Some time has passed since Antimedia drew our attention towards the world of mountainbiking, and we figured it was time to go back to our roots and make a new MTB edit.
From our point of view the best place to do this is Andreu’s new training camp in Llinars del Valles, in the suburbs of Barcelona. In 2011 Andreu bought Edgar Torronteras’s FMX compound, as a playground for his passion for biking. Andreu built a 13m tall run-in to compensate for his lack of horsepower and can now use the compound to further progress in his riding. Andreu was a great host and showed us how to have a blast with a week of dirt, cameras, drones, motocross and mountain bikes – in true Andreu style.
Too see more of what Andreu is up to these days, check out his facebook fan page.
altitude sickness just from being on the start ramp.... soo true though so much more time to look at where you are and be set in your rotations made everything look sooo mint!
This is the kind of video i want to show everyone, show them how rad mountain biking can be. Im so tired of watching videos of guys going kinda fast through the trees hitting way way smaller jumps and slow motion shots of them throwing a little roost around a berm. Who the hell thinks tossing a little roost around a berm is so cool it has to be in every single video these days? Bigger is most deffinatly better.
I don't mean to be rude, but does anybody innovate in mtb these days ? I mean we saw a few weeks ago the best MX tricks from x-games and there was amazing new stuff, even if they fell, bmxers got their cashrolls, frontflip variations and stuff, and mtb seems like "oh yeah look i ride bigger and longer jumps, i'm crazy" but they still only flip it ( and it's not even that kind of flip)...
- We have cashrolls... and frontflip variations. MTB dirt is definitely catching up to BMX.
- A flip is a whole different ballgame at that speed
- Mountainbikes handle amplitude better, wheras BMX's are easier to spin. So is it really that surprising that we hit bigger jumps and BMX'ers throw tighter, techy-er tricks?