Video: Proper Steep Freeride Lines with Olivier Cuvet
You might be able to travel the world, you always want to come back home at some point. For a rider, being able to ride and train at home is one of the most important thing. Some have a big community to ride with, some only have few friends. Either way, the motivation and the aim of having proper spots at home makes us grab the tools. Jumps won’t build themselves.
For Olivier, it’s been a good year of digging to come to this, but now he’s proud to say that Billiat has got some proper freeride features.
 | It’s been a while since I wanted to shoot something at home. The main issue is that I basically didn’t have much to ride here beside enduro stuff, and nobody to ride with (beside enduro still). It took time, but I’m happy with all the buildings I did the past year to be able to shoot this edit! I’ve been lucky enough to find a good zone with proper dirt to build some freeride lines, and I used a piece of land my dad owns to build jumps. I’m happy to show that we can find good riding where I live with this edit. But I also wanted to show that with motivation you can build and ride whatever you want. Most people I know complain about not having this or that at home, but I’ve never seen them with a shovel in the hand. Jumps won’t build them selves. |
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Was this Oliver's vid entry/promo for Rampage? That was absurd.
I think alot of people think they need a long reach for stability "so they go over the handlebars" and for the sake of wheelbase, partially cause short chainstays got shoved up our ass by the industry propaganda.
there was/is every bit as much stability on wheelbase longer chainstays as there is in wheelbase with longer reach, you just stand more central than leaned over the front. I think 46" wheelbase is plenty stable for most stuff but if one wanted a really stable bike for high speed and gnar a 49-50" wheelbase could be justified - thing is to not have it have a whacky Front/Rear bias the chainstays would be what needs to grow instead EVEN MORE REACH LIKE 510mm.
i only rode it with a V1 Cane Creek DB CS Air. I think it would have done good with a coil with HSC or bottom out control. I like linear linkage though.
www.jensonusa.com/Banshee-Darkside-SLX-Jenson-USA-Exclusive-Build
5'10" i'd ideally be running a 430-435 reach so i'm not opposed, just saying it aint "modern"
I rode a darkside set up for AM/FR for a year; it pedaled really well and had a deep enough and low enough seat tube to take a dropper which i loved. The frame is fairly stiff too.
I wish the links were stiffer, bb was 73 or pressfit and the chainstays were quite a bit longer though, personally.
I look forward to seeing a V2 darkside that can be run 27.5 or 29" has longer chainstays and still can take a seat post for climbing.
btw if I remeber you are from Poland originally, don´t you know if the guys in Antidote are working on some new rig? Its few years already and I would say the CJ is still the same
A little birdy tells me the cj replacement is gonna be more squishy....
It's all just birds chirpn' till shit drops or doesn't. Also e, maybe, shhhhh