New Ed Oxley Film: Time to get moist! VIDEO

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Ed Oxley and Whitenosugar Productions, who brought you the famous (if bizarre) Vain Vagrant video are back, this time with ‘Time to get moist!’

Ed tries some one-handed conjuring. Pic: Jessie Leong

We tracked Ed down to his yurt in Calderdale and he gave us this explanation for the weirdness:

“Every year I present the Santa Cruz Bike Night at Kendal Mountain Festival in the English Lake District. There’s nothing else really like it. It’s a kind of live audience chat show with original big screen video content, craft ale, live music, interviews and a touch of anarchy that typifies our sport. This year was the best yet with 900 people in the audience. We had Greg Minaar, Martyn Ashton, Guy Martin and Josh Bryceland on the stage as well as a whole load of other guests. We also saw first screenings of edits that are now being released online in the days following the festival. “We want to see more women in mountain biking” they said, so I thought I’d do my bit and team up with Whitenosugar Productions to make a film. It’s not hard to represent women positively in a mountain bike edit, you just have to show the girls doing what they do every week riding their bikes on proper trails. I didn’t want it to look like Soviet era propaganda and so I added a bit of Great Rock humour. Everyone has to be good at something and at least I’m good at being a dick and the women certainly come out on top.

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Can you spot yourself in this shot? Pic: Jessie Leong

“The three women in the film are Aneela McKenna, Juliana Bicycles brand ambassador and partner in Scottish guiding company Go-Where. Sandra Scally is an ambassador for Hervelo women’s cycling club (although apparently there’s one male member, the cheeky monkey). Janey Kennedy is a professional mountain bike guide with Go-Where. The other bloke we just found outside the supermarket and we invited him along because we felt sorry for him. The film was shot in a weekend in the Lake District and edited just in time for the festival. In true British style we had all the weather and enjoyed constant wind and rain from the tail end of some hurricane passing over the Atlantic. It’s what makes us great. It also kills cameras and freezes fingers but we’re not made of sugar and neither are we princesses. The audience at Kendal certainly enjoyed it and I hope you enjoy it too.”

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There’s a bit of this…
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There’s a good amount of this

The video features a slew of top riders on a wet weekend out in the Lakes. See Ed be his usual unsubtle self as he wins over a reluctant group of riders. Or not.


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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 22 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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