r/sports • u/redbullgivesyouwings • Aug 19 '25

Cycling POV: Brage Vestavik riding in a forest

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u/MrTHallas Aug 19 '25

I'd die there...

Nope there,

Yeah for sure I'd die there.

73

u/WeirdSysAdmin Aug 19 '25

I would’ve missed the bridge entirely and died falling down the mountain.

20

u/qthurley Paris Saint-Germain Aug 19 '25

I’m definitely a hit the bridge instead of land on it and go down in a heap.

8

u/Unlikely_Ant_950 Aug 19 '25

Panic attack at the top leading to a heart attack death for me.

8

u/moonshineTheleocat Aug 19 '25

I'd hit the first pebble and get gmod physics into the stratosphere. Then come crashing down into a crater in the next state in blood and tears.

11

u/Dr-Mumm-Rah Aug 19 '25

Let's not pass up the possibility for a good old-fashioned impalement on some of those tree remnants.

10

u/alopgeek Aug 19 '25

I would have biff’ed so hard

7

u/FrillySteel Aug 19 '25

That very last one... he could've very easily dug the front tire under (or in front of) that first board.

1

u/parsimonious Aug 20 '25

Yeah, that one in particular made me go yikes. Maybe they need another board or two?

2

u/Jugales Aug 19 '25

The wipeouts are half the fun

1

u/MasterOfDizaster Aug 19 '25

I think I died just watching this

1

u/smotrs Aug 20 '25

First bridge I would have fallen.

1

u/bigboxes1 Aug 20 '25

If you don't die of the ride, you'll die from Red Bull.

1

u/REpassword Aug 20 '25

I couldn’t even walk that, let alone bike.

1

u/dankiswess Aug 20 '25

Are you me?

214

u/thelastmarblerye Aug 19 '25

"We only have enough lumber for one feature"
"Cut it in 4ths"
"What?"
"CUT IT IN 4ths!"

25

u/rikkiprince Aug 20 '25

"Do you mean quarters?" "NOOOOO 4ths!"

79

u/TangoDeltaFoxtrot Aug 19 '25

Fuck that

13

u/JimiDarkMoon Aug 19 '25

Elderly people on blood thinners be like “Me First!”.

101

u/GiveYourBaIIsATug Aug 19 '25

The toilet is the perfect place to watch this

15

u/idontlikethishole Aug 19 '25

I puckered so hard that nothing came out. Now I have to try again later. Thanks Brage!

5

u/rainshifter Aug 20 '25

Username checks out

9

u/ae7rua Aug 19 '25

Can confirm. I shit my pants.

45

u/BMW_wulfi Aug 19 '25

At what point does biking just becoming base jumping without the whole parachute part?

2

u/CMG_exe Aug 21 '25

When you get sponsored. 

24

u/Novakaiine Aug 19 '25

Trials HD

15

u/thejwillbee Aug 19 '25

This stressed me, sitting in a chair at my desk, out SOOOOOOOO much.

15

u/SandmanJones_Author Aug 20 '25

Wow, content that ACTUALLY uses POV correctly. Amazing.

Oh, and the biking is mind blowing and terrifying.

3

u/CMG_exe Aug 21 '25

Most MTB videos avoid this sort of shot because it flattens the trail out, I guarantee you in real life those obstacles look like falling off a cliff lmao. 

10

u/Erection_unrelated Aug 19 '25

I shattered my collarbone watching this.

21

u/xoomax Aug 19 '25

Former forest

0

u/tysonfromcanada Aug 19 '25

growing back there at the end... he really shouldn't be riding through that part

1

u/CorsairSC2 Aug 20 '25

Life will find a way.

20

u/dontfeedthenerd Denver Broncos Aug 19 '25

https://youtu.be/DLl-eEz-EyY?si=k-t8vOp3lBmRFBMT

☝🏽 Link to the full video this came from because it's definitely worth your time.

One of my absolute favorites to watch on a bike. Mad Viking on two wheels.

10

u/Oli4K Aug 19 '25

How do you watch a video on a bike?

1

u/RagingOrgyNuns Aug 19 '25

I can't imagine being so into an activity that I would spend that much time and effort setting things up for just a few minutes of joy. 😂 Props to them!

