Video: Anthony Leonarduzzi - 3 years In The Making

Jun 27, 2013
by Jack Anderson  
Anthony Leonarduzzi: Three Years In The Making

by jackandersoncinema
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Anthony has been building this trail for three years now and he can finally call it finished. After many long days on the mountain building, Anthony takes a rip down the loamy mass he calls home! Thanks for all the support from, Transition Bikes, 100% optics, Troy Lee Designs, deity components and GHY BIKES.

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68 Comments
  • 79 12
 While it's a decent video, I have to ask: How did it take him three years to "build" those trails? They just look like loamers that he's done a few laps on... Am I missing something?
  • 51 7
 As the video progressed, I kept waiting for some biblical woodwork, or some Renaissance stonemasonry all up in that bitch.
Looks like a fun trail, make no mistake, but, pitching it as "3 years in the making" and "finally finished" really oversells the product.
  • 30 4
 The reason it took three years to make is it gets snowed over in the winter and its a pain to get up too!!
  • 11 1
 school, life. Way to go duzzy
  • 29 1
 Dude, It takes forever to build something decent by yourself with a shovel. Good work!
  • 18 0
 maybe all he had to work with was a spoon. you guys just don't give him enough credit.
  • 4 2
 the end is better some serious work there...... but nothing more than a summer to build that
  • 5 1
 I'm sure you could clear that in a summer but what you won't be able to see in the video is any little details that have been included. Similarly you don't know whether he made any changes to the route as he was building it or how much debris was moved on to/off of the trail.

Either way it looks a nice trail - good work.
  • 2 0
 I usually spend 2-3 weeks making a 2 minute long trail, and that's with stunts and drops. Fun trail but 3 years? EDIT: Just read ulua's comment, makes total sense now. Anyone commenting should scroll down and read it.
  • 2 0
 Yea more like 3 months
  • 1 2
 Is it just me or is the trail easily rideable with an enduro bike?
  • 17 7
 Good to see new generations keeping up the raddness that hill has always had. But everybody has to give props to the original crew who established an built those trails, Kevin Ryan and the DHZ crew, as well as ALL the dedicated builders that came after including A.L. The upper trail and lower sections in this vid have been there since 1999 as a local DH training ground and it's had it's up's an downs in the past 14 years. To claim the whole trail in the vid was original an built in 3 years is hard to swallow and even Anthony would tell anyone thats a false statement. He has done a great job re-building old and buliding new trails and BIG respect to Anthony and all his countless hours of hard work in the hills of the I-*0 corridor. But, we need to give to props to originals that cut and maintained the upper and lower trails in the past 14 years, K. Ryan, D. Brown, B. Bozarth, M. Waldhom, B.Mcdainel, DHZ crew and list goes on and on. They were building and riding these trails before anthony could even fit on a 20", hell, Luke & Neil Strobel could barely reach the bars on their h sh*tty kona stabs and look where that hill got them. No disrespect meant, just gotta give credit where credit is deserved.....and yes that credit absolutely includes Anthony before anyone gets all butt hurt!!!! Club 38, The Swarm, Downhillspecialties.com, Downhill Northwest, Karp. Disco 's an 24' 3's on doublewides, RST Mozo XXL and boxxer seals....and a scruffy canadian with an atittude. If you can relate to anything in the last sentence you've been around that hill to long!!! Haha!!
  • 21 1
 waaay too long
  • 5 0
 Flase, the beggining of the video was built by anthony himself. It infact a secret trail so good luck finding it. The lower sections including tippy top and others were in fact built by other people. Thanks for your response.
  • 3 10
flag ulua (Jun 27, 2013 at 21:10) (Below Threshold)
 Thank you for confirming my point. "the beggining of the video was built by anthony himself" never said he didn't bulid anything. And as far "secret Trails..... Dave staboni has built more "secret trails" than anybody else on that hill in the past decade. They make upper HMO look flat, and they still got that K. Ryan flow. I'll even give you a hint where to find one....it's between the third switchback and the dump out point for top trail..........good luck.......haha!!!!
  • 2 3
 ive found almost every single secret trail at 38, thank you so much for that little hint now i know where to find the last one
  • 3 0
 i hope never too find this so call trail. Wink
  • 6 0
 1st rule of secret trail building IT'S A SECRET!!!! no video, no pictures, no names aka builders names. I'll show you a secret trail NOT!!!
  • 3 2
 Everyone bow down to @ulua... I don't know who you are but you sound like an OG boss!
  • 4 0
 I don't take any credit of the trails that I did not build. Sorry for the miscredit. I didn't have a word to say about the write up. I'm thankful for the trails that are there.
  • 2 0
 You won't find it
  • 3 2
 @ulua thanks for the history lesson, the tips, and for keeping it real. I'd love to hear more of your stories sometime.
@spiritofthewolf nice riding man, and that trail is sick, you deserve credit for that, along with those who helped. My 2c, when you work with videographers, especially young and inexperienced ones (that's not a slam Jack, just fact) you should maybe request an edit/writeup review before stuff is posted that misrepresents things. You just want to make sure your name and good reputation is preserved.
One last thing, but I can't help noticing some of the vid looks sped-up. I know I'm guilty of having done it before, but it just doesn't look cool honestly...
  • 2 1
 I appreciate everyone's criticism. Completely sorry for not giving credit where credit was deserved. @mattpatt the video was not sped up at any point in time. When I was reviewing the footage however I noticed that around 1:46 the video looked sped up but it is not. I'm guessing you out of all people know how fast your going through that section of trail... Again, thanks for all the feedback I will for sure check with people before I make such large assumptions!
  • 10 2
 Am I missing something here??
  • 2 0
 If I could see the faces behind these comments I would slap every one of you. Who died and made you critics. Congrats Anthony, well done. Keep on doing what makes you happy, don't let these red necked mountain men hold you back for one minute.
  • 9 3
 I Loved it.... but three years to make?
Did I miss something?
  • 7 3
 Go ride it... You'll understand that it is a hard trail to get up and you cannot work on in the winter...
  • 7 2
 Yet every desk jockey on this website will call this lame when they probably would take weeks to put together a complete run down something like this. Welcome to pinkbike, home of the haters.
  • 3 0
 I appreciate the effort and would love to shred this trail. Now, please tell me the name of the song before I start punching cute cuddly things.
  • 10 0
 The Chills - Peter Bjorn And John

