Sequence Saturday 43

Dec 15, 2012
by Ian Hylands  
Sometimes getting up a climb on a mountain bike can be an exciting challenge. This particular little climb in Sedona has been done by more than a few people I'm sure, but it takes a bit of work and some skills. At least 4 people in our group tried it multiple times, and it claimed several tires with pinch flats. Ride at it as fast as you can, drop a couple of gears and hop up the first ledge, then the second, then try to pedal to the top. A few came close but Eric was the only one that made it...

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The Pinkbike user with the best comment getting up wins the bag, an EVOC Freeride Pro 20L series riding pack.



Please keep in mind that we choose the winner based on the best comment, it does not and never has had anything to do with the number of props. Also keep in mind that anyone found to be giving out negative props to a number of users without explanation or reason given will be banned for prop spamming.




PAST WINNERS

Sequence Saturday 26 - Ian Hylands sequence of Kirt Voreis doing a big Ally Oop Transfer. The winner is iceman8 with this comment:
bigquotesShaq called, he wants the title of biggest alley-oop back...

iceman8 wins a EVOC Freeride 20L Pack.



Sequence Saturday 27 - Ale di Lullo's sequence of Sam Reynolds crashing at Crankworx Les 2 Alpes. This was a tough one to choose with several great get well soon comments and rhymes. The winner is TREK17 with this comment:
bigquotesDear Sam, Roses are Red Bruises are Blue, You've done one backflip, But how 'bout two? Get well soon man and that's all I got.

TREK17 wins a EVOC Freeride 20L Pack.



Sequence Saturday 28 - Norbert Szasz's sequence of Cam Zink 360'ing at Chatel. The winner is GettingFaster with this spin to win rhyme:
bigquotesWhen approaching a drop of this extra large size, Cam has to stay focused, with his eyes on the prize,
No hesitation, the action is go, then everything around him turns to slow mo,
Spinning with style, with grace, and with ease, Cam nails the landing and fills it with steeze,
No one flows 3's like the man they call Zink, the new king of the sequence on the Bike that is Pink!

GettingFaster wins a EVOC Freeride 10LCC Pack.



Sequence Saturday 29 - Ian Hylands sequence of Martin Soderstrom's nac at Claworx. The winner is mtbrider619 with this comment:
bigquotesNac-nac...Who's there? Martin Soderstrom

mtbrider619 wins a EVOC 25L Park Pack.



Sequence Saturday 30 - Ian Hylands sequence of Anthony Messere sending it on the hip at Crankworx. The winner is downhillaforlife with this description of Anthony's air:
bigquotesThat sign should say MARS, not SRAM, because Anthony just flew into outer space.

downhillaforlife wins a EVOC 25L Park Pack.



Sequence Saturday 31 - Charles Robertson's whip sequence from the Four Cross Pro Tour. The winner is sugar with this sideways comment:
bigquotesI never thought that I'd say "I just saw four dudes whip it out, and I liked it" I hope that I can show you my bag in return. (my new EVOC bag)

sugar wins a EVOC 25L Park Pack



Sequence Saturday 32 - Landon Stirling's sequence of Kurt Sorge whipping. The winner is fitzy96 with this comment:
bigquotes"If I could of whipped out something that big, my ex wife wouldn't of left me for the Gardner Wink Wink Wink "

fitzy96 wins a new EVOC Freeride 20L Pack



Sequence Saturday 33 - InFocusmtb's sequence of Andy Tillman in the Kamloops Bike Ranch. This was a hard one to pick but the winner is munro3 who put a lot of work into this comment:

Experimental physicist, Nicola Pescetto, discovers new subatomic particle while observing super-motion and anti-symmetry in the Large Cycling Accelerator (LCA) located in Kamloops, BC. Pescetto used a photography technique often referred to as transitional photography, or sequence photography, to capture the peculiar motion of the ½ spin Tillmann-Quark (also known as a Cork-Flip). The elusive particle appears to have a reverse rotation quantity of 1 and a horizontal rotation quantity of ½, thus defying symmetry. Though the ½ spin Tillmann-Quark was previously thought to be impossible and disregarded by physicists worldwide, it is now being described as the final piece of the puzzle to classical physics. Some are going as far as to say that the ½ spin Tillman-Quark will explain the final mysteries of the universe.

The Tillmann-Pescetto formula:

~½ = 2Pi + (½) / 2Pi +1 (V^2 – C^2)

munro3 wins a Evoc FR 20L series riding pack.