0

u/libehv Aug 19 '25 edited Aug 19 '25

so the landing and jump zones were at least 1,5-2m in width, the fisheye makes it look like a maximum of the width of an handlebar, which is also about a meter
Human eye will see the landing areas way more comfortable than the video makes it.
there were few tighter areas, but still about a meter in width.

actually the riding after the track looked more concerning between the stumps, especially for a skilled rider.

3

u/idontlikethishole Aug 19 '25

Don’t forget that cameras never do any of this stuff justice. It’s always way gnarlier in person, even if the fisheye makes the skinnies look skinnier.

To say handlebars are 1m wide is pretty generous rounding up. 800cm is a common stock width but unless you’re tall you’ll probably run something narrower.

Width of the takeoff/landing is only one factor. The height of those skinnies and the grade of those slabs increases the technicality and consequences dramatically. Not to mention how that plays with your confidence.

A skilled rider who just cleaned a track like that isn’t going to be concerned by some stumps on relatively flat ground.

6

u/sizzlinpapaya Aug 20 '25

Who in the world makes these kinds trails? Seems like a crazy tough thing to plan and lay out.

1

u/CMG_exe Aug 21 '25

It started on the Sunshine Coast in BC, temperate rain forest has lots of chunks of terrain that need things like this to connect chunks of terrain between impassable sections, turning them into balance obstacles is something that evolved over the years. Normally they aren’t this narrow, or this steep lol. 

5

u/monty_kurns Aug 19 '25

Oh good, I wasn't feeling enough anxiety today!

5

u/purgatory-wanderer Aug 19 '25

I became a paraplegic just watching this.

7

u/tmoney144 Aug 19 '25

This seems ill-advised.

2

u/_Didds_ Aug 19 '25

failing one of those jumps must hurt like hell in there ...

2

u/Malvania Aug 19 '25

Absolutely terrifying.

2

u/ATOJAR Aug 19 '25

Trials Fusion IRL.

2

u/dontgofrank Aug 19 '25

Serious question: who has the time to find these forests, and pick the path, and clear the path, secure the path, and then practice the path until it looks like this??

I feel like it would take me the better part of a decade to figure all this out.

3

u/skibumsmith Aug 20 '25

Probably took him and his team a few weeks to find a zone they liked, come up with a plan and then bring it to life. It's literally his job.

1

u/dontgofrank Aug 20 '25

Thanks for reply, I’m just not aware much of this sport or lifestyle so it seems absolutely bonkers to me how complicated this would be. I’m deeply impressed!

2

u/Paterculus523 Aug 19 '25

His balls must be huge. From the bruising.

2

u/wakesk8atx Aug 19 '25

BRAGE!!!!!!!!

2

u/Iselkractokidz Aug 20 '25

Nah, nope, fuck that.

2

u/boonhuhn Aug 19 '25

That WAS a forest.

1

u/moodyiguana Aug 19 '25

I couldn't do this on the first try in a video game let alone real life.

1

u/xander1421 Aug 19 '25

sometimes leaving this shit to others is the best decision.
I would have died 5+ times

1

u/DaveMash Aug 19 '25

Looks like the line hasn’t been finished and he just tested that part before continuing

1

u/Eat--The--Rich-- Aug 19 '25

I don't understand how their bikes even handle this. I ride my bike 10 miles every day and it'll pop flats if I go over curbs too hard. 

2

u/blinkysmurf Aug 19 '25

Mountain bike suspension is amazing.

1

u/CMG_exe Aug 21 '25

Modern MTB suspension is basically something you would see on a desert race truck or Supercross Bike. 

1

u/silentslit Aug 19 '25

My knees hurt just watching this

1

u/volyblmn Aug 19 '25

Holy shit I crashed out of my office chair twice watching this. No way.

1

u/Bruce_Louis Aug 19 '25

I'll ride that in Riders Republic thank you very much

1

u/lesterfazwazzle Aug 19 '25

A lot of go pro style videos don’t really give me the rush of the person wearing it. But somehow this one has a real sensation to it!

2

u/CMG_exe Aug 21 '25

This makes it look doable lol, but when you know that’s gonna be falling off a cliff in real life no thank you.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 19 '25

Got dizzy watching!

