Video: Shaun Palmer Coming Home

 Thinking exactly the same

 For a quick reminder of Shaun palmers history, I highly recommend watching Shaun palmer, the miserable champion if you can.

 Read this comment then watched the vid. Think I've just followed through, laughing that hard.
Kenny Powers for the win

 Kenny Powers is back!!!

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 Palmer is exactly like Kenny Powers! I got this clip on my phone from 'Never Back Down' when Palmer says "I've done a lot... of drugs, and it doesn't f*cking even compare to that f*cking feeling of being the best in the f*cking world".

 im sure he couldn't give a shit. come back when you're world champion at something. anything.

 somebody's been beaten by shaun palmer in the past

 wow. you are really angry. i recommend riding your mountainbike. its quite nice.

 @lukachadwick I downloaded it on vimeo last night, was really good! cheers

 Palmer is back! Good! But comments are the best part! ;D

 There is! Between 00:11 and 00:24! Oh, well... never mind:/

 @adanac14 - You're an idiot if you're taking this seriously...

 I realize it was a joke, and your comment probably isn't the one that I should be berating, but it's pretty disrespectful to these people's videos when you see people littering the comment section with "riding starts at _____" as if that is the be all and end all of every single video regardless of it's own intention.
Yes we are all sick of long out of context boring intros etc. but this shit clearly has a different purpose than building a thesis entirely around riding porn.

 I don't think it's insulting at all... it's a MTB site, I watch edits to watch MTBing. If I cared about anything else, I'd watch edits on sites that related to whatever that anything else could be. I think people just need to chill out. (generally speaking, not referring to this specific vid)

 I remember reading somewhere that he built guitars for a living before starting Intense, I just can't find where I read it, so it may be wrong.

 Anyone have any details? Some awesome guitar rifts in there. Was waiting for the end of the vid ready to download then saw it was by... The owner of a MTB company... WTF! :/

 Sounds like Neil Young in that movie Dead Man, starring Johnny Depp. Awesome trippy sound track!

 I definitely also read about Steber building guitars. May have been in an old Dirt Rag or MBA. Sick music nonetheless!

 Jeff does and makes them in his garage. Keep an eye out for a web piece in the future about it!

 would love to read about that^

 Who wants an intense guitar now then??

 He was amazing on the snow and good and smooth on the bike but..........too much of a clown in real life and making it look like life was over because he couldn beat Nico.....is just lame.
You wana see something really amazing???
Peaty is really amazing

 What about hi was a dbag TREK17? Did you actually meet him and talk to him or did you just get all that from the net?

 Still a d-Bag?.....well seems like he's pretty grown up now, as are most of us old dudes who used to race back then...but tell me, how many 20 year olds have you seen with his resume' that weren't d-bags...? Pretty sure if I was as bad as Palmer back then, I would have been full of myself too....The new crop of kids that are on the level today, for the most part are a different breed, way mellow and super chill, very approachable, 20 years ago that was a rare trait for a pro rider, arrogance was far more common....but that was 20 years ago...time to let it go....but I guess this doesn't really apply to you since you weren't born yet....

 Just watched the documentary about him, I do it a wish it would of explained him as a person a bit more. My take it's like he has/had ADHD, super competitive, super talented, very determinate, a fragile personality and without proper guidance. Don't know if I feel happy or sad for how things turned out. He had a great carer in several sports but there are things that put a dark cloud over it, very mixed feelings. A good movie well worth the money.

 He even had the goal of racing a main event in a supercross motocross final and he made it so all of the crap about getting down and out because he couldnt win the world championships is an excuse to jump over the easy side of self pitty.
Our good frient Tippie had some bad moments and bounced back like he always was, happy and crazy and someone who everybody loves, thats a story and thats a comeback not a stupid vide coming back to what????
Get over it and grow up, at his age he still has a lot of years to give back a lot.
I dont mean to sound like waki all negative but thats just life

 It would all be pretty boring without a couple of douchebags here and there. I mean, what would you have to complain and bitch about then? Wheel size and helmet visors?

 ^^That^^ props x 100,000,000

 I was going to say the same!..........You KIDS have no idea how good this is going to be for YOU!.......

 What a drunk idiot?

 Well said sir.

 I wish I had the opportunity to chat a bit with this guy. Quite a character, and from your words (as well as from many other who were there back in the day) certainly an interesting person. I bet his lust for life was pretty contagious. As Cicero said a long time ago: "time is to men as it is to wine: it ruins the bad ones and improves the good ones". I really believe the latter part of that saying applies to The Palm.

 He had a rep for getting into fights and trashing bars, but I witnessed why and what his mindset was. It is a hell of a lot like my own. He didn't ever screw with a single good person, and neither have I.

