This year DarkFEST has moved to an amazing new location just outside Stellenbosch on the slopes of the Simonsberg Mountain, an hour outside of Cape Town, South Africa. Three of the riders went down a month before the event to build the new course and make sure everything was working properly before the rest of the riders arrived. Sam Reynolds who is the head of the project, started out doing some road trips with friends, going back to the roots and making the videos more about the riding and fun than the more formal cinematic-style videos most people are making these days. After three years of doing the Pure Darkness trips, two of them in SA, he decided he needed to step it up a notch and started DarkFEST. He brought two master builders with him, Nico Vink and Clemens Kaudela. Nico has his own Fest stop in Belgium called Loosefest with some of the biggest jumps in the world and is such a perfectionist in the digger that when he&#39;s done there is almost no spadework needed; he has built many world-famous MTB lines. Clemens is another powerhouse builder. Not only is he amazing in a digger, he is a master with wood too. He has helped build courses for events like Nine Knights and Masters of Dirt. These three are the dream team and after scouting the location and discussing how to use the features in the landscape they got right to work.&quot;So, the mountain range we built the course out of this year is actually a real course builders dream, the fact that we can follow down the contours of the mountain into the big valley and steep walls that we can build the big hips and jumps out of. So it&#39;s really cool to stay within the contours of the mountain and we didn&#39;t have to stack too many big piles of dirt. You can see the hip was completely dug into the hill, it&rsquo;s stuff like that that really works. We tried to keep piling to a minimum to kind of keep it a bit more in with nature this time. Although it looks like we just turn up and get to dig exactly what we want, which is kind of the case, there are a few things that we had to do. We had to get the nature conservation guys in to make sure there were no special plants and stuff and there actually were a few that we had to avoid and where the watercourse is running down the middle of the valley we weren&#39;t allowed to build anything there. So, we actually had to change our layout from the original design to the course you see now for nature conservation reasons. I actually really like how the course ended up, I think it&#39;s better than what we originally designed, so that was actually pretty cool.&quot; - Sam Reynolds.These guys were amazing to watch, if you turn your back for a few minutes you would turn around to see a huge jump where there was nothing before. After three weeks of long hours in the diggers the course was complete and ready for testing. Almost everything was perfect on the first go and they could put some final touches and compact the dirt so that they could reach the speeds they needed comfortably. They were well ahead of schedule with another week to go before the other riders arrived, so they could really make everything perfect and have a few good warm-up sessions.The top section of the course starts with a steep drop into some tight corners and smaller jumps to get you ready for what&#39;s coming. That is followed by a road gap that drops into a long steep slope where they get up to 75km/h to be able to clear the first massive beast which is a 95ft jump! Directly after that is a 55ft jump into a corner that sets them up for a huge 90-degree hip jump where they can lean sideways and get the bikes into the craziest positions. That has a short lilypad-style landing straight into another road gap to steep landing. This got them the most speed on the course and were clocking speeds of up to 80km/h to jump the last feature, a huge step up jump with a 6m tall lip with the landing just over 10m above the top of that, so it really sent the riders to the moon.<img src="http://magarticles.magzter.com/articles/16383/273828/5ac5acdaf20ee/1522904333_loc.jpg"" owidth=1045 oheight=834" style="height:559px; width:700px" />&quot;There&#39;s not really any maths or any sort of set way to build that big, everywhere is different, because you have to use the hill that you can. It&#39;s pretty hard to say how long a jump should be, even if you have the same speed. You can&#39;t really measure the speed and tell how far you&#39;re gonna jump, because every jump is a little bit different. You just have to really go off experience and that can only come from building jumps before and building big jumps, you just gotta make sure they&#39;re mellow enough, make sure the landing is big enough and then eventually you&#39;ve just gotta let the breaks off and give it a go!