Freedom Youth Ride – July

No rest for the wicked.  It’s right back at it with another round with the Freedom Youth Crew.

It’s a full Drops-A-Lot sesh tonight. The boys have earned it.

Still gotta work on the trail feel for these guys.  They have the raw sills, but still get so many flats.  All in all though, the most fun I’ve had riding with the young guns.  Looking forward to seeing what these guys will do in the future.

Freedom Youth Ride

It continues to grow.  I never realized how many motivated shredders we have in town.  This is fast turning into my favourite evening of the week.

A bit of nostalgia on the ride tonight.

It’s not often we get really wet conditions to play in, and this is classic North Shore style right here.

Still, even soaking wet it’s not really the same thing, is it?

So loamy.  So very, very loamy.

As usual, we had to spend a bit of time sessioning at the Redemption Compression.  I think we may need to build a new hit sometime soon.

Sunset Whips

Tuesdays are youth rides at Freedom, and for once I was able to hit one up.

Wasn’t sure how the young guns were gonna fare around here.  Hopefully better than some of the wildlife.

Oh, looks like they’ll be just fine.  Although this in no way does this line justice, it’s a tough one.  Just having the crew even consider it is pretty good.

As we got towards the end, the sun started to go down and we had a bit of a session on the Redemption Compression. Dax got us going with the low flight line.

Didn’t take long for the kids to take it up a notch.

After a few passes on that one, we had another small sesh on the final berm hit into Tsweet Tsu.

Check out Sheldon on the full rigid.  Technically he has a suspension fork, but as it’s full of water it doesn’t actually move much.

Like any great ride, gotta have some bevvies in the parking lot after. 

Soft drinks…they’re SOFT drinks.  We’ve been enough of a bad influence on these guys already with getting them addicted to the bikes.