Video: Look Out For Wardens In The Woods

 aluminum bikes can be built light. Very light. Carbon adds around $1,000+ to the frame.

 Oof. That's hefty.

 No

 How on earth do you clowns pull out these "facts"?

 Weighed one at local bike shop (Knolly Dealer) in North Van. Knolly likes to "under estimates" it's frame weight so be careful. Neg rep away.

 Not if you have to climb for an hour to the top and have flat in the middle. Bikes like this just make biking better in so many ways in so many areas.

 The bike certainly didn't look like it was reaching it's limits there, imo it would have been a hell of a lot more fun on that than a dh rig.

 You have the point, but the video shows a downhill section and it seems it would be more stable and faster on a big bike.
In fact I also ride this mtb / downhill / enduro / freeride stuff and do it all on a dh bike. Whenever I think of something lighter, and it's often, I still can't help thinking what if I come across some more agressive section? It also depends on the size of a rider. I am a big person so dh bike is not that big to me.

 How do you get up?

 @jedrzeja a decent rider could rip this trail on a hardtail if need be. nice and flowy, no nasty rock gardens. a full on DH bike would make it too easy. plus the pedal up factor.

 @Dan I pedal up. I choose a smooth and evenly rising uphill to climb, if it is possible. I pedal up sitting, but it is getting hard soon, so I change two gears into harder and stand up on pedals. Standing up on pedals involves gravity and weight of my body to do most of the job, so this is how I get.up. I also involves the perfect suspension setup, so before an uphill I change the volume of the platform chamber. Climbing on a dh bike is a psychological game. Human body is albe to do this. It should not be a totally exhausting section, so I do it my pace. Off course there are hills so steep that can't be pedalled up, but then I choose to hike the shortest and steepest way uphill. Knowing the landscape I am able to choose paths and to choose how I get up and down. It's also a way to improve fitness. I remember I used to hike almost everything up when I started to ride this way and now I pedal up everywhere not even stopping for a break. There are no big mountains where I live, only hills, but it does not matter really. What matters is what we want to achieve. So riding a dh bike across landscape like mtb or enduro is having fun descending, and thinking all the time about the potential energy of altitute. I can gain speed to use it before uphill, mix gears like a lunatic. There are ways if there is will. Afterall there is not so huge difference between an enduro bike and dh bike. It's just heavier. How truks and tanks go up? There is more power. So how to pedal up a dh bike? Grow stronger. Whenever I think it is getting to hard while uphilling, I try to fight it with my mind, or hike to take the next approach soon. Hills don't go anywhere. Mountain climbers also go agains gravity and they don't cry when it's hard.

 @mrgonzo www.pinkbike.com/video/144343 This is the answer. Any biker can do anything on any kind of trail. It's just the matter of will, fun and preference. I should have written that "I" would prefer to hit the trail on the video on a dh bike, because I hit everything on my dh bike. I do road trips too, just aiming to reach an attractive freeriding site. What I think is choosing the type of bike is only preference. People differ in body build, characters, attitude to life. The bike is in fact the prolongation of this. So if you feel you are like a god of wind, it would probably be a road bike. If you feel like a tiger, it is probably an aggressive enduro bike. I always thought about myself like of a polar bear, because I am of a similar body build and I don't mind cold weather. I never have goose-flesh or how you wanna call it, when it's cold. So whenever I was asked in my childhood what animal I would be, I have to decide what I choose. It remained. It's not that I don't think of having a lighter bike. I consider it all the time. My perfect bike would be an universal one, but it is really hard to find. What is most universal though is my body. Using a mirror I look at myself and I see some parts of my body that need training still, but I am conscious that I will never look like a ski jumper. The bone frame of mine is already huge and there are muscles, especially legs and there is fat, so I am close to a bear. Bears do climbing, swimming. In fact they are very active and capable. When I sit on my dh bike www.pinkbike.com/photo/9734372 it is not so big bike under me, so I can do more with it comparring to smaller people. This brings disadvantages too. The bike is not that huge dh bike when landing, or hardcore downhill sections, so I have to watch out more. I don't fly high. It's mostly low and long jumps at speed. I often ask producers if a product can handle my body weight.