better, ha ha, I'm not sure anything like Portal Trail is in my future cards.
Following ur cam view, i saw myself taking several wrong lines and plummetting over all the way down several times. Of course, if i had plummeted, it wouldn't be several times, just that one time and I'd be done for. Respect! U are one sic rider, and thanks for taking me there.
6:14 I’m starting to think his arms aren’t attached to his body
Hhaha
i honestly thought i put the vid on 2x on accident
young lavo LMFAOO
OMG ROFL!!!
young lavo there so long
Holy shoot, this trail is something else! I mean, my heart beat was upthere somewhere just by watching. Awesome!
7:40 that little scream made me burst out laughing
Thanks for taking me on the ride too......This old man loved it!
The second half of that trail was sick!
my arms got tired just wathing it
Not for the faint of heart and unskilled riders. Great video with the stabilizer. Excellent skills in riding.
I wouldn't even be able to walk most of this I am so afraid of heights
Charles Ritter I couldn’t even go on the beginning part
We'll send in Search and Rescue to extract you from the foot of the trail when we get back down....give us 6 hrs.up the mountain and 10
(min.) Max.for the descent,okay Bud?
Me too!
It doesn’t seem possible anyone could do this or any bike could handle the terrain. Just amazing!
this video gave me more anxiety than me going home after getting bad grades
Shoot,it gave more anxiety than sneaking in after cheating OMG 😳
I love that trail! haven't ridden it in 20 years though... sad face. you're having the time of your life and then suddenly.....it's over. and you're back on tarmac. thanks for posting!
2:45 his eyes would be like:▶️⬅️⬆️⬇️↗️↕️↖️↙️↘️➡️🔽↗️⬆️↔️↪️🔁⬇️⬅️↖️⬇️↗️
I've never seen anything so Beautiful and so scary at the same time! This is what I call Super brave,my hands were sweating the whole time Brilliant Video
Me: attempts this
“PORTAL TRAIL”
Also me: immediately dies
Its a portal to the afterlife
I'm watching this and thinking this is so F'd up but so awesome at the same time. Its Pure Living.
That's some pucker inducing terrain right there!
I love it! It's super bumpy!! Yet, the camera remains still!!! I love it!!!! SICK!!!!!
Holy cow, what a trail! Nice riding as always! Hope your front disk break/spokes didn't take a hit!
PS: really loved the ending with the conversation... gives the video a sort of personal touch!
Thanks! We'll try to include a little more of the stoke commentary.
I just walked this trail today, Nov 14th 2020. Dude you are flying thru shit likes its flat ground! Sometimes when you look ahead and just gas it makes it easier! Awesome skills bro!
am i the only one who noticed his handlebar is backwards?
My eyes were getting wider and wider watching this. Holy sugar this is incredible! Awesome video and you make it look so easy!
that was impressive! excellent riding skills, i was shitting myself just watching the video!
The rocky section showing at around 2:20 looks to be more than heart-stopping!
how to balance the camera like you did?
it's so shockless and focust, looks like a video games :D
Your head is the most stable part of your body in sports.
Courageous ride: the way you kept going through some of those rock cramped slow sections- great skill.
NICE!! The steep rocks at 2:50 that prompted the "whoo," was some exposure for sure! "Death on the left" should be the name of the upper part of that trail. After you rode to the edge of the bluff over the river and gave me butterflies, the rest of it looked like less exposure. The entire thing looked INCREDIBLY fun to ride, which is what I love about Moab. Rocks, rocks, and more rocks!! Was I dreaming, or did you run your fork stanchion right into that rock on the right?? Be interested to see if you prefer this over Capt. Ahab. Great video, and great riding as always...keep 'em coming!! MOAB ENCORE!!!
That was no dream, smashed my fork lower into that rock. Watch it again and you'll see I clipped my bars on the little tree and somehow rode it out lol.
At least it was the lower, right? :-) It looked like it was the stanchion in the video! Hate clipping my bars, and I'm always amazed when I don't go down.
used to ride this in the 80s, good to know that it still kicks ass!
Mental... awesome skills fella. subscribed
Thanks James!
You guys make it look so easy :) Ive never done any mountainbiking and maybe I never will but I really enjoy watching you guys doing it, thanks for bringing us with you :)
watch those elbows on some of those boulders!!
Brilliant riding, I couldn't walk that without crapping my self!!!
Do you ever feel like you have a lack of grip while not wearing gloves?
Never
You're just one of the only people I've ever seen that doesn't wear gloves. Guess it's like how a lot of baseball players don't wear gloves at bat!
Skeggs, waterdog and z's are child's play compared to this.
Wear gloves if you don't want your hands mutilated when you fall, strike a tree, rubbed raw and get blisters. You shouldn't be holding onto the handebars tight anyways. You will fall eventually.
+Danny Kamerman On the other hand (wink), no gloves gives you the feel of such extra risk, and trains you better to stay on top of your bike on those hard situations.
Jesus! What a rock garden! Savage riding skills man... youghtta be content with that ride! I am. For ya... :) Love Moab trails!
Ur insane!! God damn! But I love the riding ❤️
Ballsy to say the least! Looked like fun! We have a few trails with steep drop offs into nothingness where I am (although not nearly as dramatic as this) but the older I got the less I rode them. Mortality and self insurance is a great equalizer and party pooper. Now I get to live vicariously through you. Enjoy that until you can't enjoy it anymore!
