Instead of the usual making coffee/getting dressed/timelapse/weather/landscapes preamble people put on videos, this one begins with a full minute and forty seconds of swearing, because it features Josh Bryceland. There’s also smatterings of the f-word throughout, so if you’re delicate of ear yourself, or trying to protect your little ones from the deviant syllables of this vast uncaring universe, do bear that in mind.
Beyond that, it goes into a montage of fast, exhuberant and loose riding down an amazing looking track in Schladming, Austria, with Brendan Fairclough and Ratboy absolutely ragging down the mountain, hollering for joy all the way.
David started mountain biking in the 90’s, by which he means “Ineptly jumping a Saracen Kili Racer off anything available in a nearby industrial estate”. After growing up and living in some extremely flat places, David moved to Yorkshire specifically for the mountain biking. This felt like a horrible mistake at first, because the hills are so steep, but you get used to them pretty quickly.
Previously, David trifled with road and BMX, but mountain bikes always won. He’s most at peace battering down a rough trail, quietly fixing everything that does to a bike, or trying to figure out if that one click of compression damping has made things marginally better or worse. The inept jumping continues to this day.
I saw this a 5 this morning when the sun woke me. It got me so keen to ride that I got up two hours earlier than normal to go and flog my guts out up and down a few Ridgeway climbs.
It was not the same.
But a clip that makes you want to ride is brilliant, the last one that did that was Ratboy’s Madeira video.
I saw this a 5 this morning when the sun woke me. It got me so keen to ride that I got up two hours earlier than normal to go and flog my guts out up and down a few Ridgeway climbs.
It was not the same.
But a clip that makes you want to ride is brilliant, the last one that did that was Ratboy’s Madeira video.