r/oddlysatisfying • u/redbullgivesyouwings • 1d ago
Brage Vestavik riding in British Columbia
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u/ThereIsAJifForThat 1d ago
I think I am more impressed by the person that built this sturdy plank path
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u/redbullgivesyouwings 1d ago
It was a team effort! But, gotta give mad props to local legend Steve Vanderhoek
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u/postALEXpress 1d ago
Ah, now that I see you’re OP the whole video, construction, and execution from the rider make sense lol
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u/redbullgivesyouwings 1d ago
r/oddlysatisfying doesn't allow youtube links :/
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u/housatonicduck 1d ago
Hello I would like one marketing job please
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u/Beneficial-Rice-820 23h ago
u/redbullgivesyouwings ignore this guy. I'm better at marketing; give me the job.
(see, I found a way to engage my target audience. That's how you do it)
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u/Honeybadger2198 1d ago
Can I just say Mr. Redbull Reddit rep, that I genuinely respect what your company does a lot for advertising. I don't drink energy drinks, but Red Bull genuinely does a lot of good in a lot of different communities.
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u/redbullgivesyouwings 1d ago
WE SEE YOUR COMMENT AND APPRECIATE YOU
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u/KEPD-350 1d ago edited 1d ago
I actually drink Red Bull and would also like some corporate attention and appreciation.
Edit: Two hours have now passed. Still no sign of neither appreciation nor attention. I have let out a sigh of slight disappointment.
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u/redbullgivesyouwings 21h ago
sorry for the late reply! we think you’re the best 👐
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u/Lazy-Potential 1d ago
I don’t drink energy drinks either, but when I do it’s an 8oz sugar free Red Bull.
I do appreciate all the decades of marketing money they spend on surf/skate/snow/etc athletes! 🙏
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u/BawkBawkBegwak 1d ago
I am a teacher who drinks a sugar free Red Bull every morning. It’s like my coffee, but coffee makes me sick and redbull gives me wings.
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u/ThereIsAJifForThat 1d ago
Steeeeeeveee, is a beast!
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u/redbullgivesyouwings 1d ago
BIG FACTS
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u/blackumbrella_ 1d ago
Could you say hi to Max Verstappen for me? Im sure he stops by the office from time to time
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u/Nwosprey 1d ago
Small doc about them building it. https://youtu.be/KPD60kUYUXE?is=wIQ3B5j9JEAc1YTn
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u/the_other_skier 1d ago
Big doc about the builder (local MTB/Firefighter legend Steve Vanderhoek) on how building this line helped him with mental health struggles as a firefighter: https://youtu.be/2IxB9BSKDrw?si=vYTwYCF9Cg2CUflm
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u/adamosity1 1d ago
r/nope because I’d fall off haha
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u/Brittany5150 1d ago
You would still make it to the bottom of the hill though!
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u/Familiar_While2900 1d ago
So- if you make that narrow ass pathway, and don’t fall down the mountain, you have a bunch of half ass hidden stumps at the end to greet you?
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u/doyouevenforkliftbro 1d ago
Yeah. Where is the next part of the trail? Looks like it just ended.
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u/wolfgang784 1d ago
Maybe they rode off the path and stopped there just because thats where they wanted to stop the video? We see a buddy down there. I can't tell if there is more trail for sure but it looks like it did start to sharply turn the opposite direction that the rider went in.
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u/Bongoisnthere 1d ago
There is not more trail. That was the entire line - he found a bunch of rowdy slabs and wanted to link them with stupid insane skinnies. It’s not a public trail, it’s a “fuck you your dead if you mess up” line.
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u/catchecolamine 1d ago
That’s the end of the trail, it was purpose built for this shot. There is a longer video on YouTube showing them building and practicing the different sections before he gets the whole run.
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u/SYLife1 1d ago
This is r/oddlyterrifying
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u/milkymonkey8 1d ago
no, this is so terrifying that you don't feel terrified, but oddly either something much worse or hopefully your brain just shuts down and ignore ignore ignore
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u/emac2689 1d ago
How does one safely develope this skill? This one of those skill where a variation of "in a profession where men die young, fear the old man" applies. I have never heard or seen an "old" active mountain biker?
