The Naked Banana Bandits

06/16/2025

Hello Bandits and Banditos,

Today, I share another MTB riding video. Today's video is from a series I started back in Season 1 called 'Dissekted!'

What is Dissekted? What is DISSEKTED? It's not a spelling mistake. This is where we look at trails, technical trail features or the fundamentals of MTB'ing by analyzing and sharing key details about a specific topic. It's essentially a 'How To' for certain maneuvers or trail features

Remember to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Share my videos so I can grow my channel, quit my day job, and especially insurance 😊!

Click on the link to be directed to the video. https://youtu.be/GNAF2jcLn_Q

Be sure to check out my other videos and hit me up if you ever want to get into the sport and have a knowledgeable guy teach you the basics or improve on a specific skill or conquer a specific feature.

06/09/2025

Hello Bandits and Banditos,

Today, I want to share the update to my Butt Pucker Factor Rating System that I use in all my videos.

The new (and comical) Butt Pucker Trail Rating System (BPRS) Rating Index:
🍩= 0 Totally chill, no stress
🌬️=1 Barely a twitch
🥹= 2 Mild concern
😳= 3 Hmm, something's off
😟= 4 Getting a little tight
😯= 5 Noticeable clench
😣= 6 Actively puckered
🐢=7 Butt cheeks fully engaged and p**p almost came out
🤬= 8 Serious survival instincts almost blew my O-Ring, squeezing so tightly
💩 = 9 Near disaster, clenched hard, and needed to change my pants/underwear
🚽= 10 Full puckered and catastrophe

06/04/2025

Hello Bandits and Banditos,

Today, I share another MTB riding video. My newest series for Season 2 videos is called ‘Blue-tiful Trails.’ These are all about the trails that everyone loves to ride. Not all of us can bomb Double-Blacks or are sponsored by Red Bull. I know most of us have jobs, families, responsibilities, and hopefully insurance, so we ride for the most enjoyment and not YouTube Subscriptions.

Remember, I am a 50-year-old rider who just likes to share his and his friends' experiences, growth, and development riding some trails.

Some are Beginner trails and features to Double Black Slabs. Sometimes, I take a chicken line (because I am not feeling it), sometimes it’s a spill or crash that are just part of mountain biking and living.

Remember to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Share my videos so I can grow my channel, quit my day job, and especially insurance 😊!

So this is the first major ride that I have completed since my major crash earlier this year on the Whale's Back feature on Entrails in Squamish BC. I ended ...

02/06/2025

Thought I would share some of the photos that I take from the work locations I get to visit when not doing 'Naked Banana Bandit' things.

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12/24/2024

My pants (Monkey Pox) and winter hoodies (400 gsm poly-cotton) are in.

These are demo's but I have my gear coming out soon.

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11/26/2024

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY:

You are holding a cup of coffee when someone comes along and bumps into you or shakes your arm, making you spill your coffee everywhere.
Why did you spill the coffee?

"Because someone bumped into me!!!"

WRONG ANSWER

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup.

Had there been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

Therefore, when life comes along and shakes you (which WILL happen), whatever is inside you will come out. It's easy to fake it until you get rattled.
So we have to ask ourselves... “what's in my cup?"

When life gets tough, what spills over?

Joy, gratitude, peace, and humility?

Anger, bitterness, victim mentality, and quitting tendencies?

Life provides the cup. YOU choose how to fill it.

Today, let's work towards filling our cups with gratitude, forgiveness, joy, words of affrmation, resilience, positivity; and kindness, gentleness, and love for others.

SHARE AS YOU SEE FIT

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11/08/2024

We have lost one of our own. We need you help

Please watch our newest video and look for clues on their whereabouts.

WE CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH that we really need to find his bike😭😭😭😭🤣🤣🤣🤣

09/14/2024

Our newest MTB Ride video is out. Today, I ride a Black + (Advanced) Trail, originally called Angry Midget, for the first time.

**Remember all my videos are done through the Blind (1st Time with no local guide) Rider Lens.

Head over to our Instagram Account and be sure to follow us over there for up-to-date posts on our adventures.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C_55YxlvTvs/

Click on the link, https://youtu.be/ufbcEcl4MSI and it'll redirect you to the video and my YouTube Channel, where there are other great videos to inspire you to 'Get Out and Ride.'

Remember to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Share my videos so I can grow my channel and quit my day job.

🤙 Thanks for your support! Go out and Ride! Nature is Calling! Live Life until you Die!

All Inquiries: [email protected] ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Shout out to my long standing supporters, sponsor, including my current and future followers.

08/31/2024

Here's a few hints on what the next video release is going to be?

The full face was overkill for this video and ride because I was going to do Poacher or Cortez Planks but my Gopro SD card shot bed and had to re-ride video #2 from today.

Remember to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Share my videos so I can grow my channel and quit my day job.

🤙 Thanks for your support! Go out and Ride! Nature is Calling! Live Life until you Die!

All Inquiries: [email protected] ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬
Shout out to my current followers, future followers and:

08/27/2024

Hello Bandits and Banditos,

Todays trail ambassador 'Grizz' is showing his support for this video by giving it a 'High 5!'

Today I, along with Pat, ride Meadow of the Grizzly in Squamish, BC. This is usually a Blue (Intermediate), but because of recent weather events it's been upgraded to a Black (Advanced).

Click on the link, https://youtu.be/EkxTJAuKrFI and it'll redirect you to the video and my YouTube Channel, where there are other great videos to inspire you to 'Get Out and Ride.'

Remember to Like, Subscribe, Follow and Share my videos so I can grow my channel and quit my day job.

🤙 Thanks for your support! Go out and Ride! Nature is Calling! Live Life until you Die!

All Inquiries: [email protected] ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

Shout out to my current followers, future followers and: