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Despite Olympic fever gripping the country, there’s still room for some tasty video diversion in your lunch break, isn’t there?

 

First off, a behind the scenes view of Andreu Lacondeguy

http://youtu.be/dl_JUd1PbT8

 

Which reminds us. Here’s the new, full-length trailer (eh? It’s about five minutes, OK?) of Red Bull’s ‘Where the Trail Ends’

 

How about some more rad tricks, but this time on a mini-bike

And here’s an overnighter trip taken up Snowdon on nearly the longest day.

 

Talking of trailers, we’ve just had this in from Chris Akrigg, who’s been playing in Malaga, Spain…

 

Keeping things a little more wheels on the ground, here’s a timelapse looking at the behind the scenes preparation for this year’s BC Bike Race.

 

Fancy trying ‘the hardest mountain bike race in the world’? (this year was 26,000m climbing in seven days) Matt Page took on the Iron Bike race and here’s a video of just one of the stages. How does riding 3966 unseen steps down through a 17C  fort appeal? No warning signs at all during the event as there would end up being too many!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRutseUlrvw

 

And, inspired by a thread on the forum, here’s what happens when you take a 1000cc Superbike off roading, complete with slicks and hard suspension. Caution – 12mins long and very sweary!

 

We can’t link directly to BBC iPlayer, but here’s a hyperlink to the Women’s Olympic Road Race, doing a great job of showing the men a bit of tactics and aggression. Starts about 1hr 15mins in (and you won’t be able to see it if you’re not in the UK).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01lh5jk/Olympics_London_2012_BBC_One_Day_2_13.1017.00/

 

Got a smooth edit, or Youtube find that you think we need to see? Send your link entitled ‘Midweek Movies’ to newsdesk@singletrackworld.com


 

 

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.)

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