Video: Mojo Trail Diary, Morocco - Part Two, Fabien Barel and Mark Weir

Nov 1, 2012
by Film This Tyler  
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The Mojo crew have taken Mark Weir and Fabien Barel to Morocco to explore the boundaries of the ‘Mojo Trail Diary’ philosophy. We have always been interested in pushing (sometimes literally!) the trail less travelled and taking the bikes back into the mountains, but for part two of the Morocco trip we really got into the backwaters of the Moroccan Atlas.

Check out the blog post for more photos and videos. www.EyesdownFilms.tv

The lads learned a lot about the ‘Rocc’ in Morocco (no comforting, deep loam berms here!) and about the best way to build a trail out here! It turns out that the mules have bedded in some of the most awesome trails in the mountains - they have put in awesome curves, switchbacks, steep pitches and off-camber contouring sections - all without access to IMBA guidelines.

Check out the blog post for more photos and videos. www.EyesdownFilms.tv

Video & Photos by Eyesdown Films

Words by Chris Porter (Mojo Suspension)

Music
Hocine Slaoui – Yal Cahla
DJ Aderente – Deserto
PLO – Car Demo (Associated Minds)
Sweetwave Audio – Indie Rock (SweetwaveAudio.co.uk)

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37 Comments
  • 24 0
 Videos like this just make me want to quit my job, sell everything except my bike and kit and jump on a plane and live like a hippie on the hills of the world... Nice video series... if this were a weekly TV series like Departures, I would be an avid watcher!
  • 2 0
 hi, you'r welcome dud when you want
  • 7 0
 i always wanted to do that too, until i realised that hippies never own nice high-end bikes. yes. now tell me money isnt happiness, when you have passion like that
  • 2 0
 Sadly, it's true what you say
  • 2 0
 Hippie is in the heart my friends... but it could be said that if your car is worth more than your bike, then you can't be a hippie....
  • 5 0
 Awesome,great video to take my mind off this gloomy UK rain and wind
  • 5 0
 facial hair required! Smile
  • 3 0
 got a weeks growth on the face now saturday i will decied what to do.anyway the video was great.
  • 2 0
 This series is great so far, I wish someone would come film in Sinai, Egypt, there are tons of epic trails in the mountains there.
  • 2 0
 The opposite of bike porn. This is a well made story of embracing the culture of Morocco combined with some sweet riding. a very entertaining vid!
  • 3 3
 Are they lifting the back of the bikes in tight turns so many times in this video because the mondraker front geometry concept makes it more difficult to turn the bike?
  • 2 1
 Seriously...several times the only one who can carver the turn or switchback is Weir...the only one not on a Mondraker.
  • 1 0
 its a euro thing
  • 1 0
 I am surprised there is not more comments about this, I made this post to spark a discussion about forward geo concept Smile
  • 1 0
 can't say if forward geo makes tight corners tighter or not, but Fabien and the rest of the guys have pretty mental bike control, it's probably just more natural/fun for them to endo around the corners.
  • 1 0
 As far as I know the frames with the 'zero stems' are the same as all the other mondraker foxy frames. Would this not make the toptube feel really short? And make yoy feel like you are sat upright?!

I wouldn't mind trying one.
  • 1 1
 here we are with a new adventure in marrackech mountains, at the end of this video fabien barel with the monkeys is very funny
  • 1 0
 That poor Animals !!!
What the hell is funny there ?
  • 2 0
 at least they are not in captivity,and they take pics with celebrites
  • 2 0
 what is up with all the pornstaches man?
  • 1 0
 Imagine how many awesome little shredders there would be if all these kids could get a bike
  • 1 0
 Interesting footy. I like that the music is out of the ordinary. Keep it up!
  • 1 0
 Man i could watch Fabein ride trailbikes all day. His style and control is so nice.
  • 1 0
 someone missed the red shirt memo
  • 1 0
 Another jewel ...thanks for posting it up!!
  • 2 0
 MOvember inspiration!
  • 1 0
 my god that mustash is mega!
  • 1 0
 what frames???? funny hump...
  • 2 0
 2013 mondraker foxy XR.
  • 1 0
 thanks!
  • 1 0
 Fabien looks so funny with the weir stache! Love it!
  • 1 1
 Awesome video, would love to go on a trip like this one not sure about those mondraker frames though
  • 1 0
 What dont you like about the Mondrakers?
  • 1 0
 It's not that i don't like them, In fact now that I have had a bit more of look I think they are quite good looking frames and look like fun to ride. I just thought that they looked a little bulky around the stem and thought the top tube looked out of place on the bike
  • 1 0
 Nice video and not a 29er to be seen.... Great!
  • 1 0
 Awesome video!!
  • 1 0
 Awesome, made my day







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