Mongoose Bicycles have been around for a long time, as you probably all know. Since the early days of BMX in the 70's Mongoose has been leading the way in total radness when it comes to the two wheeled, pedal powered variety of stunting your bike. Times haven't changed even now in 2011 and Mongoose thought it was important to recognise the history of the brand by organising an absolute mother of a roadtrip across Western USA. Starting in Denver, passing through Angel Fire in New Mexico, through various stops in the Utah desert and a quick stop in Las Vegas and finally finishing up in Los Angeles, Mongoose Bicycles presents the "Know Your Roots" Roadtrip.
Episode 2 begins where we left off in New Mexico as the team set off from Angel Fire to travel to Moab in the Utah desert. The landscape changes from lush mountain scenery, through to huge orange rocks and jagged cliffs and burning hot sunshine. We were all pretty excited to get riding as soon as possible and our first stop took us to a freeride zone just out of town and right off the highway. Amir and Romo pretty much sent everything there (being the professional bike stunting and total radness experts that they are), which got us a stonking mini section and set us up great for the next day of riding.
Bartlett Wash was the next stop and Romo was keen to get out to the slick rock haven of drops and bowls. This was a really weird experience for all of us except for him and we were so surprised at the grip of the sandstone on the tyres. Even Amir's dirt jump bike which I was riding (with rock solid slick tyres) could go across the off camber without losing any grip. Amir stepped it up with some technical drops on his Mongoose Nugget and Romo impressed us all with some longer flowy lines on the rock. Another quick getaway after some awesome shots and we were on our way again, this time to Virgin Utah where we sessioned some jumps and drops at the old rampage site. Amir definitely stepped up here and showed us all why he's not just a dirt jumper!
After Virgin, it was onwards to Vegas for a massive night out and then straight out the door the next day to travel to our final destination, LA where we met up with some old school Mongoose legends for dinner to celebrate the success of what was an EPIC trip!
Thanks to Mongoose Bicycles for putting this whole trip together!
If you haven't checked out part one, head over here
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