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@sarahmoore: missing Vlad from Pinkbike Academy! This poll is a joke...

@mattboltz: Soundtrack is always a matter of personal taste, I think you did a great job! It really fits the whole setting, cut and images and creates such a cool mood. Good job!

I respectfully disagree. As you said, Ben carried her and she probably knows. Yet, when asked, she denies it. To me that shows how she is not reflecting her performance or admitting her weakness. If she would have admitted it, I would think "cool, she's honest, she knows her troubles and what to work on." It is a throwback to the first episode, where she was focussing on blaming others rather than questioning herself. Not the attitude I would expect of a professional athlete.

@Poulsbojohnny: Why should that be ridiculous? Simple question: As someone who cares about it, why sould I buy a a frame, that doesn't fit a bottle, if there's 10 different frames in the same category, that ride just as good, cost the same AND provide space for a bottle? Obiously I wouldn't pick a crappy frame over a great one, just because of this, but as long as there are frames making both possible without sacrifice, I see no reason. A lot of I my riding is about 1-2 hours. For such a short time, a single bottle is enough, my phone and keys are in my pockets and the spare tube + multitool is in a seat pack thats tightly attached to my seattube & top tube due to my dropper post, without any rattling or getting in the way. My pump is mounted to my bottle cage aswell. Furthermore, even if I am on a longer ride, wearing a backpack, the bottle means almost a liter less on my back. My fullsuspension trailbike lets me fit a regular bottle without any issues and I would not want to miss it.

@endor: Whenever possible, I avoid wearing a backpack. As long as my ride is short enough for one bottle to be sufficent, I pack a sparetube plus tools in a small bag to the frame. Therefore, if a frame has no space for a bottlecage, I am not going to buy it. Why should I, if there's plenty of other great competitors, that manage to offer both? There's some other people around, that actually care about it, so I wouldn't call it ridiculous.

@ejopdahl: definetly agree. In our last project, we used an external recorder for the first time. Most of the time we managed to record the actual sound of the shot, but sometimes it's just not possible, due to wind, additional noise of the cameraguy or because we can't mount the recorder to the bike/rider. In these cases we tried to record sounds that are as identical as possible. If you're interested, check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J2suR5mb4g