Kill the Clock

In the world of mountain biking, a clock is nothing more than a mechanism of comparison. It is a ruler that ticks by degrees of skill, in order to link our desires together into a unified pursuit of victory over one another.

It is a device that gives us a well defined path to glory. But the road to greatness is a winding one, and the reasons why you first picked up a bike in the first place are easy to lose along the way.

And when your life becomes defined by being better than then person standing next to you sometimes you need to ask yourself: is it more important to care about the seconds that everybody else is counting, or the seconds that only count to you?

Bike Magazine presents “Kill the Clock” - A World Cup racer’s first steps into the side of mountain biking that can’t be measured by seconds.

Rider: Isak Leivsson
Filmed by: Wiley Kaupas and Jack Berg
Photography: Peter Jamison
Edit: Wiley Kaupas