Must Watch: Bas Keep Hits Ridiculous Wallride Transfers in 'More Walls'

 Having a BMX background myself I can neither confirm or deny that he does.

 looks like the background was mostly walls, city scapes ect

 @wigglez2: wooosh

 More walls than Pink Floyd

 @mi-bike: Was that the sound of someone on a BMX flying above your head?

 Red bull $$$$

 You must not have seen Ruben's part in Grounded

 @dwbaillar: very impressive riding but I was thinking the same thing while watching this. Ruben has definitely not been dethroned

 Still one of the best to ever do it. Never put out a shitty part. @dwbaillar:

 And so we wont have to read stories like that... Just read third paragraph :/
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/25/sport/snowboarder-marko-grilc-austria-death-spt-intl/index.html

 @dwbaillar: don't seems like there is a trick called SebastienWall if you know what I mean..!

 @emptybe-er: fir sure that transfer to snapping crank in Grounded (I think)

 Will Wall wall ride walls while Wall's walls want Wall to waltz?

 LPL" #UnderRatedComment : )

 I was wondering the same thing, sounds like Four Tet to me.
Shazam doesnt know either. What ever happened to audio credits?

 Noone expects Weston favell shopping centre

 @browner: ...or the Spanish Inquisition, but...

 Brad Simms on Canyon, Sergio hitting Fest Series... etc etc BMX is about light up the MTB world with some next level creative freeride..... Fingers X'ed for a shift away from the mass marketed enduuhhro world we're in now

 @nojzilla: Barrecloth and others brought bmx influence to freeride like 20 yrs ago. And slopestyle has always been basically less technical/bigger amplitude bmx moves. Seems like bmx influence has been here for quite a while on the fringes, but apparently most mtb’ers are soft and would rather ride a bike with snack storage and electronics than anything influenced by bmx. But I hope you’re right.

 @emptybe-er: true but not true, i've some friend coming from BMX to enduro running AXS to avoid cable and land barpsin

 @romlerom: But the rear brake cable must be long enough for barspin, might as well run the shifter cable with it. Unless you wanna do doubles, barspin doesn’t really require much extra length. A few wraps of vinyl tape keep it tidy

 @emptybe-er: AXS> long shift cable/housing. No ghost shifts when you do a barspins from the cable being pulled, plus it looks cleaner.

 @leon-forfar: The cable won’t be pulled if you make them long enough for barspin, which isn’t much. That’s kind of the whole point.
Not to mention if you’re throwing barspins you’re probably generally rowdy and not babying your bike so that $600 AXS isn’t gonna last long. Imo, axs is beneficial for people that take their bikes to the shop for a shift cable and that’s about it

 @leon-forfar: And sure no cable may be cleaner but how about that bulky shifter, motor, and battery? Looks atrocious to me. So does the dropper.

 @emptybe-er: I've had both setups (and barspinned and tailwhipped both), and AXS is 100% better. Long shifter cables are also stiffer than a brake line, so if you want to pre-wind the cable, it gets all weird, plus you can get an extra barspin out of a fairly normal length brake line if you don't attach it to the shift housing. That's why a lot of slopestyle riders used to run shifters on the downtube, because you absolutely can get ghost shifting and it sucks for prewinding the bars (when people don't run Gyros). See Semenuks winning bike from Crankworx 2013: www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/Winning-Bike-Brandon-Semenuks-Trek-Ticket-S,6238/Brandon-Semenuks-Winning-Bike-and-Joyride-Run,61711/bturman,109. There's a reason Semenuk didn't just run an XO1 mechanical set up with a longer cable at Rampage over AXS.

The AXS shifter is slightly bulkier, but it's still a shifter and a relatively small piece of equipment. I think the lack of housing coming out of it makes it look bigger.

 @leon-forfar: The main reason for shifter on the dt is to simplify and clean up the front-end of possible snags and save a little weight in the process, not really about ghost shifts. If it was for shifting they’d all be running it by now. And in slopestyle double/triple barspins into other combos is now a thing where it wasn’t in the past when everyone just ran a gyro or long cables. Sponsored pros like Semenuk may not be the best example. I can promise you he wouldn’t have chose AXS if he wasn’t sponsored by sram and also getting them for free. I’m sure sram appreciated it, though. I’ve been throwing single barspins for 20 yrs and have yet to have a mishift. That’s not gonna come into effect unless your cables are too short or you’re throwing more than one.

