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It's Wil's first time in Moab, and today he gets to ride the incredible Porcupine Rim trail, starting up top on Hazard County. Strap yourself in for a rocky ride!
Watch the first two instalments from the Pivot Cycles launch right here on YouTube;
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ypuDrOHxuY
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDvteIUd7eQ
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this is Will from single track magazine
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and singl TRW world.com today we are
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riding porcupine Rim in Moab in Utah and
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we're going to be doing it on this
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bike the brand new Firebird 29 so I'm
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just heading to the main condo now going
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to get some breakfast and coffee and
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then we've got a shuttle pickup at 7:00
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this morning and then we're heading up
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very high then we're going to start a
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pretty epic ride today so little bit
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actually for uh for what the ride's
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going to entail but pretty excited at
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the same time to be on a
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huge 162 mm
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travel there we go 162 on the back 170
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mil travel Fork on the front 29 a
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monster so a good choice I think for
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some Burly Moab riding time to get set
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up get some food and some coffee get on
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that shuttle
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back on the roof how you excited today
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today Chris I am excited yeah yep is
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this a fun trail it is the best trail
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trail what are we riding we're riding uh
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porcupine Rim but we're starting at
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Hazard County and then uh UPS upper
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porcupine single single track LPS lower
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porcupine single track and then just
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pork Rim it's like a Hit List yeah we
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started about 9,000 ft and we head all
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the way down to the Colorado River so
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this would be fantastic and the uh the
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weather looks like it's shining on us
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today yes still got the AR on though oh
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it's Arizona boys and it'll be even
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colder up
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top
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part that was
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chist up the down the Eng Bas
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somewhere hey Zach are you
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cold ready to shreddy
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yeah of course I'm
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what we do here is go back back back
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back
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oh that's that's actually 64 so good
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okay yeah well I left left
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left oh
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nice on shoot with the pivot fiber 29
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the ends are shooting some photos just
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getting some snaps on the trail this is
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early on in the day everyone's still
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getting used to the bikes starting to
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feel really good though
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Yoo yes please sh
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whoa
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up oh yeah you could do that too I guess
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um something like that tail whip can can
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Knack neack oh Knack neack yeah old
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school I like that one in a while yeah
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bring it a
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back that's Yen the photographer showing
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it how it's done huh Pro B him out
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test my my calluses are growing new
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calluses after
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you oh yeah
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wooo oh my
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word CL this the bottom of Trail before
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stupid look at
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that not
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look at that
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the Holy
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Smokes look at that going to stop
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getting
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distracted you're just working so hard
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all the time it's not a lot of
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rest holy
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oh God
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oh nice one my bad
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oh man
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what did you
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WR e
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he
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bu gool boy
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God he scared
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me yeah
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buddy yeah
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how go that woohoo n so good that was
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that Al camber rolling I have no idea
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everything was
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amazing look at
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that good times oh
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man get myself some Moon Juice you mean
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the one that's like there's two options
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like straight like a big drop yeah so
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the hands look at my
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hands at least uh at least we had a nice
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long travel
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ride righty oh so that completes day two
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of riding on the pivot Cycles launch
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today we rode the Big Bird it was the
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firebird 29er who did Hazard at the top
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and then um dropped into I guess upper
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porcupine UPS lower porcupine LPS some
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other trails that I can't remember the
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names of but I don't care cuzz that was
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unbelievably good really Rocky really
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demanding riding I mean look at my hands
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I've developed calluses upon calluses I
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did also forget to take my gloves so
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it's not cuz I'm a fashion conscious
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Rider I legitimately just forgot to take
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gloves and the grips that are on the
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bike are like cheese graters so um my
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hands are very very sore and sensitive
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you can see I've got a nice little wound
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there on my thumb um I don't care it was
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was just such a good day on the bike it
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was so good it was I'm honestly lost for
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words how good it was it was just
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absolutely
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fantastic cornbread lathered in butter
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not cheese that's
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butter I got like homade
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beans chicken slow cooked in duck
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fat no I put in it was
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so we've had a delicious dinner we've
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had the presentation on the new Firebird
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29 uh while everyone's just chilling at
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the condo I'm going to do some video on
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this bike I've got the firebird 29 here
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yes in the flesh going to get the gear
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out
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and not my gear like actual recording
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audio gear oops going to get my gear out
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and uh do a video time to get it done
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time to go to a cafe called love muffin
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get ourselves some coffee and food once
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we fueled up then we'll be heading our
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separate ways sad face
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are you sad that we have to leave yes
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are you I I heard you laughing the
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before right
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now jerks are getting out of here out of
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here not sticking that thing in my face
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pleasure absolute
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pleasure all right
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hello again it's me Will and I'm
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recoring to you for the last time from
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the pivot Cycles
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launch uh it's the final day and we're
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at the airport and we're very sad that
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we're leaving Moab in
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Utah back to the UK yeah it should be
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toasty warm and sunny there as well
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absolutely thrilled about that uh but
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anyway I'm going to check in jump on a
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plane jump on several planes in quick
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succession to get back to Manchester so
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anyway I hope you've enjoyed watching
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the single track Vlog experience from
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the pivot Cycles launch uh it's been a
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lot of fun I've enjoyed popping my Moab
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Cherry here um it's been fantastic
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riding great Trails cool to see the new
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bikes um nice to hang out with the pivot
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crew and all in all being a superb
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opportunity so if you watching this have
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not been to Moab yourself um I hope I've
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given you a bit of a taste of what the
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trails and the environment's like and if
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you can make it happen in the future no
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questions do it you won't regret it I
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promise I guarantee you'll have a good
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time all right I got to go check in now
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so I will see you guys later I hope
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you've enjoyed and um I will see you
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next time bye
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w
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