You're right about gopro POV footage never looking very steep. You really have to look at some of the other cues to even grasp how steep some of that is. But on the bonus side, you do get to see that it's actually rideable, because it flattens it out to just the features themselves, which mostly look like big berms and a bunch of mostly medium sized drops. The problem is letting your mind see it that way in person so you can let go of the brakes enough to get the necessary speed, and knowing when and how much to brake to keep your speed in check - a pretty fine line by the looks of it. Right on, nice progressing!
Paul The Punter definite gopro effect, especially on the slab which looks like nothing on the video but is just bonkers in reality. I ended up in the catch netting first tie down, upside down, in hysterics. There are steeper trails but this one is steep for a long, long time.
@@cougar231000 I've ridden down Champery and it does have some damned steep sections; I ended up in the bright orange catch netting at one point (much to my mate's amusement). There's probably steeper trails on Le Pleney in Morzine (naughty trails that we aren't supposed to ride) but not quite as prolonged. The scariest, steepest trail I have tried to ride was the one in this video, at Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire; that was just bonkers: th-cam.com/video/NZxCZsSaFB4/w-d-xo.html
@@PaulThePunter and @James Long try the blue in Morgins bike park just near champery, never seen a blue as steep and technical ;) Nice video BTW, I'm always impressed how you are trying and trying again, great motivation!
Hey Paul, if you are still in Switzerland there is a magic place to ride near Champery. It's call "les Renards" (the Fox) situated betwin Bex and Barboleuse (40 minutes by car from Champery). When you ride there you take the train from Bevieux station to Barboleuse station for the lift, five minutes of pedling on a little road call "les renards" then you connect plenty of increadible trails. Ask Ben i'm shure he know the place.
Ahhh I'm sure he does know that and is probably riding it now! I've ridden Dorenaz many years ago (sorry if I spelt it wrong) so I am keen to check it out. As always, never enough time with these things. Thanks though!
I tried to do this about 4 years ago on a 130mm trail bike, i have no idea what i was thinking, and was lucky to make it to the half way point. was good to see how you progressed with some encouragement.
Totally agree Champery is scary at the first time ,got some heavy action in a few spots...I crash in the worst part,in the steps protected by the green net. My bike flu over that like 30 meters or so,in that moment my first thought was,ok I broke my bike it is impossible it survive that any damage. It was OK at the end. Best thing to do is take Danny Hart video and compare while you are there,then you got speechless, I brake a few times to look at the jumps. There is one jump at the top,the mountain is so steep there,if you take the jump 90º to the right I´m pretty sure you can land on Champery village from the top of the mountain hahaha. Awesome video!
Great vid Paul, huge fan of the races from that track and it was cool to see POV of those sections spliced with race footage. 1000m drop on a DH race track is insane! Over double many tracks today!!
Great vid Paul - having ridden it a few times it is comically steep. You look down and it’s just a ridiculous hill full of catch netting! Its well built though so I imagine really good riders can get it to flow. Kudus to Ben and his crew who have been trail building out there for years and are givers of stoke if you ever run into them!
Wow that looks really fun! But si there something wrong with your gopro? I noticed a few times there were glitches in the footage. 1:141:4312:13 were the examples I seen
Hands down the strongest GoPro effect I've ever seen. This track HAS to be seen to be believed. Kudos for lapping it! I got down it once (just) but super keen to return.
I rode this in the summer on an enduro bike. Hands down the steepest thing I've ever ridden and one of the only tracks that I'd have rather been on a downhill bike but i loved it!
That trail looks bonkers. Once I was riding down a mountain and wandered off the trail somehow. There was a path going down where I ended up and I said fuck it, I won't push the bike back up, I'll just go this way. Well it turned out to be too steep to even walk the bike down. There was no chance of using any front brake because I couldn't lean back far enough not to go otb. On some sections I had to slide down on my arse while using the bike to dig into the ground and slow me down. Hard to tell from camera but this trail looks somewhat close to that so I say kudos for having enough control to go down, even if you walked some parts and went slow. Yeah, some parts are certainly easier to clear at speed but people fail to realize that these are not individual features but chained together and you can't stop midway and correct your approach.