Sequence Saturday 34 - Ian Hylands sequence of Cam McCauls canyon gap flip. If you haven't figured it out yet winning has nothing to do with props, but more with making a well thought out articulate comment. This weeks winner had both, chainrxn wins with this crazy comment:
bigquotes I once heard that Cam McCaul arm-wrestled Clint Eastwood in a seedy nightclub called The Alibi- an old IHOP that started selling beer to bolster lunch sales and never looked back. McCaul was about to lose, badly, when he remembered that Eastwood was ticklish in the scariest of all places...his bald spot.
McCaul reached out, and instead of manhandling his vodka-soaked short-stack of pancakes like Clint thought, he let his fingers do the moonwalk right over the shiniest place on the mans head.
Needless to say, Clint lost it.
Never before had such peals of laughter echoed through that dank, dark place. The cooks looked up from their toast a la whiskey. The diners looked up from their complimentary wine-cooler fruit-bowls. The hostess woke up for a brief second, mumbled something about Brett Tippie tipping wonderfully (a story for another time), and then fell back asleep in the defunct claw-machine prize bin.
Cam McCaul won something that day, and Clint Eastwood lost his most precious gift- the personal gravity that made him a star. Cam could now soar over canyons and flow down the steepest chutes in perfect poise...double your gravity, double your fun.

chainrxn wins a EVOC Freeride 20L Pack



Sequence Saturday 35 - Ian Hylands sequence of Cam McCaul airing over the Rampage canyon gap. This was a hard one to choose, the winner ends up being Savaninja with this comment:
bigquotes Newsflash: Helicopter crash in Utah. A very small helicopter today crashed in Utah, the cause thought to be linked to the nearby mountain biking event: Red Bull Rampage. As the helicopter was passed over by an as-yet unknown flying object, failure of the aircraft's engines are thought to have occurred due to an ingestion of a large quantity of 'sick air'. Pilot testimony likened the object to two joined flying saucers, with one emitting a ratcheting clicking sound. The Pilot sustained minor injuries, the most significant of which was a hyper-extended stoke gland, but is said to be in an otherwise stable condition. Authorities have warned against further air traffic, as further large quantities of this air are expected to appear in the near future...

Savaninja wins a EVOC Freeride 20L Pack




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294 Comments
  • 58 6
 Am I supposed to talk about the sequence? Ide rather give you a recipe for some really nice home made beef burgers.
- 1kg of minced/groud Beef
- 2 tea spoons of english mustard
- 2 tea spoons of oregano
- big splash of tobasco
- 1 clove of garlic, chopped
- 1 tea spoon of tomato puree
- salt and pepper
- one egg

Get your hands in there and mix it up, make a few nice burgers and grill em up!
  • 5 4
 Random as hell! Love it.
  • 3 1
 Try them, then you will love it. They make you faster too which is a bonus.
  • 2 2
 imagine if this was played in reverse 0.o
  • 2 3
 great, now someone please tell us the story on how to take a sh!¡t and I bet you`ll win the prize...you can finish it the same way as this story: "Get your hands in there and mix it up, make a few nice turds and flush them away! hahahaaaaaaaa
  • 1 0
 so the climb should be named
up, up and away??
  • 49 15
 Sometimes it is as rewarding to pedal up a steep climb; which no-one else can, as it is to pin it down it. It takes just as much skill, balance, agility and endurance to navigate your way up a surface as it does to bomb it down one. This is why i love mountain biking, is so many different people get so many differen't kicks from so many different aspects of the sport. Some love to climb, some love to cruise and some love to bomb it down a DH track. Mountain Biking us such a versatile aspect of cycling.
  • 7 3
 This is sooooo sick!!!!! Pretty cool to see something a bit differentSmile
  • 5 11
flag juxtapozy (Dec 15, 2012 at 9:25) (Below Threshold)
 now that`s called "hop-mmitment", cause you really gotta hop and commit my friend, when approaching a climb like that, momentum and speed is what this guy just mastered, like Bruce Lee said "Be water my friend" and so he became the mountain and flowed up!
  • 8 0
 Momentum is a dish best served uphill.
  • 7 4
 id rather go down it Smile
  • 2 2
 Savaninja pretty much plagiarized my winning EVOC comment from a while ago.
  • 6 0
 There's a short technical climb on one of my local trails that has been my nemesis so far. Even though I fail misserably every time I try it, it's great fun trying to ride it up and holding mini-contests with friends to see who will get further up. I used to hate climbing of any kind but after discovering a few chanlenging technical uphill sections I've changed my mind. If it's fun I'll ride it!
  • 2 0
 Eric must've had a full head of steam to get that second hop. Nothing better than defeating a techy climb.
  • 2 0
 Pounding out a bastard-ass tough climb ain't too bad once you realize you'll be back in the cubicle Monday morning with that blank mindless stare, a shitty cup of road tar, just lookin' like a pumpkin pie hair-cutted freak.
  • 2 1
 I know this spot in Sedona & have gotten applause from the pink jeep tourist for just bombing down it. The camera does it no justice - this guy is a badass for riding up it. Most people on this site could ride down it but I doubt if 1 in 100 could ride up it. Steep/technical enough your girlfriend will always walk downSmile
  • 1 5
flag SJA59 (Dec 15, 2012 at 16:41) (Below Threshold)
 WOW, that tree is incredible! And dont even get me started on that freaking rock.. #intears
  • 3 0
 two things...
1) ^ this aint twitter, so smoke that HASHtag, or save it for twitter/C code.
2) if i could get it up as fast as him, I wouldnt need those pills.



