Joyride started and ended as a personal project. We had a very clear idea from the beginning - show people the importance of enjoying our sport and teach them how wonderful it is Catalonia and our national riders. When the project was as wanted we looked for brands to sponsor the documentary, and we really appreciate that The Bike Village, Saracen, Intense, Livebikes and RS7 have trusted our project.
Joyride leaves the competition apart and enter to the daily lives of riders. We wanted to show not only the run down the slope, the trick over the gap... but the vibes that surround the event, the session, the moment, and whats more important... The JOY you get by the RIDE.Which after all, is the essence of the extreme sports lifestyle.
Filming in La Poma Bikepark during carnival was completely madness, this photo describes how it was. Two weeks after that Andreu Lacondeguy won the Red Bull Rampage 2014, we filmed with him and he reviewed his year and told us what he expects of freeride in the next years.Freeride lines used to be quite difficult to ride, now imagine filming freeride, seems easy? Nah.We filmed with Bernat Via in Barcelona and Manresa. In the documentary we tried to do something different... Check it out, it's in the beginning!In one segment we take a look at the competition with Saracen-Funn-Madison team, not from an elite rider point of view, but on a regular rider daily basis. And also we can see how a team spend their free time on a racing weekend.
Bernat Guardia, Guillem Jorba, Daniel Algarra and Pol Romero, riders of GoPro-Intense team having fun in Vallnord.Filming Enduro with Aleix Puig in Montseny... That's a beautiful place in Catalonia!!I hope you enjoyed the film, It's my first huge project and there are some errors, but I love the experience that I had around this! THANKS PEOPLE!! JOYRIDE ROCKS!
Photos:Cristobal Batlle
Carmen Herrero
Sergio Garcia
Esteve Dellonder
Josep Cuberes
Mentions: @intensecyclesusa @SaracenBikes @KoastalForest
You use it and love it? Great. You hate it and would never use it? Great. There seem to be pretty strong OPINIONS on this. Hating on others in this public forum, for embracing or not this or any piece of technology or style of riding, or frame material, or wheel size etc. is asinine. Make a reasoned and supported argument if you so please, but the rants really serve little purpose other than to troll.
I got my first mountain bike in 1984. I had been racing road bikes for years and thought I was enjoying it, but wasn't. It was competition ever ride. There was no joy. It was just riding to be the fastest, every moment of every ride, all the time. I had "No Pain - No Gain" stickers on my stem for motivation. One ride I had a serious crash that destroyed my bike, put me in the hospital for a week, kept me in a neck brace for months, and without a sense of smell and taste for years. That was when I got my first mountain bike, a Bianchi Grizzly. Fully rigid, welded steel bull-moose handle bars, bear trap pedals, and a hite-rite. It was the most awesome thing ever (at least at the time I thought it was). I rode this bike as I recovered and as I did I rediscovered the actual joy and fun in riding a bike.
I had a new road bike built by a local custom builder, rejoined my team, and went on to race many seasons after that. No matter how well I placed there was never any joy. It just wasn't.... fun. After a while I sold the road bike and switched to mountin biking full time. So when I read the sub-titles in this short film and how riding isn't fun any more, how it used to be when they'd ride together and be happy, now with Strava they're always racing, by themselves, never waiting for their buddies, nervous.....
You know what, if Strava looking over your shoulder is what you want then more power to you. Seriously, good for you. I hope you get what you want out of it. It probably is an awesome training tool. Helll, if it had been available back in the day I'd have probably used it too. But not when I rode my mountain bike. I'm entering a couple races this summer. I'll train my best and what comes will come. I do know one thing. When I do ride my races I'm going to have fun.
Oh, as for kids games and winners/loosers: I'm all for it. I'm so sick of the pussification of todays world, but thats for another conversation.
Now has anyone seen my cane? I need to hobble off to my SB66, go out and have a fun ride.
No you're not drunk, the thing is that Nazi propaganga and censorship is relentless. Replies against all the political BS that idiots like the-wanker-rider vomit every day are banned.
Hey Pinkbike, you better control this gang of catalan fascists you have on your payroll.
Although, this site is not for talk about political problems ehh!!
You need to get checked out.
but WHY the throwing rocks off cliffs at 5:50????
thought that was part of "dont do 101" for being in the mountains?