Video: Ride With Me in Aosta

 Because he watches videos on Pinkbike and that's how the kids ride bikes these days?

 Hope they don't shot their next vid on my trails. I'll have to send the next week fixing them!

 I was thinking that too... maybe something wrong with the rear brake...

 I agree, the skidding sucks I always wonder how long it'll take until regions will close their trails for bikes

 because he is german ?

 even Germans should be able to repair their rear brakes isn't it?

 Basically a video of a blocked rear wheel destroying trails in a region that hasnt seen so much mountain biking yet. Good job. Keep it up guys !

 This video sucked. Your in Switzerland, not Tibet. And quit destroying our trails.

 @boardlife69
why are you talking about tibet? Aosta is in italia right?
And I'm confused as there is an Aoste in France, and an Aosta In Italia (that we called Aoste in french)

 Can't help to shralp when their is mud like that! That was pure awesomeness, thank you :-D

 @Boardlife69: it's Italy, zede is right
@zede: Aosta is in Italy, it used to be French (they partly even still speak French)

 I agree with you guys but at the same time it shows the essence of how ironic is our sport when it comes to the "spirit of Mountain Biking". I find this thought as sad as liberating and showing some good direction in which we should be heading. What I mean is that we go to the mountains to get in connection with the nature, feeling small, overwhelmed by their beauty and size, we may feel elated, transcendental by even thinking about it. But the truth is we go there on a piece of toxic elements with two wheels, dressed up in wasp attracting coloured plastic clothing, and we are often more concerned about saving this moment on SD card of a camera or GoPro than absorbing the surrounding. On top of that many of us shred the ground surface and make plenty of noise, if only from squeling brakes. Then we often travel to those places burning sht loads of fossil fuels, expecting that we will find happiness elsewhere as if we were a part of it, as if it was our actual environment. No it isn't, it is an escape and we are intruders, and real life, source of joy is where we are. Just a thought

 WAKI: That's one wise thought!

 Yes scrubbs and skids are fun, we all love them, it's just that they are like jokes about immigrants, there is time and place for them.

 Sorry I was thinking of Arosa. I watched and commented before my coffe was ready this morning. My bad.

 It all depends on the terrain. Some trails get rutted and puddled and ruined from skidding, some can handle it just fine. Haters gonna hate. All the amateur riders who only know how to ride sitting down in a straight line (which is okay by the way) will downvote this comment though. Just don't act like ALL trails need to be ridden 29er XC style.

 How does one ride a 29er in XC style?

 Usually preserving energy for distance rather than wasting it on style. That wasn't a slam on 29ers or XC.

 get of over it trail nazis! that trail was in the middle of nowhere and full of loose turns. skidding is part of the ride when going fast on those types of trails. no harm, no foul.

 Goodwins law has been proved once more!

 It's 'Godwin' not 'Goodwin'. But excellent job at dodging the topic!

 Im all about preventing erosion and keeping trails nice and tidy, but if it is an official mountain bike trail with good drainage and was built well i say shred it, this looks like a hiking trail and maybe it should stay that way. Even the XC riders going straight down the hill can mess up a trail that wasnt made for bikes. Also i love riding XC, but lets be honest it isnt as fun to watch as downhill.

 Reminds me of every car commercial where the car is doing high speed doghnuts in a parking lot. Thats how we all drive right?
Movies need dramma. Shralping is dramatic.
The mountain shots are beautiful.

 aaah the "famous towels on sunbeds" issue
two solutions :
radical option : put the towels in the water, and then throw it in the grass/sand
naive/peacefull option: go in the swimming pool/sea and use the towel as if you thought it was a gift from the hotel

 try not to skid the trail up too much when you go

 That ain't my style. I go through 2-3 sets of front brake pads while the rear are still mint. I'd prefer to carry speed or brake in a controlled manner, since my rear wheel on my hardtail has traction little enough as is.

 That sounded like Hans Zimmer to you?

 Sound reminded me so much of Glasvegas - Flowers and Football Tops. That song was published in 2009, 4 years before the credited track "Lights & Motion - Departure".

 You talking bout that music. It's cool but not when you watching shred flicks...maybe like polar bears emerging from winter dens, or time lapse (567 years) of redwood seed germination to canopy master...lol

 13 minutes to do the run from Pila to Aosta, what you hanging around taking an hour for?

 sorry, its not from pila its starts from the lift that goes up from pila..when you get to pila is the half of the full run to aosta. its one hour if you ride easy with friends and stop between the sections.

 oh, on the ridge at the top? Super awesome up there isn't it