Shift - Wade Simmons segment

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Shift - Wade Simmons segment

One of the best segments of all time

173 Comments

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 thats where our sport came from man haha.
those are the roots Big Grin
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 AMEN!
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 WADE SIMMONS eh... someone should sponsor him, lol.
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 this is a classic ¡¡¡
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flag skybiker (Nov 1, 2007 at 14:03) (Below Threshold)
 Well, He knows how to bunny up with a cross country bike- wow
  • + 6
 yesss that was beutiful! haha i know a guy that still has an old rocky mountain pipeline. what a rig!
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 I still have a pipeline well the rear triangle is cracked but i was riding it until last march and its not an xc bike infact it is credited as the very first true freeride bike fuck man i cant believe the drops they did on that thing back in the day though.
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 shit loven the helmet and the part from 104-116..go fast and ride of a ledge...that how u do it
  • + 1
 its amazing to see how far the sport has progeressed in such little time
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 i have a pipeline too!! and i love it
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 that skatepark at the end is right beside my house
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 a classic!
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 they should make this vod.....so epic!
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 de simmons has been sponsored by rocky mountain for 13 years, tremblay
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 the pipeline used to be my favorite bike during those days !
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 @skybiker: haha dumb dumb....by the looks of things he was riding a x-country bike back then doing things you need a fully for.
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 @trade2ride: that is a fully bud
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 @ilikebikes1: @ilikebikes1: I realize that......just saying that a fully then is not the same as a fully now. i'm sure you get my point, lets not split hairs.
  • + 16
 The good old days of the Rocky Mountain Pipeline!
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 Wow, sick riding, even by today's standards. Those guys back then were so damn influential.
  • + 9
 nice old movie with godfather of freeride Smile
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 naw man im not old but this video still kicks ass it shows us how it all started its great without those days we wouldnt be where we are now i love all the old videos you always will find one thing in every oldschool video that would just like sketch you right the fuck out if you tried it and thats whats so cool they were doing some still really sick shit on bikes that were so much worse then what we are used to now. those guys had balls man
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 there was one guy man and he still rides and he is around his 40's now His name is( WADE SIMMONS) you should know who he is tard if you live in canada and are into freeriding, he is the god father of freeriding And one of the very few people that started this era of mountain bikeing. This guy will be remmeberd for ever and is a part of history he is a lot better now but he had a lot more skill than he had to show there becuase of the bikes, every time i watch it i respect this guy so much for what he has done to the sport and makes me want to be him. (long like the ledgend of Freerideing) (WADE SIMONS)
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 ahah fuck i mean SIMMONS 2 m's sorry
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 i remember my dad would show me these vids when i was like 10 and they still get me as stoked as they used to lol. wade simmons is the man! i think we should have a day of the week where and oldskool vid is vod!
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 Seeing as how Im prolably as old as your dad, I'll 2nd that!! Old school is dead! Long live the old school!
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 old schoolWink )wade rulezWink )
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 hell yeah that video and ride to the hills influenced me to buy a decent mountain bike and start jumpin off everything in my neighborhood. especially growing up in a place with no transitions.
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 I think wade is amazing, super smooth and stylish rider. And the 360.. that was awesome. anyone that thinks this video sucks can leave my mtb scene please (because your probably the people that annoy me at the hill and on the trails). bike are built for fun have fun and shut up!
  • + 2
 nice vid i like it but hello pinkbike it has been old school
videos 2 days in a row? show us some new videos please,but it´s funny to look on ooooold vidoes but not so often
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 remember the days when you broke cranks and bottom brackets all the time? He breaks his bb twice in this segment.
Thanks to the industry for making stuff stronger over the years....I havent snapped a bb in quite some time.
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 I'm 22, and I remember buying this on VHS when i first started to ride. Got me stoked then, gets me stoked now. Wade Simmons, Dangerous Dan, old school Ryan Leech, Chris Holm. right on!
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 hell yeah wade!!! one of the founders >
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 lol... i love this vid, this and robbie bourdons segment in nwd1..they always did street with fullys back then eh, the do street with fullys in kranked 1 and 2 aswell, not sure bout number3
  • + 4
 inspirational classic! thank god for sport progression and BB evolutions
  • + 3
 Wade Simmons was and remains to be one of the greatest the sport has ever had. No one was doing that back then!
  • + 1
 i second that...this vid was the reason i started riding...pretty much owe all my riding related life to that segment actually...wade inspired me....great guy too...ridden with him in whistler...
  • + 4
 lol nice, wade is awsome...way to kill an elton john song though lol
  • + 0
 that was wicked to see that again. when did that video come out? like 99 or something? you don't have to be that old to remember this video in all of its glory, i am 21 now and i got into downhill in my early teens when these videos were first making there mark. ride to the hills which came out a year or two after this is still a dope video by any means.
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 if that dosent make you go and get your old bike out of the back of your garrage then i dont no what will! amaizing pod. love it!
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 haha the good old days when it was all about droppin 15 feet to flats and breaking the bikes lol This video's making me feel like their's still hope lol
  • + 4
 all the wade simmons haters he will eat u and this video is amazing
  • + 0
 I remember seeing this and Kranked 1 and realizing that I now had a direction. I was into XC and a sort of street trials on an ultralite Gary Fischer XC bike without any riding buddies. The images that marked me the most were the kickpedal drops to stair trannies. Funny how things have evolved. Was that snapped bb shot also in Kranked 1 or 2?
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 Wade Simmons is still one of my idols....that man is the most fun to watch, and a solid/fluid rider too. SICK! Nice Vid!!
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 Funny how a year before those videos there weren't any freeride pros and the next year there were like 5 and now....
  • + 1
 VOD that was some kick pretty awsome rider even for todays standards takes skill to ride that way with such a old school bike
  • + 0
 i just remembered. i have that video. i used to watch it every night before bed so that when i woke up i would want to huck! man oh man... i miss that video. thanks for posting it.
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 wade is just awesome.end of story.
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 its so awesome to see where freeride came from! the stuff guys are doing today probably seemed impossible back then. mtb has come an insanely long way in such a short time
  • + 3
 get more shift segments radek!
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 The shot of him smiling at 16.1 pretty much sums that guy up...always happy.
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 Here you go guys, I just uploaded it almost 10 years to the day from your post. Not the best copy but it'll do Wink

