Freedom Riders Film - World Premiere At Sea Otter With IMBA
New High-Definition Mountain Bike Film from KGB Productions and Gravnetic Captures the Evolution of Freeriding and the Struggle to create trails.
Freedom. We all want it. We all deserve it – especially when it comes to riding our bikes.Freedom Riders, the latest high-definition mountain biking film from Jackson, WY-based KGB Productions and Gravnetic, will hold its world premiere on Saturday April 18, 2009 at the Sea Otter Classic at the Embassy Suites in Seaside, CA. from 7-9pm. The premiere will be screened at the IMBA California Benefit Party with proceeds to benefit the biking advocacy organization. Tickets cost $10 at the door and there will be a huge raffle featuring loads of killer prizes. IMBA, who’s mission is to create, enhance and protect great trail experiences for mountain bikers worldwide, is a partner for the Freedom Riders premiere, as well as the 50 venue nationwide tour that will commence after Sea Otter.
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"We're super excited to have IMBA as a partner for the Freedom Riders project and given all the hard work and advocacy they put into furthering the sport of biking it's truly a natural fit," says KGB co-founder Sam Pope. "The film shows how important trails are to the mountain biking community and how a dedicated group of riders followed their passion to create history."
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Freedom Riders is the Dogtown and Z Boys of freeride mountain biking. The film artistically captures the evolution of freeriding from stealth trail building to forging a working relationship with the U.S. Forest Service to establish the first-ever downhill specific trail in Forest Service history in the Teton Pass area of Wyoming. The film showcases the freeriding subculture in North America from where it was to where it is now by highlighting how the sport has obtained its legitimacy in the public eye.
Freedom Riders provides a compelling story of a group of individuals who never let their passion die while looking at the rich culture and history behind the sport. From old-school footage of Tom Richey and Gary Fisher to the time, hours and sweat it takes to build a trail to hucking and ripping down singletrack, Freedom Riders isn’t your typical bike porn film, it tells a story – an important one for any bike lover. The film will also feature an original soundtrack by Grammy Award nominee Luke Reynolds of Astral Kids.
Freedom Riders The Film On Facebook - Just because it's popular like that.
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For more information about the film, premiere and nationwide tour check www.freedomridersthemovie.com and www.imba.com.
Freedom. We all want it. We all deserve it – especially when it comes to riding our bikes.Freedom Riders, the latest high-definition mountain biking film from Jackson, WY-based KGB Productions and Gravnetic, will hold its world premiere on Saturday April 18, 2009 at the Sea Otter Classic at the Embassy Suites in Seaside, CA. from 7-9pm. The premiere will be screened at the IMBA California Benefit Party with proceeds to benefit the biking advocacy organization. Tickets cost $10 at the door and there will be a huge raffle featuring loads of killer prizes. IMBA, who’s mission is to create, enhance and protect great trail experiences for mountain bikers worldwide, is a partner for the Freedom Riders premiere, as well as the 50 venue nationwide tour that will commence after Sea Otter.
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"We're super excited to have IMBA as a partner for the Freedom Riders project and given all the hard work and advocacy they put into furthering the sport of biking it's truly a natural fit," says KGB co-founder Sam Pope. "The film shows how important trails are to the mountain biking community and how a dedicated group of riders followed their passion to create history."
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Freedom Riders is the Dogtown and Z Boys of freeride mountain biking. The film artistically captures the evolution of freeriding from stealth trail building to forging a working relationship with the U.S. Forest Service to establish the first-ever downhill specific trail in Forest Service history in the Teton Pass area of Wyoming. The film showcases the freeriding subculture in North America from where it was to where it is now by highlighting how the sport has obtained its legitimacy in the public eye.
Freedom Riders provides a compelling story of a group of individuals who never let their passion die while looking at the rich culture and history behind the sport. From old-school footage of Tom Richey and Gary Fisher to the time, hours and sweat it takes to build a trail to hucking and ripping down singletrack, Freedom Riders isn’t your typical bike porn film, it tells a story – an important one for any bike lover. The film will also feature an original soundtrack by Grammy Award nominee Luke Reynolds of Astral Kids.
Freedom Riders The Film On Facebook - Just because it's popular like that.
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For more information about the film, premiere and nationwide tour check www.freedomridersthemovie.com and www.imba.com.
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Since they installed that plate, they never came and did something to recover the trail. Many bikers went to talk to the managers to show that MTB can bring tourism and jobs to the region of the trails and even we bikers could make a group of riders that could work every month to maintain the trails we use.
I had some contact with IMBA and they had shown some interest to come to Brazil to help all the Mountain Bike community to recover all the trails lost for closures and to maintain the existing trails. The only problem was that someone from Brazil had to pay the dispenses of the trip and here in Brazil we are not very unite.
So if you want to help us to re-open our MTB trails maintain our trails working good and if you want to ride amazing trails, do some Freeride movies, come to Brazil!!!
Look for Brazilian races and photos at pedal.com.br and dhbrasil.com.br that you will be surprised.
Please IMBA HELP Brazilian riders!!!
This year is the first year of the Brazilian Mountain Biking Confederation that can change the hands of the MTB races in Brazil that are badly done by the Brazilian Bicycling Confederation that only wants’ to know about promoting Road Bike events.
So we have many different regional Downhill and XC races with lots of stages and races, some races are in the hot, warm countryside with lots of dust and rocks, some other races are in wet, humid trails with tons of mud and slippery roots…