Seriously, have people never heard of Shazam?
  • 1 0
 to find a cool zone to build takes time..........to find the line thats the right one takes time...........to work on a trail with a shovel and a saw takes time..............if your the only one digging and you have a life outside of digging it takes time...........and to have the vision and call it complete takes time.........nice job guys!
  • 2 0
 All the scrubs in here bitching about how long it took to make that trail have never built a trail in their life . Build to ride . Hide it from the herd.
  • 2 0
 Awesome edit. F*ck the haters. Most of these people don't build or even ride like you do so they don't get up from down.
  • 2 1
 we have a local trail like that, but the trail in the video looks like an evolution of the one here, it's awesome! props to anthony for building such a sick trail
  • 3 1
 Blending all these loose roots and soft soil. Lets comb the forest again. Goes high to my favebook highlighted.
  • 4 0
 wut
  • 2 0
 Lol
  • 16 1
 I think he means he blended shrooms and cocaine together and now he's very happy
  • 4 2
 What is about americans that you are so stupid and you think you are the best. 10 year old European kid is more clever than a 20 year old american. Now you are 17 and you assume I am taking drugs? How about using your simple language with some sophistication? I am tired of reading comments like "sick" everything is sick or "sexy" or "pod". What language is that?

I confess that English is not my native and not all of my improvised descriptions can be understandable for someone like you, but lets try to write something more here, than sick. The one that I wrote above is a metaphore (difficult word) and I tried to describe what the riders tires do with the forest. Sorry if it does not satisfy your coolness. Maybe I should write SICK and POD. One thing what discourage me most on pinkbike is the level of peoples'e erudition here. Like a primary school.
  • 2 1
 Is there a translation of "sarcasm" and "joke" to polish? If not, you'd better make one fast.
  • 3 1
 Yes there is: Sarcasm in Polish is sakrazm. Joke in Polish is Żart. The difference is we just use them differently. We don't offend others by "jokes" on "shrooms and cocaine". I feel offended and I think it is high time for me to stop using pinkbike, as it is nothing more but american culture temple.


I am 29 and he is 17. I am using metaphore just to describe something in more sophisticated way and he's offending me. Where is the sarcasm or joke here? Apart from the age difference, it is just a lack of respect for others and I cannot see anything funny in it.
  • 3 2
 Caaaalm down buddy. Might wanna cut back on the coke.
  • 3 2
 Man, you just have to chill out. I'm sure if I was smart enough to even attempt to say "hello" in polish on a polish-speaking blog and said it wrong, and then got some witty remark sent back, I'd try to swallow my pride and laugh at myself. Come on dude, there's much more important things to be mad at out there, not a small joke.
  • 3 0
 You're right. I will stop wasting my time on pinkbike.
  • 3 0
 Good vid but a 6" travel bike would pop that trail well!
  • 3 0
 I agree! Most bikes are overkill these days anyway.
  • 1 0
 I'd like the sounds his bike makes on the trail to be made into a mp3 file. Music to my ears
  • 2 1
 Damn anf! I knew one day I'd see you up here, good job!
  • 2 2
 Props for building such a sweet trail. That is a sexy paint job on that Transition
  • 5 5
 yeaaaaaahhhh... no. I applaud the guys diligence... but this video is weaksauce.
  • 1 0
 $189 for those bars.....still gets me........ Good video though.
  • 1 0
 Looks like a norco paintjob...
  • 3 0
 YOU look like a norco paintjob...
  • 2 1
 You r dumb.
  • 1 0
 Transition started making those blue/green frames this year.......
  • 1 0
 Nice one @Anthony Leonarduzzi!
  • 1 0
 Oh...Building it!!!
  • 1 0
 SEA....HAWKS!!!!!!!
  • 4 4
 VOD
  • 4 2
 VOD worthy yes, should it be stuck in vod? no, it's already been on the homepage
  • 1 2
 Three years really?!?!?!?!!!!
Where is it ? Can we ride it ?
  • 1 2
 Why does he crouch so much? It looks counter productive in some places.
  • 2 4
 ive ridden that trail and its been finished for a really long time and
  • 2 3
 Tasty
  • 2 3
 Retract that,I liked the filming and I'm stuck in a hot building.
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