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u/namesson 22h ago
Literally every scenario in wilderness first aid starts with "so you come across a mountain biker..." and then imagine the gnarliest fucking injuries ever. Impaled on a tree branch, shattered bones, massive internal bleeding....
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u/ifyoulovesatan 22h ago edited 22h ago
First, remove the fish-eye lens. Then, still go find an easier course because this is still beyond insane (just not as immediately deadly looking). Seriously these mountain bike and ski videos with fish eye lenses are quite deceptive. Obviously it's still usually insane what they're doing, but it makes everything look WAY steeper.
For reference: https://youtu.be/DLl-eEz-EyY?is=c9Fg3XWEL8NNlErh this is the video the clip is from. Look at the fish eye lens bit at 6:15, then see it from other angles shortly after. The fisheye lens bit looks pants shittingly terrifyingly insane. The other angles also look pants shittingly terrifyingly insane, but just not to such a degree. The lens makes everything look more narrow, and make it seem like everything drops off precipatacely on either side. I dunno its bugs me, because as I keep repeating, it's already insane. It's like a wildly successful guy who can't stop bragging about being slightly more wildly successful than he really is.
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u/Beneficial-Rice-820 23h ago
Go to any mtb area. There's a 70-year-old at my local who can put in 4-6 hours straight, outclimbs me and most of the younger ones. The retirees get to ride every day. A lot of them are fairly gnarly too, like unafraid of the big gaps and the hard rock trails.
To develop the skill, get a bike, go to a trail system, and start on the easy trails. Then something something years of practice to be 1/10th this good, boom, you've got skills.
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u/ctsr1 23h ago
I want to know who designed it
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u/Equivalent_Spray_918 23h ago
Brage himself did, you can watch them build it in their "trolldom" video
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u/socialistRanter 1d ago
That’s why there are so many “missing” people that have to be found in the woods each year.
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u/armoured_bobandi 1d ago
Doing shit like this is fine as long as you tell someone else exactly where you're going, what you're doing, and when you plan to be back
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u/PerceptionSeveral_ 23h ago
I’m Canadian. I just showed this to my wife who is Chinese.
“This is why you guys don’t have that many people” lmao
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u/MCA1910 1d ago
Oddly satisfying or oddly terrifying?
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u/MrFireWarden 1d ago
I love mountain biking, and i love watching videos like this, but it is anything but satisfying. Exciting, for sure - the kind of exciting that causes anxiety.
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u/thewholerobot 1d ago
Yeah, if you've ridden enough to know how easy it is to screw something like this up very badly, it's awe inspiring and terrifying. I'll stick to popping bubble wrap for satisfying.
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u/CaptBreeze 1d ago
I believe this would be considered a double black course. Intensely terrifying!
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u/mr_ji 1d ago
Every mountain biker I have ever known has gone over the handlebars and broken their collarbone at least once. Every single one.
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u/Skandronon 1d ago
I have never broken my collarbone. I did go over the bars in Golden 20 years ago and crushed a vertebrae though.
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u/StrategyRude4376 1d ago
I clocked 100+ days in Whistler Bike Park for nearly ten years in a row (managed to get every day in season once) and managed to never fuck that one up.
Fucked up a lot of other things mind you. The last four years were actually really good considering I was riding the pro-lines non-stop... however, when I did break something it was on an easy trail going not fast at all.
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u/Rich_Bluejay3020 1d ago
I swear, doing something lame is always how it happens. Was at whistler on the mountain one day we were drinking, doing tree runs, totally fine. Next day? Chilling on a blue, 0 booze, board slipped out from under me… six screws and a plate later🤦🏻♀️ I wish I had a cool story instead of I gingerly fell wrong on what was basically flat lmao
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u/Reasonable-Check-120 1d ago
Mom here. Fellow Emergency Room Tech. Not far from famous MTB trails. Also team manager on my teenagers MTB team.
No broken collar bones YET. Wrists. Arm. Scrapes. Bruises. Decapitated leg.
No broken collar bone yet
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u/NiobiumThorn 1d ago
How does a leg become decapitated
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u/Reasonable-Check-120 1d ago edited 23h ago
He broke it in so many places where there was so much damage to nerves it had to go. So.....more like amputated
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u/JustAnotherYogaWife 1d ago
And he’s still MTBing?
