Video: The Never Ending Summer in Malaga by gee-milner

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aline-coaching-gaz FL (Feb 21, 2014 at 14:05)

non of these boys heard of Dane Searls???
www.pinkbike.com/news/Dane-Searls-a-giant-has-passed-2011.html

Good vid apart from that!

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sherbet (Feb 21, 2014 at 14:22)

Not to be rude, and I'm a huge fan of Searls, but why post this? Don't see the relevance.

RIP Dane. Hope you knew how much we all loved you, and you know how much work you did for the sport.

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aline-coaching-gaz FL (Feb 21, 2014 at 14:29)

Dane Sears killed himself jumping into a swimming pool just like in this vid. Just don't really find things like that a very good way to represent yourself or a company (riders at this level) when such a massive player in the bike game was killed doing the same thing just a few years ago. no offence, but I don't know how you have missed the relevance.

As I said, sweet riding though - lets concentrate on that!

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gee-milner (Feb 21, 2014 at 14:41)

whats life if we don't have fun? You could say the same about the boys riding DH.. plenty of people have been killed doing that, so maybe they shouldn't ride DH?

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sherbet (Feb 21, 2014 at 14:45)

Also not sure why I'm getting negative props for asking about one of my heros. Sometimes this community disappoints me.

I agree with what Gee said. People have died so many tragic ways over the years. We could say "don't jump into pools, it's dangerous" but to an extent, that goes without saying. It's called a calculated risk.

I missed the relevance because the way Searls died wasn't hugely important to me. His life is what was important.

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Its-That-Guy (Feb 23, 2014 at 0:47)

Thanks for posting that up sherbet, haven't seen those Searls vids in a while.

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LaXcarp FL (Feb 23, 2014 at 4:56)

Plenty of people have been killed from dh? Not so sure about that

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sherbet (Feb 23, 2014 at 5:19)

I don't mean to drag this out, so I'm only posting the one example, but yes, people do die riding and racing DH. It's a sad fact of the sport that what we do is dangerous, and realistically, we have fairly minimal protection for the speeds we're going. That's life though, and I'm not about to sell my bike to possibly avoid an accident. I'd rather live a short life than exist for a long one.

www.bikeradar.com/news/article/mountain-bike-innovator-mark-reynolds-dies-at-sea-otter-15945

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MatthewCarpenter (Feb 23, 2014 at 9:31)

You are right, a few people do pass away each year in the billions of hours people ride their bike, race their bike, push the limits of themselves or even their sport, doing what they love.
On the other hand quite a few people die in attempts to jump in a pool, not improving whatsoever skills but just useless random acts that imply a easily underestimated risk of injury. It might be seldom that people injure themselves this way, but when they do it's often serious or even fatal. It's just not a thing worth supporting or spreading.

Anyways, cool vid. And actually, winter hasn't been that bad in Austria, some winter days felt more like September or October.

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aline-coaching-gaz FL (Feb 21, 2014 at 22:57)

Haha. This is getting out of hand. I'm sure many people would agree that playing a dangerous sport is calculated and if you get injured or worse than at least it was for a purpose, your passion. When someone gets hurt or worse from participating in random dangerous acts that are known to have fatal implications, is that really worth it. Trust me I am all for fun, I'm not down playing that, just don't really agree with seeing this sort of 'fun', there are a lot of impressionable people on the Internet that may decide to copy this and it has the potential to not go as good as in the vid. As I keep bringing the conversation back though - good riding and filming haha!!!!

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slayerdegnar (Feb 23, 2014 at 21:27)

Man, you would shit your pants if you watched Nitro Circus...

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aline-coaching-gaz FL (Feb 24, 2014 at 1:33)

I love watching nitro circus. You obviously don't like reading to say that. Typical American

read the comments above lol.

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nial-tv (Feb 23, 2014 at 3:13)

But yes as Topdog-gaz says, "lets focus on the riding" this is primarily a riding video. The jumps are just a clip of what we got up to on holiday. Sorry if it dug up past memories or offended some people, but it is about the riding!

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nial-tv (Feb 23, 2014 at 2:45)

I think it is slightly unfair to make comparisons to Danes death and our pool jumping. Firstly there were other factors that contributed to his death such as jumping in head first. Also we jumped in, in a safe way, what you dont see is that the majority of us who did jump spent a lot of time on the roof deliberating if it was safe. I understand that his death is fresh in everyone's mind, but are you going to post about him on every lake jump video or possibly Cam Mccauls backyard pool jump?

Either wasy it was a sick holiday and I dont regret a thing. Yes it could of gone wrong, but it didnt due to us doing it sensibly and safley.

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euanbugler (Feb 23, 2014 at 3:18)

WARNING: These stunts were performed by professional stunt men. Do not attempt these stunts at home or when drunk!

No one died in the filming of this video, Gee tested it on animals first.

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ianbrit18 (Feb 23, 2014 at 8:34)

Everything in life could kill us. I say this after having a heart attack last year just chill out abit. Awesome edit gee just to end YOLO

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fulldiscdegeneration (Feb 23, 2014 at 17:15)

Be careful of what you wish for, never ending summer sound romantic for those who have seasons or some kind of winter at some point. But spend years on eternal hot cimate, grease and sweating face, can be gruelling.

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bigd8006 (Feb 22, 2014 at 18:46)

So I just bought a nukeproof pulse and it arrived today. The first video I watch on PB today has two of them in it. Its a sign time to ride.

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Flausy (Feb 23, 2014 at 5:53)

Damn you pinkbike! You always feel the need to remind us of our crappy weather

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NukeProofScalp1 (Feb 23, 2014 at 12:00)

Sick riding tracks looks flowy

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foxdigit (Feb 23, 2014 at 17:09)

wow cant even watch this video shit I miss this

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The-Catalan-Rider (Feb 22, 2014 at 13:24)

The only wealth in spain is his sun.

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Rubinios29 (Feb 23, 2014 at 4:53)

y su unico problema, la gente como tu

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The-Catalan-Rider (Feb 23, 2014 at 5:14)

His major problem is systematic corruption and a total lack of industry. Tourism and nonsense construction is all you'll find. I'm not not part of your country in any way I'm definitely not spaniard and surely don't want to.