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Pure Darkness 2: The Garden Route Trail Park Step Up

· By Nick · 12 comments

The Pure Darkness team visited the Garden Route Trail Park while down to compete in The Night Harvest in March. Rob Dormehl (the man behind the Trail Park) had big plans for their visit and surprised the riders with a gargantuan pit. Rob and the lads set to work to create possibly the biggest mountain bike dirt jump step up Africa has ever seen. Pure Darkness 2 documents the madness that ensued.

Created by Dark Media (Tom Grundy, Sam Davies and Jules Langeard)
Edited by Tom Grundy
Photos by Eric Palmer
Riding by Danny Pace, Matt Macduff, Sam Reynolds, Blake Samson, and Dylan Stone

Special thanks to Monster Energy, Cape Town Ford, Ryan Franklin, Intern (good vibes), The Garden Route Trail Park, Liquid Wrench, Steadidrone, Knysna Tourism Board and everyone involved.

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Comments

LazyTrailRider

May 21, 2015, 10:16 AM

Ho.ly.crap.

splat

May 21, 2015, 10:41 AM

Absolutely incredible!

Beautiful pictures too.

 

 

I don't know exact details, but Rob had a huge wipe out recently. He is in hospital with cracked vertebrae (now plated together) and a cracked pelvis.

Captain Fastbastard Mayhem

May 21, 2015, 10:42 AM

^^ 

 

The speed they were carrying into that last downhill section... 

Iwan Kemp

May 21, 2015, 10:42 AM

Ho.ly.crap.

 

Add an expletive or three and we're there! 

Headshot

May 21, 2015, 10:44 AM

Wooohooooo!

G00SE

May 21, 2015, 11:48 AM

Awesome. must have been quite a thing to watch.

Wil6

May 21, 2015, 11:56 AM

Cool PICS!!!

MTBeer

May 21, 2015, 12:21 PM

I rode there in March (not that section) while they were building the jumps and that wooden platform where they start is fuuuuuuuuuuucking steeeeeeeep!! Just making it to the bottom of that thing without seeing your ring would be an achievement.

Steven Knoetze (sk27)

May 21, 2015, 1:38 PM

I have also stood, jaw on the ground, staring at that drop in. The face of the jump is also virually a vertical wall.

IT IS INSANE!!!!!

Managed to see the guys on the last day, but alas they were leaving.

Panik0703

May 21, 2015, 5:51 PM

I was actually there about a month ago, sadly even with the work we put in it was too wet to ride. The roll in tower is crazy steep and looks so gnarly when you up there. i just hit as soon as i got to the top of it, its actually really chilled tbh :P hahaha

next up is the jump 

David Messem

May 22, 2015, 7:19 AM

This is a really crazy jump, and it's so awesome that it is in SA!

 

But the footage doesn't quite top the crazy fest series edits. The nature of the step up means they are never that far from the landing and there is not that much of a gap. Still awesome though

dirtypot

May 22, 2015, 7:26 AM

Madness

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