But I got into fights my whole childhood and even the last day I was in high school. I just didn't like jerkholes and mean people, bullies, arrogant rich people (the kind of person all of you see in bars and just ignore and focus on you and your buddies).

Me, if I see something that's not right or a jerk having his way, I tend to push back on that person rather than ignore them. My mind is "that's not right" and toss their cigarette right back in their car window.

We were at the bar watching the NBA Finals (Bulls vs Jazz) and the jackass jock football prep guys in the bar were getting their frat boy on hard, pulling for the Bulls, but just being dicks about it. Palmer chose right there to pull for the Jazz. I was pulling for the Bulls and he could care less only one at his table). He didn't like their After School Special Antagonist attitude and wanted to press them and push back (they were pressing the patrons of the bar the way typical frat guy does).

That's it. He'd call people out on common courtesy style douche baggery. I consider a guy confronting A-holes who fight anyway a jerk, but my kinda jerk.

 Yeah, I know that exact feeling. Like when you see an old woman step into a stuffed bus and nobody gives a sh!t about it. Even when I'm standing in those cases I feel like I have to do something about it and address the closest sitting teenager, inviting him to give his seat to the older woman voluntarily. If he refuses or just stares through the window, a look can be more convincing than any word. I've been called a jerk for messing with that kind of people more than once, but I'd rather stay a jerk who cares about other people before turning into a selfish idiot such as the ones you run into everyday. Thanks for taking the time to answer.

 Well said...and less paragraphs.

 Is "Wont back down" still ITunes only?

 "Must watch: The Miserable Champion (Palmer)
Won't back Down (Peaty, as if you didn't know)"
Rob's Dirty Business (Lord Warner)

 i know wont back down is available on psn if you have playstation.

 I don't, damn it.

 sorry for being born

 Tell me watchmen when did you let go and begun your trip home? Too late or too early? hahahaha

 He had better bring moto kit to enduro as well haha

 where the trail ends?

 I'm pretty sure he got invited to rampage.

 So is HE still a D bag? He can Stay out of the game for all I care! Robbie is the only pro I ever met who made me think.."that guys kinda a ass hole"..

 If your going to say something like that M9er. Please elaborate as to why?

 Well, you know when you first meet someone, and you can kind of tell they are a D bag. Was watching them filming a nwd in Oregon, and he proved my judgement to be correct, by continuing to be a D bag... You know it's not a specific moment..more a way of life.lol...maybe little man syndrome.

 You kids need to get back into school! Your spelling and punctuation is utter crap!

 m9er. you didnt really elaborate there. you just said you thought he was a douche again....and then you said you watched him for a bit, and then you thought he was a douche some more.

 This is what happens when you have a "English teacher" on a world wide web site. Someone correcting someone for the sake that they can, even though everybody knows what the "wrong doer" means. One wastes time while the other gets to the point.

 Sorry, you are right my "English" does suck. And my examples suck..I give up today!

 an english teacher Sithbike, not a english teacher.

 If you rode your bike half as well as you spell, I bet you could loose your training wheels. ; )

 I thought he was going to meet up with Heisenberg in the desert.

 Heisenberg = Steber. Duh.
You decide if Intense is better than meth.
I have.

 Thats the difference between I dont give ashit about you and.......always live with Nico in your head.

 I dont understand. Lost in translation perhaps?

 I meant Palmer is still with Nivo in his head and Nico hasn think of palmer since 20 years ago

 Quite right. Nico doesn't even think about that screwed-up sociopath.

 haha! awesome!

 Either way, breaking/shooting glass and signs, leavn trash is super lame. Really bad rep for us shooters/offroaders/land users!
Glad he's back on the mtb radar tho.

 Sorry dude, fat finger neg propped you!

 Honey, I love you. I think you're a terrific girl. But you have clothes like a f****ng dickhead.
— Kenny Powers

 You sure that was the one word?

 Hahahahahaaaaa

 Rob Ford probably more real than you madmon

 sorry what? actually no i'm not sorry. just what the f*ck? you turned one of my favorite natural trails into a flow trail and now you're talking shit about one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. whats your problem?

 Yup you heard, Terrible video, typical American crap, Show him for what he was, not some half arsed deep and meaningful hillbilly video part. And re your track, haha, Yup sorry I ruined that for you. Also I hope you enjoyed follow Greg down a trail I built!

 you built that? sweet. nice one. still sore about dans le gas tho. the jumps are a welcome addition but other than that the bits that were left as they used to be, like the berms at the bottom, are by far the best bits now. im not saying its my track, but it was one of my favorites. as for the video, i dont really see the problem with it. its a teaser to get the word out there that palmer is back with intense. i think it fits his image prety well.