PURE DARKNESS 3 | A MONTH IN THE MAKING

In 2015 the crew expanded to include Adam Williams , Blake Samson and Dylan Stone as they headed to South Africa’s Garden Route Trail Park. What happened next could not have been predicted but the brain child of Sam Reynolds and Matt Macduff was born – Pure Darkness 2, The Step Up. This trip broke boundaries in what was possible on a bike and the final edit left people questioning what the hell they were thinking.

On the 4th of January 2016 Sam Reynolds and Matt Macduff returned to the Garden Route Trail Park, their new home for the next 6 weeks. The machinery has arrived and building commenced for Pure Darkness. On the 1st of February Sam and Matt will be joined by videographer Tom Grundy and a line up of Pure Darkness riders to unleash chaos once again.

Sam Reynolds – “The childhood dream of turning a field into the raddest jumps of all time may finally becoming true! We have two machines, we have the field and we have the 60ft roll in tower, all we need to do now is build the raddest dirt jumps of all time!!” Matt Macduff – “Super stoked on how everything`s kicked off, and even more stoked to be working with Reynold’s on such an epic project! There’s not a doubt in my mind, Pure Darkness 3.0 is going too set new standards for `Big Air MTB` and become corner stone of mountain bike progression.”

Since they broke ground, Sam Reynolds and Matt Macduff have been based out of the Garden Route Trail Park in South Africa for a little over two weeks, working towards making their dream dirt set up a reality. With a mammoth task ahead of them they set about resurrecting the colossal step up from 2015. Shaping and patting in the lip on this beast took nearly 2 days alone. Meanwhile Macduff set about piling up the tonnage that is needed for the new line.

Not happy with building the most insane line of their lives alone they took some time to cut out a mini bike track to keep the fun alive during the heavy building task ahead.

Sam Reynolds – “The Biggest challenge so far has been shaping the 30ft lip for the step up. It took probably a day and a half of pretty hard slapping” Matt Macduff – “`You know its like a painter, painting a painting and you look at it 3/4 way though, It looks terrible right? Well its the same with our dirt jumps”