You say "in France" you mean in Switzerland xD, hope my friends from chocolate's country didn't hear that. And in fact it is like that in all of europe for ski slopes and mtb tracks.
Ahhh well played....it's just so close to the border! But this was foreshadowing for my other videos from France to explain the grading. Really I should have said Europe as you say.
haha, we were getting to Grenoble and saw signs for Chambery and thought it was Champery--my son was SO excited to visit, until we realized we were another 4ish hours away!
I rode this with some friends earlier this summer. 10min before the beginning of the track it started to rain like hell. One of my friend kept saying "it's raining grip lads!". Few corner later he layed in the middle of the forest with a dislocated shoulder. Had to walk half of the track down. It was sooo slippery. You basically had to jump from tree to tree because it was unwalkable in the rain. Nuts
Face your fears and live your dreams, just goes to show what you can achieve. By the end of the day you were starting to shred. 10 out of 10 for effort.
Wow Kool to see a video of a guy more like the average Joe Mnt Biker hitting a Legendary track and seeing the SDG effect as you let the breaks go Abit more and line choice got better on such a Steep Big Dawg track man. Cheers
I don't mind trails like this at all! It looks fun! As long as there aren't large (small to people who are good at them. lol) jumps or drops of more than one or two feet, I'll ride about anything.
Agreed, very steep, looks great though, lots of trail to hold you. Great riding man! I got Two words for you......Diesel Wolf , it is halfway between Whistler and Pemberton. Not sure if it's consistently as steep, but the trail is Hardcore, and extra extra hardcore when it's wet. Cheers!
I am very impressed with how much better you did at the end. I have had so many days ruined because I lost confidence and never recovered. And pointing out the obvious, those trails are even harder when you were going slow and had no momentum to clear some of the drops. Well done Paul. Question. Could you even ride those trails with your enduro bike?
I know what you mean by individually, the features are doable. But string them all together and things fail to process in my brain. That's my problem on steep trails as well. Give me one and i'm good. Make a line of them and my mind revolts. haha Loved seeing you pick up speed with each successive lap. Nice work!
Awesome video Paul!!! would love to see how steep these trails are in person one day. I have a question though, I’ve seen you tackle some pretty steep trails at Whistler and I was wondering how they stack up to this place? I know that this place is incredibly steep but would love to hear what you think of them.
The best part of a track like this is everything else is going to seem tame now in comparison. You'll be Gwinning(Did I just make that up?) up in no time.
Thanks for the vid it was awesome and I just subscribed to the channel. One question I noticed no dropper post lever, did you ride this without a dropper post???
Dude finally a video how I would ride these sick Pro DH trails WOW! I dont know if I will ever but you got the bikes for this, cool video dude! 10,000Ft of descending you can see that shit wow dude insane good job!
The GoPro definately doesn't do it justice, but the sound of your brakes gives me a good indication when it really points downhill. I bet it's a little bit better on the new DH bike :)
Maaaaaaate! That's freaking EPIC! That's my training track, love that place, and honestly hats off for riding all the way down. If you ever come back to Switzerland DH or Enduro bike, don't hesitate to hit me up, would be more then welcomed to show you around some more gnarly track, fun but gnarly :P
When you can accept the fact that you have almost no grip at all due to the steepness it is actually pretty ok to ride. You just ride from berm to berm, like Ben told the berm catches you and you wil have enough grip to brake. If you think Champery is steep you should try the tech black line in Morgins. That track is making Champery look like a flow trail. The black trails in Chatel are also amazing with some very steep parts. Maybe you can do a collaboration with Nico Vink and Vinny T to do the lines I mention above since you are all on Scott now.
This dudes not ready for nico. He shouldn't even be riding these lines at his level really. Better riders get annoyed by getting stuck behind these guys trying to learn on a track they don't have the skills to do
Hey Paul, any trails you can compare it to? E.g. it's steeper than X section on Y trail, or almost as steep as D section on E trail. It's hard to understand what somethings like from gopro footage, but it's easy to compare it to other trails.