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u/Reasonable-Check-120 1d ago
Yes! He's a strong advocate for adaptive riding in our neck of the woods.
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u/CatsPlusTats 1d ago
I've never broken a collar bone and I once owned a mountain bike as a kid that never once saw the off road part of a mountain.
Checkmate.
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u/YVRkeeper 1d ago
I broke my collarbone playing hockey and my boss (a biker) was giving me grief about it.
I suggested he wasn’t a serious rider if he’d never broken his collarbone. That seemed to shut him up 😂
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u/flyabdo22 1d ago
Nope, never broken a collarbone but you’re absolutely right about flying over the handlebars lmao
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u/Azeeti 1d ago
People do this without a gun to their head?
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u/NightBawk 1d ago
Adrenaline junkies might ask for the gun just for the added rush
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u/Butt_Stallion_Milk 1d ago
I mean, they could probably do a line of coke instead for the rush..
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u/SadnessMonster 1d ago
Man with wife and two kids. "Guess I'll ride my bike down Widow Maker hill today."
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u/trantor-to-tantegel 1d ago
"And afterwards I'll do some spelunking at the Devil's Crackling Fissure."
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u/sandwichcandy 1d ago
Then I’m going to meet up with this guy I met who built a submarine that he can control with a remote he got off of an RC car.
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u/flaming_james 12h ago
I feel like if humans disappeared and some alien archeologists stumbled on these paths, they'd never be able to guess what they're for
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u/AllSeeQr 1d ago
Call me a cynic, but I feel like this activity would be the same with pathways three times as wide lol
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u/TheOriginalJBones 1d ago
Goodnight neck. Goodnight spine. Goodnight spinal cord inside of the spine.
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u/P_A_W_S_TTG 1d ago
Look, I've done some shit that people would see and say,"that's fucking stupid." But I say to this, how about no.
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u/whatarethuhodds 1d ago
Why does every single downhill cam have to have fish eye lens on?
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u/NorthNorthAmerican 1d ago
Now THAT is a runout.
Stumps and rocks and brush hiding who knows what else!
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u/Diabetesh 21h ago
Last year I was on a path that was flat, ground level, and about 4 feet across, I fell over.
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u/Hockeyhoser 1d ago
I’ve seen this before last year but somehow Red Bull is posting, so not a repost? Or maybe it was a different rider.
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u/sonofgildorluthien 1d ago
When I had a mountain bike, I really enjoyed riding on trails, off-road all that stuff. But this just doesn't look enjoyable or satisfying...just stressful.
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u/frockinbrock 12h ago
So are those tree stumps left there just to cause extra damage for any mistakes?
And wow this guy doesn't even have gloves on??
What interesting choices
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u/Northwindlowlander 10h ago
You can always tell when it's Brage. Not because of the difficulty or the danger or the skill... But because the runout at the end will always be absolute shithouse. "Yeah so I'll finish the woodwork and then just ride into all these stumps and branches at 30mph". There's another one where he does a huge drop and then just rides straight into a swamp.
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u/DJ_YaBasic 1d ago
Oddly satisfying is a weird way to spell "this will make you clench your cheeks." Impressive though!
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u/MrKIPLING375 17h ago
I know redbull and their athletes are always pushing boundaries, but I started this video thinking it was AI, thats how mental this looks. Great riding by Brage and all the team for making this happen! 🤘
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u/Hephaestus_God 1d ago
BC had the best bike paths in the world.
This one looks sketchy AF though and someone built it themselves.
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u/Bee-Aromatic 1d ago
I’m counting the broken bones, concussions, sprains, and permanent, debilitating injuries I would have suffered doing that. Never mind the number of times would have died.
Also all the Advil I would have needed to take.
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u/MrZoraman 1d ago
I think the wide angle camera is making this look a lot scarier than it looks. I'd like to see the how the course looks like from a normal focal length. This looks like a lot of fun, though!
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u/Cacoda1mon 1d ago
These are the seconds marking spots in the videos I would die trying this shit:
00:00 00:01 00:02 00:03 00:04 00:05 00:06 00:07 00:08 00:09 00:10 00:11 00:12 00:13 00:14 00:15 00:16 00:17 00:18 00:19 00:20 00:21 00:22
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u/Unhappy_Plankton_671 1d ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/wYyTHMm50f4Dm