Takes me to long to watch his short vids. Keep having to rewind and try to figure out how the hell he spotted his lines. Pretty sure he's just tracking mountain goats.
He is probably my most favourite rider, even though I am not a big trial enthusiast. I also enjoy his vides more than anyone elses, even Danny Macaskill´s...
...still doesn´t make me wanna ride mongoose though.
Here me out...Remy goes to Mongoose, Chris and Remy make an edit where they race down the trail. Remy takes normal route at warp speed, Chris gets to make his own short cut trail...???
Not only is riding lines that at most only a handful of people on the planet _can_ ride (hell, most mortals would not even see a line, much less ride it) but he is doing it with speed and flow that simply boggles the mind.
@MrEtnie: I know biking is worldwide but the aspect that makes me proud to be British is the unique countryside in the video that is specific to England. It reminds me of the lake district where I used to live and gives me a sense of nostalgia. And also seeing a fellow British rider nail it which is rare on pink bike. Other than that this vud has nothing to do with being British...
@sellcrackcocainetofundhobby: this is actually a nice and important addition to your first comment. In this age of re emerging nationalism everywhere, it is important to remember there is nothing to be proud of you didn´t achieve.
@Krafkloot: who's saying I didn't achieve? I'm proud of living in such s beautiful scenic place that is lucky enough to be a main backdrop to this edit. Not one second do I state I can ride like Chris I merely say I'm proud to be British have lived in areas of natural beauty such as this film not one second do I suggest this scenery is better than Utah for examples sake. Get back on your high horse
@sellcrackcocainetofundhobby: I know exactly what you mean. Even though I haven't lived there for 13 years, that video was shot where I come from, and that makes me feel proud. Even though that pride comes from an accident of birth, I don't care. It is still valid.
@MrEtnie: Can't he be irrelevantly Jingoistic and mindlessly patriotic for just a minute? You wouldn't have batted an eyelid if someone in the US had said it, and they're at this crap ALL the time...
@KeithReeder: hi keith the I didn't achieve bit refers to this statement Mr Etnie said "it is important to remember there is nothing to be proud of you didn´t achieve." His poor English in my head translates to I didn't achieve, like what the hell as that anything to do with it? This is why I said in my comment. Cheers for reply keith
@sellcrackcocainetofundhobby: hey buddy you have every right to be proud of being British. We're all born where we are as accidents of birth. The contribution the Britian has made to the world is simply undeniable. Are there black spots in British history? Of course, as there are in any people's history. Britian is unique in the world in that she as a society for the most part has learned from her mistakes and tried to improve as a result. Unlike a couple other big name countries I could mention that want to keep repeating them. And yeah British Mtbers kick ass. So go on and be proud!!
Is Mr. Akrigg a mutant of a new evolutionary specie?
All I know raight now is that I could tell to my grandsons: 'kids, I was lucky enough to live in the 'Iron Centaur Era' to admire his magnificient riding.
@fattyheadshok: Black spots in British history pretty much is the entire history of Great Britain. The British Empire was still massacring people well into the 20th century, and has never properly reckoned with the horrors that we committed. The Empire is still talked about with pride, so the country has definitely not learned from it's past.
Parts of the previous empire are doing much better at this, with active truth & reconciliation efforts in Canada for instance - although better is still a long, long way away from doing good.
Y'all Brits are killing it on bikes from the TDF to the UCI DH. Nothing to be ashamed of, old chap. Why, I feel a little pride comin on even tho I'm a Cali native brougham.
Angelic Upstarts – England Lyrics
The red in the flag Is the blood that was spilt In the way that your forefathers tell And never a country been so great The stories Britannia could tell
I never want to live my life Away from the golden shores There's never a country in the world With the scent of an English rose
England, oh England a country so great The land of so fair and so true There'll never be any colours like The red, the white and the blue
Whenever you go to the far-off shores There's something that goes with you The pride and the joy and the love That comes from your mother of red, white and blue
You could never be born under a flag That's like the one of the Union Jack St. George's spirit has never died It all keeps coming back
@abzillah: anyone who has attempted to ride on a mossy log, through a mossy creek bed and just tried to clear one bolder knows how much skill, effort is required. Sooooo sick!! On a serious note though if he had a Sram sponser we could watch him go up this trail!!!
I don't get it with Chris. Hear me out. He may be one of the top 3 best bike handlers I've ever seen when you combine trail and trials, yet, we only see him on a video like once every 2 months or so and that's about it. It seems like he should be all over the internet like some of those other riders. Am I missing something?
i may be wrong but i believe his videos are filmed and edited by himself and a couple of mates which would take quite a while to do.
don't think he has an army of camera crews and production staff following him around like another famous trials rider.
