Remy Morton is not a person who would shy away from a challenge. Some time ago he, his crew of mates & his dad were given 7 days and 7K $ to build a line through the jungle somewhere on the Gold Coast of Australia. The team lost no time, digging day in, day out, and created a dream track with tons of potential for some seriously mouth-watering mountain bike action.—Red Bull Bike
From the description of them digging "day in day out" this amounts to a blatant violation of labour laws you'd think. Unless maybe they did this during their holidays?
The hub here doesn't make a sound because it spins freely,without cassete or chain. But I'm a silent hub lover too,I wonder what happened to Shimano's new silent hubs,supposed to be released with the new XTR?
@nozes: I had them, past tense. Silent above a certain RPM which was fun but wildly unreliable. Two rebuilds in 5 weeks sent me back to the shop for something else.
At risk of huge neg props,
It's a no from me. Remy is a styish as fooook rider, but this isn't raw, it's been edited to death, and the trail is sooooooo manicured he probably could have rode it better on his BMX.
What does RAW (for video) imply these days? I thought it was with no/minimal editing. But this one has loads of slow motion, several camera angles of the same move. Does RAW simply imply "without music/voiceover"? Just curious. The riding is mint.
i've always thought of RAW as really highlighting the sounds of the bike and the sounds of the trail. almost to be able to feel like you know whats happening with your eyes closed, or make it feel like you're right there next to the trail. just my thoughts, I'd love to know the story behind it all.
@thats-joe: think you're thinking of sound of speed, red bull's other series that Remy had an episode in. MTB might have a different context but raw clips literally implies raw clips, similar to raw files from a photographer (unedited).
the term raw has been abused as of late, for sure, mostly by bigger companies. the original raw videos were people literally posting their entire DV tape from an event showing 30+ minutes of unedited video no music etc. and in the modern age clipping became a lot more popular because of the ease of computer editing and SD cards displaying files, as opposed to a single DV tape that is one continuous video recording.
vital RAW is still most definitely a raw production, but like you said they are just using really good (sensitive) microphones, plus sound defines so well within the trees. but they dont use music, usually dont slomo, and theyre almost certainly not adding foley (off site sound bites)
That was so rad!! Totally bummed when it was over. Lol. Watched it twice more. My first thought was where are the tricks? But I quickly realized that I liked it so much because it wasn’t loaded with tricks!! That video had such a cool vibe.
Aussie expat here. In Oz in 2021, it would take 7 permits, 7 environmental studies, 7 lawyers, 7 forestry workers, 7 heavy machinery operators, 7 thousand liters of diesel and 7 press conferences to build that line.
@leon-forfar: There are those of us who would say, "Hold the spinny flippy barry whippy stuff" and would rather watch a nice motowhip and a few flattys.
@Ksmcarthur: Both of which, Semenuk is one of the best at. All of his Raw 100s have at least one banger table and/ or whip, and he also has worlds first usually. I would take Semenuk riding down a trail without tricks than anything, but it's nice to see a bit of both.
Remy is basically just a professional park rat, his skill set can be replicated by basically any local bro at a Bike Park flow trail. That said, killer style.
@DoubleCrownAddict: If the derailleur is the problem, you can always go singlespeed with a spring loaded tensioner. I think they have them with a clutch nowadays though it might be even better/safer if they'd have one that mounts to the ISCG tabs instead of near the axle. But yeah indeed if can ride well without chain (that is, don't accidentally stomp on the front pedal and find out there is no support) then there is point bothering with one.
Ride singlespeed and you'll see that you can get away with most trails without pedaling. People seem to think going up on a singlespeed is the hard part, but it's holding speed on the way down that's the real challenge.
kudos for all the extra work that filming a chainless line would have took. He would have to hike so much further up to re-hit evert feature while filming!
Heard Remy say on GypsyTales Podcast something along the lines of, 'I go big and if I crash I'm not going to be worried about scratches. I'd rather be comfortable....'
@luckynugget: So in this case, you are a sponsored athlete, you could ask for any kind of solution for free that will make your bike totally 100% silent, and still you will be able to pedal it forward, what is definately needed even if you only ride bikeparks, and you take the chain off and put 130 mm cranks so your bike is a roller from now on.
Shit, thanks for update, nugget, now I see that.
(although, if he had the chain, they would not have been able to shoot that ice pick grind from 12 angle )
But I'm a silent hub lover too,I wonder what happened to Shimano's new silent hubs,supposed to be released with the new XTR?
Multiple views are not the same as seeing more moves, ie a longer run.
I'd almost prefer multiple runs with some variation ... but yes, edited to death is a good way top put it.
the term raw has been abused as of late, for sure, mostly by bigger companies. the original raw videos were people literally posting their entire DV tape from an event showing 30+ minutes of unedited video no music etc. and in the modern age clipping became a lot more popular because of the ease of computer editing and SD cards displaying files, as opposed to a single DV tape that is one continuous video recording.
vital RAW is still most definitely a raw production, but like you said they are just using really good (sensitive) microphones, plus sound defines so well within the trees. but they dont use music, usually dont slomo, and theyre almost certainly not adding foley (off site sound bites)
But yes get your point, that if you are good enough to ride unprotected?
Sorry Remy, you guys got hosed on that deal. Cool edit though!
All at a cost of $700 000 USD to the tax payer.
Style for miles btw
Shit, thanks for update, nugget, now I see that.
(although, if he had the chain, they would not have been able to shoot that ice pick grind from 12 angle