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  • Lets see your rad skillz!
  • stoat
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    Flicking though the pictures on pink bike and the like it got me thinking, what about the everyday hero. We see so many impressive photos of impressive skills it is only natural we trying to emulate such daring feats. You know the scene,

    "massive" drop/jump
    big trick planned
    cameraman at the ready
    butterflys in stomach
    off you go, heart in mouth…
    this feels big, such style!
    You survived, its got to look good-you can't wait to show the kids on pinkbike.

    But then the photo is reveled…

    It looks pathetic, you look a right bellend!

    But you had fun- so lets celebrate those rad photos 😀

    (Extra marks for the gurning)

    adamdv8
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    ***Paging Elbry – Elbry to the Forum please***

    jackthedog
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    There are probably only about 3 photos of my riding in existance as I'm quite camera shy.

    This shyness doesn't come from anything other than the fact that I don't want to see photographic evidence that what felt in the first-person like some mad Vouilloz action actually appears to the third-person like a shortarse hairy northerner bimbling down a bridleway.

    I ride like Peat and Gracia and Nico – as long as nobody's looking and can prove otherwise.

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    simonralli2
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    Well I do feel I this helps put Elbry to shame – lost plenty of traction as I go out of camera shot but you will be pleased to know I made it down in one piece, and yeah, don't look at the two dabs at the start ay 😮

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/simonralli/3912734225/in/set-72157622224281001/

    Jase_MK
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    This guy has some proper rad skills
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vH9D9iGuRjY

    (shamelessly stolen from brant richards' twitter feed)

    steve_b77
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    Things kinda went a bit wrong on this one after getting some air over a jump and then trying to clip the apex of a corner only to find no apex was there.

    Cue rather large impact with slab of granite leaving a big ass purple bruise on my shoulder, a now slightly mis-shaped collar bone and some scratching of the bike/forks/knee/helmet/hand.

    Oh yeah and my mate near $h!tting himself as I flew past him and my bike towards him at some speed 😆

    This one is my mate getting it a little bit wrong on Cli-machx. (I'm the cameraman in this case – wrong mode on the camera though)

    Me getting "rad" air out of a bomb hole 😆

    PJ266
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    Thats pretty special to do that in the second photo!! Class shot.

    woody2000
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    Check me out!

    Note the textbook style, looking straight down at my front wheel and legs akimbo. I is rad defined. 😀

    crazy-legs
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    One of the guides at Bike Verbier shows off his skill and bike control. 😉
    To be fair it's actually a VERY steep descent but obviously the camera flattens it out. He's also a very good rider, on that occasion he hit something hidden under the fern cover. That was his excuse anyway…

    carlphillips
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    aye it looks like he 'apexed' that corner ok!!

    talking about the shore tyoe berm shot

    ruminant
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    I do not claim any rad flying skills, but this little vid is proves I can get air once in a while, really sad but I was proper chuffed by this

    sherwood pines downhill

    In case you missed it, look air under the tyres

    tinsy
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    Rad at 10

    fast forward 33 years.

    DezB
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    Swinley, PeterPoddy went with the "jumpy" group to take photos. I went with the jumpy group cos all the other groups had left.

    Which one is me?

    Spankmonkey
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    DezB you have to be the 2nd one… your justifying yourself 😉 simples 🙂

    Spankmonkey
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    photo of mr Soul on here, it lands around 10ft down in the bottom of a bomb hole which then launches into a step up… only ever did the step up, the thought of over cooking that jump is just nasty! took around 9 tries to get any half decent piccies. Sadly all gone, was at still woods 🙁


    wysiwyg
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    Dancake
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    I have a huge fear that I am trying to conquer.

    When I saw this I realised just how far I have to go 🙁

    big air

    steve_b77
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    Thats rad dude

    oxym0r0n
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    About as rad as I've ever got 🙁

    jobbyheid
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    That Chatel gap is huuuge, the run in is so sketchy, I don't even have to beat myself up about being too chicken to do it.. This is about as rad as I get before self preservation kicks in..

    GaryLake
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    Argh, SPD disengagement and brown pants!

    I'm getting there…

    carlphillips
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    CTR nice photos there buddy

    DezB
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    CrAsH…tEsT..RiDeR – Member
    DezB you have to be the 2nd one… your justifying yourself simples

    Correct! (And my back wheel is only in the air due to Spds!)

    Bernaard
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    Seemed massive at the time

    One taken by moi

    JEngledow
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    Bernaard – is the first pic taken at Swinley Forest?

    40mpg
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    Anything more hurts with no suspension!

    leggyblonde
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    Anything more hurts with no suspension!

    Tell that to a BMXer 😉

    twohats
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    stoat
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    Some top examples of rad skillz guys!

    steve_b77 Respect to your mate having the cheek to pull an endo on that woodwork!

    I give you my first try on a bmx the other year. It felt gnarly, but actually looks tiny and like I'm trying to lay an egg 🙁

    And a mate who not liking the look of either the lines in front of him thought it would be sick to grind the tree..

    V8_shin_print
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    jobbyheid – i like the way you have the shadow too, is that Ae?

    Kit
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    Demo bike that was too big for me and had those shit plastic pedals that come with a new bike. About as much air as I get normally though!

    chakaping
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    Stoat – Nice pics, unfortunate that your friend's trousers have fallen down as well as him riding into a tree.

    🙂

    stoat
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    They are just hanging half mast for style points..

    Bernaard
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    JEngledow, yes its in the bit called the gulley.
    It was my first time there.

    devs
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    davidtaylforth
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    Only ever done these twice, thankfully they were both captured on film. The rest of the time I just fall off and roll about gurning

    jedi
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    rockthreegozy
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    Munqe-chick
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    (Mr MC posting)

    mate tries to ride a fallen log at swinley

    MC tries and fails to get me on a swinley jump leading to (and she'll love me for posting this 😆 )

    MC manages to film me on the next swinley gap jump

    MC tries not to get spooked, again at swinley

    MC gamely tackles the seesaw at chicksands


    coastkid
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