The Moment

Given the popularity and prevalence of mountain biking these days, it’s hard to believe that it was little more than 20 years ago that a few crazy Canadians began the freeriding version of the sport. The radical freeriding version, that is. Or, as one rider in the film describes it: “Crazy steep downhill that can break your neck, break your back and break your arms.” And he wasn’t even talking about the freeriding lunacy involving trestles and trannys, teeter-totters and toppled trees in the North Shore forest of British Columbia. The Moment offers a banquet of moments from those early, heady, bone- breaky days.