“My wife does this all the time... by herself” goals
Sure is 👍
rode it this summer... my brake pads were literally smoking at the bottom
Elliott Glynn I did to I had to replace my rotors
...I had to replace my underwear....
Tou mean coward lever pads???
Holy crap
where is this DH track?
“he snapped his leg in half” is not what i wanted to hear right before i go riding 😂
You're right about gopro POV footage never looking very steep. You really have to look at some of the other cues to even grasp how steep some of that is. But on the bonus side, you do get to see that it's actually rideable, because it flattens it out to just the features themselves, which mostly look like big berms and a bunch of mostly medium sized drops. The problem is letting your mind see it that way in person so you can let go of the brakes enough to get the necessary speed, and knowing when and how much to brake to keep your speed in check - a pretty fine line by the looks of it.
Right on, nice progressing!
Thanks!
What do you reckon, is the normal GoPro effect a bit less on this?? Thanks for watching and just check if you're subscribed...are you?
Paul The Punter definite gopro effect, especially on the slab which looks like nothing on the video but is just bonkers in reality. I ended up in the catch netting first tie down, upside down, in hysterics.
There are steeper trails but this one is steep for a long, long time.
@@Stopadoodledoo what tracks are steeper?
@@cougar231000 I've ridden down Champery and it does have some damned steep sections; I ended up in the bright orange catch netting at one point (much to my mate's amusement). There's probably steeper trails on Le Pleney in Morzine (naughty trails that we aren't supposed to ride) but not quite as prolonged. The scariest, steepest trail I have tried to ride was the one in this video, at Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire; that was just bonkers: th-cam.com/video/NZxCZsSaFB4/w-d-xo.html
I think I’m getting the go pro effect, it looks not that bad 😂
That set f trails looked like a blast, lots of variety and skill building Terrain. Total confidence booster when you get to the bottom I’d think.
This is me on blue trails! "This downhill is SO steep!" 🥶🥶🤣🤣👍👍
Hahaha
@@PaulThePunter and @James Long try the blue in Morgins bike park just near champery, never seen a blue as steep and technical ;) Nice video BTW, I'm always impressed how you are trying and trying again, great motivation!
Hey Paul, if you are still in Switzerland there is a magic place to ride near Champery. It's call "les Renards" (the Fox) situated betwin Bex and Barboleuse (40 minutes by car from Champery). When you ride there you take the train from Bevieux station to Barboleuse station for the lift, five minutes of pedling on a little road call "les renards" then you connect plenty of increadible trails. Ask Ben i'm shure he know the place.
Ahhh I'm sure he does know that and is probably riding it now! I've ridden Dorenaz many years ago (sorry if I spelt it wrong) so I am keen to check it out. As always, never enough time with these things. Thanks though!
Bex is one of my favorite spots!!! I wanted to take Paul down the Mythique Chable to show him some steeps in Bex but maybe next time.
All the time during this video i heard Tracey Hannah in my head saying "Sing, sing, sing.... keep singing Paul!" :-P
Haha yup!
“....Another one bites the dust “
@@jereddennis4110 that one is good...
You also could change some words... "...bike trail to the danger zone"
Philip Wächter yeah definitely looked steep even on GoPro!!
Yeah 👍 i remember that
That looks terrifying steep, even with the wide angle lens flattening it out. I can feel the sweaty palms and puckering.
Haha nice
Awesome, shows how some talent and great coaching speeds progression. That was still scary from my sofa.
Cheers Colin!
I tried to do this about 4 years ago on a 130mm trail bike, i have no idea what i was thinking, and was lucky to make it to the half way point. was good to see how you progressed with some encouragement.
You're insane! Hahaha
scientists say "if its steep on GOPRO its actually a wall"
Totally agree Champery is scary at the first time ,got some heavy action in a few spots...I crash in the worst part,in the steps protected by the green net. My bike flu over that like 30 meters or so,in that moment my first thought was,ok I broke my bike it is impossible it survive that any damage. It was OK at the end. Best thing to do is take Danny Hart video and compare while you are there,then you got speechless, I brake a few times to look at the jumps. There is one jump at the top,the mountain is so steep there,if you take the jump 90º to the right I´m pretty sure you can land on Champery village from the top of the mountain hahaha. Awesome video!