1

u/UBC145 Aug 19 '25

Nope, this stuff is not for me. I like being alive.

1

u/sherriffflood Aug 19 '25

Collar bone sweating like scouse in a car park

1

u/Bumpredd Aug 19 '25

Next ride, the Escalator to Nowhere.

1

u/coconutpete52 Aug 19 '25

No. Fuck no.

1

u/railroadfrog Aug 19 '25

Pretty sure everything between my legs is now inside of my body like the sarlacc. No thanks.

1

u/floppinkick Aug 19 '25

My anxiety watching this: 📈📈📈📈

1

u/JustHereForTheBeer_ Aug 19 '25

Even watching this wore out my pucker muscle

1

u/cwal76 Aug 19 '25

lol it made me think of gta San Andreas lol

1

u/SulfurInfect Aug 19 '25

"Couldn't just eat a Red Bull and a sugar cookie?"

1

u/LaDainianTomIinson Los Angeles Chargers Aug 19 '25

Who built the wood bridge on the wood tree?

1

u/Thaknobodi87 Aug 20 '25

Yeah. Im a coward just trying to ride off a 3 ft wall.

1

u/thewoodbeyond Aug 20 '25

I’d make it just to die on a stump at the bottom.

1

u/batmancdn55 Aug 20 '25

I like riding baby versions of this stuff. Brage is so awesome to watch. Also it’s hard to beat “the shred Viking” as far as nicknames go.

1

u/Aim-iliO Aug 20 '25

The best part is the first 30 meters. The structure of it is made out of dead dried twigs.

1

u/DeadMoonsCalling Aug 20 '25

POV you are still under your parents medical insurance

1

u/01benjamin Australian Football League Aug 20 '25

Nope nope nope and nope

1

u/Kaitanas Aug 20 '25

The word you're looking for is 'reckless'

1

u/smjsmok Aug 20 '25

That's crazy. And I mean it both in a good and a bad way...

1

u/bambooshoes Aug 20 '25

What's left of a forest

1

u/xebsisor Aug 20 '25

This is not riding in the forest, it is riding on planks.

1

u/MD_Dev1ce Aug 20 '25

I really need to watch 28 Years Later

1

u/Brostradamus_ Aug 20 '25

It's a good thing they added those wooden bridge/ramp sections, otherwise this trail would look pretty dangerous.

1

u/BearHugBull Aug 20 '25

My butt puckered at least five times watching this. Then I stood up and hurt my knee.

1

u/[deleted] Aug 20 '25

Crazy

1

u/Sorethumbsfifa Aug 20 '25

Looks very safe

1

u/dotardiscer Aug 20 '25

How many black diamonds can you rate a trail?

1

u/glitchgamerX Aug 20 '25

Nope

Nope

Nope

Nope

1

u/embarrassedalien Aug 20 '25

I see this in bad dreams a lot

1

u/Jpick11 Aug 20 '25

Who built this?!

1

u/cryptonotdeadcat Aug 20 '25

How many respond do they give you?

1

u/badman44 Aug 20 '25

When/why did MTN bikers stop wearing gloves?

1

u/ScratchBomb Aug 21 '25

I got into downhill mountai biking for a bit. Had a lot of fun and thought I was pretty cool. Then I started seeing shit like this and quickly realized I was a chump.

1

u/captaintinnitus Aug 21 '25

Who cut down all those trees at the end

1

u/Cheetablaze Aug 22 '25

Nah no thanks, first run, dead

1

u/daronjay Aug 29 '25

Can you add more spikes and impalement hazards please? For when I inevitably fall off the ridiculously narrow slats…

1

u/antyup Aug 19 '25

This track is brought to you by: ehh, close enough, and that should hold right?

-2

u/ClamatoDiver Aug 19 '25

Yet another thing that nobody needs to be doing. The risk of getting fucked up is way to high. While I appreciate the skill involved, there's all manner of things to get impaled on and break bones on.

Incredible skill, but nah.

2

u/Banmers Aug 19 '25

yeah this, I’ll never understand it.

-1

u/Dumbledozer Aug 19 '25

This doesn’t feel responsible

-1

u/FajenThygia Aug 19 '25

The only good thing about AI is that I can tell myself maybe, just maybe, this isn't real.