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  • 2 0
 He climbs like an Ibex.
  • 3 1
 im ssuuuppeeerrr high and this is like defiying the laws of gravity...
  • 2 0
 Technical climbing is ace fun. It looks pretty simple in the pics, that is the beauty of it when someone has the skills to ride things that are difficult. They make the impossible look so simple and possible when they are not.
  • 32 2
 Surprise, bikes can go up hills...
  • 11 2
 I actually think the guy in the sequence deserves a new Evoc bag!!! That was pretty sick but the bag he is wearing makes me wants to be sick. If your doing this type of riding you probably want a decent back pack on your shoulders
  • 1 0
 Yeah, the purple and bright red Evoc pack would look epic with his turquoise shorts! He'd do his best to bring back the '80s...
  • 1 0
 honestly, what's wrong with the one he's wearing? If it holds tools and water and stays snug on my back, what's the problem?
  • 1 0
 The one he's wearing is an osprey.... great packs(i know from experience). I have one for biking and 2 for backpacking for about 3 years now, and they've always been great
  • 5 1
 Every time I see a sequence Saturday I tell myself that I'm gonna figure out something to say that's whitty and clever and ill win an evoc bag... But when I see a sequence Saturday like this, with no tricks, hucks, or big roosts, but just a long hard climb. Just the feeling of getting to the top of the mountain, after so many have tried and failed and only you make it up. Eric, I bet hat's a feeling that's worth more than 10 Evoc Bags....
  • 4 1
 When I first got into the sport I was obsessed with dropping off of stuff. Then, one day I went with a buddy who rode trials to a boulder that I loved to drop and he changed the world for me. He took an old beater nishiki and hopped up the boulder one piece at a time. Other skill sets may look more flashy to the untrained eye, but the ability to master a technical climb is awe inspiring to those who no what they are seeing.
  • 4 1
 This king of technical skills is so gratifying to realize, that make you the same kind of feel than a good turn full speed or a big WC whip ! That why a reel mtb rider love to get dow AND to get up !
  • 2 0
 If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. M.Jordan
  • 7 5
 I have starred at this for half an hour now and have found the best and most energy saving line. Ride to the edge of the first rock. Apply brakes. Get off bike. Carry bike to top. Problem solved. Also get tubeless tyres. Harder to pinch punched.
  • 3 1
 Climbs like this can get so frustratingly addictive when you try them again and again (especially when multiple inner tubes are invested in it!) but when you get them and ride out the top it's always worth the effort for that great sense of satisfaction. Smile
  • 2 0
 if I had an EVOC FREERIDE PRO 20L pack I wouldn't need to get up in one go, I could stop and have a cupa and a bite to eat out of my mega back pack . with plenty of room for my mates stuff aswell
  • 1 0
 How most people make chicken thighs big and meaty: Stuff the chickens in a cage and feed them until their legs are about to break.

