The most awaited Mountain Bike race in Squamish has a special ending!

oh wow yeah wow holy crap definitely want to pre-ride this one what's up everybody welcome back to the channel for today's video i am atom in squamish and i'm going to be riding with matt bolton we are going to do a preview of the famous squamish enduro presented by one up components it's gonna be awesome if you are in squamish make sure you come and check out the stages if you are racing good luck and talking about one up components a quick word i'm riding the new carbon v2 bar 35 millimeter ride whereas matt is on the 50 millimeter option that i look forward to try let's ride starting with stage one what's the okay so rider used to go on that big slabs but now for the race you have to go on this new section oh wow trail builders done a really cool job here oh this is gonna be fun to ride yeah me too i didn't even see it coming i'm like oh there it is well i'm glad i'm not racing because i would have been out of the course yeah it's a long stage too super rough lots of rocks it's techy the new section is really cool though yeah it's actually super fun i thought it was just gonna be a ride around but it's nice turns and it's still pretty flowy yeah for sure stick okay so this is still stage one yeah my foot almost blew off at the start i hit something it's pretty rough it's rough but super fun it'll be hard riding top to bottom there's no big uphill or no super long pedaling yeah but it's gonna be physical just the forearms and hands like my hands are sore as they should be this is stage two the suamish enduro 2025 rigs and zen to crouching squirrel okay let's do it oh that's really cool all fresh nice that's pretty rough it's a long story super rough lots of roots lots of rocks lots of pedal sections it's gonna be hard to race but yeah you have to be careful where to where to pedal if you've got enough energy to pedal actually for sure you could probably see in the video hit some rocks hit some roots got some weird lines so yeah you really want to be able to carry speed yeah it's definitely worth pre-riding that getting some good lines and definitely yeah i like that highlight we did on the rock that's awesome yeah quite a few uh quite a few line section on this one yeah owen just did some work he did a great job and it's sweet i'm out of breath i'm out of shape i am too so this is still stage number two there is a punchy climb and we're gonna make our way to the other section that's gonna be more descending hopefully yeah and at the end what do you think this is gonna be the finish right here it's the sixth stage it's super rough it's super fast there's tons of roots tons of rocks what do you think i think it's uh very physical yeah it's tough technically you have to carry speed and this one is probably one of the toughest uh stage i can think of in squamish yeah riding that top to bottom is gonna be insane it's gonna be over 10 minutes the hand pump is real just try and rest when you can and stay on the bike yeah i think not making mistake is gonna be key trying to time your uh your pedaling effort and uh yeah hold on to the bottom awesome okay day two of doing the preview of the squamish enduro this is stage four stage three is a secret one and it's a good one so on to hybrid nice hey how are you nice that track is uh really hard to race really slippery have to get your breakings uh really well done nice jumping manualing or pumping not sure what's faster nice nice that was fun that's pretty sick yeah i've ridden that trail in such a long time the top part and kind of forgot where to go but there's lots of good lines lots of roots and it's fast yeah a lot of like little uh pebbles or whatever it's called yeah it's little it's definitely marbly in the middle very slippery in some of those turns you have to wash out yeah you want you really want to uh slow down before your corner have a good position and once in your corner just commit look outside and make sure you get a good speed out it's looking like it's supposed to be super dry on race day so yeah watch out for sure and so this was not the supposed to be stage four right no we had another stage planned for stage four we had a last minute cancellation on the stage we couldn't race it so this is the backup and i think it's actually how about we go and ride the original plan stage four yeah let's go check it out let's do it yeah buddy let's rip it follow you just for just for fun this one it's not part of the enduro what's supposed to be stage four nice that was good i don't think i've ever ridden my bike here i didn't even know all of this yeah nice that's fun that was good it's a long stage it's pretty flat at the top and xc and then you get into that old school trail it's super rough and hard to choose a good line you get through that and it's like sick berms all the way to the bottom it's pretty fun yeah that would have been a good one it's good it's definitely physical and long and good option uh maybe next year maybe next year okay matt stage number five the last one of the day and you told me it's the best one yeah we say the best for last this is the old rockstar race the squamish classic uh cougar ridge we put a ton of hours into buffing this up this spring me and my friends about 90 hours it's run super good there's some big slabs and some fun jumps and fun turns and uh sickest trail of the day so let's rip it let's do it and this is valley cliff by the way okay here we go oh wow yeah that's sick okay wow holy crap oh dude that's a crazy stage definitely want to pre-ride this one i've ridden that but on my uh trials bike yeah that's awesome this is committed still lots of sprinting and that's it yeah boy that's the rock star that was awesome i was definitely timid at the start like this is super committed yeah the slabs are steep uh they ride super good but they're steep and pretty gnarly and you can get going pretty fast yeah definitely uh worth pre-riding yeah definitely gotta pre-ride that one some big compressions some small drops and doing that at race pace is gonna be insane yeah for sure well good luck everybody yeah it's gonna be fun to watch thanks everyone for watching that video i hope you enjoyed it if you are racing good luck and if you are not make sure you check out the link to trailforks so you can find those trails and ride them anytime you want if you are on the market for new handlebar check out the link to jensen to buy the new one-up components v2 carbon bars see you next week