Vimeo celebrates the best videos shared on their platform each year with the Vimeo Festival and Awards. This year, mountain bike content was nominated in three of the 19 categories. Specialized's
The Perfect Lap was nominated in the Product Launch category alongside videos by Volvo and Apple. You can read our massive interview with the team behind the scenes on that video
here.
Meanwhile, Scott Secco's
Madman Trails Of Bhutan with Wyn Masters and Cody Kelly was nominated in the Action Spots category alongside Ryan Gibb's
From The Ash with Nico Vink. Shimano was nominated in Brand Story: Large Business, while Dakine and Freehub were recognized in Brand Story: Small Business.
The winners will be announced in a virtual award show on January 14th. More information on that can be found
here.
The problem was that it got so much exposure that I got sick of seeing it as the lead story so many times - it's telling that it was the picture used as the headline for this story - predictable and, whilst perhaps achieving the Specialized Bicycle Company's marketing objective, ultimately diminishing the impact of the video.
Thanks Vimeo for keeping it simple.
I keep telling ppl but I am always been seen as a hater/conservative/"old guy"/etc-etc. Electrics riding should be regulated with a driving licence or similar.
When you "learn" the mountains on your own strength, you respect it, you respect others that ate doing the same sport, irrelevant of the lvl of their expertise/skills. When you just show up in your cargo pants, cotton t-shirt, nike walking shoes and super-dry back-pack...you become, very-very fast, the "kind of the road". Of course, not everybody...but most of them are/do exactly that. 'Everyone is beneath me' mentality. That is why accidents happen, that is why idiots die of cold 3.5 kms from the village(as his battery runned out of juice); and this behaviour reflects on the whole comunity.
That is why I am saying, riding an electric should be much more regulated. Much-much more!, thus, not letting johnny big wallet with zero trail experience and princes 'my hubby is a mtb-er' riding on smth that can be harmful for them, as well as others and also be detrimental to the actual mtb-ing community and actual mtb-ers.
We ride bikes for the pleasure of riding into the woods, for mountain adventures, for adrenaline surges at high speed on dh tracks.
"They"(at least, most of them) ride for none of that. They couldn't handle a normal bike on real mtb-ing trails. So why are they allowed to ride electrics?
Would you put a learner driving student to ride across the continent a two trailers truck or a formula 1 car?
Would you allow for a cessna learning pilot to handle a F-22 in combat or to fly an A380 with 600 passengers on board?
Would you let a 1st year medical student to do a brain surgery?
Would you.....by now, I think you guys got the point...
....so why ppl with no skill or fitness or even the most basic knowledge about mountaineering are allowed to ride electrics on real mtb and hiking trails?
Everyone thinks that if they would receive power, they would be and act like superman; in reality/when you grow up, you realise that, in truth, you'd be and behave much more like the homelander.
It is the same way with electric bikes for non/wannabe-mtb-ers.
Seems to be inspired by the Bella Coola segment from INTO THE MIND:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOlxcpXW2V0
which I prefer because it's more OUT THERREE MAANNNN
Sarcasm aside, I was smitten with glee when the kid smacked the camera after the wheelie high fives. Smiles for miles watching that
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zBwv3PIa6Q