2025 Underexposed featuring Brice Shirbach
Underexposed 2025 is back! Watch the latest Underexposed below!
Underexposed is a self-filmed and produced series by Pivot Cycles athlete Brice Shirbach dedicated to showcasing trail advocacy and stewardship while exploring a variety of trails in places that may be unfamiliar to many. We spend a lot of time praising professional mountain bike athletes and trail builders for what they do, and for the record I’m all for it. While advocacy and volunteerism might lack the sex appeal of other dynamics in mountain biking, the reality is that our sport’s unsung heroes are the ones attending board meetings, and filling out 501c3 forms, and are often the ones answering to the questions and demands of various other trail user groups. Join Brice as he explores the personal motivations behind the effort that goes into mountain bike advocacy while sampling the trails they work so hard for.
Bethel, Maine
Bethel is home to 2,500 people, and is nestled snugly among some of the oldest mountains on the planet, with the tallest peaks of the northeast just a stone’s throw way to the west in New Hampshire, and the rugged Mahoosucs to the north and east of town. It’s a place renowned for its year-round outdoor recreation, with skiing and snowboarding, nordic skiing, fly fishing, paddling, and hiking opportunities in every single direction. Mountain biking is obviously among those opportunities and has been a particularly big part of the fabric of this community in recent years, with Mount Abram opening its bike park in 2019 and Bethel-based Inland Woods and Trails doing amazing work to secure thousands of acres of land, including the 978 acre Bethel Community Forest.