How people should make chicken thighs big and meaty: Give the bird a bike and tell it to starting climbing!
  • 1 0
 There once was a Little Train Engine. As the train was delivering all it carried, it faced a tall hill. The Little Engine's friends all tried to climb the hill in the past, but they failed. This Little Engine decided, "I think I can!" And so he trudged up the hill "I think I can, I think I can!" Finally, he made it to the top of the hill. That Little Engine could!
-Based on a true story about Eric Porter
  • 1 0
 This is a little tricky bit on the Broken Arrow trail right? I remember it clearly from when I visited Sedona a few years ago, super fun trail! Man I'd love to get back out there and ride, some of the best mountain biking I've done.
  • 1 0
 Has anybody outside of North America ever won one of these competitions? I'm just wondering if its a postage distance thing and whetheer or not I'm wasing my time writing on here week after week. Just wondering, try let me know.
  • 1 0
 Turns out people from all over the place wins these competitions, sorry for being so cynical.
  • 1 0
 I suppose that I'm going to do a rhyme about this little climb, even though I don't really have the time to spare, or to stare, or to even think about any more words, even though I slightly care about this bag - It would be pretty fab. I like Fabs, they taste nice.
  • 4 1
 Why am I climbing this again? Ohh oh I remember...... What goes up must come down? Was that it? Screw it, I'm going to keep on climbing....
  • 1 0
 still not as good as dh jokes
  • 3 0
 Done well, all parts of a ride bring pleasure of a kind... and a sense of accomplishment. Fun when your mates get to acknowledge that you were king on that day.
  • 1 0
 Soooo... You've been riding DH for quite a while and you're starting to feel like you're flying over techy stuff... Feeling Greg Minaar'ish??? Well, wake up Superman, you're having a wet dream and your f*cking a one armed hooker named Joe. Now try torquing up a 150 bike over techy uphills. Uphill+Downhill skills = more complete rider. My 2 cents
  • 3 3
 Right on Pink Bike! As much as I like going downhill (don't we all), I find that some of the most rewarding moments on my bike is when I can actually continue riding and not have to get off and walk a section of trail. Also, what better place to flat than when flowing downhill with a huge grin then to hear psss psss psss psss......
  • 5 1
 the climb is what makes the decent so sweet.
  • 2 1
 you got that all right man
  • 2 1
 By photography normally is not possible to understand uphill or downhill. So, in this pic the step looks normal, not so huge. I like to try, in these cases, with not so much speed and with 22x34... sometime speed helps much.
  • 2 1
 Let's turn guns into bikes, kevlar vests into protection pads and grenades into big sets of hairy balls so we can die doing what we love. Paz, Amor y Mountain Biking amigos!!
  • 1 1
 Eric was the best this day and showed the most heart. Eric had a secret that he was not telling others from the start. Eric's pre-ride meal of mexican was ridiculed as not smart, but Eric knew he would need the extra boost in the form of a fart. Post ride celebration was cut short early, when Eric realized this all resulted in a shart....
  • 1 0
 Woah, I've been there before, the camera doesn't do anything to show how steep that climb is, Heck, its even tough to go down sometimes and 2 of my friends went OTH going down, lessen learned DO NOT TAP YOUR BRAKES O.O
  • 1 0
 Kangaroo Jack once said:
"I said a hip hop,
Hippie to the hippie,
The hip, hip a hop, and you don't stop, a rock it
To the bang bang boogie, say, up jump the boogie,
To the rhythm of the boogie, the beat."
  • 6 3
 There's a biker who's sure all that traction will hold, and he's riding a stairway to heaven...
  • 2 0
 Ha ha... When he gets there he knows if the LBS' are all closed, with a word he can get what he climbed for...
  • 4 1
 Gravity Enduro: Won on the downs, but lost if you don't get the ups done right.
  • 3 0
 it looks like a very technical climb probably allot harder and steeper than he made it look really nice sequence
  • 3 1
 The purest satisfactiion... Something that takes skill and effort with no material rewards. Thats what life is really all about!!!
  • 3 0
 Damn!
There is got to be a motor hidden somewhere there.
In his backpack maybe...?
  • 2 1
 I bet he drunk some Red Bull. If not, something else must give him wings to climb that thing. I believe this guy will never buy some mountaineering equipment. All he needs is a bike.
  • 2 0
 Eric Porter can't race XC, as he's on the UCI's banned substance list. Something about being hopped up makes his performance enhanced.
  • 1 0
 Yay! The Winners and their comments are posted! Haha, I don't know if I had anything to do with this from my last comment on the last Sequence Saturday, but awesome all the same. Serious climbing skills there Smile
  • 1 0
 Thats why I love 29 inch wheels! So easy to forget that your on a xc bike when you turn around and all your friends are walking up what you just coasted & hopped a boulder that would stop most jeeps. mBraaap**)
  • 1 0
 My motto- Gota get up to get down (james brown style).

Most rides I don't have lift or shuttles to rely on. Dropn some beats on this one.

Doing it the old fashion way, they earn it.

Loved this!
  • 1 0
 man i feel bad for the guy who has to pick the best comment. if you reach down here then i say congrats, hopefully the climb back to the top won't be as bad as this weeks sequence.
  • 2 2
 Step up in Sedona in this unusual Sequence Saturday. It often features a rider positioned differently in proximity to the saddle; looking further ahead, going down or in the air!
  • 3 1
 "Ahhh shit, I forgot the car keys at the top! Wait a minute, I'll go get 'em!"
  • 3 1
 The whole of Pinkbike is thinking, "I bet I could do that". Well you're wrong.
  • 2 0
 The only way to go down a Mountain is to climb up it, and this is what this man is good at.
  • 1 0
 Eric, NASA will be contacting you soon about your next mission: navigating the rough, technical terrain on the surface of mars. Please stand by.
  • 1 0
 I don't always climb intense, technical hills.

