The BEST mountain bike ride in Northern California | The Flow Trail - Soquel Demo Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ม.ค. 2022
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It's always controversial to call something THE BEST, but this trail delivers every single time. Everyone can enjoy the Flow Trail, and as your skills improve I guarantee you'll enjoy it even more.
The Flow Trails gets a lot of traffic but volunteers are always active in keeping the trail rideable. It's pretty much rideable year round, but like most Northern California trails, needs to be avoided after rain. The more rain, the longer we have to let the trail dry out.
◆ Santa Cruz Mountains Trail Stewardship: santacruztrails.org/
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So good hearing somebody have nothing but good clean fun on the bike.
I wish we had trails like this in Belgium.
Once I get more comfortable with my new Stumpy Alloy Comp I can’t wait to ride this!!!
This ride is very deserving of being the second entry on The Trail One List! We're compiling the best of the best mountain bike rides, here's the write up for this one: trailone.bike/pages/demo-flow-trail-in-santa-cruz-california
Have you ridden Pipeline in Salinas?
Great adventure video. No distracting background music. Just banter and beautiful views. The way it should be.
Just rode this on Sunday and both the parking lot and the road were packed with cars. Clearly a weekday is preferable!
just gotta get there early on weekends. If you can park by 830am you're golden.
*I love this bike. Besides **Latest.Bike** being kind of heavy, I have no complaints. It was delivered a day early in great shape and it is a blast to ride*
I miss trails like this when I was stationed in Germany. Now that I’m in NYC, there’s trails here but so far every one I have found is very technical. I can handle technical but I enjoy flow trails because like you said, once you hit that rhythm you’re just in pure bliss.
Technical?
You gotta get out of New York! New England is great in the summer but NYC, blech!
This trail is awesome definitely one of my favorites after the Downieville downhill.
Your videos are an absolut joy to watch😍 Thank you for taking us with you on all these amazing trails
Rode this a few times with my son when we were in Santa Cruz. Great memories for sure!
Wow ! What an AMAZING trail !! That looks like SO much fun.
Thank you bkxc for amazing rides. I got inspired by your videos and started mountain biking and now I'm in love with it. Amazing work 🚴.. Keep riding.
Great video Brian! And your suggestions for riding spots is awesome! Now I gotta get some new gear and get out there!! Thanks again!!
Speed on the 2. round was incredible. Stunning Trail! Thanks
That was an amazing display of skill. Great video.
Scenery wise the blue bike looks so good on this trail/vid, what a place
That looks like my dream trail! Long way from CT but some day I will ride that. Thanks for the video!
Another Incredible Video. Been following you since 2016? Love it.
I love this place. I live in Kentucky but I have family in Santa Cruz and have been going out there every year for the past 40 years.
So much flow! awesome vid.💯🤘
That was fantastic 🤙🏾great riding you was flying 🚀🚀🚀💪🏾
Awesome Video! I‘m looking forward to get my new fully to make new experiences. Meanwhile I‘m watching your Videos to stay hyped. Greetings from Germany! 😁
That was a lot of uphill...Super hard core all around..
what a little stomper of a trail, def my kinda thing, a nice long splayed out roller coaster ride! keep them coming buddy!
Such a cool trail. Great video man
Beautiful blue on that ripmo
These vids keep me going through winter … here in BC it’s still lots of snow
That trail looks amazing!
Cool memories - 2018 we travelled over from Scotland and included Demo in our biking roadtrip BECAUSE OF YOU . We are booked to return to USA later this year with the bikes for another 'Grand Tour' of our favourite biking locations. Our very own Covid Redemption 🙂
Dang, the cat just jumped on my keyboard and nixed my reply to you! One more try...
Nice to hear! What's on your list???
N. California has so much to offer, you could spend your entire trip right here and be happy. But why do that when there's an entire UNIVERSE of stuff to explore? A friend and guide in Moab discovered Idaho a while back and he couldn't stop gushing about how epic it was. Rode Sedona for a weekend a lifetime ago, so would love to return. Then there's all the great Colorado stuff. Fruita, St. George. Oh and Oregon. And I hear we have an East Coast that has a few trails! And then there's Moab. If you haven't done it, it's simply a MUST. The riding's epic - even moreso today than 20 years ago. But the scenery is just as worthy of a trip.
