Showing posts with label mountain bike. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mountain bike. Show all posts
Saturday, June 8, 2019
Mountain bike World Speed Record- 138mph
Not your standard mountain biking video. It's a bike. It's going down a mountain. It's going down a mountain faster than I've ever driven a car, and more than twice as fast as I've ever ridden a bike. One or both of those is probably true for most of you, as well. For this weekend, I'm throwing a little different type of bike stuff at you. Enjoy. We do not sell bikes like this one here at the Block Shop, or in the online store. But we do sell bikes and components that go fast enough for nearly everyone.
Friday, May 24, 2019
Mountain bike Patagonia adventure
As we move into this three day weekend, I wanted to find a really good bike adventure video to inspire you all to think about some kind of bike riding over this three day weekend. This video of trail riding in the backcountry of Patagonia, Chile fills the bill. This just looks like an amazing time on every level. Have fun this weekend, and get a bike out somewhere if you possibly can.
Saturday, April 13, 2019
100 seconds of Brandon Semenuk
This is probably my favorite bike video of the 21st century. The director doesn't think he's Steven freakin' Spielberg, boring us with two minutes of non-riding garbage at the beginning. It's just a short, quick, tight, fast-paced video of absolutely amazing riding.
Danny MacAskill's Wee Day Out
I first encountered trials riders when I got sent to shoot video of America's Sports Mom, Gale Webb, at an early mountain bike event at Mammoth Mountain, in California, in 1988. Mountain biking was pretty new then, as a sport, and most of them didn't have much in the way of bike skills. Former BMX racers ruled the downhill, and former cyclists ruled the cross country. But they also had this crazy trials course set up by the lodge that weekend. Hans Rey, a GT rider all of us BMXers knew of was there, but a guy named Ott Pea, from somewhere in Europe, was The Man. He blew my mind with his riding. Even so, bicycle trials riding was considered highly technical, but kind of lame. They got no respect. That bummed me out, because the stuff they were doing was super hard, AND super scary.
Personally, I was stoked to see Danny MacAskill come along several years ago, doing trials mixed with mountain biking, and some freestyle, and blowing it up in popularity. I decided that after that first introductory post above, the best thing to do next would be to share some of my favorite videos that just make you want to go ride. Though I'm a huge fan of Danny's videos, I'd never seen this one. Like all of them, it's amazing, gnarly, funny, and, more than anything, makes a bike rider want to go ride. Enjoy. -Steve
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