Haha yeah that's exactly how it is!
Makes me wish i had trails like this closer to home. Looks epic, great job on challenging yourself bro.
Cheers Tim 😂
Great vid Paul, huge fan of the races from that track and it was cool to see POV of those sections spliced with race footage. 1000m drop on a DH race track is insane! Over double many tracks today!!
Nice quality video. The couple look like a nice ppl lending their patience and expertise to guide you down.
I wonder who Ben pissed off at SCOTT bad enough that he had to ride with you at Champery
Haha no idea 😂
Great vid Paul - having ridden it a few times it is comically steep. You look down and it’s just a ridiculous hill full of catch netting! Its well built though so I imagine really good riders can get it to flow.
Kudus to Ben and his crew who have been trail building out there for years and are givers of stoke if you ever run into them!
So true, I think comically steep is a pretty apt way of describing how it is too.
WOW... looks steeeeep af. Great progression dude!
Cheers my friend 🤙
Dude.. that was sick!! Good job, I was feeling it just watching!
U got to trust the bike and just fly Paul :-)
Let me know how you got on on this track :)
@@PaulThePunter so then if I challenge you to a race down this...?
Yes he does he has a good bike just ride it. If u are to scared and on the brakes to much u are going to go head over tea kettle
Omg .....cracking video Paul, massive kudos for just dropping into some of those sections 👏👏
cool video Paul, riding with people better than you is a good way to progress your own riding
Sure is!
Wow that looks really fun! But si there something wrong with your gopro? I noticed a few times there were glitches in the footage. 1:14 1:43 12:13 were the examples I seen
Jordan Boostmaster subliminal messaging lol. Just got done watching your vid with Mo and Hannah too.
Plot twist: those are real life glitches, not gopro glitches
GoPro Effect was in full swing untill you looked uphill around the 10:30 mark. That looks gnarly! Props to you for conquering this course!
Cheers! I'd say you're pretty spot on there.
Thanks Paul for taking me along with you!!! ✌️✌️✌️Sobrang nakakatakot!!! ( It's so scary!!! ) ✌️✌️✌️
No problem ron!
Don't know why. But this has been one of my favorite episodes to watch so far.
The progression is amazing.
PUNT!
Cheers Scott! It's always nice to see some good things at the end :)
This video made my hands and feet sweaty. Love your channel
great video, Paul! Kudos for sticking with it
Cheers Jake!
Hands down the strongest GoPro effect I've ever seen. This track HAS to be seen to be believed. Kudos for lapping it! I got down it once (just) but super keen to return.
Nice work Ben 👌
That track is mental!! Even with the GoPro effect, it looks steep, real steep.
I’m just starting to get into this sport and I’m amazed how good people are!
Jon Willis watch Red Bull rampage that’s some skill
Great work mate. Yes it did translate on screen how steep it is so fair play to you.
Speed is your friend on a bike like that. Keep pushing on 🤘
ok!
Its not hate, i totally get where youre at in the process.
That trail looks wicked!!!....REALLY STEEP!....Reminds of hill here in Inkster, Michigan(where i live now) called "Dead man's hill".
I rode this in the summer on an enduro bike. Hands down the steepest thing I've ever ridden and one of the only tracks that I'd have rather been on a downhill bike but i loved it!
Love the fact you don't make everything and bail on some stuff. BUT you do keep trying. It doesn't make me feel so bad. LOL. Keep up the good videos.
3:07 Ive been looking for that race run for years!! Is it possible for You Paul to upload it??
That trail looks bonkers. Once I was riding down a mountain and wandered off the trail somehow. There was a path going down where I ended up and I said fuck it, I won't push the bike back up, I'll just go this way. Well it turned out to be too steep to even walk the bike down. There was no chance of using any front brake because I couldn't lean back far enough not to go otb. On some sections I had to slide down on my arse while using the bike to dig into the ground and slow me down.
