I've been sitting on that Cambodia hot-lap footage (from the old entrance at 4:43) for over a year, and I think it might just be one of my favourite clips from last year! Should I do more of these before/after style videos? 🤔
Great video - super cool that you are giving kudos to all who do the heavy lifting to keep them alive and awesome. So often people show off their skills in these videos without honoring those who put in the long, relentless hours of work. Looks crazy amazing, but I'd be walking a lot of those sections - beyond my skill level
Love your videos! You, along with Phill Kmetz and Dangerous Dave got me into mtb. Still a newbie but its getting better! Thanks alot and keep dinging that bell!
Rode it today. Some amazing trail work and berms must have been built in just the last year. Also, some of the features Dale hits here are genuinely super tough. That rock spine is gnar.
Loved the history lesson you offered on this one - always nice to have a bit of context. It’s a great looking trail, but out of my league. Good to see Braden featured in one of your vids again - it’s been a while. And as goofy as it may sound, I liked that series of three head ducks under logs just past the halfway point of the vid. Reminded me of that log you used to have to duck on Overtime before they cut it away. Maybe it’s because it’s a skill I actually possess (to duck a log that is!) that that portion of the trail/vid resonated with me lol!
@@DaleStone I can ride the easy Burke blacks. Marvin, CBC and Rupert are probably the top end of my range (said range probably having regressed the past year or so as life has severely limited my riding opps). If ride arounds put Cambodia roughly on par, then I’ll add it to the list!
Cambodia is probably my favourite trail here on the shore, and it's so cool to hear the history behind it! Perhaps Lola is next for a rebuild? 🤔 (I've never actually heard of that trail)
Dale, any interest in comparing the new Norco Sight to your Deviate Highlander2? I've been pretty interested in a Deviate since watching your content on it, though getting a UDH frameset seems like a long wait atm. However I'm wondering if the new Sight could be a good option and I'm thinking you will have some good insight when comparing them.
I have spent a considerable amount of time on both of them; they're both great bikes! I would rather take the Highlander for its higher fit and finish quality, ease of serviceability and significantly better value for money (like IMBY's full Fox Factory/XT complete build). UDH would certainly be nice, but as a Shimano guy I find it has no functional benefit to me. Both bikes ride well once dialed in, it's the details that matter! 🙂
@@DaleStone oh that's cool that's what I thought. Amazing you can do all the steep stuff you ride with a lower rise, I've got a 30 ml rise but have been thinking about going down to 20
Crazy to think that a land manager/government entity would sanction at trail that maybe 1 percent of all mountain bikers world wide would even attempt...
Thankfully that's not true in this case, as 2024 Cambodia remains exactly as hard as it was in 2015. Without dynamite it will always be a double black trail. 🙂
@@DaleStone Not even the slightest bit true. How would you know what the trail was like if you yourself said you're almost the age of the trail? Were you riding it when you were learning to walk? You're just another clout chasing opinionated clown that recently moved here from out of province that thinks that they know everything. Even worse, you have the brass neck to tell anyone in the comments that doesn't agree with you that they're wrong. The original trail was much gnarlier prior to Metro van doing their hack job "closure". Drop, skinnies, log ride etc.. You've probably only known it in the state it was left in once Metro had done their closure. You can thank the local builders for re-opening it, allowing you to be able to ride it until it was "sanctioned" aka inclusive for everyone.... Like every TH-cam idiot, its all about filming the trails for personal gain, and not doing a shred of trail work.
Looks exactly like it did when I rode it 20 years ago. Edit: Okay I see they've done work on the bottom with the reroute etc. Didn't there used to be those two smooth rock rolls at the end?
As far as I'm aware, the rock rolls remain unchanged from their original intention, but the sections between them have been brought up to the standards. The 2024 trail is wildly different than the 2023 trail in that respect, but still very much feels like Cambodia!
@@DaleStone Yeah I'm likely having a brain malfunction. It's been a long time. Will have to get over there again if I can somehow stop myself turning left off the ferry.
I've been sitting on that Cambodia hot-lap footage (from the old entrance at 4:43) for over a year, and I think it might just be one of my favourite clips from last year! Should I do more of these before/after style videos? 🤔
Looks like a fun ride. I like the before and after format, definitely mix a few of these in where you can.
Great commentary and insight to the history of this trail. We need more of this. Fortunate enough to ride this over the last 4 years.
Great video - super cool that you are giving kudos to all who do the heavy lifting to keep them alive and awesome. So often people show off their skills in these videos without honoring those who put in the long, relentless hours of work. Looks crazy amazing, but I'd be walking a lot of those sections - beyond my skill level
Love your videos! You, along with Phill Kmetz and Dangerous Dave got me into mtb. Still a newbie but its getting better! Thanks alot and keep dinging that bell!
Thanks, and I will! 🫡
So smooth! love watching you riding!
wow this trail looks nuts. awesome riding. I am riding North Shore for the first time next week. Hopefully I don't have to be air-lifted out.
A good goal! 😆
Dude, I have seen you ride some places that amazes me but this place, Cambodia is something else. Kudos to you. 🤙
Rode it today. Some amazing trail work and berms must have been built in just the last year. Also, some of the features Dale hits here are genuinely super tough. That rock spine is gnar.
The GoPro effect is truly the bane of my existence. 🫣
That was real smooth! Lines are perfectly executed you are a sniper with silencer 🎯
Sick trail video. Great presentation and great riding.
We've dome some shoots with Daniel and Nic on that trail. You made it look and ride way easier than it actually is 🤩
Thanks Steve, some serious GoPro effect going on for sure! Haha
Lola to Cambodia pre 2013 was the best lap.
Looked like a good one from the grainy videos I've seen!
@@DaleStone Yup. I have grainy ass videos uploaded. Terrible to watch now. :)
Cheers on the new business venture!
Loved the history lesson you offered on this one - always nice to have a bit of context. It’s a great looking trail, but out of my league. Good to see Braden featured in one of your vids again - it’s been a while. And as goofy as it may sound, I liked that series of three head ducks under logs just past the halfway point of the vid. Reminded me of that log you used to have to duck on Overtime before they cut it away. Maybe it’s because it’s a skill I actually possess (to duck a log that is!) that that portion of the trail/vid resonated with me lol!
All of the ride-rounds are single black, so I'd say you should go for it! If you can ride Burke blacks, you're more than ready. 🙂
@@DaleStone I can ride the easy Burke blacks. Marvin, CBC and Rupert are probably the top end of my range (said range probably having regressed the past year or so as life has severely limited my riding opps). If ride arounds put Cambodia roughly on par, then I’ll add it to the list!
Wow, that was impressive!
rode cambodia for the first time today, did almost all the double black features
Wow, before and after look unrecognizable! But I would also add, that the trail today also looks very different from when Dale rode it last summer.
That's my point! Episode 2 will cover the 2024 version, eventually. 🙂
Cambodia is probably my favourite trail here on the shore, and it's so cool to hear the history behind it! Perhaps Lola is next for a rebuild? 🤔 (I've never actually heard of that trail)
We checked it out a few years ago, and I think that's probably pretty unlikely unfortunately. TNT will be next, probably! 😉
Love to see it 🤘
BC riders and trails are trully built different!
Nick on an emtb? Great riding per usual.
Dale Stone Mountain bike
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I'd enjoy a pick-a-part style like your Bullet Dodger video on the different slab-y sections.
Good idea actually, I'll see if I can make some time for that this year!
Can you describe your set up parameters on camera pls? Video looks incredible
I made a whole video about it recently!
Dale, any interest in comparing the new Norco Sight to your Deviate Highlander2? I've been pretty interested in a Deviate since watching your content on it, though getting a UDH frameset seems like a long wait atm. However I'm wondering if the new Sight could be a good option and I'm thinking you will have some good insight when comparing them.
I have spent a considerable amount of time on both of them; they're both great bikes! I would rather take the Highlander for its higher fit and finish quality, ease of serviceability and significantly better value for money (like IMBY's full Fox Factory/XT complete build). UDH would certainly be nice, but as a Shimano guy I find it has no functional benefit to me. Both bikes ride well once dialed in, it's the details that matter! 🙂
Looks deathly. Thanks for riding it so I don't have to!
Someone has to do it. 😉
Yieew!🤘🤘🤘
do you use LUTS for you color grading? If so could you send a link to which on :)
This is a LUT-free zone. 😎
@@DaleStone HECK YEA
Would you say that this trail is, in fact, NOT a holiday?
