Video: Riding the Meribel World Cup Track at Night

Oct 25, 2019 at 1:06
by Oli Carter  

Sometimes you come up with ideas that don’t ever see the light of day, I thought this would be one of them, but how wrong I was.

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Before I knew it I find myself riding a WC DH track and 3am on an enduro bike. Things just got real.

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The logistics for this shoot were tough, shot on location in Meribel and Courchevel, France with a small crew and a tight time schedule.

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Preparing the Cable Cam

We ended up filming/riding through the night and sleeping in the day for a week, using 35 Exposure lights, totaling 115,500 lumens. That’s enough to light up the darkest of forests, in fact, they could probably see us from space.

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All the Lumens

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Ghetto Uplifts all week.

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Look closely and you can see Mont Blanc.

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3 am Pack Down

Filming the wild animals was the tough part, as nature has a tendency to do what it wants, when it wants… A few late stake outs and we managed to get the shots of the rarely seen mountain Monkey and Bear, only native to this part of France.

I cant thank Exposure lights enough for letting me loose on this idea, I hope you enjoy it!

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37 Comments
  • 36 7
 so much potential for a dope edit but ruined with the retarded costumes, narrative and soundtrack, plus it was well too short.
  • 8 7
 So, you didn’t like it.. but it was still too short? Lol. Go figure..
  • 6 0
 Bit of a test this was... interesting to get your feed back buddy... The thing I would like to know is, will you remember it over all the other edits that you saw this week!?
  • 1 3
 @tobiusmaximum: haha you got it in one. Thanks buddy.
  • 5 1
 @tobiusmaximum: pretty simple answer, I liked the potential, if they got rid of the bs it would have been pretty good and I would've enjoyed a much longer version
  • 11 0
 @OliCarter: When you half to skip half the video to get to the riding in a riding edit, i cant say i will remember it.
  • 1 2
 @JamesGTi: sooo, if it wasn't what it was and was something else, you'd have enjoyed it. funny that, i have an old shopper bike in the shed and if it was a sick dh bike i'd love it. (just pulling ya leg dude, no drama)
  • 2 0
 @tobiusmaximum: Sam Pilgrim would tell ya there's loads of potential in that shopper bike so if you actually did a good job on making it, it'd probably turn out pretty well!
  • 1 1
 @JamesGTi: haha. yeah its probably quite a good laugh, i might pump the tyres up and tweak the brakes!
  • 3 1
 I thought it was pretty cool. Some people just want to laugh, you know?
  • 3 2
 @ewikpark: you got it bro... thanks buddy, Glad it did its job.
  • 2 0
 @GriefTheBro: each to there own buddy, no worries and thanks for the input... When we do a second it will be wall to wall riding.....
  • 2 0
 @OliCarter: yeah I will remember it and I will say thumbs up for creativity, I ride at tonight and I know when the monkey throws a piece of wood out of nowhere!
  • 1 0
 Was thinking the same thing. Oli makes a fair point—we’ll probably remember this over others because of the silly costumes. Can we get a version without?
  • 5 0
 Some cool riding and filming. But OH MY GOD, the sound track sucks! Still pumped to get the night rides back on the go!
  • 2 0
 Glad it still did the job of getting the night stoke on. Music choice noted, thanks bro.
  • 3 0
 @OliCarter: I love a good night ride! All the shadows playing tricks on you out of the corner of your eye!
  • 1 0
 Night DH'ing is hella fun and it's also kind of spooky, being at night in the woods, and this video manages to capture that. Nicely chosen soundtrack, loved the pets!
  • 1 0
 Thanks Bro... enjoy the ride!
  • 1 0
 my local track gets exciting riding at night...let alone a WC track! Damn. Awesome project
  • 1 0
 Thanks so much @sillytorque ????. Was a big old mission to film but so much fun!
  • 1 0
 Forget the question marks ????‍♂️
  • 1 0
 Hahaha... it seems PB doesn’t like emojis!
  • 1 0
 @OliCarter: I swear emojis would reduce pointless arguments by at least 30%! Come on Pinkbike, sort it out!
  • 2 0
 Great video! Time to dig out the lights! Smile
  • 1 0
 Cheers buddy! Enjoy the nights....
  • 1 0
 That music... proper shite. Gotta day I do like the new Identiti bike and USE gear though!
  • 1 0
 The USE kit is so rad bro... my apologies the music wasn’t to your taste... so hard to keep everyone happy. Thanks buddy
  • 1 0
 That was different, skipped the first half, bemused by the second, but the lighting effects were proper good.
  • 1 0
 Thanks buddy, glad you enjoyed it. Those lights are crazy bright!
  • 1 0
 Last scene is in Courchevel, not Meribel !
  • 1 0
 first scenes are in neither courchevel or meribel!
  • 1 0
 @gravitysgirl: I thought someone would spot that.... it’s up mont Jovet! You can see courchevel, so does that count?
  • 1 0
 So what drugs where they on?
  • 2 0
 Nothing interesting, just High on life I’m afraid.
  • 1 0
 Oh my...
  • 1 0
 Halloween anyone?!?!







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