But when I, I go beast mode and make it look easy.

Stay riding my friends.

(must imagine the Dos Equis guy saying this)
  • 1 0
 "these kids now a days, with there bippin and a boppin, and the hippin and the hopping. They forget what the jazz is really about!"
  • 1 0
 Here's the secret:
Just like Popeye, he has a bag of spinach (green bag) that gives him more strength and energy to climb that hill!
Easy enough! Smile
  • 2 0
 Band-Aids....$5.......New tubes.....$30.....Being the only one to make the climb.....priceless
  • 6 3
 Ha has an Osprey pack in the sequence Wink FAIL
  • 3 0
 MTB + Climbing = Eric rules
  • 2 1
 Cleaning a technical climb is just as rewarding for me as hitting a gnarly descent. I'd much choose going up something like that over a boring fire road.
  • 3 1
 thats was not a climb!!!!!!!!!! he was clearly riding backwards and the sequence was played in reverse!!! simples
  • 3 0
 I love technical climbs like this!
  • 1 2
 now that`s called "hop-mmitment", cause you really gotta hop and commit my friend, when approaching a climb like that, momentum and speed is what this guy just mastered, like Bruce Lee said "Be water my friend" and so he became the mountain and flowed up!
  • 2 0
 "This climb made possible by two large wheels, two very large something else, and a man who knows how to use them."
  • 2 0
 You might be good at going down but she will like you better if you can get it up!
  • 1 0
 Climbs are a huge part of mountain biking mainstream, you need skills to clean tough climbs. Thats some straight up Trialin'!
  • 1 0
 There is a four step process for getting up this climb for most of us. 1. Eat energy bar 2. Stare at it for 10 min. 3. Puke 4. Push bike to the top
  • 1 0
 A special type (the most valuable type) of fortune, riches and treasure are there for the picking, for whomever can make it to the top!!
  • 1 0
 (...someone promised me a beer if I made it up this without putting a foot down...) "Hey, dude...where'd you go? I made it! What do you mean you didn't see me do it...!"
  • 1 0
 define:"rocked up"
To take part in fabricating or smoking crack cocaine.
Yeah I imagine Eric had to be on something to pull that off! DAMN!
  • 1 0
 *Erics grandpa* when I was a kid we had to walk to school 5 miles uphill both ways without shoes. *Eric* how about I just ride uphill one way?
  • 2 0
 I love those moments where you ride up something that a lot of people can't even walk down
  • 1 1
 You need a evoc bag to carry your spare inner tubes for all the pinch flats you would get for attempting it or at least i would :p
  • 1 1
 You clean that line with a bunnyhop, and pedal on up
You clean that line with a bunnyhop and pedal on up

(with apologies to Nilsson)
  • 1 0
 Now let me get this straight, You clean that line with a bunnyhop, an then pedal up...
Do you still call the doctor, wake him up?
  • 1 3
 As the sequence starts to load I quickly analyze the line and suddently when the motion of the biker starts I find myself on the saddle pedaling away on that awesome, unknown to me, red dirt. I ride the flat hard anticipating the up, climb onto to the rock and pop that front tire to clear the step-up only to find I nailed it right onto the lip and my chest is suddently one with the handlebars. As the sequence flies away and next thing I see is the real rider already up and away, anger and envy run through my veins first thing in the morning.
  • 1 0
 There is nothing like the satisfying felling of persivering up a climb and then having a awesome decent afterwards!!
  • 1 3
 Here's the audio to that sequence.

Rider #1 on red bike: (breathing hard as he rolls around the shrub) "F@#$!!!! More uphill?!!

