Back at home and back on the home Rampages. Having so much fun exploring our local area finding fun little challenges to ride. Have had this one in my mind for a while. Makes a change from the normal bike park laps.
So good to get the heart rate going every now and again.— Brendan Fairclough
I understand he is a family friend but it is either time to pay for Beney to get lessons in shooting and producing a video or ditch him for someone who actually knows where to point the camera and then effectively pull together an edit.
@pk71: I gave up on the slab because the video shooting was so bad - I am guessing from your comment, I saved myself from a shit storyline/concept as well!
It was ramped out quite a bit in the end. But videos don’t do it any justice. We’ve tried taking videos of us riding similar vertical features (but not nearly as big) near us, and it just looks crap on a video. Like ‘why bother even to get the camera out’-crap.
I reckon in real life its going to look a lot more impressive...
I have walked past this valley/quarry a few times and had though it was beyond possible for a bike to be ridden off the edge. Its not a big air drop as such, just the fact that it's practically vertical for such a long way down.
Aye, there was a vid from a while back with him riding val di sole in just a trail lid, which of course is his decision, but when you are a role model for a lot of younger riders, I do think you have a certain responsibility to at least promote basic common sense in regard to safety.
@teamdoa: Well, he still has a helmet and there is quite free space around. Have you seen dirt jumping? I´d say the basic common sense would be not to expect the same level of riding from an og pro as from young beginner. I´d start there.
@teamdoa: I mean I'm not judging anyone, it was more just of a "waw." type of comment...
I agree with you but more on the topic of back protectors - a trail lid is still a kind of protection so I guess that's all right. But I can't believe how many riders I've seen riding courses like Hardline without any back protection... I will agree on this: it is their choice, although it's a stupid one truth be told. But indeed, some of these guys are clearly "influencers" for younger generations and should pay more attention to that
That gulley that they are in looks like a Holloway/Ancient track way to me, huge piece of erosion from hundreds, maybe thousands, of years of traffic cutting into the ground, water also erodes them further making the gulley even deeper and steeper, they are causing no harm to this scar in the landscape.
@bigburd: I'm talking about the side of the gully that he drops into. That tree to his left will most likely end up down in the gully after a few winter storms.
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I reckon in real life its going to look a lot more impressive...
I´d say the basic common sense would be not to expect the same level of riding from an og pro as from young beginner. I´d start there.
I agree with you but more on the topic of back protectors - a trail lid is still a kind of protection so I guess that's all right. But I can't believe how many riders I've seen riding courses like Hardline without any back protection... I will agree on this: it is their choice, although it's a stupid one truth be told. But indeed, some of these guys are clearly "influencers" for younger generations and should pay more attention to that
Anyway that's a whole other topic
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