NOBL Wheels - Testing Grounds: NOBL Wheels began in 2012 in search for the perfect carbon wheelset. We design, test, and build some of the most durable carbon wheels around.
Lettisode #004 : Endurance: In this film we follow Jim Topliss through his long and hard winter training. Winter is a stiff time for any athlete, but with discipline Jim hopes to be one step closer to his idols. With other riders hot on his heels, he hopes to compete in the 2015 Tour de France, if it doesn't clash with Farmer John's that is. A great insight of the training of a true Lettuce. Ta' t' all the sponsorz. Banter.
Tyler McCaul - Festing in Kamloops: Graham Agassiz invited some of the best MTB freeriders in the world up to his hometown of Kamloops, BC for “Aggy’s Reunion” - a huge freeride event and the first stop on the infamous Fest Series. The idea was basically for MTB riders from all over the globe to fly in, have a good time, party hard, and hit some of the biggest jumps ever built for mountain bikes. Sounds pretty good, right?
Mike Jones - The Guts Behind The Glory: Nineteen-year old Mike Jones has quickly made the step-up from junior level to the senior ranks but there's still much hard work to do. Now training and riding with his team mate and hero, Sam Hill, there's more to come from the young Welshman.
Mondraker Summum Carbon Manufacturing: The process of developing this bike has been focused on getting the fastest and most efficient DH machine ever. The dream has come true: the frame (medium size) weight 2,837 gr. (6.25 lbs.) without the rear shock.
Red Bull Dreamline at 1,000FPS: There's a lot going on in dirt jumping when you break it down.
Fatboy - The Shred Days of Christmas: What’s better than a brand new Specialized Fatboy under the Christmas Tree? How about taking it out on its maiden voyage and shredding with Mitch Ropelato.
Snowbike Sledgehammer - Nassfeld: Freeriding in powder.
2014 SR Suntour Team: Watch James Doerfling, Garett Beuhler, Guido Tschugg, Remy Absalon, and the rest of the team putting Suntour suspension through its paces.
Double Exposure - Mike Douglas: Freeskiing innovator Mike Douglas has parlayed an illustrious career as an athlete into a second-coming as a writer, filmmaker and emcee, giving a voice to the unsung stories of mountain adventures and adventurers. Whether he’s wielding a ski pole or camera lens, Douglas’s pursuit of poetic lines lends itself to a balance of Whistler’s dichotomy between action and solitude.
I love the way that carbon manufacturing videos are all so 'psuedo' high tech. But as an aerospace engineer I sat there open mouthed. You get shot if if anything was manufactured like that Mondraker frame. I know the loads and criticality are not the same, but a little bit of 'nip and tuck' of the sheets at the difficult corners would be much better than just shoving it all together like they seemed to do...
If they can build such lightwieght frames with such low quality, the mind boggles what the weights will become as he manufacturing improves.
Pretty sure there are not hundreds of thousands of specs they have to meet either...I would be intrigued to know the entire process from design through inspection. Just to see how it differs from the AS industry.
It would be tough to get a reliable and light product using material forms generally used in the AS industry - tape and woven fabric CFRP. I think the bike industry is using chopped fiber prepreg for most of the frames which is used very sparingly in AS. There is a big reduction in strength and stiffness going to a chopped fiber system from UD tape or woven fabric but I believe that chopped fiber prepeg is more robust than fabric or tape with regards to manufacturing.
I liked the flashlight visual inspection for the "NDI" following the fatigue test - very tech.
I agree though that it does seem like there is room for improvement which means frames should be getting lighter and stronger in years to come!!
I'm surprised there aren't any haters commenting on the fact that it's made in China/Taiwan. Guess it's becoming more acceptable. Fine by me really, not everyone can afford made-in-USA carbon products from Enve and the like.
i was looking at them apply the carbon fiber and was thinking to myself, this is why i get Alloy frames.
@OrionW i see where improvement could be had, but that would cost more, for better materials, better inspection, better carbon setting. they'd need more skilled workers and they'd end up scrapping more frames because QC would be harder to pass
Fatbike edit made me cringe. As a skier and someone that builds the park at my local hill, watching kids jump off the sides of takeoffs to rails is the worst. So watching someone hit that same line, in slow-mo... on a fatbike... yeah right!!
1 - because baggy jeans were only cool in the 90ies 2 - baggy jeans get caught inbetween your chain and chainring all the time, causing dangerous situations 3 - when you wear baggy jeans your riding will look more clumsy / less clean
I'm predominantly a dirtjumper but I can't wear skinny jeans. Ok, so I don't wear MC Hammer pants either but the skin tight jeans are plain wrong. Saying they obstruct your riding less is also questionable. I'm riding my bike having a whale of a time whilst the skinny jeaners are still trying to get their trousers over their pads in the carpark!!
wow!!!!!! sunday afternoon is amazing and self shot!? 1 shot the camera is droping on the tripod? super good sound and music combo. You beat me to the raw with quit beat, Hope to have a version released by the 15th. GREAT JOB -peadal out of corner shot is so cool
Eliot Rausch making it on Pinkbike MOFYM? Never thought I'd see that. Absolutely love how transparent he is as a person with his struggles. For any other filmmakers on the site who struggle with the internal need to feel validated by making films and feel like they need to carry the title as a "filmmaker", check out some of his interviews. He's the realest human ever, calls it how it is.
Awesome videos! Been a pleasure to watch them!
To be honest I didn't expect much from that Sunday Afternoon video, but it turned out to be one of my favourites.
I won't copy his style though. Riding alone here in South Africa, especially when it get's dark... Chances are big you'll get mugged at least 3 times per ride.
What annoys me most is all the fat bikes complaining about the skinny weight weenie bikes that are always on the covers of all the cycling magazines.
If you want to look like the skinny pretty bikes, get off that couch, do a lot of excersizes and stop eating choclate.
This goes for all the complaining fat bikes out there.
Fatbikes merely illuminate the rot and decay already festering in the vapid recess of your fetid soul. To hate fatbikes is to hate life itself; to hate one's self so unwaveringly, that that unadulterated hatred, unfettered, encompasses everything you regard in a void of impenetrable darkness.
Also, Since you'll all be scrolling down here to check what to watch first.... the dreamline @ 1000 FPS video is amazing
I liked the flashlight visual inspection for the "NDI" following the fatigue test - very tech.
I agree though that it does seem like there is room for improvement which means frames should be getting lighter and stronger in years to come!!
@OrionW i see where improvement could be had, but that would cost more, for better materials, better inspection, better carbon setting. they'd need more skilled workers and they'd end up scrapping more frames because QC would be harder to pass
2 - baggy jeans get caught inbetween your chain and chainring all the time, causing dangerous situations
3 - when you wear baggy jeans your riding will look more clumsy / less clean