Haven't been riding, don't have the time. Was hogged with exams and important stuff such as selecting and buying my future home!
Hopefully I'll be able to put my wheels into the dirt this weekend. There's a new episode (second last sadly) of Life Behind Bars. There's also a new episode of Mountain Bike Chronicles and I'm glad they changed the irritating commentator.
Watch the new episodes here:
Life Behind Bars Episode 17
Mountain Bike Chronicles Season 2 Episode 10
Here's another spectacular 1 minute of riding for your aesthetic enjoyment
The annual Fox Hunt happened again with Gee Atherton being the fox again. Its a really fun event to ride in, this year it took place at Cavehill Country Park, Belfast. As usual, the course is extremely muddy, and many riders actually have difficulties riding through them.
Gee was again the fox, and the riders have a 20 seconds head start and Gee was suppose to overtake them. Surprisingly for this year, Gee had better results which was second, the winner was apparently a Belfast local name Greg. Moreover, I think the reason that Dan wasn't participating is pretty obvious, he would simply outrun everyone consider his track records now in Enduro.
View the 2012 Fox Hunt here.
2011 Fox Hunt
The 2011 Fox Hunt had a more impressive starting line though.
Read an article on The New Paper yesterday about a Swedish dude, Mr Erik Ohlson riding from Sweden to Singapore (how does the roads even link?!). Anyway he arrived in Singapore yesterday which is the final stop of his riding expedition. Salutations to him for completing a feat this crazy, a longer distant then the Chinese students that rode to Singapore from China the other time. More information can be found here.
Anyway it's the Tuesday where everyone is stoked to view another episode of Life Behind Bars, this time Semenuk and Peat take on the streets with their new BMX frames. They seem to be able to ride any kind of terrain and bikes thrown at them, great episode watch it right here.
"This is Peaty", the show featuring Steve Peat, legendary downhill mountain biker has come to an end. Hilarious episode (well so to speak every episode is funny as hell), showing Peaty and Brook Macdonald heading to Chiang Mai in Thailand for some crazy fun and hitting the local trails.
At the Chiang Mai Downhill Challenge, Peaty took the first place at the downhill challenge, and some local guy won the big air.
And it seems like every single brand that Aaron Gwin wore in World Cup races is promoting his autographed products as contest prizes. Previously there was the jersey and now, Bell helmets autographed by Gwin! Just log on to facebook and does the following steps for your chance to win.
It's the Tuesday where you get a new episode of Life Behind Bars. Lots of Rampage action and Semenuk goes rally racing and finished with amazing results. Guess he's talented with anything that calls for speed.
Previously, I posted my thoughts about Urban DH races, and in these races, there are legends such as Cedric Gracia. Cedric Gracia, or commonly known as CG, is a legend in downhill mountain biking. He can be seen in most UCI races, Redbull events such as Rampage and urban downhill races, and never fail to impress the crowd with a trick or two during his race runs.
This is one of the insane races that CG had taken part in, takes someone with balls of steel to ride down a course this gnarly.
CG pulling some tricks in his UCI DH run at Fort William, 1:00 onwards.
However in a recent practice run, CG had a massive crash and will probably take awhile to recover despite him being a beast. Get well soon dude.
The Athertons have been a powerhouse in the downhill, 4x, and recently the enduro scene. They are arguably the most celebrated family for the sport, as their team is very much different from the others (formed by family members, until the recent adoption of Marc Beaumont).
The series of four by three films featuring the Atherton family has finally come to an end. The last rider featured in the series by Clay Porter will be none other then Gee Atherton, 2008 World Champs (Silver this year, 2012) and 2010 UCI Overall Title Winner.
Gee created the famous step-down to wall-ride in the 2010 Rampage where he was placed 2nd, that particular spot in Utah is now known as the "Gee Gap" today.
Redbull Moments: Massive Step-down to Wall-ride
So Gee was set for the 2012 Rampage in the latest four by three episode, despite his injuries he is still determined to ride, till a gnarly crash finally got the better of him, and he decided not to take any further risk.
Here's a trailer of his episode featuring the gnarly crash.
Due to my injury I haven't been riding, its getting bored, but wells, went to the docs, took an x-ray and hey, its only a crack so its fine, and I can be on my bike again like now. Oh and the medical bills wasn't insane either, polyclinic had improved their serving time surprisingly, took me only about 2 hours to get everything done and it cost less than $30.00.
Wanted to hit the trails yesterday, geared up, pumped my bike and upon pedalling out of my block, it started raining. Was a good choice to head back home, cause it started pouring and didn't stop till evening.
Spend my day watching Where the Trail Ends again and Fabien Barel Presents, and of course its the Wednesday where there's a new episode of Life Behind Bars (new episode every 2 weeks on Tuesday/Wednesday if your in SG). You can view it here:
Life Behind Bars - Episode 14
Check out the movie here or download it via iTunes! Its worth the money.
Well firstly, congratulations Dan Atherton for winning the Super Enduro Pro 6 Finale Ligure! Full coverage can be read on the GT site.
Secondly, a little late I know, but I'm glad that Kurt Sorge won the Red Bull Rampage 2012, and Brandon Semenuk took the 2012 FMB world tour overall title. Though Brandon had his bad days at diamond events, he still managed to grab the overall title again, 2 consecutive years now. Oh wait, GOD DAMN TREK, their riders took all the overall title for Elite Men's DH/FMB World Tour for 2011 and 2012!
Well after all the "you don't say" stuff I've talked about in this post, chill out with some pilgrimage in Japan.
Have you watched Premium Rush? The movie talks about the messengers of NY City, and how they risk their lives on the line for speedy delivery of the packages entrusted to them.
Joseph Gordan-Levitt stars as Wiley, a messenger that rides a fixie. Lots of bike actions are featured in the movie, in particular there's a sequence which a familiar name to our ears was used as a double for Wiley, Danny MacAskill.
An article stating that Danny was in the movie.
Danny: “I take a run and then jump up onto a long line of jersey barriers, and then jump up from those up onto the top of the van and onto a cherry picker. Ride down the boom of the cherry picker and then, as I land, there’s a fence, which is about 2½ feet in front of me. I’ve got to body hop over that and then zoom around some other cars and then go up onto a flatbed truck. From there, I hop onto the roof then down onto a walkway. At the end, after I come off the roof onto the long walkway, I jump from that off a car.”