Hard to tell from camera but this trail looks somewhat close to that so I say kudos for having enough control to go down, even if you walked some parts and went slow. Yeah, some parts are certainly easier to clear at speed but people fail to realize that these are not individual features but chained together and you can't stop midway and correct your approach.
Cheers Frank, look forward to some of that meatloaf.
You say "in France" you mean in Switzerland xD, hope my friends from chocolate's country didn't hear that. And in fact it is like that in all of europe for ski slopes and mtb tracks.
Ahhh well played....it's just so close to the border! But this was foreshadowing for my other videos from France to explain the grading. Really I should have said Europe as you say.
haha, we were getting to Grenoble and saw signs for Chambery and thought it was Champery--my son was SO excited to visit, until we realized we were another 4ish hours away!
@@rabitoblanco Champery is not Chambéry !
I rode this with some friends earlier this summer. 10min before the beginning of the track it started to rain like hell. One of my friend kept saying "it's raining grip lads!". Few corner later he layed in the middle of the forest with a dislocated shoulder. Had to walk half of the track down. It was sooo slippery. You basically had to jump from tree to tree because it was unwalkable in the rain. Nuts
This has some insane go pro effect
Well done, crazy steep, scary as lines..... You ou did us proud
there are levels and world cup downhill tracks are on another level. respect the levels.
Face your fears and live your dreams, just goes to show what you can achieve. By the end of the day you were starting to shred. 10 out of 10 for effort.
I can feel the heat of your brakes sick video sick track !
Love this. You sound like I would on literally any of the stuff you usually smash through...
"Drop me like a stone. Oh..."
Haha yup!
Nicely done the Gopro effect was super evident in this one!
Sure was eh??
Yeah especially when Ben was way up on the berm and Paul was looking back up toward him you get a sense of how huge that angle is. Crazy!
Hard to believe how easy the pros make it look all the time. Insane!
Right???
Holy crap! Even with GoPro effect looks steep as heck!
There ya go!
The real question is - would you rather ride this 10 times in the wet or Jaws at whistler? 😂
Oh jeeeeeez......in some ways I’d take Jaws 😂
Great video Paul, you definitely got a lot faster!
Cheers Steve! Guess it's the bike 💁♂️
@@PaulThePunter oh yeah that'll be it, haha.
I flew from the US to ride Champerey. The exposure is super intimidating
Heey question here!! Was she using a ransom with DH setup??? In love with your gambler!! Awesome video!! Cheers!
Perhaps she was....Yeah the Gambler is the DH bike of dreams 👌
In June I checked out Windrock in Tennessee. At that point I'd only been biking for 3 or 4 months. I was scared shit less haha!
Haha probably a similar experience to me
@@PaulThePunter Similar but I crashed on my run. Nothing broken though just scrapes and bruises!
Windrock is the steepest, scariest, track for me. It’s another level steepness at the top.
You are awesome Paul! Proud of you!
Cheers Kevin!
2:05 my brakes 😂
Wow Kool to see a video of a guy more like the average Joe Mnt Biker hitting a Legendary track and seeing the SDG effect as you let the breaks go Abit more and line choice got better on such a Steep Big Dawg track man. Cheers
I don't mind trails like this at all! It looks fun! As long as there aren't large (small to people who are good at them. lol) jumps or drops of more than one or two feet, I'll ride about anything.
Agreed, very steep, looks great though, lots of trail to hold you. Great riding man!
I got Two words for you......Diesel Wolf , it is halfway between Whistler and Pemberton. Not sure if it's consistently as steep, but the trail is Hardcore, and extra extra hardcore when it's wet.
Cheers!
I am very impressed with how much better you did at the end. I have had so many days ruined because I lost confidence and never recovered. And pointing out the obvious, those trails are even harder when you were going slow and had no momentum to clear some of the drops. Well done Paul. Question. Could you even ride those trails with your enduro bike?
I know what you mean by individually, the features are doable. But string them all together and things fail to process in my brain. That's my problem on steep trails as well. Give me one and i'm good. Make a line of them and my mind revolts. haha Loved seeing you pick up speed with each successive lap. Nice work!
