Throwback Thursday: Sprung Video Series

 I loved them all but I just copied and pasted Sprung 3 to a friends wall on facebook and tagged everyone who I used to ride with wherever they are in life now and the comments are flying in. We used to watch them religiously every day. Its amazing to see the the old arsenic quarry aka chip shop and a few other places as I was there on the days of the filming. Alex Rankin should get back on it and start back again with Sprung 6

 Arsenic quarry (tavi woodlands) is bigger and better than ever! No longer allowed in the too section by the stacks but the rest of the land is legally accessible with a tavistock riders membership. And they have a race series

 No handed landings, gnarly bro! Haha

 I just bought 'Parismatic' by Capsule for 2 quid on Amazon. Quite a shame though the Smoove and Aquasky stuff is next to impossible to find.

 soundcloud.com/stevenmoove/smoove-he-wont-get-far-free
soundcloud.com/stevenmoove/smoove-looza-free-download
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNXHYXClsW4

 Totally agree on Mark B & Blade - it's now my de-facto riding music and has been since I first heard 'The Unknown' on Sprung 4. Equally agree with Bonkywonky regarding the Smoove stuff. I have 'He Won't Get Far' but there is at least one other tune on that vid that I simply CANNOT find anywhere and it kills me to think it may be lost forever... The music on the Sprung series was always so spot on.

 There are quite a lot of Smoove tracks in Sprung 4, mostly during these little transitional clips. As rockstorm showed (cheers for that), the more known tracks are available but personally I like the ambient-ish tracks the most and these might indeed be lost forever unless mr Smoove decides to re-issue all the old stuff.

If anyone can find 'Don't stop' by Aquasky vs Masterblaster I'll buy him a beer through Paypal..

 It sure is...
Thats my claim to mtb fame... the first rider ever on Sprung! We happened to meet Alex Rankin in the local woods and he invited us to shoot with him the next day in FOD. 16 years ago!!!! WHAT, how did that happen??? Bikes have moved on a bit since then.....and the riding...and thank god the clothes too!!

 Wow! That is awesome! Haha yeah, I'd love to do a run on one of these bikes though, just to see how sketchy it really was! I was born in feb 97 so watching this is pretty funny!

 Joe? (I'm guessing so) met you a bunch of times, at Plymouth uni mtb club. With special James and Carl etc... I've moved on now.. Living the dream in Whistler still broke tho!

 he did an edit with adam brayton and nico vink earlier this year - filmed in lake district, north England. just google the 2 names. Pretty good!! life was better when I could buy earthed at the end of every year.

 I saw he's doing some commercial work for Charge amongst others. He still has the same raw, skateboard-ish style of filming and editing that makes Sprung/Earthed stand out.

 To get out a ride after?

 Actually, exactly that! Also, I'm going to see just how much, ahem, work, I can get done whilst catching up on the classics.

 That bit when the bike lands on his head at Lym. Proper sketchy!