THE PRIVATEER
SEASON 2
It's Adam's last season as The Privateer. Finally, he has some time after a hectic two years of racing to slow down and reflect on his experiences. This is the first of two episodes that look back over the last two seasons.
PREVIOUSLY Did you miss the previous episodes from Season 2 of The Privateer? Want to know more about Adam Price's 2019 journey? Here's the full Privateer playlist.
We'd like to extend a big thank you to all of the sponsors who have been supporting Adam this year.
I will send my resume for casting of "The Troll"... keyboard warrior sent to send all the features in Whistler...
Throw that into the mix of mtb which is quite small, hyper-tribal and relatively dominated by the gear-is-great mentality and it's no wonder the nature of the small minded keyboard sniping.
Ah mountain-bike community - expect little from you. You won't be disappointed
the biggst mistake any popular person on the internet can do is to engage with their audience on the internet... you may say "I love daffodils" and someone will take it and spin it against you. "daffodils are shit! Flowers waste of energy that can be use to grow food for chilkdren in Africa! - how dare you!!!"
hyper-tribal - I like that expression more than Down Country... Oh I love the tribes... the Enduro tribe became so Pasé... so many are leaving... to the new promised lands of less travel. So keep it real. "Trail bike" what a novel idea... a bicycle to ride trails - freedom, its waht we always did... ohh so nostalgic but it is time to provide detailed specs!!! - bigger than Downcountry, smaller than Enduro... yes! Take it before it gets overpopulated!
And now... let's put it all on the evil industry... we... we just want to ride bikes, not like those kooks buying into everything. Sheep... lazy ass fuks!!! Fuk you and your E-bike! Fuuuuk youuuuuuu! Enduro, what are you racing Enduro now? You lazy ahole! You have all the squish and no skills!!! AAAAAAAA!!!
The one thing that came through in the videos was gratitude for the chance he was given. I can't name any other rider that had access to talk with tops pros and get guidance from them. He handled it well and more like a professional correspondent I thought, which is what you would want in that scenario.
You are basically trying to fast track a guy with minimal talent and less drive to become a pro. It would have never worked from the start.
Hope the day never comes for me where a person I don't know states in an online forum that I have "minimal talent and less drive." Now I know what Adam meant by the internet was pretty brutal.
Dave I think you might have misspoke. I think you meant to say that Gravel Bikes were a godsend... And correction of Pre-enduro to pre-gravel bikes. LOL JK
If you're reading Adam, I'm sure others would like to know as well.
Cheers mate, thanks for a great series!
Adam, you are the f*cking man. Cheers!
Adam - you are the man. Hope you keep at it bro, and thanks for inspiring the rest of us nobodies to get out and ride our bikes.
Nice one Adam, I've thouroughly enjoyed the series. Keep fighting the good fight!
Clearly there were restrictions on the amount of production/editing they could do, but a lot of the things that came up weren’t explored and dealt with in a way that would have helped him and simultaneously improved the quality of the series as a whole.
It’s good to see him do a sit down interview where he reflects on it, and it’s suddenly obvious that that sort of perspective has been missing from the whole series.
1. More talking head interviews, from Adam, his coach, sponsors and other people giving him guidance. Proper post race interviews etc, and people discussing objectively the gains and new issues coming up.
2. More day-to-day/catchup footage - ie. showing his routine going to the gym/eating differently etc etc. Re-doing timed runs on the same trail and more gym results… things that show the evolution properly in the background of the racing. Some graphics would do that well as well.
3. More of a focus on the issues specific to Adam. The mental aspect was clearly a really big deal here, especially with the exposure that came with it, and beyond the first mental coaching session we didn’t see any progress or further discussion of that. At best that’s a bit of a shame, but at worst it’s pretty negligent as it could have been affecting his riding and putting him in more danger. I hope that’s something that other factory teams do deal with better than the series showed. Probably some media coaching etc as he’s effectively fronting the program, and showing that process. Dealing with online comments etc etc.
4. The pandering to the sponsors is something that should have been included from a different perspective, as it’s something every rider would face. ie. ‘He’s had to switch sponsors due to demand/results etc etc. Here he is trying out the new gear. This brings all sorts of difficulties with it after just getting used to a certain bike etc’.
Anyway, just some thoughts from someone in the (film) industry - generally a really enjoyable, unique series, I hope they progress it somehow and that Adam has had a positive experience overall - good on you mate for going through with it, clearly not all fun and games!
I’m not an overly smiley guy but i care about the riders around me, I love mountain biking and love being out on the trails alone/ having time to myself.
I couldn’t imagine having a camera stuck in my face and having the peanut gallery commentary.., like this guy.
Good job Adam! Great series!
I'd like to see it with someone who already races regularly so we can really see if there's a difference in results.
Open it up to applications - give that support to riders who have already made that commitment to a full season (EWS or DH) and see if a year of top level support makes a difference.
episode 1: new bike day!
episode 2: hospital and injured for 6 months.