I have been mountain biking and writing for the web since 1996. I ran a mountain bike site back in the 90's and I'm based in the UK and Chamonix. I spend up to half the year in the alps where I do most of my riding. I've ridden and raced both cross country and downhill and now spend my summers freeriding.
Anthill films latest film ‘Strength in Numbers is out in May and from the trailer we can see that Anthill have moved away from the freeride movies. This new offering shows the many varied, some may say disparate elements that we call mountain biking. The official blurb: “Strength in Numbers is a rally call to
Super creative edit from Camp 4 Collective here. C4C are a collective of visual artists, filmmakers, photographers, athletes and editors with some sweet video skills. Carston Oliver is shot hitting some drops and lines in what looks like Utah dirt along with some classic slow mo digging and pushing shots for all the haters. Check
This is a beautiful video capturing the essence of single track riding in the The Alps. Yeti Cycles riders Richie Rude & Joey Schusler visit the Canton of Valais in Switzerland and ride some of the trails around Verbier before heading deeper into the Canton and up to Zermatt. They take the cog railway up
This is a super sick big mountain video from Konaworld. We take a trip with Graham Agassiz up into the alpine to explore some new lines. After getting snowed in they still find some super shots and some old school lines. Agassiz then rides the heli and finds himself in a snowy couloir, taking a
As winter takes over in the northern hemisphere, the season has already kicked off down under. New Zealand is the upcoming mountain bike designation and the Skyline complex and gondola above Queenstown is one of the places to be. It’s NZ’s only lift assisted bike park an provides “500 vertical metres of shapely roots, dark
A new film from The Coastal Crew and produced by Anthill Films, ‘From the inside out’ proves freeride isn’t dead. Shot entirely in British Columbia, Canada and featuring all today’s top freeride stars and a couple of racers; Brandon Semenuk, Steve Smith, Thomas Vanderham, Matt Hunter, Graham Agassiz, Mike Hopkins, Kenny Smith & The Coastal
Hopefully the first in a series of HD videos from The North Face and their hookup with Mike Hopkins. We get to see freerider Mike rocking the xc bike for the first time before he shreds it in typical Hopkins style while putting the 2012 North Face mountain bike gear to the test in Jackson Hole,
The Nukeproof Electron pedals are not a top of the line item, in fact you would think they are more bottom of the line, one season affairs. Their main selling points are price and weight. At 344 grams for the pair, on my scales (Nukeproof claim 338g) they are some of the lightest around and
It’s been a great year for Trek World Racing with both Tracey Moseley and Aaron Gwin taking the World Cup Championship and Gwin dominating the mens series. Gwin also took the most wins in a season crown as well as the most winning American downhill racer. Gwinning indeed. Here’s the season ending video from Val
As it starts to get serious over in Champery, Switzerland for the 2012 World Championships, special bikes are starting to appear. Here’s the Scott Gambler of Nick Beer and the Scott Voltage of Emilie Siegenthaler. Interesting black, could the Gambler be carbon? More shots over on Scott 11 Racing
The 2012 Trek Session lineup looks pretty exciting across the range. If you can manage the £7000.00 for the carbon 9.9 then dive right in as there won’t be many available in the UK. For those on higher budgets the 8 and 88 look pretty nice and get some aluminium armour to protect that down
World Cup racer and Factory Jackson blogger Olie Burton finishes a strong season of racing with some riding in Morzine, France. Looks like he got a rare day in the dry for some runs of the classic Pleney course. Credit – Sam Oakes
Still known as “Mr Megavalanche”, the Swiss rider René Wildhaber hasn’t won the event for a couple of years but has still been on the podium. As a 6 times winner of the event, as well as most of the other downhill endurance marathons, René is more than qualified to talk about what it’s like
It’s episode 7 of series 3 in the Atherton Project and we see Gee and Dan judge the Miss Trail Bunny bikini contest in Whistler and the mechanics have to show their merit and attempt a terrifying backflip but before that, it’s strictly business as the Atherton’s try and grab some points and continue with
Commencal have announced prices and availability of the the new Meta AM. Their description of the bike, “Meta is not a cross-country bike that can descend, but it is most definitely a downhill bike that can climb.” looks like a great idea and with the design taking cues from the V3 Supreme downhill bike we