We have all heard the saying.. Boys will be Boys…As the adventures and crazy opposite sex takes on new lengths of life…a little more daring than us girls would want to try (well MOST). Tyce Jensen of Hooper, Utah (yes my Husband) takes his ideas and actually tries them…after 5 years of this TRIKE brewing in his head…he finally builds it and takes his first ride in September of 2010. Tyce first tried big wheels tires (Off an actual kids big wheel) on this death contraption of his. Taking a crash test dummy…his friend Ted Nielson on a test run…after 3 rides down Farmington Canyon road…the wheels melted completely off! So it was back to the drawing board…Or the hardware store!
Tyce tried a different pair of wheels and he had success! Tyce and Ted went on many rides before snow hit. (I even went down with no helmet, no gloves and a short sleeve shirt, strongly not suggested) These Boys decided that Farmington Canyon just wasn’t a big enough rush anymore. Tyce got even beefier tires and they tried North Ogden Divide. Snow hit and that season was over.
Tyce tried a different pair of wheels and he had success! Tyce and Ted went on many rides before snow hit. (I even went down with no helmet, no gloves and a short sleeve shirt, strongly not suggested) These Boys decided that Farmington Canyon just wasn’t a big enough rush anymore. Tyce got even beefier tires and they tried North Ogden Divide. Snow hit and that season was over.
As soon as the roads were clear again you could see these Trikes traveling down faster than a car. They added a new rider Kevin Potter to the bunch. They took him down Farmington Canyon to get him use to it…Kevin was shaking with adrenaline…After several days of riding they decided they wanted to try Powder Mountain road (which is a 9% grade).
Driving to the top, they had many people stopping and talking to them and mountain bikers excited, this one guy rode down just to watch…of course all of the spectators told them they were completely crazy…but was thrilled to watch anyway. The hill racers caught some serious speed…so the next time they got a speedometer to attach to the Trike and clocked 50 mph…until they finally hit 55 mph. Now this roads speed limit is 40 mph…
After several trips up to Powder Mountain Road. I called Devin Graham a director/filmer who is well known on youtube. He brought his friend Jace Leroy with him and spent the day in fast, rugged terrain with us…They filmed all day…the challenge was to have the trikes stay behind the van. I was driving with the two camera men hanging out of the back of the van, in order to get the footage needed.
These trikes are built for speed and want to go fast, so they were burning through shoes like crazy. These shoes smelled terrible as the pavement melted them to pieces, and they were smoking…even chunks would fling out from the back. The shoes are the brakes you see…the trikes are not equipped with brakes…One trike has a hand brake but it doesn’t even slow you down! When you drag your feet it gives you better direction, a control over the bike. At 30 mph the bike is shaking and feels like it is going to fall apart. (37 mph is my record). There are some super tight turns on this road and one side is a drop off. This only adds to the excitement, right?!
At one point of the filming Devin Graham is hanging out of the passenger side window at nearly 50 mph filming the trikers in front of us, he has a rope tied around his waist and Jace Leroy is holding the rope as Devin hangs as far as he can out the window to get this epic footage! During that part, the trikers stopped abruptly and I slam on my brakes, camera gear is flying forward in the van, Jace fly’s forward and I thought for sure we would loose Devin out the window. Luck has it cameras, trikers, camera men all survived.
Driving to the top, they had many people stopping and talking to them and mountain bikers excited, this one guy rode down just to watch…of course all of the spectators told them they were completely crazy…but was thrilled to watch anyway. The hill racers caught some serious speed…so the next time they got a speedometer to attach to the Trike and clocked 50 mph…until they finally hit 55 mph. Now this roads speed limit is 40 mph…
After several trips up to Powder Mountain Road. I called Devin Graham a director/filmer who is well known on youtube. He brought his friend Jace Leroy with him and spent the day in fast, rugged terrain with us…They filmed all day…the challenge was to have the trikes stay behind the van. I was driving with the two camera men hanging out of the back of the van, in order to get the footage needed.
These trikes are built for speed and want to go fast, so they were burning through shoes like crazy. These shoes smelled terrible as the pavement melted them to pieces, and they were smoking…even chunks would fling out from the back. The shoes are the brakes you see…the trikes are not equipped with brakes…One trike has a hand brake but it doesn’t even slow you down! When you drag your feet it gives you better direction, a control over the bike. At 30 mph the bike is shaking and feels like it is going to fall apart. (37 mph is my record). There are some super tight turns on this road and one side is a drop off. This only adds to the excitement, right?!
