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)
Paging Elbry - Elbry to the Forum please
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.
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 😮
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This guy has some proper rad skills
(shamelessly stolen from brant richards' twitter feed)
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 😆
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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)
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Me getting "rad" air out of a bomb hole 😆
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Thats pretty special to do that in the second photo!! Class shot.
Check me out!
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Note the textbook style, looking straight down at my front wheel and legs akimbo. I is rad defined. 😀
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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...
aye it looks like he 'apexed' that corner ok!!
talking about the shore tyoe berm shot
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
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In case you missed it, look air under the tyres
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Rad at 10
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fast forward 33 years.
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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?
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DezB you have to be the 2nd one... your justifying yourself 😉 simples 🙂
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 🙁
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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 🙁
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Thats rad dude
About as rad as I've ever got 🙁
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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..
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Argh, SPD disengagement and brown pants!
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I'm getting there...
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CTR nice photos there buddy
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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!)
Seemed massive at the time
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One taken by moi
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Bernaard - is the first pic taken at Swinley Forest?
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Anything more hurts with no suspension!
Anything more hurts with no suspension!
Tell that to a BMXer 😉
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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 🙁
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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..
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jobbyheid - i like the way you have the shadow too, is that Ae?
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!
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Stoat - Nice pics, unfortunate that your friend's trousers have fallen down as well as him riding into a tree.
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They are just hanging half mast for style points..
JEngledow, yes its in the bit called the gulley.
It was my first time there.
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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
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(Mr MC posting)
mate tries to ride a fallen log at swinley
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MC tries and fails to get me on a swinley jump leading to (and she'll love me for posting this 😆 )
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MC manages to film me on the next swinley gap jump
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MC tries not to get spooked, again at swinley
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MC gamely tackles the seesaw at chicksands
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glentress
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nice x up!!!
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Don't have any 🙁
Not rad, just a bit different
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Here's me getting a full 2 inches of air at the Kielder Avalanche Enduro. 🙂
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This one from the Mega looks a bit more rad.
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nice xup. coastkid wins!
Jedi - loving the cliff dive...did the pooch follow?
It doesn't get any radderer:
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Bet I win in the gurning stakes 😉 . This one made the front page on the old site in the 'If you go down to the woods today . . . ' ladies' FOD ride feature.
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I'm very upset that this has gone off topic. The OP: [i]But then the photo is revealed...
It looks pathetic, you look a right bellend!
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Then people are actually showing (off!) proper skills. Bastards!
59Timesthepain, that all looks very local to me,top one looks like the jumps near Bardsea ,and the other the 'private' trails near Pennybridge?
I'm very upset that this has gone off topic. The OP: But then the photo is revealed...It looks pathetic, you look a right bellend!
Then people are actually showing (off!) proper skills. Bastards!
Agreed! My Vid of 100mm of air for 0.3 secs was far more on topic. Going to try a little drop tonight (chickened out in the day so might be easier in the dark) will try and get snaps.
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can't seem to upload facebook photos sorry.
as promised, [i]extreme[/i] Night ride jump captured forever
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🙂 🙂 🙂
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I'm very upset that this has gone off topic. The OP: But then the photo is revealed...It looks pathetic, you look a right bellend!
Aye - jedi and the like - get your own thread.
Mind you it gives me an excuse to post this again. I don't think you could call it big air but ..........
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solo gurn
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I have a really weird kinda style...
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All excellent examples of rad skillz innit
Way Hey! Delighted to see I can do some of the stuff Jedi does. Problem is it doesn't involve bikes...
Unless of course the cliff dive is a damn site higher than it looks (aren't they always). Will try and dig out a pic from Cafe Buza in Dubrovnik - should definitely fulfil the requirement for the act to be far scarier than the pic makes it appear.
Where is the cliff Jedi? Lovin the ripples and the pooch with the 'Is he mad' cocked head.
Found it. Definitely one for the Rad Skillz thread but no bikes I'm afraid. The raddest I ever got on a bike was probably fixing a puncture in less than 10 minutes.
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And for anyone heading to Dubrovnik - definitely check out Cafe Buza and take yer skinnies!
rAd
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You should see me on the motocross bike! It can only be described as crazy, scary, messed up, mental, sketchy how did he do that!
It's fun though....
scuttler, pic was in nelson bc iirc 🙂 theday before i broke my leg 🙂 🙂