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Nice one Tim! Happy New Year btw..
I am considering entering into talks with Go-Pro for my patent pending Roost-Boom.
A simple attachment for the rear dropout of your bike to ensure every ounce of the all-important roost can be captured for posterity, not just the corners where your mate could be bothered to stop and stoop down with camera.
It can be combined with the jaw-droppingly boring shots from helmet and chest and handlebar and saddle cams to ensure that every aspect of mediocre riding is available to fill up the internet.
Form an orderly queue..
haha. I'll be thinking about getting another done once my new bike gets here.Trimix - Member
getonyourbike - now you have read this thread you had better get started on your next vid then. We dont want to wait till next Xmas.
In the meantime, here's a couple of others I've made this year:
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/289383/
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/272203/
Great vids getonyourbike and some skills too. Next time your down stile cop way give me a shout.
Cheers.fervouredimage - Member
Great vids getonyourbike and some skills too. Next time your down stile cop way give me a shout.
I will do.
lol OP - very nicely done.
One rider not enough
One rider is boring. Viewers might miss something if only one rider does it. having a second rider coming along to repeat fixes that. People also like friends. Nobody wants to watch a lonely man. Make sure buddies are around at all times - riding, cheering, heckling, etc. If featuring more than one rider, make sure they are 'larking', as this shows how cool it would be if only you could hang out with them for a few hours.
Following on from AlexSimon...
When riding with your bros in your sick new edit don't forget the obligatory rider passes- one takes the high line, one the low... and now we have a new leader to showcase their gnar! 😀
In amongst some of your cycnical middle aged bloke whinging, there's some good points, they are all starting to get a bit samey production wise.
This is my current favourite. not sure how to describe it other than hilarious. Not enough clarinet in edits these days..
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I do actually really like watching mtb vids, and am infinitely inferior to 99% of those who appear in them in terms of my skills, and I've never shot a riding video myself.
Other than that, I felt I was commenting from a position of considerable expertise.
i used have a polished bike, but I've got no video footage of it 🙁
chamley - MemberIn amongst some of your cycnical middle aged bloke whinging, there's some good points, they are all starting to get a bit samey production wise.
This is my current favourite. not sure how to describe it other than hilarious. Not enough clarinet in edits these days..
breaking your leg in the Crimea can't be any fun, could've used the clarinet as a splint though!
Very funny OP and I have to agree with most of the comments here. There seems to be loads about now.
Oddly I always quite like the 'homegrown' amateur videos as I'm keen to see what other average Joe's like me get up to on their bikes, whereas yet another video of three gnarly dudes with long hair hucking their bikes down a mountain in Italy or Switzerland somewhere means sweet FA to me really.
It's the incessant slow-mo shots that really annoy me, even in professional films. They turn what should be an exciting segment into complete tedium, and do nothing to convey the excitement of mountain biking.
I'm the opposite to the guy above, I want to see people who are faster and better than me, to try and see how they do things, in the hope that I am inspired to improve my riding. Watching someone mince down a trail does nothing for me.