Good luck. Hope to see you on the trails!!! (It could happen! :)
@@dudeonbike800 cheers, we've been lucky in our previous visits to ride many locations in your suggestions but this time we are hitting some of our favourite spots - Phoenix, Sedona, Prescott, St George, Cedar City, Moab, GJ, Gunnison and finish at Golden (as we both ride Yetis). Really excited to travel again 😎
@@vincentgregory5220 Thanks. Nice! I'll be in St. George first week of April. Can't wait to get back. Will miss the Hurricane Mtb. Festival this time around, but not their trails! On a new Ripley now, so I'll be enjoying it just that much more!
Wow, you can wrap it up with a nice cold Coors at the end... NOT!!! Ha, ha!
PS My choice of bike came down to Ibis, Santa Cruz or Yeti. Nice choice!!!
Thank you for this video. I enjoyed watching it. Definitely subscribed 👍🏼
Fantastic!
Wow..best trail Ive seen. What a blast!!
Heck yes dude. Coming from TX to the Bay this has been one of my go to spots!
Demo, Downieville, and Flume are still top 3 in my bucket list
Well they are hardly maintaining demo and bunch clowns on ebikes are running laps on it even tho they are not allowed there
Rode it yesterday. Ear to ear grins. That climb out though. 😮
I love the color on your new Ripmo!
One of the best places to ride in the area. That climb out is brutal though haha!
love your video. i got into MTB recently and it was just soo much fun riding and making my first video while being scared of falling and braking my bones 😅
Cant wait to go here this year!
From Soquel and I definitely take it for granted
Just did it yesterday! segments 1-4 is pretty bumpy, 5-6 pretty smooth riding!
Awesome video, Brian! I rode that trail for the first time last summer, and it was a ton of fun. The craters in the berms and the mosquitoes on the climb out were rough though.
I was super curious about the bumpy berms… but mosquitoes in California? Lol I had no idea, hell I’ve been to Cali a few times and could have swore there were no bugs at all!
@@donspradley6912 I was a little surprised as well, but they were thick. There is a river that runs right near the parking lot, so I think that is why the bugs were bad.
You should definitely check out Flash of Gold to Grouse Ridge to Spring Roll in Steamboat Springs, CO and Emerald NPR to Molly's. We have so many cool trails to ride right out of downtown. Keep up your hard work!
Very interesting video. Cool cross country!
Thanks for the list. One day soon, I want to hit the road and ride your list.
Ripmo AF will be my first full sus... demo'd it at my local bike trails and it is a total banger. so much travel size large is awesome
One of my most favorite trails to ride. Worth the climb out haha
beautiful bike my friend ! amazing trails....congratulations. greetings friend🤘
The outline trail1 graphics look great!
Awesome seeing you rip the Flow Trail🤘🏽🤘🏽
I prefer to go up the longer way and hit Ridge Trail on the way to Flow. Then do the Suffer, uhh I mean Sulphur Springs climb to get that second lap.
I rode this trail the day before you and camped at New Brighton. It was awesome!
Looks like in need to add northern California to my list! Place looks awesome!!
Now that's my kinda trail. I'm hurting too much for anything to jarring. That looked fun!
Diggin' that Crockett bar, my dude!
Beautiful out there
I found this video pretty awesome. You are so good. So fast. Wow
Looking forward to the day I can ride up Sulphur and Tractor while talking as easily as you are hah. So lucky to have these trails in our backyard!
One of my favorite places to ride.
beautiful bike
Good Raider bike and always sucses Freind thanks shering vidio good 👍
Great videos 💪
Nice Bivo water bottle. I use the same. I've ridden this a bit with a hardtail, but won't return until I have a full suspension bike. The speed with the potholes don't mix well on a hardtail.
Nice bike! I have an Ibis Silk Ti & mojo 650HDR. Great bikes!
I've been out of mt biking for 10 years, doing motocross, scuba, lots of running and hunting/hiking etc... I raced uscf/norba back in my younger days. Can't wait to hit some cool trails, at age 53 I feel like I am past my prime but... great videos and love your enthusiasm. It's motivating.
This video is telling me I still have time for the van! Im pretty fit, but 71 years old. Thunder mountain in Utah my high water mark.
I have not ridden that trail since last fall and it looks like most of the berms are still bombed out. It really wasn't that much after those leg burning climbs. Early last year it was mint and getting in two laps was amazing.
your bike is so quiet, and nice sounding, I could listen to you ride all night.
