Downhilling in Toronto - short clip.
Not all of us live close to big mountains where we can build or get lift access. Especially in Ontario we lack vertical to ride DH. Although we have this disadvantage, there are still tons of committed riders, we have a few hills to ride at, and a great racing circuit.
This short documentary shows what we do to practice and improve at the sport that most of us love.In Ontario there's some fairly short, but still really fun riding. When you think of these trails or spots that are pretty fun you're probably thinking somewhere up north where there are hills. And definitely not the flat built up city of Toronto. We still get tons of opportunities to ride up north, compete in races and even travel the country riding different venues, but when we're not able to be doing those things, watching bike movies isn't gonna cut it as cross training.
Over the years we've built a few hidden gems around our neighborhood to practice and get better at downhilling. Each trail being under 25 seconds, we've still managed to improve tremendously, just practicing one corner or feature at a time.
This short documentary shows that you can still learn/practice/improve at riding downhill if you're determined, no matter what terrain you have. With commitment and confidence you can have tons of fun and get a lot better no matter what the length of trail, and the training is valuable as it translates to the longer runs when you do get to ride bigger hills/mountains.
DH training in Ontario:
This documentary is by my productions company, Imprint Productions, and its my first work under this name. Expect many more shorts to come in the very near future.
- Geoff Hewat
This short documentary shows what we do to practice and improve at the sport that most of us love.In Ontario there's some fairly short, but still really fun riding. When you think of these trails or spots that are pretty fun you're probably thinking somewhere up north where there are hills. And definitely not the flat built up city of Toronto. We still get tons of opportunities to ride up north, compete in races and even travel the country riding different venues, but when we're not able to be doing those things, watching bike movies isn't gonna cut it as cross training.
Over the years we've built a few hidden gems around our neighborhood to practice and get better at downhilling. Each trail being under 25 seconds, we've still managed to improve tremendously, just practicing one corner or feature at a time.
This short documentary shows that you can still learn/practice/improve at riding downhill if you're determined, no matter what terrain you have. With commitment and confidence you can have tons of fun and get a lot better no matter what the length of trail, and the training is valuable as it translates to the longer runs when you do get to ride bigger hills/mountains.
This documentary is by my productions company, Imprint Productions, and its my first work under this name. Expect many more shorts to come in the very near future.
- Geoff Hewat
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PinkBike should provide us a tool to upload Google Earth Paths.
I would be more than happy to share these amazing urban mountain bike trails.
I wish PB had the time and funds to go through their forums and delete all accounts continually that post "grom" like remarks such as those posted above. Go ride your bikes.
I have loads of short sections of trail near me that I train on for Dh, I aint gonna learn anything new on race day on a big hill, I have to know what my bike can do before hitting the hill, and short sections are best for this.
I build many training tracks and use FreeLap with my pals to get a nice bit of competition into the riding.
Does it make a difference what bike you are on?
Of course it does.
On our 22s track (100m from my house :o)) my Sunday can get down in 20.39s and my Morewood MBuzi in 22.02s! When it comes to racing that is over 4s per minute!
Different tyres on the bikes but the Sunday on a flattish track with a long flat start still beasts the XC orientated bike.
People say that on certain stuff the Sunday is overkill, but they are never behind me at the bottom....
dont try and hate on downhillers trying to make the best of what we have to work with. you will lose. all these people are against you, so just do yourself a favour and get the f*ck out of here.
sound good?
sweet
Trail shareing on pinkbike is a rad idea ( google earth or trail head coordinates ) crank up the mtb tourism ...
yes it's ontario, no we don't have mountains with 5-10min long trails like they have out in BC. do we care? not really. we're out here having a good time and in the end that's all it's really about.
we ride 8" bikes not because of where we live but where we travel to. whether it be whistler, bromont, ste anne, etc... when we're not there, we push our bikes up hill, throw on a helmet and rip what we have.
why does it matter what they wear?
-Great editing by the way! But whats with the jerseys and pants though?