Are you gonna hit Outerbike with BKXC? Would be a good time for a collab video!
Outerbike was a few weeks ago LOL! I left before the crowds
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Not to be rude to Brian from Bkxc, but he wouldn't quite be comfortable on trails like Portal. Trail Peek here would be leaving him in the dust every run.
Ohh didnt realise there was such a big delay on his videos😅 But now that I think about it, he travels so much there must be very little time to edit videos, so the delay is quite understandable.
BKXC made a collab video with Phil Kmetz 2-3 months ago and it was pretty cool, Phil is a professional downhill MTB rider and Brian is kind of at the novice/ lower intermediate level and even with all that, the video turned out pretty good and I would watch another one of those again. Just because one rider is a lot better than the other doesn't mean they can't ride together sometimes, you just have to let people go at their own speed for part of the run, or whatever people are comfortable with. It's not hard to accomplish
Wow. And this dude did this on a 1977 Huffy Hardtail. Respect.
why does it look like your bars are on wrong!?!?!
Christopher Schmitthausler i thought the same thing.
His bars are more twisted forward..its up to the rider, a flat bar in is turning angle is universal. But slightly forward makes the bike longer as well as alittle easlier on sharp turn radius..
Will drive you nuts trying to pick a line when you're not controlling the bike. Lol great video guys!
have people died on this trail?
I think 3 people have
Trail Peek from mtbing or in general?
Yes.
yes from MTB'ing. In the video you'll see several signs saying to dismount in a few really nasty exposed sections. These sections have nothing to catch you if you fall left...
Generally at least one cyclist a year dies on Portal...
Breathtakingly outstanding !! Huge thank you for my vicarious thrills. Staggered. Well done.
"Damn" indeed. Ultra technical one second, fast and loose the next, with a shit ton of exposure for good measure. I'm going to have to stop watching Trail Peek. It's costing me too much in soiled underwear.
I rode this trail today. Well, okay, I rode part of it, and walked part of it. You make it look far easier than it actually is!
i Know WHY you Cut out a Bunch of Parts from the Video Here' is Because you Dont Want People to SEE you Fall Down :-D
I love PORTAL trail it's one the hardest tech trails you can ride. Nice work!
Probably not the hardest considering I rode all of it blind, but still such an awesome trail! High consequence nonetheless.
Craig Steele what's your favorite trail in Moab?
Checkout Porcupine rim if you haven't already?...It is 15.6 miles of DH with fast flow Techy sections as well with some high speed drop offs. poison spider bikes will hook you up for the shuttle. Sorry for the late reply been adventure riding myself. Enjoy lads!!
Seth -> Jesus -> Phil -> BKXC -> HERE. Thumbs up on this gnarly rip.
you are one hell of a rider , I am getting scared just looking at the video..be safe
Been there. Done that. Walked the whole middle section along the cliff. Not that hard of a trail but the consequences of a crash is death. So I played it safe.
This was one of the videos that inspired me to start MTBing last fall. It's a bucket list for me definitely; need to get better, stronger, every ride until I can ride this beast of a trail with confidence. Thanks man!
It's okay to let other people defy death
sick ride guys , this trail is not joke ...
Dude, you drew some really nice lines down this ons. Nice work!🔥🙏
It was funny across the river at heading to hymasa trail head listening to the people hoot and holler as they're descending in to the canyon.
That is absolutely insane. Great views though!
was by far my favorite trail in Moab the exposure doesnt look crazy until you see it via drone footage of how big the cliff is
That is a trail! No room for hesitation.
Two wheeled Billy Goats.!👍🤠🇺🇸
The arms the hole time (bec of the angle) cracked me up I couldn’t just omg 😂😂😂
I’m amazed how beautiful Utah is!
Beautiful place.... Dam nice run too.
Excellent control of your bicycle.
Nice save on that bar-clip at 3:45!
That looks really tricky. Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like and old Willy's Jeep with no engine rolling down a bumpy hill. I feel bad for the machine listening to this. Insane ride. I'd be walkin.
Nice video work. Those are some crazy ass trails.
I would not survive first 10m most likely. Wow! You must have tons of experience and I can't imagine what you have in your head when you ride like that or not. :-) Great video.
I found myself leaning to the right watching this.. epic trail..
Wow, takes me back. I remember doing this on my hardtail, 3" of front travel. Great trail, need to go back.
First time I was on my Klein Attitude and V-Brakes. I loved it. The last time I was on my 575 with a Fox 36. I loved it, but I could still feel my hands at the end. Nice job on the first run. Interesting edits around the signage. Especially considering the final commentary. BTW, I don’t think that I could ride this trail with V-Brakes anymore.
Nicely done. I love the Portal trail. Almost makes it look as hard as it really is. I also never thought about hiking it... I guess because I own a bike!!
Gonna be at least a few years before I try that! Seriously insane. Super fun to watch though!
Wow, sick trail !! It looks very sketchy at the top with that cliff drop off, but what an amazing view !!! Great ride,guys !!
what an amazing place, so different to rainy England trails that I'm used to, would love to ride something like this at some point
Wooooooo!! I was screaming the whole time!!!
Humbling and frightening all at the same time, good stuff Dane
Very true, thanks!
Holy moly, sure that's not a hiking trail...amazed a bike can make it down!
Nice, that looks like a great riding, thanks