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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  • http://www.specialized.com/us/en/bc/SBCBkFamily.jsp?sid=12P.Series&scid=1103

    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 ski as much as I can.

Sponsors: Specialized, Shimano, Clif Bar, Chromag, MRP, IXS, Fox Racing Shox, Dakine, Contour

Iceland Mission begins

September 1, 2009

I am sitting on the Toronto airport now, waiting for my flight to Iceland. Last night was my little sister’s wedding so I am feeling really tired, I was up late dancing and then woke up early to get on the plane. Although I’m tired I am really excited because I think this Iceland trip is going to be amazing. I am meeting with photographer Sterling Lorence, writer Mitchell Scott, and riders Andrew Shandro and Joe Schwartz. The other guys are a day and a half ahead of me because I had the wedding to attend.

They have been sending me text messages about how great it is and Sterl sent me a phone pic of sweet looking singletrack that they rode today. I can’t wait.

I usually travel with a demo 8 in my Dakine bike box, but for this trip I brought my new Sworks Enduro. For the first time ever I didn’t have to haggle with the airline about my bike box being overweight! I have been doing a lot of research into the trails and terrain that we are going to ride, and from the shots I have seen Iceland looks like a trail riders’ dream. I also found that there are gnomes in Iceland. They are really hard to see but I am going to keep an eye out while I am there, I really want to see a gnome because we don’t have any in Canada.

5 more hours to go! I’ll update here as soon as I can.

Matty

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