Darren Berrecloth

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My name is Darren Berrecloth and i live in a small town called Qualicum Beach

I originally started riding bikes when i was a kid well what am I kidding everyone rode bikes when they were kids because we had no cars. The first real bike i had was a specialized rockhopper hard tail, and it didnt take me very long to destroy it, before i knew it the wheels

were bent the bars were bent and i did not have enough money to keep fixing it.

So my local bike shop convinced me to buy a bmx if I wanted to keep doing jumps So I did then I started racing and one thing led to another and here i am.

A professional freerider for specialized, travelling the planet searching for the sickest terrain and riding comps. I am currently tavelling a ton and am super excited to have the opportunities to explore the unkown and push my own limits everyday. I keep pinching myself to make sure its not a dream but yes it is reality and yes I do ride for the best bike company in the business.

hobbies; Snowboarding, snowmobiling, fishing, hunting, skiing, bmxing, motoxing, quading, wakeboarding, and building trails and stunts.

Day 2 of the nissan x trail shoot.....

October 19, 2009

Day 2 of the nissan x trail shoot was quite a interesting one, we woke up in the utah desert and quickly realized the weather was not in our favor. It was blowing 30 mph and a deadly thunderstorm was headed our way, so the camera crew got stuck in a rain storm in the sand dunes. Good times I tell ya when the rain comes and the wind is blowing in a sand dune.

The freeride crew pulled it together to get some sick shots of the car catching air 5 feet off the deck and plowing into the sand upon landing, then after the car stuff was done the helicopter landed in our front yard of where we were staying and the pan was to go ride the

big mountain line that I had scoped and built a few days earlier but the problem was that it rained all day and we were not quite sure if it was too wet to ride the line.

So me and Cameron mccaul jumped in the heli for a quick recon and quickly decided that the dirt was too wet to ride so the big line got pushed back.

Day 3 starts at the break of dawn with a little breaky at our favorite spot, shortly after we roll into the desert to get a some shots of me flipping my dh bike which i had never done before and to make it even harder on myself it was on a hip.

That went real well and we got some amazing slow motion flip shots. which led us up to doing some ground camera angles of my big mountain line which was rad cause I was super excited to ride this big mountain line.

So me and mccaul hiked up and rode the middle section together since he was helmet camming me. We got some good shots with the helmet cam and then it was time for me to ride the whole line top to bottom, It was a little bit windy but i dropped in none the less and rode the line exactly how I wanted to.

The line started at the very top of a mesa with a techy drop with a short landing which ran onto a exposed knife ridge that had a few small steps then it rolled out to a diving board that i sent it off and screamed down the rest of the ridge into 2 bigger drops at the bottom.

end of day 3 shoot.

Day 4 we rolled up out of bed and got into the heli and Tom our pilot let me hang out the side of the heli while being strapped in while I held onto my bike while he shuttled me up to the top.

The first shot with the heli was the hero shot where they circled around the top of the mountain with me standing on top of it with my bike, After that was done big d waved his hand out the side of the heli and it was on.

With the chopper blades spinning at my back and thousands of dollars worth of film being used the pressure was on and I shredded the crap out of that line 4 times meanwhile using the heli for a shuttle, pretty cool i thought.

And that wraps up a killer shoot for my first tv commercial stay tuned for the 10 minute web edit coming soon from freeride entertainment also dont forget to check out my blogs on I-amspecialized.com

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