Video: Cody Kelley's Riding is Next Level
Cody Kelley is easily one of the fastest, and most stylish people we know on a bike, and is one awesome human being on top of that. We were absolutely thrilled when he said he would be able to take a break from his busy Enduro World Series schedule to come visit us in the Pacific Northwest.
We made sure Cody's stay in the PNW was as hectic as possible. As soon as Cody landed at SeaTac Airport, we took him to Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park to film with the great Jeff Kendall-Weed and witnessed the creation of one of Cody's most popular #ManualMonday posts.
The next day we headed north to Bellingham with photographer Riley Seebeck of Flow Photo Co to capture the goods and to begin filming for Cody's personal video. Weather conditions were classically Bellingham-esque, but Cody didn't let the slick trails and rain clouds stop him from getting rowdy.
As if flying out to Seattle and then driving to Bellingham wasn't enough travel for one weekend, the very next day we hopped on a ferry in Anacortes to check out the trails on Orcas Island's Mount Constitution. With plenty of big hits, stacked berms, and some of the most beautiful forest the PNW has to offer, the island trails delivered what we were looking for.
After a long journey back to Seattle, lengthened by an inopportune ferry delay, we packed up Cody's bike and drove him to the airport in the wee hours of the night. We can't believe how much we got done in a single weekend, and we're even more impressed with how hard Cody worked to make it all happen.
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It drives me crazy- I call it the middle aged mountain bike dad song.
Guys yeah it came off as complaining, but just genuinely intrigued by the “generic mtb commercial” song. maybe it’s in a lot of other product videos as well outside of mtb. I didn’t say the riding sucked or that I didn’t enjoy the video. When it started I seriously thought it was the Ergon commercial and instinctively went to the bottom right hand corner to find the skip button.
A complaint is much less of a complaint if it’s a legitimate question
Again it was a legitimate question, somewhat constructive and not the typical “OMG I hate rap this sucks” complaints.
imo you can't beat a good track along with the footage. I understand the above comments that say this soundtrack is just generic "mtb song", there is music just like it in several movies (again Life Cycles for instance)
Also, bikes that are regressive in the first part of their travel have a firmer initial stroke for a given sag/damper tune through midstroke, so you might have things confused.