We here at Pure Darkness and The Fest Series are stoked to finally present our masterpiece. After weeks of building, testing, crashing and shredding we are proud to show you what we got up to. So sit back, relax, hit play and turn it up!
It all starts here, 75ft above the ground. Hitting the big step-up was the fastest I've ever been on a bike for sure. To give you an idea we were braking hard for the 75ft line, but speed tucking for the step up!
Aggy knows... Jumps don't build themselves! Especially ones this massive, it's a constant mission yet pleasure to groom and improve the jumps every day.
Style is timeless and it doesn't come better than Andreu Lacondeguy, showing how the big stepdown should be hit.
And the C- Dog Kaudela showing how not to on this occasion! Certainly not a jump you want to crash, a 50 footer stepdown into a massive bombhole... Lucky, the king knows how to take a crash.
KJ the dude effortlessly hanging out the first jump.
Great to see Aggy back on a bike and boosting the big hip.
And the sickest build team there ever was, Nico Vink and C Dog.
No caption needed, we all know who this is!
The Great White shark fin claimed a few victims this week but such a fun way to start the line.
These jumps are so big Nico managed to invent a whole new type of turn up whip. Epic.
All sorts of crazy leans could go down on these jumps. Meany and leany.
Big flatspin on the beast
The tower...
The speed...
And the insanity. Adolf Silva ruled the Darkfest winning the best trick, (double flip) and the Masters of Dirt biggest slam award (at the end of the edit)
The Spank Megawhip off champ was Kurt Sorge, with awesome whips on every jump in every direction.
But the grand prize of the Dark King went to the undisputed ruler of the week, the Fest first timer Clemens Kaudela.
We brought him along for his amazing machine and building skills but he really went above and beyond in everything he did from 14 hour dig days, welding, tractor driving, even riding the 80 footer that no one else wanted to hit. All hail King C dog! Enjoy your horrible haunted trophy and $10,000.
Speaking of the 80 foot line, every time we tried to film the big line it was just too windy for mtbs, so here is Ethan whipping it on a random moto that was at the farm. Feels good when your jumps are so big they have to be tested on a motorbike!
Well that's all from DarkFest, from me and all the crew we want to say thanks to all the Fest Series and Pure Darkness fans, as long as you keep supporting us we will make sick edits! And especially thanks to Monster Energy, Polygon Bikes, Spank Ind and Masters of Dirt for helping us put this together! Cheers! Next stop... Black Sage Fest! Cant wait!
That was great... but where did all the frames go in the video? I'd love to watch these at 60 fps, not whatever sub-30 that was. (Incoming downvotes from non-believers)
There is something about the Fest.... I just can't get enough of it! I really need to see this three or four times at least to really realise How mental this jumps are !!! And even more ..,all the insane and radical riders what they achieve in every single jump! So f#%ng stocked to see this and any of the Fest series videos!!!! FREERIDE FOR LIFE!!!
Absolutely love this kind of events. Big bikes with big dirtjumps. Cant wait for some more festseries stuff to come up. To be honest I enjoyed the weekly building and testing edits more than the actual highlights. Probably cause in the weekly edits you were able to get more inside the event yourself after hearing riders thoughts and excitement. Would be intresting to hear how the jumps feel, what kind of setting they have to run, how to hit the first times etc. I wish other festseries would bring out the building and testing edits too. Kind of like behind the scenes, while riders are still in the scenes. Also loved how quickly those weekly edits came to public. Just when the excitement was the biggest after seeing riders social media feeds and so on. Rock on!
How come all the riders are on DH Bikes this time? In all the pure darkness edits they're on dj and slope bikes, which they got a bit more sendy on I thought.. but still pretty damn rad
They need Brandon semenuk to step this up I see the same tricks in different jumps.. no front flips, no cork 7 20, man I'd pay to see szymon godziek in this videos
I really need to see this three or four times at least to really realise How mental this jumps are !!! And even more ..,all the insane and radical riders what they achieve in every single jump! So f#%ng stocked to see this and any of the Fest series videos!!!! FREERIDE FOR LIFE!!!