Rider #2 on black bike: (singing Katy Perry out loud) "Cause baby, you're a Firework
Come on, show 'em what you're worth
Make 'em go, oh, oh, oh
As you shoot across the sky............."
  • 2 0
 A man mountain bikes but a real man mountain bikes up the mountain
  • 1 0
 how to make something hard look so easy:combination of finess,smart,call it experience!!
  • 2 0
 A part of Gravity just died a little inside.
  • 1 0
 I'm pretty sure that's not a person. That's a mountain goat on a mountain bike.
  • 1 0
 Hey, What the heck???
I did not know bikes could go uphill!!!
Maybe i should try it sometime, it sure looks like fun!
  • 1 0
 this guy should try a career on trials, that's the kind of things they clinb!! =)
  • 1 0
 EP is just as good going uphill as he his bombing down thats an all round good rider
  • 2 0
 In the immortal words of George Michael.... "Gotta get up, to get down!"
  • 1 0
 Some people take the easy route, but a real mountain biker prefers a challenge on their climb to the top.
  • 1 0
 I wonder how many different drugs he did that morning in order to get up that. haha
  • 1 0
 I need to take lessons from him. I am the worst climber and end up walking up a lot of those type climbs.
  • 3 2
 Climbing up a mountain is just as rewarding going back down. The payoff of the uphill is the downhill ahead of you
  • 1 0
 Or the downhill behind you!
  • 1 0
 I'm going to Sedona next month, and I am going to Cheshire this climb like a beer cann off my forehead!
  • 2 1
 There are ALWAYS...many obstacles to overcome, whilst on your way to the top!! Keep trying, and never give up...
  • 2 0
 cool. I bet only 1/10 of those who commented could pull this off.
  • 4 6
 Now most of you may not have noticed but it seems that Sasquatch pokes his head out of the bushes in segment 13. Also, in the next few segments his little babies attack the first rider and that is why he disappeared behind the bushes and did not reappear on the other side. Im sorry but there is really nothing to say about this sequence saturday except that it was probably the least exciting one of all time and if you were stupid enough............ made you look. But really the first guy does disappear...
  • 2 1
 its called a hill
  • 2 0
 Wonder how fast he could get up a world cup dh track with skills like that
  • 1 1
 Eric clearly didn't mind climbing out of bed and getting up early in the morning to eat his shreddies; just to go out shredding after getting up that climb.
  • 1 0
 Ha ha, This guy puts me to shame. I have a hard enough time just climbing out of bed.
  • 3 2
 Getting up with a lift is like skipping the leg day. Don't be a pussy, climb on your bike.
  • 2 1
 For the guys who cant get up, its all DownHill from here.. This guy can stick it to all mountains.
  • 3 2
 Not surprised that PB users are impressed by skills required for everyday riding...
  • 1 0
 Love it! It's a great feeling killing a tech climb like this... reward to follow!
  • 1 0
 Ian: You know guys, if I didn't have to take the photos and carry all my equipment I could totally ride up that!! Wink
  • 2 0
 "Back in my day, we rode uphill both ways on slickrock!"
  • 1 0
 They say cycling is around 80% more efficient than walking... I bet that's true is this guy's case!
  • 1 0
 "Ride up 2 mini cliffs and throw in some pedaling as well seems pretty easy if you ask me"- said no one ever
  • 1 0
 I dont think i have ever seen a straight man ride something so vertical and hard.
  • 1 1
 so you've seen others do it?? eww...
  • 1 0
 So going uphill... that like going the wrong way up a downhill track, i don't get it
  • 1 0
 "hold my beer, i got this...

see, pussies! your turn."

