Imagine this; take your favorite trail—the one you can jam through with your eyes closed—and take a picture in your mind. Got it? Feel every turn? See every tree, every drop, every little rock? Now flip it, and take another picture of the trail... as it flows uphill. Do you recognize it? Would you know its subtleties the way you do when you’re headed down?
![bigquotes](https://es.pinkbike.org/246/sprt/i/bigquotes-left.svg) | I want to inspire people to take their local trail and reimagine it.—Braydon |
On a biting cold winter day, Canyon rider Braydon Bringhurst wondered the same. So he brought his Canyon Spectral to Moab’s Captain Ahab trail, and turned a familiar trail on its head by heading up. “I absolutely love descending, but I also really love technical climbing.” Bringhurst says. “I try to make the most of my entire ride. Climbing up and cleaning a technical climb gets me just as pumped as a sick drop or gap. I just love it all.”
Transcend is about elevating yourself beyond the usual. Developing a new perspective for the trails you ride and reinventing what’s familiar. And maybe, as Bringhurst does, proving that yes—you can have steeze while going up.
“The reason I named this film Transcend is because I want to inspire people to take their trail and reimagine it and do more.,” he says. “I hope this film gets people stoked to go out and reimagine, look at their own trails in a new way.”
Enjoy this journey on Captain Ahab… going up!
Yeah but Braydon has more style for sure. All this stuff looks better on 27.5 wheels anyway unless your a tall dude, or your name is Sam Hockenhull or Jasper Penton... Or Luke Strobel...
"Enjoy this journey on Captain Ahab… going up!"
Not giving any type of disclaimer and naively encouraging this people to ride up established downhills is stupid, I stand behind my comment and other comments agree with mine.
I've done this for fun on a few trails and all five apply. You never even saw me.
Anyway, the trail doesn't care which way it goes.
At any rate, cool video. I've never been to the top of that dome.
ACHKCHUALLLAY, uphill riders have the right of way. That’s how bikes get banned. Illegal trails are bad too /nasally voice
It’s biking not an international airport tarmac.
Next level creativity and riding.
Wasn't expecting that. Is this guy Chris Akrigg's twin cousin?
Seriously though, super awesome riding and edit.
Now that's MAGA; making Ahab great again.
Despite the horrible canyon bike, exceptional level of the rider.
Incredible skills - insane control.