Fabien Barel presents #1 - At home and on dirt with Cam Zink

 Living in Reno and knowing the trails he rides is sick! The biking here is awesome too.

 Cam seems like to me the quintessential American rider.

 Cool story bro......haha, I'm just messin' with you, that actually is pretty damn cool

 Really fresh style... I designed it in 2009! :-)

 Claim to fame right there!

 I dreamed to design some stuff for pros since I was a child... and now I'm very happy to see my artwork is appreciated from a pro! :-)

 LOL you know it man

 he said california because of tahoe that its right next to it

 lake tahoe has a nevada and california side to it

 Gotta stop and say hi to Deb everytime I'm there.

 looks like you dropped something there...

 ^ a couple times... haha

 This one time at band camp, I stick my flute up......his ass!!!!!

 I have nothing but respect for Zink. Super solid dude, and one of the hardest shredders ever. Nice edit Fabien

 great to see Fabien enjoying life and riding with pure enjoyment after all those years on the dh circuit.

 Personally for all you confused people out there. I'm referring to the name dropper ^^^^^.....NOT Fabien and Zinc. Your Neg props don't count :-)

 I wasn't trying to be a name dropper, but whatever. I got nothing but mad props for Cam and Fabien. It was a sick edit. Can't wait to see who Fabien is visiting next.

 Ha, it's all good banter mate, people need to chill on this site

 Your off to bed. I'm getting ready to get on the trails!!!!

 Night ride? Or your up early.

 Hey,it's hard sometimes for us English to understand what Americans say !!
Fabien's English is good,his ridings not bad either ,i'm,driving down to Marseille then Garda in July,any good spots you could suggest ?

 Nah he sizing it up, any good 'rider' evaluates stuff like that first

He will go bigger than cam and fabien when he does it.

Double doggy flip or something.

 Hmm. If you saw his house you wouldn't want to move. It's so huge and so nice. Plus he has a massive DJ spot about 5 mins from his house.

 That wasn't his house in the video with the single jump in the backyard? The title of this article mislead me to believe so.

 No, it was. You don't get a good look on his house from the vid though. It's an awesome house.

He just has th big booter for working on tricks, but there's hundreds of jumps just 5mins from his house, so why build a lot in your yard when you can live so close to an already well established spot?

 It is his house...plus that's actually a good-sized yard for a new house with a view in Reno.

 You can see he is well off. Has everything he needs.
Doesnt need to be greedy and is living pretty large anyway.


'Im just going to do some backflips in my garden'. Not many people can say that I dont even have a garden!

 Reno 911 is filmed in So Cal, ever notice the palm trees?

 My friend, dont worry. I had open heart surgery one year ago exactly with 4 by-passes and already riding and racing DH again at 50.You will be fine with your knees.

Cheers from México

 Crazy stuff!

 well ma wee collie seems to cope really well and he comes on 3-4 hour walks... sheep dogs ftw! never taken him biking with me though cos he gets car sick... tried once and the car still smells so not doing that again...

 I am only suspecting the "pure breed" freaking upper-middle-class mob being responsible for that. They must have increased the demand for dog-show dogs which are crossed to look good not be strong. I am laughing my ass off when my father in law talks about his fine shepherd being allergic, having digestion problems and looking like a folded paper bag after an hour walk... he asked afterwards if he can get a german shepherd like those that Police or military uses - forget it...

 We have a pure breed belgian shepherd who doesn't want to stop, so I think you might be over generalising there WAKI

 At the end his dog stops and looks over the ledge and just thinks to himself, "Okay, I give up!"

 My Border Terrier (previous life as a show dog) rides with me, she only as big as a cat but can seriously move. The origins of the breed are to run with horses so guess bikes aint to much different. Think it depends on the breed.

 my fanny is a cairn terrier,...5 yrs old...basically floats thru the trails and passes on the switchbacks,...like your average micro-bot,...cracks everyone up and runs 15k while still hunting on the trail,...(straightaways are challenging tho)

 My collie is the worst trail dog ever, he stops in the worst places and he takes forever to follow you because he is always rooting around in some hole or eating/rolling in shit

 I'm not being funny waki, but everytime I see you make a comment you're moaning about something or other and dont get me wrong i love a discussion but starting a sentence off with 'I have no experience with dogs' and then having a bitch about pedigrees doesnt really make sense. i have a 5 generation pedigree gsd and shes fine after a good four hours on the cross country trails with me, shattered obviously but no physical difficulty. you can blame a dogs problems on the breed, if its a show dog its probably spoilt beyond belief and no suprise it doesnt have any stamina etc. there are plenty of working pedigrees that cope just fine, andi hate to break it but the military and police use pure breeds too, they wanted mine but the breeder would rather her go to a home. its about how you raise it and train it > genetic problems. theres nothing to say cross breeds cant have genetic disorders from being inbred etc, source your dog properly and its straight ballin wit yo homies.

 I just wanted to learn about it... well I have issues, I always need to start a tiny conflict, I can't ask: "Are all dogs that fit? My friends and step father's ones seem to suck big time though they claim how great bred they are"

 Yet again the comments are filled with WAKIdesigns random comments/arguments about stuff that has nothing to do with the MTB edit. Wasting time talking about dogs breeds?!?!?! GO ride your bike bro!

 you definitely get people talking, Waki. You need your own site and i mean that in a good constructive way. allthingswaki.com or wackitangents.com. you should make it happen. i'm always amazed when you write something off-topic it instantly creates its own legs and starts runnin'. always entertaining. who woulda thought I'd learn about dogs after that edit. brilliant.

 English Springer Spaniel,he runs back inside when i put my backpack on,he's cool without it though, a while back he went off with some random other biker,took me an hour to find him !

 OlSkoolJake - there was a dog in teh edit and it was super fun to watch it run behind those guys - There are quadri-fartillions of vidoes like this one, that really, apart from hearing Fabien speaking in French accent it was only the dog that made it click for me...

Fullbug - I can't start allthingswaki, I do it for the fun of interacting with people, Thanks for info breakfasthero

 Is it a '59 Eldorado?

 They had to cut it because that dog came back and did some crazy stuff, too insane for the camera.

 Is it the same company that make hyper bmx's in the uk???

 Yeah, it's like "Im not hittin that!"

 He is with hyper now?