@Steve101j: Learn to hype the community and build people up. There's nothing to be gained by doing the opposite. I'm sure your mother must have given you "if you don't have anything nice to say..." speech at one point? Basic social etiquette, my dude.
@Durtwrx: The beauty of freedom is to be able to say whatever wrong-headed thing you want, but also for anyone else to call you out on it. Freedom of speech has never meant 'say whatever you want and everyone else has to silently listen'.
He does start right at the top of banana peel, a 5.7 climb. You can see where the obvious white streak where he joins the walk-off trail, but his first 20m are definitely not part of it, and probably not even walk-able. Not sure about calling the guy a free-soloist though haha
Disclaimer: It is steep and difficult, but nowhere near as difficult as some the other line I film around Squamish and elsewhere, and yes it was ridden a while back. This video was not about the Mountain Biking. A mistake though would turn very uggly. As far as safety with the climber and the wingsuiter, everything was obviously staged. I'll post the full video tomorrow.
@phastlikedatnascar: Pinkbike editorialized the title. Nothing in Remy's post says anything about free soloists.
And regardless, it's just meant to be a fun video to illicit interest in mountain biking. There are lots of staged situations in Fabio Wibmer videos, and he's celebrated for it.
To all the haters, you go ride it then.... It seems the stoke has been lost on PB due to the constant shutting people down or passively aggressively attacking them with "kindness". If you're not stoked to ride ans see other people ride then just quit. We don't need or want you on the dirt. Nice one remy as usual.
Who gets to decide whether the title may include "Must Watch"? Up until now I thought this was reserved for exceptionally made video parts only. Now, "Must Watch" basically means "A Video"
GoPro Effect is actually the opposite... making stuff less steep and less scary than they are. This is 90 degrees tilted super wide view that does exactly the opposite of GoPro Effect. Same as sending dick pic with wide settings on your iPhone... you pipi looks 3 times longer - you are welcome
If only Remi could get his brakes to stop squealing! Seems like most of his videos have this as the background music... Quite distracting from his excellent riding.
@bocomtb: that's totally not true, discs and pads pick up contaminates from bike maintenance or from transit on vehicles etc, but it is possible to clean them and have them run silent even in the steepest and fastest sections.
The world cup circuit very rarely sound like this unless it's a mudbath. Either it's not possible with Hayes brakes or they aren't bothered with people mentally blacklisting their products.
The one flaw I've found with Hayes Dominions is that they're extremely sensitive to all noise-causing factors. They must be ridden hard and brought up to temp frequently to stay quiet. As well as being kept clean and perfectly aligned.
Remy made a post when he began running these new brakes he was sponsored with. Something about how he likes hearing them because he knows they are working. It stuck me as an odd thing to post but ever since we have heard his brakes on his videos.
@Jvisscher: that sounds like a good PR excuse for brakes that they knew would be loud, when every other rider I can think of talks about wanting to be able to hear what their tyres are doing instead. But then I'm not the one hitting collosal drops and vertical slabs so what do I know!
@jpcars10s: I’ve never heard or seen this issue with the 4 pairs of dominions me and my friends have. The levers chrip like birds when you pull them though lol
Now if he could just work in some dude doing a parkour flip over him and one of those weird airplane obstacle races in the background, we'd have a Red Bull pentopoly.
The convergence of three extreme sports athletes almost colliding in one place and time... This could have caused a massive ripple in time/space and opened a gateway to late 90s Shaun Palmer emerging from the ether of mountain dew.
While this one is pretty staged (still cool, but staged) Please go check out the video he posted 2 before this caption "No fall zone, epic sunset and location"..... that S is nuts.
Pretty insane all around! Genuine question, I'm not sure of the etiquette here - was that a close pass next to the climber, or is it just the camera angle?
Bolts did a great line that was photogenic. But if Bolts missed his ramp he would stop. If Remy missed his exit left into the forest here… well… he would end up where it was possible to deploy the wing suit parachute.
Downvoted comment. Blowhard commenter.
See how easy it is to be anonymously superior in the PB comments section?
Copy editor just copied Remy’s spelling. He speaks French better than I do and probably English too.
And regardless, it's just meant to be a fun video to illicit interest in mountain biking. There are lots of staged situations in Fabio Wibmer videos, and he's celebrated for it.
It seems the stoke has been lost on PB due to the constant shutting people down or passively aggressively attacking them with "kindness".
If you're not stoked to ride ans see other people ride then just quit. We don't need or want you on the dirt.
Nice one remy as usual.
Up until now I thought this was reserved for exceptionally made video parts only.
Now, "Must Watch" basically means "A Video"
The "climber" is also not "free soloing", he's doing a straightforward scramble, calm down.
Seriously though, the sh*t Remy is riding is sooo steep. There's no way to keep your brakes from being noisy on that stuff.
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At that speed, I'd try to give a walker more space than that, nevermind a f**king climber who could fall to their death
Of course I just went straight to the comments instead