'Just stay home and watch Netflix Ben'. Summing up these crazy trails!
Haha he was having none of it!
Awesome video Paul!!! would love to see how steep these trails are in person one day. I have a question though, I’ve seen you tackle some pretty steep trails at Whistler and I was wondering how they stack up to this place? I know that this place is incredibly steep but would love to hear what you think of them.
This is just more intense and for longer. There are usually flatter bits on the trails around here, but Champery is nooooon stop!
Paul The Punter thanks for the reply and info :)
Ben is living the life every bloke on this channel wishes he was
The best part of a track like this is everything else is going to seem tame now in comparison. You'll be Gwinning(Did I just make that up?) up in no time.
Oooo maybe!
Paul, well done! Scott bikes look great and that track was beastly!
Solid effort! Well done for not dying 👊🏼
Thanks for the vid it was awesome and I just subscribed to the channel. One question I noticed no dropper post lever, did you ride this without a dropper post???
Man that is a CRAZY course. You did well!
Nice progress on that, dude!
Thanks Fabian!
Dude finally a video how I would ride these sick Pro DH trails WOW! I dont know if I will ever but you got the bikes for this, cool video dude! 10,000Ft of descending you can see that shit wow dude insane good job!
Cheers my dude 👌
Respect for pushing on.
Cheers Jason
The GoPro definately doesn't do it justice, but the sound of your brakes gives me a good indication when it really points downhill. I bet it's a little bit better on the new DH bike :)
There ya go :)
2:04 what is that noise
Even on GoPro that looked insane, great riding mate
Well paul after this those rock rolls in squamish will be a walk in the park!
Haha that's what Ben kept saying 😂
Maaaaaaate! That's freaking EPIC!
That's my training track, love that place, and honestly hats off for riding all the way down. If you ever come back to Switzerland DH or Enduro bike, don't hesitate to hit me up, would be more then welcomed to show you around some more gnarly track, fun but gnarly :P
Respect to you Paul The Punter - great vid
What do you use to stabilize your GoPro during rides?
My hands were sweating watching this! Fair play! 🤜
When you can accept the fact that you have almost no grip at all due to the steepness it is actually pretty ok to ride. You just ride from berm to berm, like Ben told the berm catches you and you wil have enough grip to brake.
If you think Champery is steep you should try the tech black line in Morgins. That track is making Champery look like a flow trail. The black trails in Chatel are also amazing with some very steep parts. Maybe you can do a collaboration with Nico Vink and Vinny T to do the lines I mention above since you are all on Scott now.
Not to worry, that video is coming this week haha. Needless to say I walked a whole bunch of that, namely because it was really wet.
This dudes not ready for nico. He shouldn't even be riding these lines at his level really. Better riders get annoyed by getting stuck behind these guys trying to learn on a track they don't have the skills to do
2:35 This trail is actually in switzerland
That looks crazy scary! Great video
Paul the Punter: this is the steepest trail in the world
HorseFace: hold my beer
The trees compared to the gradient give the game away. Super scary.
Thank you trees!
Hey Paul, any trails you can compare it to? E.g. it's steeper than X section on Y trail, or almost as steep as D section on E trail. It's hard to understand what somethings like from gopro footage, but it's easy to compare it to other trails.
Paul, some of your comments had me thinking of the Lion from The Wizard of OZ, just need a little courage!
Haha there ya go!
I’m going there in summer and I can’t wait to ride this trail
You were probably the best at what you were doing with these videos
"just stay at home and watch netflix Ben" - Paul the punter 2020
Those are some badass trails!!!
Sure are!
Why did they plant the trees sideways for?
Haha sure is!
you should visit the Nordkette Singletrail in Tirol / Austria. it's equally insane...
Oh jeez I've heard all about that place.....maybe next year......
@@PaulThePunter let me know early enough and I'll join :)
0:00 "I wanna get really serious for a minute here" yeah and really close 0-0
My heart cringed and shattered at 2:06
Well done Paul 🙌😎
Cheers!
Nice progression dude! Could easily tell the difference between laps.
Cheers Beardsley 👌