@b45her: I'm sure he didn't mean that. He meant... if Danny makes a video in Edinburgh it goes viral and gets two million hits in one day, tweeted by Hans Rey and all that. Chris brings out mind blowing edit after edit, some cool, some funny, all really spectacular and NO ONE who isn't a hard core internet mountain bike whore has ever heard of him. f*cking crying shame if you ask me but I get the impression he's happy. Certainly comes across as a salt of the earth, down to earth nice bloke in the interviews he does.
Was chatting about this on trail today, I dont think he is under rated persay, he is an amazing talent on a bike, but he should get more recognition than he does imo. It may not be front flipping off a castle wall but his style and way he attacks trial is raw and cool to watch.
There are little things on this vid that are rad, like the bit where he does a wrong foot forward hop to land right foot down to hit the next bit, that is skill
Some people don't seek attention or recognition of their bad assed skills, some people are just happy being their bad assed selves with their bad assed skills.
I think it's more because Danny's videos were more relatable to the general public i.e telephone box. Where as people don't understand how complex a rock garden is.
@yonibois: I'll be honest first time ever heard of him but only been a fully fledged MTB slag for last year or so. will not forget this name that's for sure. Well said..
Always love wathching Chris Akrigg ride. Love how he incorporates trials riding into every day trail riding,started watching him since his part in Road Party with Martyn Ashton and Danny Macaskill. Amazing video.
A couple of observations: First and foremost, I'm pretty sure that was a video game, not a real human. Second, holy stiff suspension. Pretty sure he only used about 30% travel on that fork. Lastly, who doesn't love soaking their tires before hopping around on moss covered rocks?
Does anyone else think that he could make an amazing get away on a bike from a robbery? They would be like the suspect fled on bike and then get to an impassible route for the mortals and they would be like he has to be on foot now but he is still riding away. Maybe it is just me.
@southoftheborder: there is a movie with a plot like that, featuring martyn ashton, I think is called "martyn & martin" (I don't know the martin) or something like that
That segment was better than any single video segment that had been put together to date because it was just a guy on a bike riding, only almost every single second of the video, there wasn't a man made obstacle.
He turns the entire world into a technical playground, only he does it at a pace that must screams of anger, rage, aggression and raw angst.
Simply the best riding video, bar none.
This video has made my day, so refreshing to see something completely different for a change, no bike park tricks here a bike park rider would be well out their depth here. The stunning British countryside a bonus too and BRI GS back nostalgia of when I lived in the heart of the lake district Wasdale, amongst the Cumbrian fell sides. Was this shot in Cumbria its identical to the Cumbrian hillsides? Great video going against the grain of bike video normalities. Dare to be different, Chris certainly does. As the SAS say "he who dares, wins"
Sometimes I just don't realize how difficult is to do shit like this on a bike. This is frenetic what Chris Akrigg does. All of the stuff what he did in this vid needed lot of crazy hard work in the past years, but on the other hand I think he's also a genius. Not to mention that the video is very catchy, the editing and music was awesome (IMO the soundtrack was a little bit lowering, but who cares ). True masterpiece!!
@PPhun Consider that HE produces his own vids - in many cases he was filming, editing, the whole lot. Talk about having "vision". Re. the soundtrack.. the track was written for this vid *on purpose* (twitter@kameramusic). Says a lot about production skills IMHO!
Sweet Jesus on a tricycle.... IMHO this wins over rampage hands down (sorry guys). At this point I do want to reincarnate onto this very planet, as Chris Akrigg.
they teamed up to finish road bike party 2 after Martin injured himself. Very different (and complimentary) approaches to applying their vast trials skills Definitely not as well known outside of the bike scene but I wouldn't say underrated.
It's so nice to see a rider make something from nothing, because I always think there's nothing decent to ride around me, but it's just a negative mindset.
Gotta love Danny's videos because of the scenario and his trial capabilities, but to me, Chris is a mountainbiker and fakme his videos blow my mind. This is what Progressive riding is all about, kids. #Chrisforpresident #progressiveridingisthenewblack
Amazing! so creative but makes it look like "just another day out riding" I would love a chance to try riding those rocks at the beginning though, look like they could be fun to jib! First time seeing a Chris Akrigg edit and I'm impressed
You need to spend some quality time on YouTube watching his past vids. This was cool, but previous edits are more impressive, imo ( which says a lot, considering the riding in this bid)
This dude is so rad. It makes me want to barf that he is riding a mongoose. Understandably they have two different divisions but man it's almost sad that he is repping a super market bicycle. It kills me that mongoose will no doubt use this to promote $100 Walmart bikes that people will buy for their kids to totally f*cking get destroyed on.
