Mountain Bikers Are Now Going as Big As Motocross Riders

If you've been paying attention to the crazy videos coming out of The Fest Series lately, especially yesterday's Facebook video from the latest Nitro Circus-sized course that had riders jumping OVER treetops, you know that the rider-inspired slopestyle series is pushing together some of the biggest jumps mountain bikes have ever cleared. 

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Enough so, in fact, that they match pretty well what you'd be hitting if you were a pro motocross rider–with an engine–as evidenced by the highlight video of the Santa Cruz stop of the Series, which culminates with motocross rider Tyler Bereman chasing Andreu Lacondeguy off the biggest table in the course as Andreu cork 3's it. Oh, but we almost forgot about that last backflip...