At one point of the filming Devin Graham is hanging out of the passenger side window at nearly 50 mph filming the trikers in front of us, he has a rope tied around his waist and Jace Leroy is holding the rope as Devin hangs as far as he can out the window to get this epic footage! During that part, the trikers stopped abruptly and I slam on my brakes, camera gear is flying forward in the van, Jace fly’s forward and I thought for sure we would loose Devin out the window. Luck has it cameras, trikers, camera men all survived.
This whole day I had riders Andrew May, Andrew Voyles, Kevin Potter, Ted Nielson, and Tyce Jensen, Camera men Devin Graham and Jace Leroy’s lives in my hands…and they thought riding down this hill was an adrenaline rush! The cargo van that we drove had two back doors that swung open, we pulled them wide open and strapped them that way, the camera men could hang out of it, this blocked the tail lights and the view on the opposite side of the road…there was some close calls due to this, and they all were my husband Tyce!
Jace Leroy hiked up this huge mountain side to get an angle that will fool your eyes to believe it was a helicopter shot! I laugh just thinking about this day, cause Jace says” I think I will hike up the mountain to get a shot” I look down at his feet (which was barefoot most the time of filming) and I see his flip flops… I said “You’re going hiking in your flip, flops?” He actually had a pair of shoes in the car. There was a crash this day, our first crash while going down a road…Devin happened to get it on film…I thought the crash was going to involve Devin and his camera as well. So the Trikers are coming down the mountain road…the scariest turn ahead and Kevin turns too sharp, his butt slides right off the seat which makes the trike, his cell phone and Kevin tumbling all over the road, he gets up and Kevin still has the handle to the trike in his hand…his grip was so tight it took it clean off!
The thing you wouldn’t know without taking these trikes on a ride is, you are going so fast that you are being pelted with bugs and with little rocks on the road from your front tire as well as from the rider in front of you. A full helmet, with a face guard is ideal. There is some huge niches in the trikes…A little road rash and a leg puncher from stunt man Ted, sore muscles a few tasty bugs but you know… “Boys will be Boys” and I must be the crazy girl out there cheering them on. Yes I do enjoy a ride on the trikes occasionally; I prefer doing tricks…rather than going fast! So are you ready to embrace your childhood again and go for a ride?! Keep your eyes out you might be passed by a trike on a steep hill on day!
Jace Leroy hiked up this huge mountain side to get an angle that will fool your eyes to believe it was a helicopter shot! I laugh just thinking about this day, cause Jace says” I think I will hike up the mountain to get a shot” I look down at his feet (which was barefoot most the time of filming) and I see his flip flops… I said “You’re going hiking in your flip, flops?” He actually had a pair of shoes in the car. There was a crash this day, our first crash while going down a road…Devin happened to get it on film…I thought the crash was going to involve Devin and his camera as well. So the Trikers are coming down the mountain road…the scariest turn ahead and Kevin turns too sharp, his butt slides right off the seat which makes the trike, his cell phone and Kevin tumbling all over the road, he gets up and Kevin still has the handle to the trike in his hand…his grip was so tight it took it clean off!
The thing you wouldn’t know without taking these trikes on a ride is, you are going so fast that you are being pelted with bugs and with little rocks on the road from your front tire as well as from the rider in front of you. A full helmet, with a face guard is ideal. There is some huge niches in the trikes…A little road rash and a leg puncher from stunt man Ted, sore muscles a few tasty bugs but you know… “Boys will be Boys” and I must be the crazy girl out there cheering them on. Yes I do enjoy a ride on the trikes occasionally; I prefer doing tricks…rather than going fast! So are you ready to embrace your childhood again and go for a ride?! Keep your eyes out you might be passed by a trike on a steep hill on day!
~Tyce Jensen & Hill Racers, can be found on Facebook.
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| This is Powder Mountain road from across the valley, just to show you how steep and curvy it is! |
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| Tyce, Ted and Kevin, geared up to try Powder mountain for the first time! 9/2011 |
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| Ted, Kevin, Danielle and Tyce after Riding Powder Mountain |
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| Hill Racers |
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| The Helmet that took the blow in the Crash! |
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| Ted burned the sole completely out of his shoe! |
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| Devin and Tyce, Ted in the back ground! |
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| Jace Leroy, Tyce Jensen, Danielle Jensen, Devin Graham |
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| Jace films Devin as he straps a camera to the helmet of Tyce Don't Miss the Video, Check it out! http://youtu.be/CRD8AUg2ApE |
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