Creative Lines is a project created by Keith Morelan, showcasing that he is not your average DH rider. Hand built, maintained and ridden by Keith, this rampagesque line is tucked away in a small suburb of Silicon Valley (
the last place you'd expect for jumps of this caliber). Documented by Matthew Gillooley and Josh Woodward, this over 6 month project finally takes shape. A full slideshow of the production from Josh can be found
by clicking here.
What does this project mean to you? This project was such a great experience. I got to work with some amazing people along the way! I want to thank Trail Head Cyclery (
@TrailHeadCyclery ) and the whole team for supporting me. Also a huge shoutout to Matthew Gillooley and Josh Woodward for putting this article together. Lastly, thank you to Andrew Doud (
@andrewdoud ) for all his help building these jumps for me. From start to finish, it took Andrew and I five months to complete this line in the blistering summer of Belmont, California, which is not the easiest place to build when there's a drought.
What was you best moment or set of moments throughout filming?
My best moment was when I finally turned my long time vision into reality by riding the whole line, top to bottom, with a backflip at the end. Six months ago, my vision was to build a line of huge jumps that terrified me enough to push myself to the next level as a rider. I practiced hard and crashed even harder while learning how to backflip and opposite 270 the wall-ride.
You had a horrific crash as the project was being finished. Can you explain what happened and what you plan to do?
The roll into the big gap I crashed on was extremely loose. My rear tire broke traction, going into that sharp left turn towards the lip and I clearly didn't have enough speed to clear it. I plan on fixing the roll in and putting down a solid berm into the lip so it flows better! I'll land it perfect next time."
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But damn, everything that dude hit in this edit was huuuuuuge.