&quot; &ndash; Sam.The physics involved in jumps this size is mind-blowing, the speed they hit these jumps with turns the bike into a completely different machine. The rotational force on the wheels makes turning the wheels in the air incredibly difficult, so whipping the bike sideways takes a huge lean and pull off the lip of the jump and if you manage that well the wheels will help straighten you out afterwards. The spinning also changes the air resistance, air can blow between the spokes easily at low speeds, but at 75km+/h the spokes almost turn into a solid disk, which means any side wind is catching two big sails and can throw you off your line very easily on a 100ft jump. Needless to say, the guys always waited for the wind to stop almost completely before attempting these beasts. With the height, speed and distance here the impact is also very different to any other type of riding more people are used to and the suspension setups the guys use is very unique. Most downhill bikes are set up to be quite soft to handle rocks and roots and suck up all the bumps, but the more your suspension moves, the more speed you lose. If it is too soft the g-force you get going up the lip can bottom out the bike and cause the wheels to touch the frame or seat, which is not ideal. Then there&#39;s the impact after being in the air for around 3 seconds and any soft setup would be slammed and the rider would take a lot of that force into their legs and arms, so they set theirs up extremely hard to be able to absorb more of the serious impacts and stay stiff on the run-ins to keep them up to speed. Also, just changing their body position slightly on the run-in would change their speed. Standing up on the bike with their chest open was like an air brake and they would crouch down close to the bars with their elbows tucked in when they really needed as much speed as possible, so there are many factors they have to take into account when riding these beasts.The rest of the riders started to make their way down to see what the boys had been up to and were pleasantly surprised by the most amazing jumps in the most beautiful location, surrounded by mountains that gave perfect 360-degree views. The riders had a week to warm-up and make friends with these massive dirt sculptures, so they didn&#39;t waste time! To ride huge jumps like this, conditions have to be perfect. Any wind can cause havoc when you&#39;re in the air as long as they are, so sessions were in the morning and evening to avoid the heat and the wind would normally drop around then. It wasn&#39;t long before we saw some mind-blowing riding and Adolf Silva and Clemens backflipped the huge 95-footer. It&#39;s so crazy, because a few years ago this would have been a world-record distance jump and now the guys are riding it and throwing tricks down over it! The step up also saw some insane riding and Nicholi Rogatkin won a best trick competition on it with a cash roll, which is a front flip 360. Crazy to see such technical tricks on such huge jumps!By the end of the week the guys were ready for the crowds to roll in, which they did. On the public day the morning was perfect after some rain the night before, so the guys got to riding nice and early and treated the fans to some of the crazy tricks they&#39;d been working on all week. Unfortunately the wind picked up in the late morning and got too dangerous to ride in. Some of the riders carried on jumping the step up, it was in a different direction to the rest of the jumps and a bit more sheltered, so they could keep the show going a bit longer. The mid-day heat picked up, so everyone took a lunch break and waited for the evening session. The wind had other plans though and didn&#39;t drop as is had before, so the evening session was called off, but this is the nature of this type of event. Sometimes you&#39;re lucky, sometimes not. That&#39;s what makes the sessions so special when everything comes together. Despite the afternoon being called off the crowd was still amazed with what they saw and left with the hugest smiles knowing they&#39;d seen something not many people get to witness with their own eyes.&quot;It&#39;s awesome how big DarkFEST has gone this year, we&#39;ve reached out to more mainstream media, like &quot;People Are Awesome&quot; and stuff like that, they liked it and put some videos up, which I think can only be good for free riding and mountain biking in general. I guess it&#39;s because of the high speeds and the big jumps, maybe whereas slopestyle is getting a little hard to understand with an extra barspin or a tail whip in there, people can&#39;t really understand that. I think you can understand backflipping a 100-foot jump, so I think that&#39;s why it&#39;s gone pretty. As long as people like it, we&#39;re gonna keep building it&quot;. &ndash; Sam.DarkFEST 2018 has been an amazing success! Sam and his team put on an amazing show and already can&rsquo;t wait to come back and add to the line and try more tricks over these beasts!

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