WE DIDN’T EXPECT TORNADOES! | Bentonville Bike Fest 2024

This year we had a record five riders from our local trials crew go to the Bentonville Bike Fest to compete in the North American Trials Championship. This video chronicles my experience with Scott & Jim.

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+ Scott
+ Tim (me)

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MY VIDEO SETUP
+ Camera: GoPro Hero 8 Black (with a DIY ‘dead cat’ windscreen)
+ Editing Software: CyberLink PowerDirector 21

VIDEO AND PHOTO CREDITS
In addition to my own video clips and photos, I also received some additional key bits of content from some amazing folks, whom I’d like to acknowledge:
+ Jason Schwinabart (a.k.a., “Schwinny”)
+ Becky Eaton
+ Scott Lynn

EVENT INFO
https://www.bentonvillebikefest.com/
https://www.natrials.com/

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this year we set a record with five of us from the Northeast bike trials group representing at the Bentonville bike fest in this particular video I’m going to focus on the adventures that Jim Scott and I had while we were out in Bentonville while this was my third consecutive year at the Bentonville bike fest it was the first time for Scott and Jim so I was hoping they’d have a blast while they were out there I know every time I go I absolutely love it not only is the riding amazing but the best part is we get to hang out with trials Riders from all over the world my plan was to fly out to Bentonville while Scott and Jim drove fortunately they were able to bring most of the bikes with them including my mountain bike I packed up my tr’s bike and flew out there without on the plane fortunately the air travel went smoothly so I arrived safely and so did my bags and my bike after unloading all my gear at our Airbnb we decided to head over to the event site to check out the trials area it’s always good to get a little bit of a preview a number of times before riding on the course this helped strategize and figure out what are the best ways that we can attack each of the different Gates all that was on Wednesday on Thursday it was time to assemble my trials bike so it’ be rable of course Jim had to help supervise while I was doing that after our trials bikes were all assembled and ready to roll we put them in the minivan and headed downtown Bentonville for a group ride stay tuned for a separate video Not only was there some fun riding but there was some serious bike Carnage as well Friday started out a little bit soggy with a morning thunderstorm that should have been a bit of an omen more on that later after the rain stopped and it dried up a little bit we headed over to the event grounds to check in and get our wristbands then it was time to go mountain biking my first time doing so in Bentonville actually what I should say is that Jim and I went mountain biking with a few other folks Scott actually attended a technical writing session with Jeff lenoski Saturday morning was the main event the reason we had all come out here the North American trials Championship after a brief riter meeting to cover all the ground rules it was time to ride for this year’s event we had a nice treat shindigger Matt penelli and Andre Burton were commentating was Jim who is our 63 years young Rider today I just want to ask you a couple of questions where are you from when Andre Burton had discovered that Jim was the oldest rider in the competition he decided to give him a short interview which I thought was really cool I see Andre was holding a GoPro filming the interview so I’m not sure where that’s going to end up but if I find it I’ll put a link in the description pretty much had zero warm-up prior to this event so I had a rather interesting first line especially since Charlie rolls volunteered to score me going through the Section additionally to add a little bit more pressure Wesley ble was filming and Sam havav was watching no pressure and unfortunately I totally botched my first run through this section oh well you know is quite nice Tim nice despite the Jim Scott and I all rode the veterans class which is essentially I think it was 40 and over maybe 45 and over I can’t remember exactly what we rode the same Gates as the sport class Riders the qualification for the UCI C1 event as well as the North American trials Elite Championship riding all took place at the same time after we were finished stay tuned I’ll post a separate video on that I’ve included the highlights of Jim Scott and me riding in this video there you go take two dams yeah get your get your tire back tire up and P it should be able to drop your back tire down now your ass half the G yeah like that and you should be able to work yourself backwards the rest of the [Music] way wa if you push the front Fe whatever you’re feel comfortable Yeah Tim yep yep nice yep hold it yeah awesome [Music] Tim you got it yep keep going yes come on give them a chair let’s from [Music] everybody [Music] excellent nice go [Music] perfect nice Jim [Music] yeah yeah that grass grips better than I thought it would nice K hold it hold [Music] it nice yeah sick Yeah Tim multiple worldion over the world for 21 years from H Louisiana SE SC that was awesome nice nice That’s time that was awesome Scott that was sick nice Jim [Music] Mick follow the GU normally I say follow me and like on Instagram oh nice Chim nice nice you got [Music] that there you go nice nice [Music] [Applause] nice nice oh Dam almost had [Music] that yeah Tim yep he got it [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] nice Scot [Music] nice you all right yep I’m fine the BR theate all right yeah I’m fine I think that might be a 5m [Music] yes get the points yes still clean between wow get the points Tim get the points yes 20 we also have Dina rocken back who will be with the women’s Elite there you go yeah Tim yeah nice you also saw on the stage earlier there you go [Music] I think we have a loose some that’s [Music] right nice through it girls 11 12 nice nice awesome congratulations one more time giving up for these awesome [Music] females there you go Q up yes you got it 10 we’re now on to the Top Class girls 13 nice Tim riding for team Dam yes yeah Tim 30 another one of [Music] those nice sweet that was awesome it’s going to be silent we don’t CL with the other stage that’s awesome second place nice excellent stage time to say the least out of time anyway neither Scott Jim nor I rode well enough to place this year but Joe and Mike did expert in second place Joe ji ji [Music] congratulations next section is master 35 Plus first place Mike [Applause] sley let’s give these guys a big round of applause and everybody [Applause] yeah the UCI trial C1 finals were planned for Sunday morning but it seems that mother nature had other ideas [Music] at around 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning we were jolted awake by the sound of weather alarms on our phone followed by tornado warning sirens if you’ve never heard the tornado warning siren it’s pretty eerie and kind of freaky since it was still dark outside it was really hard to see anything outside so it was hard to tell if anything was coming our way or not after things started to get kind of wild outside we decided it was time to shelter more centrally in the house so the three of us climbed into the bathtub huddled together waiting for the worst part of the storm to pass through later Sunday morning after the sun had come up we decided to go for a walk to assess the damage in the neighborhood hey folks day three of the Bentonville bike fest has been cancelled due to tornadoes and severe storms last night as you can see the event grounds are pretty much trashed so quite a bummer uh bummed for all the folks invol to help put on the event uh and all the folks that traveled here it’s kind of a kind of a downer but um hopefully everybody’s safe uh we ended up fairing okay last night certainly a little bit scary but uh we made it through safe while we didn’t want to get in the way we did want to lend a hand so we spent a little bit of time helping clean up some of the mess at the event grounds how’s it going walks up just in time thank you guys the trials Park was deemed safe to use so a group ride was organized for the afternoon yet again the weather was predicted to be kind of nasty and the sky started to get pretty dark but before most of the Riders would leave due to the predicted bad weather we were able to get a great group shot we also gave a shout out to Bentonville in light of the recent morning Storm from the TRS Community stay strong Bensonville on Sunday evening a bunch of us went to dinner at the Texas Roadhouse including a bunch of European trials Riders after dinner there was an international peanut Skirmish between the US UK and Spain Switzerland and Germany remained neutral during the incident when dinner was finished we took a group photo outside the restaurant and after a little bit of Tom Foolery and saying goodbyes it was time to head home and pack for travel the following day you’re not driving are you Scott’s making me drive it’s going to make me drive the entire way and just like that the fun was over all that remained was a long trip home I hope you enjoyed sharing this adventure with us if you enjoyed this video please like subscribe and share also check out some of the other videos on our site hope you have a great day and happy riding