Matt Hunter

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    Demo 8

    When you ride this hard, your bike has to ride harder.

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    Enduro

    Attack the big stuff, the small stuff and everything in between....

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    Pitch

    All Mountain riding is about attacking the big stuff...

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    P-3

    Jumps, tricks and berms—as long as you've got the skills.....

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    Tires

    The product that started it all.....

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    S-Works MTB Helmet

    The lightest certified helmet in the world, worn by 2008 UCI World XC Champion Christoph Sauser...

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Demo 8

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.

Whistler laps with the team

August 7, 2009

Epic riding today! I am just sitting down after a really sick day of riding the bike park with some of the gravity team. My fingers are so tired from holding the bars that typing hurts!

I got to Whistler two days ago for a media camp. We are here to ride the park on the new long travel bikes, and then stay through till the Crankworx.

Trond Hansen, Sam Hill, Darren Berrecloth and Brendan Fairclough are all here. The reason that today was so insane is because Trond, Darren, Brendan and I all got to ride together. We were doing laps, filming each other with a POV camera. The things that I saw were ridiculous! We were all riding in a train, and everyone was going crazy. Massive whips, scrubs, yelling, seat bouncing take-offs, high speed manuals, roosting dirt all over the place. I think we got some really good footage but more importantly we all got to ride together and had a wicked time. I hope to get a lot more riding in with the team, I really learned so much because all of those guys pick different lines and ride differently and it really expands the way I see the trail. Stoked!

check here for the helmet cam footage of our runs!

Matty

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