Not much happens in this other than a minute of walking down staircases with a hood up and standing by a fireplace and pushing a bike through a house. There is a little bit of riding but it just detracts from the fireplace.

Pretentious garbage.

Life Cycles. It does look really nice though. I remember seeing one about bikepacking or bivvying or something recently that looked utter shit as well. The guy in the trailer looked like a beardy pretentious **** anyway.

Any video that doesn’t have someone riding a bike in the first 30 seconds doesn’t get played unless I already know it’s really good. Videos with voice overs about being at one with nature don’t last long either, I JUST WANT TO WATCH PEOPLE RIDE BIKES.

@ op jelious a girl rides better than you?

It’s alright, nowt wrong with a canny lass and a bike.

Quality vid, makes me want to ride and she is fit…job done

lifecycles +1

Miserable sods

bits of reveal the path made me cringe a bit, especially the fat bike sequence, all sitting round the fire discussing how great life is… it’s ok guys I get it, it’s just bike riding. Most of it was great though.

Ok, this is Kayaking not MTB but it’s kinda funny.

A load of kayaking pros made this video, which is somewhat pretentious….

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vFKh22bAlY[/video]

So, someone else made this spoof. Brilliant 😀

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETU7TPSaLcU[/video]

😆

Videos with voice overs about being at one with nature don’t last long either

Haha, so true. Surely Life Cycles must take the price.

I also remember a video of Semenuk, I think, where the first minute or so is him explaining how he knows how he likes his bike set up although he might not be able to say why but anyway when he rides it he knows if he likes it or not. Non-coherent rant that is apparently made to make me “stoked” about the video or something? What the actual F.

Which trail centre is she riding? Looks kinda fun.

New Afan bike park, it’s an alright video, so smooth and fast,
the ones with monsilabic rider voice overs and endless shots of slomo clouds, water dripping off trees are pretty samey and dull now.

the ones with monsilabic rider voice overs and endless shots of slomo clouds, water dripping off trees are pretty samey and dull now.

Life Cycles is the winner then! Watched it again the other day and wished I hadn’t. Waste of time…

I quite like that video the OP linked too! Not soooooo long you fall asleep, lovely smooth riding, not so “in your face, my bike spends more time on it’s back wheel that eddie kids” that it becomes show-offy 😉

+1 Life cycles from me. Sorry.

I think that’s a really good video, personally. Very atmospheric, great music, and she’s clearly buzzing afterwards.

I just wish I had a fraction of those skills.

@ op jelious a girl rides better than you?

I’m a fan of manon carpenter but my race times are consistently faster than hers in the British downhill champs 🙄

And it’s not her fault the video is nonsensical pretentious garbage.

I like lifecycles … but then I do have a pretentious goatee beard 🙂

It has to be Ultramundane! 😉 Seb and Dan take the Michael.

I’m a fan of manon carpenter but my race times are consistently faster than hers in the British downhill champs

Prove it!

Life Cycles is easily user tuneable for better performance though. Hit “mute” on the remote and “play” on your own soundtrack – sorted

OK so the opening shots were bit “beauty parlour” but they are trying to sell trail bikes to Girls so what do you expect.

Anyways… it’s the brilliant Manon Carpenter riding new trails in Wales. I aint bad.

her bik is saracin.

Life Cycles is easily user tuneable for better better performance though. Hit “mute” on the remote and “play” on your own soundtrack – sorted

It doesn’t eliminate the endless timelapses though, or that scene where it fades between different seasons about fifty times (and not particularly well done either). My god.

I’ll say that I do enjoy it overall, there’s some really nice riding and camera work in there.