How to ride expensive mountain bikes for free! (it's not a big secret)

The reason why they check your pulse is not to see your actual heart rate, it’s just to see if you have a pulse, period. They won’t let just anyone ride a demo bike.

I was entertained and what I learned today is to under no circumstances let Seth ride your bike.

I was unfortunately the guy that got blood all over the Nukeproof bike 😅I brought the bike back and said "yeah I got a massive shinner! I cleaned the blood off the grip as best I could, but you should probably get some antiseptic on there. At least those are my pedals so you don't have to worry about the skin on those" 😂Just like you mentioned in the video... I probably shouldn't have been doing drop the hammer on a demo bike.

Dear Seth, thank you for including our bike into your video. Greetings from Germany!

One massive caveat to this: there may not ever be a bike festival in your area. I live in a seemingly dead zone for festivals and demo days. Pre-pandemic some of the local shops had demo bikes but limited on make/model/size. Pivot once came out to my local trail center but the demo reservations filled up within hours. So demoing a bike is the way to go, just be prepared to have to drive 2,4, or even 8+ hours to a festival or demo day.

5:51 Seth sitting in a normal chair makes it look like a HUUUUGE chair 😂

5:52 Seth sitting on a normal sized chair

I bought my Revel after demoing them at Outerbike Moab. They had an awesome crew there and I definitely wouldn't have bought the bike without having such a great experience.

Thanks for coming to bike fest Seth! it was a pleasure meeting you.

Awesome video Seth! Just wrapped up a few demos here on the west coast. Often a fair bit of driving, but loads of fun and you meet amazing people. I was surprised a few brands (like Trek) offer no way at all to demo their bikes. I ended up settling on an Ibis. That demo completely changed which bike I was going to buy. Sometimes you’ve just gotta feel it for yourself!

Been a subscriber/follower since you built the first drop at berm creak....I often forget how far this channel has come since then. It's cool for me that I progressed as a rider alongside you and many others in this community. I was a big BMX guy up until my twenties and then found this channel and mountain biking in my early thirties...What a great episode this was. You are a true pro brother!

So cool Seth!! So fun to watch you go on all these adventures you rock!!😆 Great professional videos!! so cool that they actually named a trail after you too!!

hey Seth i would like to thank you for the good content all these years. i recently got into mountain biking after watching your content for over 3 years. your under biking video inspired me to rig up an old specialized i found behind a dumpster and hit my local trails after riding 3 times i decided to buy a used bike and fix it up and i was inspired buy your flip bike series for that. i also built a few jumps in my back yard out of pallets and a few logs and your build vids were a hug inspiration for that. i rode trick scooters for a while and did bmx but after only 2 or 3 moths of mountain biking i can definitely say that it has been the most fun i have ever had riding bikes and i have had lots of progression i am now able to ride stuff that i though i would never have the guts to ride when i first started. so once again thanks for all the inspiration you give people and the hard work you put in videos.

Seeing scott again with his mountain bike puts a smile to my face

Seth, your the reason I got into mountain biking and now I have bought myself and enduro and a dirt jumper at 15 years old. I found you during Covid and ever since I've loved mountain biking. It's now my favourite sport and it's to bad that I found it so late bc I wish I could race. I'm just so grateful that I found your Channel or I would never have gotten myself two bikes. I live close to whistler and now I go up every year with my dad and my friends (last year I crashed on my last time up for the season and split my chin open) but anyway I'm just so grateful that I found you and your Channel, and my dream is to start my own channel. Thank you.

Haven’t actually ridden in years and still frequent your videos. Thank you for the consistent entertaining content.

So in defense of eMTBs.... I fell on ice 2 years ago and broke my hip...at the age of 49. Late last year I started watching your channel and some others and got the itch to ride. In my younger days I rode Bidwell Park in Chico and elsewhere in the Sierra Nevadas and the Bay Area, but i wasn't sure if my hip would hold up. My Fezzari Wire Peak has made me feel like I'm in my teens/20s again. Minus my hair. Even took it on my first blue trail a few weekends back. Now shopping for a non-e gravel to go next to the Wire Peak in my lineup.

For those who don’t know a TYEE is a salmon that is bigger than 30lb. So amazing to see a brand using real names like that. Thanks Seth, love your channel

Seth !!!!! Thanks for taking the time to chat with my 4 boys at the bike fest. We have been following you for years and this made their year to get to meet you... and make it in this video. 😮😊

I think this is my favourite video youve uploaded in a long time, it had some old characters, some old school 3rd person crashes, and of course the piece de resistance, some pov trail riding