ideRide Blog

Stay trail-side on Kingdom Trails’ Kitchel!

knight — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 11:29:47 +0000

Ditch your car! These ride out accommodations are located right outside of East Burke Village. With stunning views of Burke Mountain, 6 acres of privacy and one of KT’s signature trails on the property. This is truly a mountain biker’s dream house.
The newly renovated ideRide clubhouse is available for rent starting in February.

ideRide 2010 Ultimate Freeride Camp Teaser by Mocean365

knight — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 19:13:04 +0000

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.

Ryan Learns To Flip

knight — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 05:49:29 +0000

Cool litle vid Ebbett made of Lucianno learning to flip at his foam pit.

Day in the life – More Mountain Bike Videos

Mocean365 webisode featuring ideRide’s revamp on Kingdom Trails Kitchel

knight — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:38:01 +0000

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

Kingdom Trails Ride Guide TV webisode

knight — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 16:48:24 +0000

Ride Guide TV is a weekly snowboard, freeski and mountain bike television series. Back in 2008, before the birth of ideRide we made this litle promo vid For Kingdom trails. Ride Guide sent a crew and we spent two days showing off the best that Kingdom Trails has to offer. Everyone was a little bummed out when they didn’t send Ride Guide host, Darcy Turene but the resulting video was top notch. It never made it to the weekly TV show but its on the Ride Guide website.

This video is especially fun for me because of the segment that shows me with my dog Zoey, she’s the best little trail dog out there. Kingdom trails posted this video on their website and now whenever I’m out on the trails with Zoey I hear peple saying” hey, isn’t that the little dog from the website?”http://rideguidebike.mobilerider.com/embed/small_wide/891/18596/”
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Ryan Thibeault gets the shot

knight — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 14:49:36 +0000

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.

Wall Slap

Kingdom Trails ends season at Trout River

knight — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:23:23 +0000

Pizza and Beer!

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.

ideRide & Pro-Tec team up for 2010

knight — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:55:14 +0000

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.

Holderness School Mtn Bike Team hones their skills with an ideRide clinic.

knight — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:13:16 +0000

The Holderness School Mtn bike team recently took advantage of our Indian summer with a weekend trip to Kingdom Trails. On Saturday their coach and fearless leader Tiaan Vanderlinde showed them all the goods on KT’s Darling Hill. Sunday started with a morning ride and following lunch the team met ideRide coach, Knight for a pumptrack session. After a few pointers and demonstration these guys were ripping it up like pros, pumping transitions for speed and even learning to manual the rollers. An hour of this and everyone was ready for something more extreme and so the session moved to the ideRide indoor park for some ramp riding. This talented and athletic group had no trouble picking up the basics and were flowing the park in no time.

pumptrack

Nick, going fast

Dewey, Alex, Knight, Peter, Nick, Brian

Fearless Leader Tiaan

2009 Harvest Jump Jam 10/11/09

knight — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:33:01 +0000

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.

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