{"id":19962,"date":"2015-05-21T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T07:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/05\/21\/pure-darkness-2-the-garden-route-trail-park-step-up-r2598\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T10:55:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T10:55:21","slug":"pure-darkness-2-the-garden-route-trail-park-step-up-r2598","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/pure-darkness-2-the-garden-route-trail-park-step-up-r2598\/","title":{"rendered":"Pure Darkness 2: The Garden Route Trail Park Step Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pure Darkness team visited the Garden Route Trail Park while down to compete in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikehub.co.za\/features\/_\/articles\/video-the-night-harvest-2015-mtb-highlights-r2301\" rel=\"external nofollow\">The Night Harvest<\/a> in March. Rob Dormehl (the man behind the Trail Park) had big plans for their visit and surprised the riders with a gargantuan pit. Rob and the lads set to work to create possibly the biggest mountain bike dirt jump step up Africa has ever seen. Pure Darkness 2 documents the madness that ensued.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"w-full aspect-video\" contenteditable=\"false\">\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"113\"  frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCvZtbv606Q?feature=oembed\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Created by Dark Media (Tom Grundy, Sam Davies and Jules Langeard)<br \/>Edited by Tom Grundy<br \/>Photos by Eric Palmer<br \/>Riding by Danny Pace, Matt Macduff, Sam Reynolds, Blake Samson, and Dylan Stone<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Monster Energy, Cape Town Ford, Ryan Franklin, Intern (good vibes), The Garden Route Trail Park, Liquid Wrench, Steadidrone, Knysna Tourism Board and everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-91269200-1432202349.jpg\" 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Rob Dormehl (the man behind the Trail Park) had big plans for their visit and surprised the riders with a gargantuan pit. Rob and the lads set to work to create possibly the biggest mountain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48026,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3701,2663,1547,2576,3997,1296,807,3996,788],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-blake-samson","tag-danny-pace","tag-garden-route-trail-park","tag-matt-macduff","tag-monster","tag-monster-energy","tag-pure-darkness","tag-pure-darkness-2","tag-sam-reynolds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19962"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}