Epic is one of those words I hate using, but sometimes it's legit called for.
All this here was f*cking epic Chris. I love the way you take what you know & show what the capabilities of your skills can accomplish when mixed with the capabilities of an all out MTB. It's awesome & I want more.
I don't live that far away from where Chris films this, the terrain is identical and it's what I ride week in week out... or at least I though I rode... Chris, stop making us mere mortals feel so pathetic!
The rear shock is barely moving except on big hits, but this is expected for this king of trialesque riding... What I don't get is how he manages to do that with AM7 shoes? Yes, he's got skills to boot but these shoes are quite slippery for being flat pedals specific. Even more slippery than the former AM41 despite having similar looking soles...
i am amazed that a trendy enduro carbon bike manufacturer hasn't sponsored Chris to make films advertising their product. This guy really inspires people to get out riding and to ride everything on one bike.
Now I know why no one write an in-depth review about mongoose bikes..because they can't ride the mongoose like Chris..Haha..
By the way I like to read the comments here, thanks..and thanks to you also Chris
So good it almost convinced me to bring out my clip-in pedals again. I say almost because in reality I would just be using them to unclip at basically every obstacle he just breezed through.
When I was a kid Mongoose was the brand along with Haro, granted that was bmx, a rider of his calibre could choose who he rides for, maybe they are spot on for his lifestyle so why change.
His riding is beautiful. I dont know how else to say it.
But outside of these Chris Akrigg edits, I don't think I've encountered Mongoose since 1987 or so.
...still doesn´t make me wanna ride mongoose though.
Such wow.
Jeez...
You didn't ACHIEVE the COMPLETE FLUKE of being born in the UK.
You can't be proud of - much less take credit for - an accident of birth. In the UK we're supposed to understand this..
Is Mr. Akrigg a mutant of a new evolutionary specie?
All I know raight now is that I could tell to my grandsons: 'kids, I was lucky enough to live in the 'Iron Centaur Era' to admire his magnificient riding.
Parts of the previous empire are doing much better at this, with active truth & reconciliation efforts in Canada for instance - although better is still a long, long way away from doing good.
But yeah, we're pretty handy on bikes.
Y'all Brits are killing it on bikes from the TDF to the UCI DH. Nothing to be ashamed of, old chap. Why, I feel a little pride comin on even tho I'm a Cali native brougham.
Angelic Upstarts – England Lyrics
The red in the flag
Is the blood that was spilt
In the way that your forefathers tell
And never a country been so great
The stories Britannia could tell
I never want to live my life
Away from the golden shores
There's never a country in the world
With the scent of an English rose
England, oh England a country so great
The land of so fair and so true
There'll never be any colours like
The red, the white and the blue
Whenever you go to the far-off shores
There's something that goes with you
The pride and the joy and the love
That comes from your mother of red, white and blue
You could never be born under a flag
That's like the one of the Union Jack
St. George's spirit has never died
It all keeps coming back
England, oh England... [5x]
f*cking crying shame if you ask me but I get the impression he's happy.
Certainly comes across as a salt of the earth, down to earth nice bloke in the interviews he does.
* - Except by Chris Akrigg
First and foremost, I'm pretty sure that was a video game, not a real human. Second, holy stiff suspension. Pretty sure he only used about 30% travel on that fork. Lastly, who doesn't love soaking their tires before hopping around on moss covered rocks?
And to parts of Northumberland.
And Yorkshire.
And Teeside.
And Devon.
And Scotland.
And Lancashire.
And the Peak District.
Re. the soundtrack.. the track was written for this vid *on purpose* (twitter@kameramusic).
Says a lot about production skills IMHO!
Sweet Jesus on a tricycle.... IMHO this wins over rampage hands down (sorry guys).
At this point I do want to reincarnate onto this very planet, as Chris Akrigg.
Definitely not as well known outside of the bike scene but I wouldn't say underrated.
This is what Progressive riding is all about, kids.
#Chrisforpresident
#progressiveridingisthenewblack
All this here was f*cking epic Chris. I love the way you take what you know & show what the capabilities of your skills can accomplish when mixed with the capabilities of an all out MTB. It's awesome & I want more.
What I don't get is how he manages to do that with AM7 shoes? Yes, he's got skills to boot but these shoes are quite slippery for being flat pedals specific. Even more slippery than the former AM41 despite having similar looking soles...
"Let's go this way!" yeah, right!
Vid was amazing.
*Chris' Brain
but what is this "music"?? really suck.