Video: Aaron Gwin Shreds King Kong on his eMTB

 He’s getting older

 @thechunderdownunder: 33 doesn't qualify old. As least not from my vantage point. lol

 Let's move along to full E like e motions.

 @thechunderdownunder: BTW, when I was riding MTB's as a teen it seemed mostly young people ... I distinctly remember a 32yr old rider joining us–That seemed OLD to me at the time, that's why I said "not from my vantage point."

 @njcbps: my comment was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I’m 35 and have had two spinal injuries multiple torn muscles and multiple fractures from trying to push my MTB progression. Pure fun, but now with kids I don’t mind taking the Emtb out more, especially since it rides almost as good as my regular bike. I don’t feel old out there, but I definitely don’t feel young haha. Gwin is amazing, and I think he will continue to be great. I mean the GOAT is 39 and still winning. But for me. I’m slowing down a little for sure.

 My fav Ebike hero

 Ya I can't believe hes not training there more. Me thinks would make wc tracks seem ezr.

 Yeah, and the backwards view seemed to actually portray the steepness a lot better. Think they might be on to something.

 Agree. Worked really well to show the scale of the features

 Yes that is what happens when trails gain popularity, get sketchy when ridden a lot more!

 @aljoburr: Some trails do get sketchy if they are ridden too much, but those trails don't get ridden a lot. They are sketchy because of the weather and no maintenance done on the trails.

 I dunno, Matt Jones, Ollie Wilkins and Mr Deakin definitely sketched it up when they were there.

 It’s funny how you let a city kid from MA who has zero cultural perspective on country music have an influence. Country music has so many styles. Check out Marcus King’s El Dorado album if you want something to stir your soul.

 Good call!! Yep so much good new country music out there these days if you're listening to the right stations/djs. Check out Garrett T Capps album I Love San Antone, Dougie Poole Freelancer's Dream, Hayes Carll You Get it All, Jesse Daniel Beyond These Walls, anything by Sturgill or Jason Isbell the old boys of the new guard so to speak.

 I didn't like county music until I heard Tyler Childers's Whitehouse Road. It's a vibe.

 Bo Burnham was talking about stadium country and he was totally right.

I don't hear any stadium country on the track, but I can't make out much.

Bad stuff coming out of nashville these days, good stuff out of texas.

I second childers
zack bryan (not to be confused with zach brown or luke bryan)
turnpike troubadors

need a little more flow, maybe some cody johnson, aaron watson?

Need more folk maybe hit some cody jinks, colter wall

you want some southern rock, whiskey myers, jason boland, maybe some chris stapleton



Looking up red dirt country is usually a decent start

 @stikmanglaspell Not believing stikman. I suspect you are just being modest.

 I hiked it a few weeks ago. I just kept mumbling "no f*cking way" to myself the entire way down. Scariest trail in the world? Maybe. It's the scariest one I've ever seen...

 They are still not permitted on a lot of trails in the US including Utah, so better bringing a regular bike anyway.

 E-bikes on airlines not a problem, but batteries is a problem, so just need to find place to get a battery on arrival
But makes no sense when you can ship batteries on there own?

 @aljoburr: the law is they can not shipped as cargo on passenger planes so that kills idea of shipping it as cargo. They are no allowed in checked baggage so there is problem number 2. Problem number 3 is carrry on limits the size of battery to 300wh which is way less than most bikes battery. You could go though the proceeds to ship the battery as cargo ahead of you but that could be pricey. Maybe better off buying a new battery and selling it as used before you leave.

 @catweasel: they are fine down here in Southern Utah. No one cares.

 Rent locally

 @nvranka: How is correctly saying that ebikes are still not legal on many US trails spreading misinformation?
I live in Colorado (where lots of good stuff is legal) visit Utah regularly and own an E-bike so I’m pretty familiar with the situation. Lots of land out west is Federally owned, the department of the interior now allows E-bikes on their land, but it is at the local mangers discretion. Many land managers have not updated their E-bike access since the ruling came into effect. Large parts of Utah (including St George, Hurricane and Moab) are on BLM land and currently prohibited on most trails on these areas. Hoping this changes soon! National Forest is even worse as that is governed by the Department of Agriculture who currently don’t allow E-bikes on any MTB trail at all.
I’m certainly not going to encourage a foreign visitor to bring a bike that he could potentially get fined for using on many trails!

 @catweasel: can’t read it all but probably bad word choice sry ESL

 @catweasel: I wonder whether Gwin is aware about this. He's publicly riding there.
I read about these rules yesterday and hope for all that the BLM offices will allow at least category 1 e-bikes on all trails. We don't have this problem over here.

 @yoobee: I don't think this trail is officially sanctioned and the access is open to motor vehicles so really no different riding an ebike or a regular bike in legality here.

 @catweasel: that’s the key to e bikes, ride unsanctioned DH

 So many rules. Just ride america. @catweasel:

 Apologies. America has Swampfest. No rules.

 @fektor-b: Florida doesn’t count.

 Not real perspective whatsoever. This line is gnarly and why all the pros use it as a warm up for Rampage

 @skidmarkbro: nothing really drives home enjoying riding your bike like casual death

 Ya buddy!

 @Intense4life: Sick username!

 He did say it’s only bike he had with him so if the others were shuttling why would you ride up?

 He’s a sponsored pro, his sponsor told him to make a vid with an ebike, end of story. He’s just doing his job, like the professional that he is, so don’t hate on him for that. It was a good vid regardless.

 @SlodownU: JC, just having fun with this....

 Yeah, that thing sounds like a shopping cart!