Midweek Mini Movies! 1/11

First up – what kind of back yard would you have if you were a world-class freerider? Let’s look at Paul Basagoitia’s place. Great riding and some incredible ‘Canon 7D on a model helicopter’ aerial shots too.

PB’s Backyard from Trent Palmer on Vimeo.

And now… Remember dusty trails? Some super-saturated shots from some anonymous dirt jumps somewhere…

Anonymous Riders Session from Troy Walker on Vimeo.

Thought you were hardcore for going riding in our recent snow? How about Mike Curiak riding the whole Iditarod course unsupported

IditaTour: Part one. from lacemine29 on Vimeo.

Here’s his blog: http://lacemine29.blogspot.com/2010/12/iditatour-part-one.html

And did anyone come a cropper on the ice this winter? It could have been worse…

And now on bikes? (Thanks to road.cc)

And finally… just before you go out and spend £5K on model helicopters and digital cameras… make sure you can afford a spare…

Bad landing with one of the aerial rigs from Trent Palmer on Vimeo.

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (17)

loweylowey January 5, 2011 at 2:22 pm

Whilst I did laugh heartily at the icy corner, you would have to be some sort of special swine not to warn the cyclists, put a sign up or some such.

ChippsChipps January 5, 2011 at 2:31 pm

Perhaps they’d left the video on while they went out there with a bag of salt… Or perhaps not. Some good ‘wear a helmet!’ moments there.

jamiejamie January 5, 2011 at 2:34 pm

Wonder why that snow plough didn’t have snow chains on…..

ir_banditoir_bandito January 5, 2011 at 6:16 pm

How bored of riding in the nearby big mountains do you have to be to prefer playing around in a field?

Anthem XAnthem X January 5, 2011 at 7:13 pm

My mate had a Faceplant on an ice patch last week, cost him £250 quid at the dentists!!

Going to email him this link now!!

LiferLifer January 5, 2011 at 7:27 pm

The Iditatour was brilliant, thanks for that!

wooksterwookster January 5, 2011 at 8:01 pm

Great videos this week nice on chaps!

hh45hh45 January 5, 2011 at 9:32 pm

great vids. the fallers on the icy bend of hell (is there ice in hell?) were mainly on shopping bikes with narrow tyres that can’t help. amazing how painful even slow speed falls look, no wonder mine hurt so much!

lazlo53lazlo53 January 5, 2011 at 9:56 pm

It’d be nice to start the new year with a copy of last years issue 62!

DaveyBoyWonderDaveyBoyWonder January 5, 2011 at 10:10 pm

I didn’t think that watching 2 minutes worth of people falling off on ice could be so much fun. Some people really going down like sacks of spuds…. awesome!

buzz-lightyearbuzz-lightyear January 5, 2011 at 11:23 pm

One guy got around. Dude.

jamesjames January 6, 2011 at 1:30 pm

“were mainly on shopping bikes with narrow tyres that can’t help”
I can’t help thinking about the suitability of those bikes on ice, steering into a corner like that with the geometry those bikes have (weight right over the back) can’t be a great help?

sturidersturider January 6, 2011 at 2:34 pm

bad Kama. shame on you all:)

rangerbillrangerbill January 6, 2011 at 3:48 pm

Ice patch, 1min 36, wins drift crown

geetee1972geetee1972 January 7, 2011 at 2:51 pm

To be fair, all that the video ‘Glissade du chasse-niege’ shows is pretty much how people park in that part of the world anyway. Ice or no ice.

themightymowglithemightymowgli January 7, 2011 at 6:22 pm

great choice of track on the ‘icy bend from hell clip’
Let the bodies it the floor, let the bodies hit the floor etc! I’m allowed to laugh, after recovering from broken ribs in an identical situation. Nobody was filming then though

giffgaffgiffgaff January 8, 2011 at 7:46 pm

Sprained my ankle in similar conditions just before christmas, still made me laugh though.