This Dirt Jump Spot is Absolutely Sick!

Let's see, is the bike in one piece? Little update, I'm headed to Moab, but I figured I'd try to get a few extra days of riding in, so I flew into Salt Lake City. I literally just landed a few hours ago, and I'm gonna do a bit of a shakedown ride, so we're gonna go to hit some dirt jumps. All right, like three hours later, I'm finally ready. It's really hard to get yourself prepared when you don't have a home base. All right, let's go see if we can find these jumps. I think they're over here somewhere. This sign looks promising. What do we have here? What's the beta on this place? Like, what do you start with? Main line. Oh, yeah. Right over there? Yeah. Sweet. Yeah, what's up, man? What's up? This place is kind of overwhelming. There's so many options. There's a lot. So, main line is... Gonna follow? Yeah, who am I following, you or you? Follow him. All right, what's your name? My name's Jameis. Jameis, nice to meet you, man. All right, let's see if I put my bike together properly. This wind. This is really cool. That is super cool. How long have you been here? I landed at 12. No way. So, I had enough time to stuff my face with some McDonald's and go to bike. Are you here for a specific reason, or it's just... I'm headed to Moab. Yeah, the other trail that my buddy was telling me to check out was not too far, Bobsled. Oh, yeah. That's like right here. I don't know if I'll get to that today, because I'm literally working on two hours of sleep. Let's try not to case it this time. That wind is like right in your face. There we go. Man, it's so hard to get a read on where things go. There are so many different options here. It is ridiculous. This dirt's also very interesting. Like, microscopic little pebbles. It's hard for me to get a read on whether it's like, grippy or not. All right. See what this line's all about. You guys come out here often, or? Well, we try to, but in the summer, it just gets way too hot. Yeah. Yeah, I was told that October's kind of like the sweet spot. How many people are out here building? It's pretty constant. It's like little elves show up throughout the day. All right, let's do this again. So it's a little bit, like, hard to predict. Nice. I'm like in this danger zone. Yeah. If the wind is affecting me, how it's affecting them. Does it go pretty well? Yeah. Yeah, it does actually. Everything here is like really well built. Where are we headed now? I'm a mess today. All right, what is going on over there? This is extremely overwhelming. Yeah, there's so much. All right, that makes sense now. Okay. Butter. Are you still good, bro? I am. Nice to meet you. What's wrong, dude? I don't know. All right, let's check out this step up. Okay. I see what they're talking about. Yeah, you weren't kidding. That's a step up. Yeah, that's a step up. That's like 12 feet. 10, 12. Because I feel like I'm standing in the middle of a vert ramp. That is big. This one, you're going to be pulling some G-forces right there. All right, I want to check out that step up. But before I do that, I want to hit all the other jumps first. There's so many other things around here that I want to do. Like, everywhere I look, there's another feature. All right, let's check out this line. Up here, up the drop, and then, whoo, that wind. All right, first I'm hitting this part of the line. Oh my God, it just keeps going. This is so wild. All right, we'll bail out here. Can't believe this is on public land. This is really cool. This jump, the wooden step down. It's not too bad. You don't even need to pull. Just kind of stay relaxed. It's more of like a drop. Dirt jumps are probably the most dangerous things to learn. It's really easy to get bucked and caught by the wind, so it's definitely something to approach with abundance of caution. You said you've only been riding for like a year and a half or so? Yeah, I mean, I've just been cross country. Okay. I've seen a lot of stuff happen, so dirt jumps are one place where I want to make sure people are like really comfortable before I kind of talk them into doing anything. All right, let's grab this. I'll hop onto here. Insanely tight little turn. All right. These jumps are so blind. Where does it, does it really go anywhere? Okay. Just kind of dead ends. Maybe there was a line, I just didn't see it. How's the second jump on this though? Second jump's fine. Close? Yeah, it's like, as long as you get this one fine, no problem. Okay. I did. It's so sketchy. I've never seen anybody ever do that. You got it. Yeah, I got it. Yeah, dude. Yeah, if you got, you can basically get this one. Unless you already did it. No, I didn't. Okay. But that goes like, that literally goes to nowhere. Unless you do that one. Moving on to the next section. Yeah, it's looking pretty good. It's a nice place to be. There's lots of, lots of amazing stuff here. Woo. Yeah, I got some wind on that last one. Nice. Yeah. I wish it wasn't so windy. Yeah. As much as I want to hit this, given how windy it is, it's not the smart thing to do. I got a whole like, week at Moab, so. That actually was not bad at all. Yeah. Your shoes are properly beat up. Yes. The lost protection is like, now they're like so drippy. I'm not gonna lie, like these are, these are better than the new Nikes. I used to only ride in skate shoes and then I was like, man, 510s are a scam. They're not worth it. And then I tried them and like, these things actually live up to the hype. They kind of suck now that Adidas bought them. I will say the Impact Pros are actually pretty good. Not the Freerider Pros. Those kind of suck. I've had a set of Impact Pros and I'm going on my sixth year or so on them, so. All right. Woo hoo. Oh. I got a flat. Yeah. Brody, you're good on wind. It's leaking from my valve. I have that exact problem. And it is beautiful. Thanks for showing me around. Yeah, of course. Okay. You mind grabbing a picture really quick? Yeah, no, not at all. Yeah, super awesome. Well, can't quite tell what kind of flat I have, but definitely squishy. So we're gonna sort that out and get ready for tomorrow. But either way, I'm only working on two hours of sleep. Had to wake up at four and I'm not firing on all cylinders, so it's kind of nice to have an easy day. Anyways, so I go put this bike back in the car and go get some food.