www.pinkbike.com/video/479354
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 man that video may be old but if it was some one you didnt know like a kid you guys would have been saying thing rocked.i havent seen this video before and i was amased at the things he was droping on that.
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 my favorite rider of all time! wade simmons is just quality people! hes amazing!
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 gotta love the old rocky mountain pipeline was a pretty sick bike for its time eh
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 holy shit sauce i still have that video, With big red ted and dangerous dan. My fav was dustin adams.
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 wade simmons is my hero, godfather of freeride in the old school
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 Yeah this is why i started this man i love it. The Godfather...
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 man if i rode bikes back in 1999 and was as good as i am now I would so be pro. I'd just have to do it on a hella sketchy bike.
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 thats the difference between innovaters and those who just follow. You (or me or basically anyone else on here) didnt think to try that back then, we saw what was possible due to people like Wade and then tried to copy them as best we could. Its silly to compare to the past, imagine what Wade would be doing if he was a grom today? The groundwork would alrdy be laid and he would be pushing it to another level due to his abilty to see lines where normal people dont, etc.
  • + 2
 Hes goin pretty fast at 103 seconds!!!
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 man those stair gaps he does, inspirational...
ace song too Razz
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 sweet, it is cool to see the roots of our sport, nice
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 man i have alot of respect four that guy Smile
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 omg yes, wade is seriously a god in mountain biking
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 Simmons is the man. Nuff said!
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 nice ridin' back then from mr. simmons
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 old school nice ;]
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 He did a 360 Smile
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 just dug this out this morning for a pump...Rocket Man.....i've had this vid for almost 10 years..still awesome.
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 Riding.

Not some edit with 75% in slow motion or dirt spraying and carving easy trails.

