This will hit you RIGHT IN THE FEELS / Shimano’s “A Dog’s Tale”

Dogs and mountain biking go together like peas and carrots. Even if you haven’t had a dog yourself or have had a dog that rode the trails with you…you can bet most riders have at least had a riding friend that did. There have been a lot of videos featuring dogs that just love to rip the trails with their owner. Shimano took this chance to really feature this with “A Dog’s Tale” and they did an INCREDIBLE JOB with it.

From the point of view of Raven…we look at trail dogs and their stamp on mountain biking…and it is awesome.

A Dogs Tale from Shimano
Emmy and Mitch Gulliver in Squamish, BC

From Shimano:

It all starts with the trail. The crunch of the dirt, the smell of a dewy morning ride, or the feeling of brushing away pebbles with a perfectly timed belly scrub. These are the happy memories of a trail dog’s life well lived.

Raven is a 13-year-old retired trail dog from Squamish, British Columbia who’s spent countless days frolicking on loamy singletrack beneath towering spruces. Old age has slowed her down, and now Raven happily lies in the driveway, watching dog after dog, and their human, head for the hills.

Celebrating the joys of mountain biking through the eyes of the trail dog, Raven takes us from her driveway memories in BC to the high deserts of Utah, to freshly cut South African trails and back again. We meet some of the feistiest, four-legged trail personalities along the way, who all enjoy the mountain bike world in their own way, just like us humans do, whether it’s hitting jump lines, lapping through the loam, or setting out to build new trail.

A Dogs Tale from Shimano
Shimano Dogs with Eric Lawrenuk and ‘Levi’ in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada
A Dogs Tale from Shimano
A Dogs Tale from Shimano
Shimano Dogs with Eric Lawrenuk and ‘Levi’ in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada

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