It's tough kid but it's life. 🇰🇭
I see your DK's reference there Adam.
Cambodia 2023 was a 4.5min trail?! I remember it should be a 20min trail at least!
For years my personal best was around 45 minutes... 😆
What was that animal at the left at 7:02 though?
Very good eye. That was another rider and/or his dog. 🙂
Dale what is the rise on your handlebars?
20mm, bike check soon!
@@DaleStone oh that's cool that's what I thought. Amazing you can do all the steep stuff you ride with a lower rise, I've got a 30 ml rise but have been thinking about going down to 20
I think I have quite a few stem spacers, and the 180mm fork definitely helps get the stack up too haha. Works very well right now though!
Shame, that poor rear wheel 😢😂
Hi Dale, do you use any ND filter on OA?
None so far!
You guys are so spoiled with these so many fantastic trails...
Agreed! It's easy to take them for granted, so I'm glad I didn't grow up here in a way, haha.
I had to move away from the lower mainland...don't even feel like mountain biking anymore 😥
Even if I still lived in Ontario, I'd still love riding bikes. You just have to find the good stuff and change your mindset!
@@DaleStone Solid advice, I got back into dirtbikes...still 2 wheels 😁
Hooking 🔥 as the young kids would call it 😅
Crazy to think that a land manager/government entity would sanction at trail that maybe 1 percent of all mountain bikers world wide would even attempt...
It's a sign of more progressive times, and reduced landowner liability, haha.
@@DaleStone Pretty crazy, either way!
How you ride tech trails with no armour is baffling.
But is this tech, or is this north shore flow? 🤔
@@DaleStone haha Squamish blue
Not a bug it's a feature
unless it's bugs
Do you go trail riding with dogs?
Very rarely so far, but I intend on taking mine out soon! 👀
North shore’s newest trail. Only 20 years old. 😂😂
👉 sanctioned 👉 haha
@@DaleStone true that. 👍
greetings Dale! big fan!!
just curious, what is your favourite trail in ontario ? (if any!)
Awesome video BTW
Great question. My favourite Ontario trail cannot be named, but the runner ups are Bent Rim 1, Lymie Ridge and Frankenstein. 🙂
@@DaleStone cannot be named!! i see,
now youve made me even more curious!! xD thanks for the runner up list tho
That trail is way out of my skill level.
There are black level ride-rounds for everything now. 🙂
It will be if that’s your mindset 😉
@@FVPOV I think it's good to know your own limits.
@@JB50713 Always. I meannn.. what are limits? 😂
early 2000's were all about ruining mtb trails. such a weird time for mtb.
I’m not a fan on “legalizing” trails. They get too easy and take away from what it used to be
Thankfully that's not true in this case, as 2024 Cambodia remains exactly as hard as it was in 2015. Without dynamite it will always be a double black trail. 🙂
Rode it yesterday, and to be franc it is still gnarly as before. Flow is better.
@loamchasers agreed. But in this case we had no choice in the matter.
@@DaleStone Not even the slightest bit true.
How would you know what the trail was like if you yourself said you're almost the age of the trail? Were you riding it when you were learning to walk? You're just another clout chasing opinionated clown that recently moved here from out of province that thinks that they know everything. Even worse, you have the brass neck to tell anyone in the comments that doesn't agree with you that they're wrong.
The original trail was much gnarlier prior to Metro van doing their hack job "closure". Drop, skinnies, log ride etc.. You've probably only known it in the state it was left in once Metro had done their closure. You can thank the local builders for re-opening it, allowing you to be able to ride it until it was "sanctioned" aka inclusive for everyone....
Like every TH-cam idiot, its all about filming the trails for personal gain, and not doing a shred of trail work.
Looks exactly like it did when I rode it 20 years ago. Edit: Okay I see they've done work on the bottom with the reroute etc. Didn't there used to be those two smooth rock rolls at the end?
As far as I'm aware, the rock rolls remain unchanged from their original intention, but the sections between them have been brought up to the standards. The 2024 trail is wildly different than the 2023 trail in that respect, but still very much feels like Cambodia!
@@DaleStone Yeah I'm likely having a brain malfunction. It's been a long time. Will have to get over there again if I can somehow stop myself turning left off the ferry.