ideRide Blog

Mountain Bike,Riding, Guiding and instruction on Vermont's Kingdom Trails

One key aspect sets ideRide Freeride camps apart from the competition is the professionally produced media by Mocean365. Each participant gets to relive the moment in full HD for years to come. Here is our teaser for the July 2010 “ideRide Ultimate Freeride Camp”. This is a low-resolution copy for faster viewing by all. Produced by Mocean365. For a larger, higher quality version check out their channel at http://vimeo.com/mocean365home/videos

Last Years Freeride camps were a huge success and this year looks to be even better with additions like a foam pit, Trampoline, and newly constructed Kingdom Trails Freeride Lines.

In May 2009 Kingdom Trails executive director Tim Tierny approached ideRide about rebuilding one of their signature trails, Kitchel. This trail was always a favorite way to finish a long loop on Darling Hill. Its decent into East Burke featured a series of berms that were fun but old and in disrepair. Kingdom trails saw this as an excellent spot to build a “machine trail”.  A machine trail is built with an excavator and has a wider tread path often with technical trail features like berms, rollers and jumps creating the grade changes.  This type of trail is rising in popularity at bike parks everywhere and so it was important for  Kingdom Trails to add one to keep our system progressive and interesting.  IdeRide is dedicated to promoting the progression of trails, skills and the great sport of mountain biking so we were excited to say the least. In mid June trail designer/builder Knight, armed with the ideRide excavator met the Kingdom Trails Crew on site. Over the course of three weeks (with a long lull in the middle due to a broken excavator track) a radical new trail was born. Knight designed the jumps to be low angle and user friendly and the berms with wide radii. The Kingdom Trails Crew and ideRider Erik Mentes shaped and dialed meticulously. The resulting trail is fun for the whole family, on a busy day the hoots and yells of joy can be heard in East Burke. Look for more trails like this in KT’s future.

Check Out This Cool Webisode By Mocean365 http://vimeo.com/5802388

I’m just now dragging these shot out from an early summer jam at our indoor park. Dave Smutoc, Clint Mcmahon and some friends came and ripped it up. Clint backflipped everything in the place and Smutoc laid down some of his usual smoothness.
This space is notorious for frustating photographers with its low light but Ryan has what it takes to get the shot.

December 11 Kingdom Trails held their annual employee/volunteer appreciation party. The Pizza was awesome, the beer was even better and executive director, Tim Tierny summed up the good vibe with an excellent speech.

On a recent trip to sunny California I made my way to the Vans/Pro-Tec corporate headquarters for a meeting with Ari, head of marketing for Pro-Tec. After talking for a while it became obvious that ideRide and Pro-Tec are a perfect match. ideRide is a company that is all about progression, whether its progression of the sport itself or progression of an individual’s skills. Although Pro-Tec has been the standard for skate/bmx gear they are a relative newcomers to the Mtn Bike scene and are actively developing a great product line that they are calling “protection for progression” 
All ideRide coaches will be going into the 2010 season decked head to toe in the sick gear that Pro-Tec has to offer.
This deal gives Pro-Tec great exposure on Kingdom Trails, a “hot spot” for Mtn. Biking on the East Coast, and ideRide great protection for thier progression.  

Situated minutes from critically acclaimed, Kingdom Trails, the ideRide jump park has been featured in such movies as NWD 9 and Kranked 7.  The 2009 season has seen some changes and improvements. The Pro Line was designed an constructed by MTB legend Kyle Ebbett and  the kids at the ideRide freeRide camps worked side by side with Kyle and the ideRide team to build a new beginner line and dial in the existing stuff.

The foliage is peaking and winter is right around the corner. This jump jam marks the end on a great premier season for ideRide. Show up any time after 9 am and jump all day. To find us mapquest 1397 Newark Street, Newark, VT 05871. For more info call Knight at 8027775778.

Dear Lilias,

Thank you so very much for guiding my family through Kingdom Trails. We all agreed that the ride you planned for us was the best out of any other ride we went on over the weekend. We all had such a blast…..I really can’t thank you enough. We will definitely recommend Ide Ride to everyone we know. I’m trying to book another trip in October with my husband, I would love it if I can get you and Ide Ride to guide us. Once I book it, I’ll email you.

Thank you for your time, we had so much fun on your ride.

Paula D. Geddis

Saturday August 15th Burke mtn. held their first annual Bike and Brew fest. ideRide ran shuttles on Kingdom Trails and put on some jump demos. Skye Nacel of Mocean 365 was professional and entertaining on the mike. The crowd was small but the tricks were big thanks to Rocco, Mike, D-rock, David and Sasha.

The Morning of August 8th ideRide coaches Lilias, Jen and Orion met four enthusiastic women riders at the Wildflower Inn for a weekend of great food and bike instruction on beautiful Kingdom Trails. The clinic kicked off with a breakfast and a bike maintenance course with Orion and then moved out onto the trails. Lilias gave participants basic skills to work on and then analysis on the trail.
Mother nature was agreeable for once and over the next two days these ladies’ riding skills improved greatly. At the end everyone left riding more comfortably and confidently.

The ideRide shuttle made its maiden voyage to the Burke Mtn summit this weekend.