MUST WATCH: Dylan Sheffer - Freeride Lives II
Dylan Sheffer grew up watching New World Disorder, Kranked, Collective, and NSX movies, films that featured the most progressive riders and trail builders on the planet. After school on rainy days he'd sit watching classic segments: Simmons' NWD 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 parts, Claw's Roam section, the Coastal Crew's Kranked 8 opus, Boyko's NWD 8 ender - and images of cedar bridges burnt themselves into his mind's eye. He rode in his home town, did trips to Whistler and Kamloops, but nothing came close to the imagined thrill of riding those old cedar masterpieces. In 2012 he decided to create a trail like the ones he'd seen, and in 2013 it was finished. We filmed a video on it (Freeride Lives) which people seemed to like. Sheffer didn't build it in search of money or sponsorships or internet fame, he just built it for fun, for the joy of working with your hands and seeing a vision come to life. That first trail was the ultimate crash course in building technique and gave him the tools to create an even more ambitious trail. This line was built by Sheffer and a few friends from May 2014 to May 2015. We hope you enjoy his handiwork.
Audio: Keith White
 | My goal for the trail was to basically take what I learned on my first trail and take the technical aspect of building to the next level. I wanted to build a total dream line where when I was finished, there were no regrets of ''Oh well, I should have built this here and that there.'' More importantly, I wanted each stunt to serve a purpose for getting over the natural terrain in unique ways and for each stunt to be different from the previous one. And finally, I wanted the next big challenge of having to link all these features together in one run which took a lot of time and practice to get dialed. Dylan Sheffer |
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Race Face
Additional Support:
SR Suntour
Dylan Sheffer rides: Banshee Bikes, Race Face, SR Suntour, Ryders Eyewear, and Maxxis Tires
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nice trail
and I'd be buried with a hard copy.
@jackalope, seems you have a student with a proper critique @Hyakian. I also had a few opinions as well when I first watched this @scottsecco, I apologize for my negative comments when I should have been critiquing this piece.
Scott, the amount of work you put in to get every one of those angles is mind blowing, unimaginable to all, except the folks involved in this project. I did feel there were 1 too many shots used here and there for attention purposes (my opinion)
Dylan and crew, You guys are so driven! Amazing work and FLOW, so important when building. ( alot of people think you just build a line, dial it in a bit and she runs. NOT TRUE) Killed it GUYS. 90% solo Dylan? YOU'RE A BEAST!
Dylan your riding speaks for itself, the features look big on film so your balls must be enormous in real life!!!! Thanks for the shredding dude, you rock.
would love to see a trail like this built from start to finish for the next one? Scouting and contemplating lines or features, ground break, building, milling, trial and error while also showing scale of the features next to the men, creating these beastly features, finishing touches, shredding things for the first time, trial and error for some features, maybe a tweak here or there or even a tail reroute, while other features work perfectly, Things you endure as a BUILDER.
Dylan talks about the difficulty of a top to bottom for the first time. Would have loved to see what it took for him to accomplish that.
Followed by a segment that makes you feel you are there with him shredding top to bottom.
Everyone involved, Thanks for all you do for our sport as well as the effort it took to make this project happen, Well done
* Loved the music (yes, I'm old as phuck)
* Loved the slow mo (tosses rope over rafter to prepare noose)
* Would've been fine with 8 different shots of the same feature (places noose around neck)
I get that everyone is now jacking their dick to "raw" videos, and I like those too, but like anything else, it gets old as well. Variety is the spice of vive [hops off chair]
Great video. Thanks for sharing it!
However, some of the comments about the multiple views mentioned previously reflected something I also felt in my reaction, watching it through for the first time. I liked the different angles, think more is better (?), thought is was shot pretty well and liked the music (yeah I'm old too), but think that maybe it's more about how it was pieced together in the edit? Regardless, cool line, and features, it's great to see diggers/builders/riders getting after it like this.
Would be nicer to see how much speed and flow this trail gives without the slow-mo tbh.
1. Does this trail stay up or do they remove it?
2. How many of the guys who helped build it could actually ride it?
3. Is this built strictly for the edit?
4. How many injuries were there riding it and what was the worst?
5. How big do your balls need to be to ride this the first time?
Very cool video. thnks
2. nobody else has cleaned the entire line yet it was 90% a solo project when i had help it was only a few days here and there.
3. built for the edit and for my own enjoyment
4. 2 hard crashes one under rotated flip on the stepdown ill get scott to post up, and an over shoot crash on the skinny to curved wall ride.
5. hahahaha
Randy Marsh: "By watching informative murder porn?"
So nice to watch. Massive and solid building and the ride of Dylan,so great...big Props for thje whole team
God lord that was rad !!
the trails are nice and he rides very well but I cant see nothing MUST WATCH kind of video... the last back flip is nice also but, the music is horrible, showing the same jump 4 or 5 times is fuk.ng boring. maybe is MUST WATCH cause is a Banshee bike propaganda but I can undestand that Canadians will help Canadians...