Mountain Biking Down Rock Climbs

There's a growing trend of mountain bikers riding down slab climbs, coordinated with climbers on an adjacent route for extra shock-factor:

https://www.instagram.com/p/ClOoCEIpzsB/ - he's got a number of mind-blowing clips from Moab as well

https://www.instagram.com/p/CjDYdXTrkRQ/ - this one seems to have kick-started the trend

What slab do you think should be mountain biked next? Whitehorse or Chapel Pond in the northeast? Stone Mountain in NC? Something in the S Platte?

I wonder what the angle limit is in terms of the sustained steepness of the line - the 2nd link above clearly would be a death ride if it were twice as tall, but something lower-angle could probably be sustained indefinitely.

Freeway in Flatirons.

I’m not sure that this is a trend as these were clearly stunt rides. This is a good one too

MattHwrote:

What slab do you think should be mountain biked next? 

Snake Dyke?

MattHwrote:

There's a growing trend of mountain bikers riding down slab climbs, coordinated with climbers on an adjacent route for extra shock-factor:

What slab do you think should be mountain biked next?  Stone Mountain in NC? 

I've seen a lot of unexpected things coming down Stone (thrown rocks, beer cans, deer, goats (walking), and I think, even paragliders) but never a bike. Would be pretty impressive!

Meh.  I’ll be impressed when one passes me going up. 

Fehim Hasecicwrote:

Freeway in Flatirons.

I’m not sure that this is a trend as these were clearly stunt rides. This is a good one too

I love Danny but that drone work makes me airsick. 

amariuswrote:

Snake Dyke?

Genius. Me like you style. 

For sure, Stately Pleasure Dome walk-off.  I would pay $20 to see that.

With a finishing kicker at the bottom that sends you into Lake George haha…

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106092140/little-finger

Sky Locklearwrote:

With a finishing kicker at the bottom that sends you into Lake George haha…

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/106092140/little-finger

Yes! I considered mentioning that route in my original post - you'd just need a big ramp onto a boat for the ultimate descent.

25 years ago or more, Mountain Bike Action ran a tongue in cheek article about the future of mountain biking.

They described a race down Half Dome.

Also funny, they described a bunch of weirdo’s in the woods doing something called cross country. Nobody really knew what they were doing but Ned Overend was winning.

Prophetic. 

Seems like it would have the potential to beat the crap out of delicate holds on routes, or smear things up with skid marks. Who gets right of way on Snake Dike?

Half Dome cables.

Forgot to mention: a few people have done (easy, traversing) via ferrata routes in the Dolomites on a mountain bike:

Pretty cool. Would be wild to see a UIAA 1/2 grade Dolomites route done this way, though the jagged rock there would probably necessitate a trials bike. One of the 'Plasir' slab routes in the Swiss/French alps would definitely be more probable.

Gunkiemikewrote:

Half Dome cables.

Fortunately Half Dome is in a designated wilderness area and in a National Park. So bikes are not allow there, let alone off the roads. 

It is not a matter of if, but when someone splats.

Yak Peak at Coquihalla summit in British Columbia is one of the more epic bike descents I've heard of.

https://m.pinkbike.com/news/smoke-room-Yak-Attack-2011.html

im pretty sure someone has skied down the Whitehorse slabs though I don’t know what route

Yeah

How about biking down Bachar-Yearian

El Cap

How quick  is White Mountain Peak descended from the summit by mountain bikers ?

The real deal. Check out all of the clips in this article.

https://gripped.com/news/mountain-biker-passes-free-soloist-and-wingsuiter-on-ride-down-the-apron-in-squamish/