DARKFEST 2024 | OFFICIAL HIGHLIGHTS EDIT
Watch the Darkfest 2024 Official Highlights edit now and relive jaw-dropping, NBD sends, getting all the BTS commentary from the world’s gnarliest freeride mountain bikers.
Shipwrecked somewhere off the South African cape 2024’s heavy crew delivers 23 solid minutes of the most technically progressive mountain biking ever seen by glassy eyes, along with some savage slams. Not forgetting the small order of Tom Isted landing what was last year’s world-record backflip on his very first attempt at this year’s Darkfest.
“There was a rumour circulating that Isted might hit the 110ft, and then he flipped it first go - that was irresponsible!” - Sam Reynolds
Hit play on a week of unbelievable highlights from Sam Reynolds and mutinying shipmates Adolf Silva, Tom Isted, Brendan Fairclough, Robin Goomes, Theo Erlangsen, Sam Hodgson, Vero Sandler, Kaos Seagrave, Bienvenido Aguado, Johny Salido, Harriet Burbidge-Smith, Nicholi Rogatkin, Kurtis Downs, Vaea Verbeeck, brothers Daniel and Elias Ruso, Matt Jones, Chelsea Kimball, Szymon Godziek, Daniel Ruso, Matt MacDuff, and many others.
“I love that my season begins with Darkfest because you start with the craziest jumps of your life. It gives you this boost of confidence for the rest of the year” - Robin Goomes
“Absolutely a massive progression for worldwide mountain biking, what the riders have here is slim to none in the world” - Theo Erlangsen
See for yourself why 2024’s Darkfest was unlike any other: from Kurtis Downs bringing a shedload of FMX-inspired combo tricks for the first ever time to the step up, to dreams of double backflip trains and riders battling “easily the biggest 180 ever done on a mountain bike” - according to Darkfest OG Matt MacDuff.