Real. Riding.
  • + 1
 este video deberia ser un ejemplo a seguir por lo que fue y lo que es wade simmons se merece que sea VOD
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 right b4 this clip starts he beats the sh$t out of whats left of that bike!!
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 Man I love old school riding. Big Grin
Is Shift the film title? Anyone know where I can get a copy?
  • + 3
 ya shift is the title, and if you want a copy your probably only going to have luck at the local pawn shops, but first you will need to find a working VCR, that video is old bawls. I have a copy of it at home and im not going to lie, it still gets shown at least once a month in the summer
  • + 1
 That brings me back. Good thing square taper bb's are a thing of the past. lol
  • + 0
 amazing!!!!! i like it
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 rocky mt pipeline?! sweet clip
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 Wade is the man!! Period.
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 Best of all time, long live Wade!
  • + 0
 yo what artist did this song i think there preety sick , and wade simmons is a god!
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 elton john
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 yeah the music really goes well with this vid
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 sorry this is the son Originally writen by elton john but this who turns it into a more rock song - Me first and the gimme gimmes album- Have a Ball , song - Rocket man
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 i love this oldschool vids ! Wade rules !btw whats the song ?
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 found it ! Me First and the Gimme Gimmes - Rocket Man
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 what year was this filmed in?
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 such great old school
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 hahaha, niceee!
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 the god father
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 he's like my father Smile
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 Woah he pros where not as good as these days back then!
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 OLDSCHOOL!
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 this video was amazing Razz
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 nice
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 at 33 how does he nose bomb that and keep going
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 2:04 way to flat! Razz
man he's awesome though
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 simmons is our godfather of freeride !!
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 The forefathers....Thanks Wade fot making our sport what it is today!!!
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 yeaaahh! old school!))) give us more!! Smile
  • + 0
 love it, that vid tells me more about how this guy can ride than everything I've seen yet
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 this vid got me in2 bikin...aint sin it 4 years fanx.......
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 even now that stuff is still impessive!
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 ok we get it..... that vid was ace!
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 thats a history video
  • + 0
 nice vid....Smile i definetly enjoyed it
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 One of my favorite video segy's! Wade, showin the roots.
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 what is a segy?
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 segment i believe
  • + 0
 5" and canti brakes...thats an XC race bike by todays standards.
  • + 0
 its 6 inch and it has disc brakes unless he just preferred to use cantilevers
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 Ahh..6". Take a look at 29 secs in. Notice the yellow coloured canti's. Those are Magura HS 33's.
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 no wonder they call wade 'the father of freeride'
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 yeah good video Big Grin Old school rulez ~! Smile
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 crap qualty. sorry man. its pretty sick other that that
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 classic, vod
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 was this all in vancouver?
  • + 0
 zajebiste ma gosc wyjscie z parku
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 the 270° over the hip is sick...
  • + 0
 where is that sweet stepdown gao, he was launching by those courts
  • + 0
 nice video you guys should make a new one and then compare
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 Does anyone know how old this vid is or just how old he was then?
  • + 1
 talk about old school...
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 vintage
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 THat's amazing!! Those bunny-hops on full-suspension bike! FreeRIDE w czystej postaci!
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 this such a sketchy video Razz nice stuff, the good old mountain biking
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 old school man !!
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 awesome
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 ugh who ever did this song they totally slaughtered the original...
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 old skewl
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 awesome vid!
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 fukin luvin it !!!
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 video quality could of been better... but it doesnt matter, the video was really sweet lol
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 Yeah sorry. I only had this segment in cruddy compressed format from years ago when we were doing a promotion for the release of the film on VHS Smile Pre-dvd days...yes, it's that old.
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 wat is up with the retro videos and plus that bike is soooo groooood
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 sick vid
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 hell yea old school!
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 That was wicked!
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 BROKEEEN!
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 hucking years
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 thats crazzy
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 How old is this video? Simmons did a 360 there, i haven't expected)
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 that video is from 1999 cuz that was the purple and yellow pipeline witch was the first model then they were grey and black then red
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 But the team had them in '98, and it looks like the same bike he rode in Kranked 2, so that would be my guess. Now I finally know where that sequence in the NSMB screensaver is from though!
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 holy balls buddy is like ridin a walmart bike and doin all this hahaha, good job man. great riding
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 what kind of bike is that?????
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 very very nice movie!!!!Smile POD
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 its VOD u retard not pod
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 what year was that?
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 it was late 90's. i use to have a black and green pipeline that i believe it was a 2000 and that purple and green one was a year or 2 older. i'd put it in 97 or 98 that it was filmed
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 the purple was 99
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 not too impressing today, but at that time and with those bikes it probably was!
  • + 1
 just as impressive today, what style! you're baked.
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