Fasthouse presents 'Bacon & Eggs,' its first mountain bike video. Shot in Southern California, it features Tyler McCaul, Ryan Howard, Austin Warren, & Tyler Bereman. With a little luck from mother nature and some rain they built themselves an awesome spot to shoot at.
Video by Mind Spark Cinema Song by Lars Frederiksen And The Bastards, Song Bastards Opening song by Lewis Marshall and Rasha Rahman Photos by Ian Collins fasthouse.com
@POWsLAYER: Your bacon ain't great, your butter is appalling, and your eggs are washed in chlorine or something equally gross, and that's why they need to be kept in the fridge. Come to Ireland for a proper breakfast.
Love the Bell Sixer but the regular colors are kind of bland. Loving the FH collab helmets. Flashy, but they look damn good. Looking forward to their MTB gear lineup and gloves.
@onemanarmy: Just ordered an FH Bell Sixer. Can't wait for their MTB jerseys, shorts, and gloves. Sometimes, I don't feel like wearing sky blue, fluorescent yellow, bright red, lime green, and orange on a trail ride and prefer a more casual kit. Plus the name 'Fasthouse' just sounds badass.
@MasterSlater: some of them are pretty wack. That's what happens when the sales department sticks their noses in. The black and tan one is almost good. Matte/gloss black is nice but that's just like... one of those that has to be in the line. Fasthouse is sick. They really need to do the black/white/red fasthouse color way too.
@onemanarmy: Fair enough, didn't bother to make a full case b/c here on PB the reward for advancing a well-constructed argument is typically "TLDR." From the perspective of someone who does other outdoor sports like skiing where technological advances in the last decade of softgood design have been just as impressive as on the hardgoods front, I constantly find myself scratching my head at companies like Fox & TLD resting on their moto-laurels & pushing MX fashion-pieces onto the MTB market that are glaringly short on functional innovations that actually make the riding experience better. If aping MX makes you happy, or you just really love black T-shirts, knock yourself out. Categorical imperative & all that: I'm not here to make aesthetic decisions for you. Functionally speaking, however, this Fasthouse launch just looks silly. I've lived on three continents, but have never encountered a climate where it makes sense to wear black while performing a human powered sport when it's warm enough to wear short sleeves. Does not compute. If Fasthouse finds a way to build jerseys out of a fabric that retains less moisture, breathes better, snags & stinks less than anything else on the market, I'll be first in line to try it out. Till then, I'm voting with my dollars for ideas, not logos.
I have a fasthouse jersey. Can't speak to their shorts yet or their gloves... though their gloves did seem very similar to some of the giro gloves I have. But I find the jersey to be pleasant to wear. But then again I'm a fat American so I'm gonna sweat no matter what I'm wearing. A decent shammy is way more critical to my comfort.
And Fasthouse has an entire line of short sleeved jerseys. And they do breath pretty well. And I don't think mine has shrunk much if any so far.
From the sounds of it... you might consider buying one. Just going off your own wish list. Maybe try the black and white one. It's short sleeve and has white on the sleeves and shoulders where it counts.
I'm planning on picking up a pair of shorts and a short sleeve jersey myself. I'll let you know how it goes.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAxJECJJG6w
MTB desperately needs more of this fashion-over-substance doping.
So sick right now!
The new kits aren't all black by the way.
From the perspective of someone who does other outdoor sports like skiing where technological advances in the last decade of softgood design have been just as impressive as on the hardgoods front, I constantly find myself scratching my head at companies like Fox & TLD resting on their moto-laurels & pushing MX fashion-pieces onto the MTB market that are glaringly short on functional innovations that actually make the riding experience better.
If aping MX makes you happy, or you just really love black T-shirts, knock yourself out. Categorical imperative & all that: I'm not here to make aesthetic decisions for you.
Functionally speaking, however, this Fasthouse launch just looks silly. I've lived on three continents, but have never encountered a climate where it makes sense to wear black while performing a human powered sport when it's warm enough to wear short sleeves. Does not compute.
If Fasthouse finds a way to build jerseys out of a fabric that retains less moisture, breathes better, snags & stinks less than anything else on the market, I'll be first in line to try it out. Till then, I'm voting with my dollars for ideas, not logos.
I have a fasthouse jersey. Can't speak to their shorts yet or their gloves... though their gloves did seem very similar to some of the giro gloves I have. But I find the jersey to be pleasant to wear. But then again I'm a fat American so I'm gonna sweat no matter what I'm wearing. A decent shammy is way more critical to my comfort.
And Fasthouse has an entire line of short sleeved jerseys. And they do breath pretty well. And I don't think mine has shrunk much if any so far.
From the sounds of it... you might consider buying one. Just going off your own wish list. Maybe try the black and white one. It's short sleeve and has white on the sleeves and shoulders where it counts.
I'm planning on picking up a pair of shorts and a short sleeve jersey myself. I'll let you know how it goes.