that's what i would have said
  • 1 0
 floating up the rocks like a butterfly, trying not to get stung by the cactus like a bee.
  • 1 0
 If you play this in reverse Porter lays down the most epic fakie move of all time.
  • 1 1
 Looks like he isnt pedalling in the first pics. Hm. So PB reversed the sequence and its a freecoastin fakie rockride. I smell a worlds first Wink
  • 1 0
 This comment isn't for the contest. I just wanna say "damn, I wish I could do that!"
  • 1 0
 it is not just goats that can do uphills - also mountainbikers can do pretty rocky uphills :-)
  • 1 0
 I hate when you wind up going the wrong way up a trail and end up climbing the descents.
  • 1 0
 From my screen looks easy and I bet that from his view looks easy too. Just use your mind power and flow on it! Big Grin
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 Up, Up and away
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 I guess that a few local lizards have lost their bets this time...
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 Look at it gooo, see how it goes quickly up, but still can not catch the man before him, unbelievable !! Big Grin
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 Let me explain: For Hippsters riding DOWN a mountain is much too mainstream!!Wink
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 so you got awesome trails and i guess no gravitiy? i think i live on the wrong continent Big Grin
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 Mountain goat named Eric in his natural environment.
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 One Rock Two Rocks, Hop Rocks Pop Rocks!
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 Sometimes it is as rewarding to pedal up a steep climb; which no-one else can, as it is to pin it down it. It takes just as much skill, balance, agility and endurance to navigate your way up a surface as it does to bomb it down one. This is why i love mountain biking, is so many different people get so many differen't kicks from so many different aspects of the sport. Some love to climb, some love to cruise and some love to bomb it down a DH track. Mountain Biking us such a versatile aspect of cycling.
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AlynPawlin (3 hours ago)
I have starred at this for half an hour now and have found the best and most energy saving line. Ride to the edge of the first rock. Apply brakes. Get off bike. Carry bike to top. Problem solved. Also get tubeless tyres. Harder to pinch punched.
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soprobrofosho (3 hours ago)
Every time I see a sequence Saturday I tell myself that I'm gonna figure out something to say that's whitty and clever and ill win an evoc bag... But when I see a sequence Saturday like this, with no tricks, hucks, or big roosts, but just a long hard climb. Just the feeling of getting to the top of the mountain, after so many have tried and failed and only you make it up. Eric, I bet hat's a feeling that's worth more than 10 Evoc Bags....
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fotifero (2 hours ago)
As the sequence starts to load I quickly analyze the line and suddently when the motion of the biker starts I find myself on the saddle pedaling away on that awesome, unknown to me, red dirt. I ride the flat hard anticipating the up, climb onto to the rock and pop that front tire to clear the step-up only to find I nailed it right onto the lip and my chest is suddently one with the handlebars. As the sequence flies away and next thing I see is the real rider already up and away, anger and envy run through my veins first thing in the morning.
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 Sequence .... what Sequence, I only see a Evoc pack!!!!!!!!!
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 Sweet Mary and Joseph my lungs hurt. *bunny hop* *pop*.... Oh gawd I think that was my lungs...Oh good it was just a tire.
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 If you listen closely you can here Eric say "Brrrraaaaaapppppppppp!" As he moto's up that tasty little nugget of a climb!
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 vamos a la playa, a mi me gusta montar!!
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 Who's the negative prop fairy?
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 Must...just....keep...pedaling......
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 Hey, Do you know "Stairway to Heaven"?
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 success is only option, failure is not.
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 Granny? I don't need no stinkin granny!
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 kinda looks like Buzz Lightyear, To Infinity and Beyond....that climb
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 Looks like he's riding the Mason FS! Can't wait for that bike.
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 why did the pirate break up with his girl friend??????? because they ARRRgued to much
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 lots of comments, must want a backpack or something .....
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 Climbing up hills like my name was Eddie Merckx
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 Uphill hardcore shredding!!!
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 Matt Hunter's getting married..."this is the end..."
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 Eric "MacAskill" makin' deals and breakin' records
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 I'm not sure about every one else but i really enjoy Every View Of Climbs
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 Eric's a beast and makes it look so easy! I struggle up the driveway...
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 Reverse ``Cychcology`` Knows no bounds!
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 Its the Red Bull Rampage XC edition Wink
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 Did that guy just walk his bike up?! Pshh... LETS DO THIS
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 awesome, I liked how he hoped up that one section. Is that Utah?
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 Mission accomplished, next level please.
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 It seems more plausible watching it in reverse.
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 They both are students of Yoda's riding school !!
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 Someone buy that man a porter.
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 Jason Statham dreams about having that much Crank
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 Excuse me! I think I'll go back to bed now and cry myself to sleep.
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 nice to see a different take on things for sure!
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 I still find it confusing as most of the time it is the other way around. So much technique! Great!
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 The true representation of a MTBer, one who can climb up as well as down
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 He's got Mcaskill blood in him eh Wink
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 "Hi ho, Hi ho, its up a cliff we go, with a hop and skip we make it to the top, hi ho,hi ho ho ho ho hoooo!"
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 that climb isn't the only thing i struggle getting up according to my girlfriend :/
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 Just three hours and someone has already been giving neg props to almost all coments... Frown
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 Physics?.....
What evil sorcery is that?
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 No chance for me to ride this terrain or to win this amazing bag
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 I would be surprise if this guy doesn't have a single speed bike. That was super smooth.
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 Yeah Real-Life Bike Dooodlejump..... I need the APP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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 Nice job on the step ups. (rider) wait what? i didn't see no stinking step ups.
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 Fuck the prize,that's just a wicked sequence.
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 The last time I decided to climb something that big, I regretted it in the morning.
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 Walking? F*ck that, I'm riding up.
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 We should organise a contest, who can let him climb the fastest up the hill by clicking repeatedly as fast as you can on the `next photo button`.