 @emptybe-er: To each their own. In my experience, even a single barspin/ tailwhip with a PLENTY long enough cable can still cause ghost shifting. Sram still makes mechanical drivetrains, and he could have chosen to run a mechanical setup if he wanted. He chose AXS I'm sure partly because of marketing, but he wouldn't choose something if he genuinely thought it wasn't as good.

My point is, that as someone who has had and used both setups, AXS is a better option (albeit, much pricier) for barspins/tailwhips from my experience.

 @leon-forfar: I’m curious how your bike is shifting without the drivetrain or shifter moving. Even if the cable were to be pulled from the cable being too short, it goes back to where the shifter tells it to be (unless you pulled the cable through your cable anchor on the derailleur) and especially if you aren’t pedaling

 @leon-forfar: Think about it, plenty of people have been doing barspins just fine without wireless shifting. How many people throwing barspins do you even know that would pay $600 for wireless shifting? And the added weight, bulk at the rear axle? It’s like 1/4 to 1/2 lb heavier at the derailleur! If anything, derailleurs need to be less expensive, lighter and more tucked away. This is the opposite

 @emptybe-er: I had my shifter cable long enough for 2.5 barspins, and after 1 barspin, it would sometimes ghost shift (not all the time though). This was with a 9 speed set up, and I'm sure the tighter tolerances of 11 or 12 speed wouldn't do it any favours. If you are cruising a set of dirt jumps, it's not the end of the world if the cable gets pulled as you aren't pedalling, but if you are riding a trail, it's not ideal. I'm just not a fan of it happening unexpectedly. It doesn't always go back to where it was originally either. It's not uncommon to get that skipping noise from it not being in the right gear.

The weight is a non-issue. It's barely heavier. GX AXS (shifter, derailleur, battery) weighs 50 grams more than a mechanical GX (shifter, derailleur, cable, housing). With longer housing, that gap is even smaller. The derailleur itself is within 30 grams of its mechanical sibling, so it won't be stopping anyone from doing tailwhips over a mechanical set up. The AXS derailleurs are actually MORE tucked up/away and also have that built in overload clutch for impacts, so they are more durable than their mechanical counterparts.

Admittedly, I don't know many people who would pay for it just for barspins (although I do see more and more people/ customers running it on trail bikes at the shop I work at), but I also don't know many people who would set up a trail bike for barspins in general. I frequent Air Rec Center a fair bit, where the core locals are either already pro or crushing it at the local slopestyle contests (Big White, Silverstar etc), and I have actually seen more AXS/ front brake through steer tube set ups there than I have long cable mechanical set ups on their trail bikes.

I am absolutely not saying you can't do bars and whips without wireless drivetrain, I am just saying when comparing wireless vs mechanical, wireless DOES perform better. There isn't even an argument to say a mechanical set up outperforms AXS for this purpose. Value wise? Well that is a different story. Definitely subjective. AXS is pricey, and it really comes down to how badly you want to do multiple bars. For most people, the cost difference won't be worth it unless they are properly going to use that set up all the time.

 @aljoburr: if you look, he does have breaks. And gears wouldn’t handle the abuses of bmx.

 @BikesNRussets: Is that a foot brakes & rear brake?

 Excellent point: Anyone have the AXS app settings so I can upgrade and ride just like Bas? ; )

 I mean, i loathe that the pun donkeys run the top of comments on every article, but calm down bud. It's a man riding a little bike (albeit with grande gonads) not the next coming of Krishna.

 @Chrisgus: go on then.

 Go to YouTube and watch Sean Burns anthem edit and come back. That dude was crraaaaaszy. The amplitude and pucker factor are off the charts for some of those sends. I don’t see anyone doing that kind of madness at those kinds of speeds anymore. Likely for good reason.

youtu.be/1HFBAR65uqI

 @Svinyard: YES Sean Burns did not stop pushing the limits until got a steel rod put in his spine!

 @Svinyard: But Burns learned his s**t from Jimmy 'the man'. That gap in Austin for Roadfools was pure street, way ahead of it's time.

 @Svinyard: while you're there, watch Aitken's part. Definitely the standout for me.

 @Svinyard: oops, that was anthem 2

 @Svinyard: that is some of the most ridiculous hucking I’ve ever seen.

 Mike Griffin

 Josh Hieno Dave Young!

 Yup. Dude crushed absolutely @Svinyard:

 So many "+1" to this thread

 where?

 @colincolin: for this + tricks