Pretty awesome you had the whole place to yourself. I enjoyed the original vid with the mispronunciation and still enjoy your vids today. 👏
Weekday mornings are best. Met you atop the flow trail on a Monday a couple years back. We were the only ones there. You were quite surprised that I hung with you for a full run (non stop) down the Flow. I got a sticker.
Im making a list. Got my van build about 98% done. Ready to ride this season! Woohoo! (minus fuel prices smh lol)
Man that’s a wild experience
every time i go out to the flow trail, i plan on riding it twice… but at the end of the run when you have to climb 4 miles back to the car.. once is enough! 😂
the flow trail is so well designed that your bike almost knows what to do on its own!
e-bike = solved
@@brianlutz7813 ebike actually not allowed at demo
Definitely need to come back to Mt Nebo.
Miss riding there.
Nice to see you have the new Fine Home Building mag.
I’m all amped up about to go here for the first time. I’m a casual rider and haven’t ridden a trail in 10 yrs+. I’ll be there in about 90 minutes
It’s my favorite as well . I manage to ride it at least once a year . The brochure fails to tell you about the climb in and then out 🤣 but it’s worth the effort
Looks nice. I may have to make a trip down from Reno to do it.
Well worth the trip and it rides decent in the winter as well as long as it's been a couple days after a rain!
Greetings from the Bug Zapper Blue boys Louisville Ky. my buddy Shaun George is out there right now. place looks so fun
My new favorite channel
Beautiful forest! Sad to see all of the craters in the berms D:
Interesting to see how this list shapes up. I imagine some spots will be hard to pick specific trails like Bentonville, others are obvious like Moab (Ahab and WE).
Great trails
Respect from Germany🤙
Bucket list
That’s crazy!!! I live 15min away from that place lol
Yoooooo......thnk u so much for all u the hard work, dedication,keepin it true&all else u do for our beautiful culture of mtb love&life bro .........btw,im the good bay area born black brethren that had the super cool opp to race the with u in Humboldt at Lacks Creek some time ago...i crashed hella embarrassedly in front of a photo opp&hecka others known & unknown..smh,...of course.....lmao...thnx again for all u do for the tribe bro.....b well
Almost sounds like you're coming back-up to visit Alaska again 🤔🤘🤣
Nice video of Demo. You need to spend a day in Toro Park - Monterey. Pipeline is a good comparison to Flow, and the end of the ride is at the car.
You've got to try the new Black & Blue Lead in Weaverville... Amazing Flow Trial Glory
Flow is awesome - I'd still do the Braille first and then flow...
Hi Brian, is Trail 1 component planning to do handlebars with 10 to 12 degrees backsweep? Request from NZ.😊
Need some purple in the trail 1 components lines. Once that happens I’ll start making the orders. I like my purple components to go with my 2018 chameleon
My stomping grounds. Wondering if you have ridden the Highway 9 side of the UCSC campus. Also great ride. I prefer to bring the ebike to demo due to the long ride back to the car.
So nice flowy trail. I always wanted to live to a place where trails are just about in my backyard. Which part of california for now is a good place to live at the same time cost of living is not that high? ofcourse also near for best mtb trails
Brian, do you have any thoughts on coil vs. air on the Ripmo V2? I am running the same bike and I'm curious to try. I feel like I ride a bit like you so I'm curious if you've tried both. Thanks!
It's all about the flow, bro
Ridgeline and Hooker Creek in Dupont SF in NC meet my climb vs descent, pain and pleasure criteria.
Whistler, Moab and N.C. but no Bentonville.
Bentonville vs expectations is a definite consideration.
I've never seen anyone who has been to Bentonville say anything bad about it, apparently the effort to reward ratio is quite high. I'm taking a trip out there in March so will see for myself. I've ridden Moab/GJ/Fruita, some of the good trail systems in the PNW and tons in Colorado so we shall see if it lives up to the hype.
Nice Brain!!!!
Great video, I think you said 2-3 videos ago that you got new tires. Are you still using Assegai 2.5 EXO+ in front with DHR 2 EXO+ 2.4 in the back ? Tks in advance! :)
Love Braille Trail, love flow trail ,love Demo Forest. Santa Cruz native. Have you tried Saratoga Gap? Give it a spin. I only ride single speed hard-tail, to my detriment, but it sure makes you find lines! Also, if you find yourself in town, go to Another Bike Shop, and ask about Peabody’s Trail. They may or may not give you directions.
Flowy trails those ones, Brian,what spring rate are you using and whats your weight ?
George, watch out for that tree!