Yea we should do that.....
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 Looks like the perfect place to play "King of the Hill" !!!
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 Watch this, I'm gonna totally MOTO this climb....
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 Do you even climb?
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 The 4x4's just called, they want you to teach them your ways
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 That step climb was just stairing Eric in the face...
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 Getting up, fast: Some men just have the nack for it, others don't. Good in some situations, bad in others.
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 That was awesome watching Eric ride Fakie down that hill, but why is this sequence presented in reverse?
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 Just a Hop, Skip and a Jump away...uphill Wink
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 That second step, geeze man. I would probally stuff my front wheel right into that.
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 if that pac was a carrot it would be one cool carrot
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 Man he's getting up that hill faster then me getting up out of bed!
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 I don't care if you think this is unrideable. I'm late for work!
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 1 - 2 buckle my shoe 3 - 4 Shut The Front Door!!!!!!!
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 Totally owned! That is more like trials! Stoke on him! \m/
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 sedona... more like seboner he got it up so fast.
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 well that was neato!
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 Hmm... so riding uphill can be challenging and fun!
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 why go down when you can go up?
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 There is a reason why all of the sequences have been gravity oriented...
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 Pedaling up hills... Every downhill riders worst nightmare
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 Damn lift lines are always so long... *mumble grumble*
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 This is one of the few occasions when you just hate gravity.
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 Just a hop, skip and a jump to get to the top!
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 I can do that, hold my beer.
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 Man rides uphill, Pinkbike user wins bag.
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 Hipster downhill rider...
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 Climbing better than Richard Simmonds on a stair-master.
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 There is a guy giving away free beer on top?
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 Hey....sexy lady! Up........up, up, up..........climb-gnam style!
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 definition of Propedal-ing: Eric Porter
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 "Attack the crack" or am I the only one who noticed he slipped out?
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 Chewed it up and spat it out, Mike Tyson kills the climb
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 Up......Up..... and Away!
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 HUCK THE LAWS OF GRAVITY! im gonna whip up hill!!
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 i didn't realized going up is this fun until i saw this!
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 I thought Downhillers were better at going "down" on things....
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 i wish i could get it up that easy
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 traction is great, but nothing beats momentum
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 where I ride we ride uphill not upcliff
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 You can also have fun going up!!!
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 Warning! Riding like this could get you seriously high!
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 Nice work, you just used all of Sedona's vortex energy in one climb!
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 somebody tell him that's the wrong direction
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 Brrrrrrrrrrraaaaaaaappppp!,,,,,,,
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 Downhill is dead, let's all Uphill !
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 Fitted it fox's new 'space hopper' suspension, hopping more rocks than you can shake a stick at.
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 Level "hard climbing" reached ! What's next?
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 Eric Porter as...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4o29VoxtsFk

There is nothing more to say
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 he's riding the trail the wrong way
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 They call me....Mountain Goat! - Eric Porter
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 Take that Mars Rover!!!
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 piston legs....no uphill...
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 Rock crawler..
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 When I'm up I can't get down! Get my feet back on the ground!
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 Hop, pop, and away! 8D
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 Doth thou even hoist?!
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 He clearly missed the "Wrong Way" sign at the bottom.
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 What climbs up.... must SHRED down....
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 Wait, doesn't everyone have to take those pills to help "get up"?
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 "Well I never. I was sure the one way arrow was pointing this direction... Ah well I guess we just ride up it then, what else can we do?"
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 Pause it, play in reverse by clicking back several times.. reverse DH has been invented.
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 Didn't know mountain goats had pedals....or....wheels
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 Didn't know mountain goats had pedals....or....wheels.
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 It's not about getting it up, it's about what you can do with it when you're there...
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 what goes up must come down!
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 They see me climbin they fightin...
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 Eric showing us how downhilling in reverse is done...UPHILLING!
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 who needs propedal?
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 What's done in this sequence in much more rewarding than this : www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzXVLbs41Ew
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 Hey.... Let's go and grab the reward at the top...
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 Clearly Eric does not need Viagra - he had no problem getting it up.
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 Meanwhile, After the cross country race...
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 There is a new line of bikes out for the new thing, UH
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 He just pushed the anti-gravity button on his bars
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 if you play this in reverse you get an epic trials sequence
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 Upsy daisies
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 Extreme cross country.
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 ( Eric ) " Common boys, you think this is tough!? I climbed Hylands mom last night. That was tough!! " Wink
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 ... fuck that.
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 Stairway to to the top
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 Do the hop-shuffle
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 What bike was he riding?
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 I can do that.
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 Never ever...give up!!!
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 he can take the stairway to heaven on his mountainbike, when it is about time!
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 climbing is better ...
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 Still wondering.
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 JUST PEDAL MOTHERFUCKER!!!
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 Hills; thats why they invented chairlifts!!!
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 seriously!!!!! :/
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 It's a sad day when a Mountain Goat would have Mountain Bike envy!!!
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 the fuck is an elevator
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 Up up, and Away!
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 Proof that you can climb any hill with a 29er .... and ridiculous skill
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 did you just rewind that downhill clip?
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 so then he would have been going down backwards?
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 Yeah. Little bit of a joke in there,
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 Up, up and away!
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 Do they know that downhill exists
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 Struggling,struggling,struggling,hell yeah time to ride back down
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 Rather see it gaped.
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 *gapped although if you have an extremely dirty mind you might be able to conjure something up for gaped but I'll leave you to do that on your own accord
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