A Tale of Two Trails. Pine AZ Flow Vs Jank.
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A Tale of Two Trails... Spent a day in the Pine-Strawberry area near Payson, Arizona with Alex Petitdemange sampling two distinctly different flavors of trail. Pine-Strawberry is engineered, bike-friendly, flow. Pine Canyon is hiking-trail Jank. Which style do you prefer? While I am a believer that no trail is bad trail, I am definitely living for that jank. When my bike is grinding across rocks and flow is hard to come by, I am truly in my happy place. I think Alex would agree. There is no bad choice at the end of the day. What a time to be alive.
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This was ridden on my Yeti SB160.
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Alex's riding is a pleasure to watch on any type of trail.
Poetry in motion 🔥
As far as videos go, this one was pretty special. Two crazy trails, especially the last janky one. Very cool vibe in Arizona, especially when it's snowing in Colorado.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Good times! Ready for April!
Can't wait!
🤘🤘Alex showin you all the lesser known Goodies. 10 years ago the Top 1/2 of Pine Canyon trail was AMAZING, then it got really bad. Looking okay again. The bottom half used to be a death march out of there, then they rerouted it a couple years ago & it’s pretty manageable now. Beautiful area down there by the creek.
This was our first lap ever down Pine Canyon. Definitely need another.
Those two trails are ❤🔥 The second one had some filthy filthy jank Fun Fun on the Go, Nice video Nate, thank you!
The filthiest!
I love a flow trail, but techy, rocky and chunky goodness is where I find my happy place!
Same team.
Wow... Definitely on my list to shred!!! Super rad trail.
You should!
Thank you for making Fridays. Good again mate.
Glad you like them!
Wow, what a gnarly trail! Alex is one of the best riders and to see him clip out was crazy! Both of you make it look easy - Great content Nate!!💯👊🏼
Festival of tech.
I've ridden part of that first trail, but never the 2nd one. I'm close to this area - need to make a trip over there!
Give it a rip. Definitely challenging.
Wow, just had a foot of snow here. Pine is looking really good.
There could be snow in Pine currently. We filmed this in December.
Gotta have more AZ and this trail is on the list now🤘🍻
lemme know when you visit. i have a 16 mile route on this one that can be easier or harder depending on which directions we go but its all the same trail
NICE RIDE!!!
LETS GO Another Friday FREERIDAY
The land of square rocks haha! The trees look beautiful but looks like you can't get caught up in the scenery too much to avoid on the trail😂
eyes on the prize 👀
Love it!
So awesome, straight up jankfest. Kinda like around here, lol.
Something about those French riders, just like in moto, they love that technical stuff.
It’s in their blood 🩸
this trail (Pine Strawberry 15) has 4 total bypasses that make it so you can choose how flow or chunk you want. check out my Quadruple Bypass video to see the breakdown and then decide how you want to hit it! I hit it at least a few times a week as it's behind the house. I saw your strava, dang you guys smoked it! great to see my area get a little love
Yup, we noticed some options and appreciate the variety. I don’t use Strava but Alex wasn’t hanging about.
@@natehills9388 is he red mtn goat? thats who i follow, i thought it was you for a second... i walk that trail every day almost and I think I missed you guys by an hour, ugh! if you see a guy walking a black lab, or a guy on a fat bike, thats me. anyway thanks for replying, hope to see ya in sedona this weekend.
Great trails Nate, Have you had a chance to come back out to Hawes and ride Boulderdash again?
Rode it in December. Burned in nicely.
OH yeah I've drove through strawberry AZ before coming back from flagstaff.
Geez…
You know it’s tight & janky when Frenchie dabs.
Truth 🫡
Alex is such a great rider to watch from behind..not sure what his suspension set up is but I'd like to know, as he's always jumpin around like a friggin jack rabbit
Alex is a suspension engineer for Fox. You can trust his setup is dialed!
That looks so freaking fun.
Hoping to make it out to Pine this year.
Are those shuttle runs?
You can shuttle or pedal.
pine canyon 26 is an easy shuttle drop off since you go up 87 to fire road 6038. i got dropped off there and picked up at pine trailhead a few hours later. i walked around all those switchbacks except one, dang these guys are so good to go that fast down that. i had to mountain climb down some of those parts they just float over.
trail 15 though is so awesome now, you can park anywhere and start... they cut it in ways that north or south is a win win, plus 4 separate bypasses, its only about 4.5 miles end to end but I easily can make a 20 mile route out of it without retracing my steps at all
If by “Gnar” you mean, “Not meant to be ridden…” AGREED!
The best kind of trails.
Happy weekend from Singapore. No MTB'n here! BTW, do you and Alex ride flats or lipless? Blue skies brother...
We both ride clips normally.
Switchback city. There exposure keeps flipping from left to right to keep you on your toes.
Big focus.
Alright we got no gloves, no chamois, all you need to do is buy some TMAC pedals and you're full soul-rider.
Question; have you changed any video settings in the last couple months. Lately, all your vids have been getting janky when put into fullscreen. Just slightly jerky. Fine in all formats except fullscreen.
Nothing has changed on my end that I know of.
I have essentially used the same video settings for 9 years. Hmmmm
@@natehills9388 Gotta be something on my end
So is the 160 your favorite ride now?! I know you went through the 120, 140, 160, and 160e.
160e is the best bike Yeti has made to date in my opinion. 160 is my go to for MTB.
But does the 160 pedal well on long sustained climbs?
Do you ride dirt boards as well or only MTB?
I ride bikes.
That's cool. Thank you for having this channel.
You answered at end. Nevermind. No, you arent