Pro's New Video Draws More Similarities To Big Mountain Skiing Than Biking
Kamloops is regarded as the birthplace of mountain biking, real mountain biking, in some circles. The origin story goes that a bunch of Loops locals decided to take their '90s mountain bike frames over to the local gravel pit and ride it like they were on their snowboards.
Flash forward 30 years and that same spirit is alive and well as Loops local Graham Agasiz demonstrates in his Hometown Shredding edit that came out on September 27th. Watch it below.
Some of the lines in this sweet little piece by Aggy more closely resemble something you would see in the latest Alaska Heli Ski edit than you would expect to see in a three-minute mountain bike movie.
It's ski-like all the way down to the sluff management in the chute at about 2 minutes into the edit. Except this sluff is rocks and dirt.
It is good to see that this specific brand of freeride has only continued to evolve and that not everything desert-y has become a clone of the overbuilt slope features at Rampage.
There is still a place for the huge raw natural lines that truly embody the essence of early freeride. Cheers to Graham for recapturing and channeling that.
Related: Beyond the Bike with Graham Agassiz
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