Words: OneUpEspresso and John Deere are two of North Vancouver's most popular trails. But these blue flow lines are far from its gnarliest. So it was surprising when North Shore local and freeride legend Thomas Vanderham said they were two of his favourites. Surprising until you see Thomas' lines and realize that, while he's on the same trail, his riding is on another planet.
Video and Photos by Peter Wojnar
| Espresso and John Deer are two of my favourite North Shore trails. I love these two because they can be enjoyed by such a wide spectrum of mountain bikers. Young or old, beginner or expert, trails like this should allow you to have fun and challenge yourself as much as you want.—Thomas Vanderham |
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Do we know what hubs he's using ?
The stock C90 comes with DT350. If you grease them well, they are nearly silent. But that wears off during the season and when it gets warmer.
I was always wondering if the cone bearings could withstand freeriding (maybe if you ride as smooth as Vanderham does).
In the end I went with DT240 and added a good amount of DT pink "toothpaste" like grease
Here is my nearly silent Slayer:
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"Raw" videos come in many flavours.
On one end of the spectrum, there's the Vital Raw race videos. Literally straight out of the camera, exactly how it was shot, in the order it was shot, with video, colour, and sound exactly as recorded by the camera. This is what most people probably imagined the first time they heard of the concept.
On the other end of the spectrum, you have videos where "Raw" means there's no music, and they feature extensive sound design, usually rooted in recorded audio, to enhance the listening experience in some way. This might mean adding bass effects, whooshes, additional recorded sounds from different clips or sections of track, etc. Google "The Foley Artist," it's a beautiful short on Vimeo that explains the job of a foley artist in film in a really funny way—in short, a foley artist records sounds for cinema that go with the visuals, but are not recorded at the same time (or at all the same way.)
Redbull Raw 100 and Sound of Speed edits usually feature some amount of foley work to "enhance" the sound of the video. In some cases, this is completely necessary, like replacing audio on a drone clip so you don't hear motors buzzing. It's also increasingly necessary the more slow-mo and speed ramping there is in a video. But it isn't always all "recorded audio," and you often hear lots of whooshes (like on takeoffs of jumps) and bass-heavy booms and rumbles (like on landings of jumps, etc.) It's not worse, it's supposed to make it sound more like it feels—but not exactly how it sounds.
This video features only recorded audio, that was recorded at the same time as video, from the perspective of the camera, with no additional sound effects in place. In my opinion, it gives the best and most accurate feeling of speed, because it sounds exactly like the real thing, if you were standing on the side of the track, right where the camera is positioned. But it's not a raw video in the VitalRaw sense, because I've colour graded the video and the clips aren't straight out of camera in that sense.
Hope that answers that."
Awesome, thanks!!! Now I can fully enjoy my bad riding on my rattling bike :o
I truly hope that we that downvoted your comment are missing your sarcasm.