Matt Hunter

I was born in Kamloops, British Columbia in 1983. Singletrack zigzags through the hills behind my parents' house; bikes were freedom. I explored the hills and trails wherever and whenever I could. I was 12 when I got into XC racing. I was really into it until I was about 15, when I started focusing more on DH riding. Some of my friends who I raced with made the same transition, and we started to learn together. We started building big jumps and aggressive trails. We filmed ourselves riding and I made a short video. I entered the video in an online contest, the "Ultimate Freeride Challenge" and ended up winning. That was the beginning of my sponsored career in 2003. Specialized sponsored me then and I have been with Specialized ever since.

My focus has always been shooting photos and filming video segments, that is what I love to do. I really enjoy finding adventure in the mountains - whether it be challenging moves and airs or maybe it's a multiple day ride.

I like watching big mountain skiers and snowboarders, the way they shred the mountains in the snow inspires me on dirt. Besides riding, I surf, fish, and backcountry skias much as I can.

Sponsors: Specialized, Shimano, Adidas Eyewear, Dakine, Chromag, MRP.

Bike Piracy!

July 28, 2009

Recently I was filming my segment for "Follow Me" in Kamloops and we ran into some really weird issues. We lost a bike for a couple minutes and when we tried to get it back it had fallen into the hands of one of the worlds' slimiest residents. A bike pirate. I could tell the long story here but just click on this link to see the story with maps and pictures of our misadventure.

www.anthillfilms.com

We had to change our filming plans because of the pirate and so right after this we took off for Sun Peaks resort to film some seriously high speed bike park action. Stay tuned for the Sun Peaks segment story dropping soon!

Matty

Stats for Matt Hunter are coming soon.