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  • Chris Akrigg's Water Cycle – now the whole news story has disappeared!
  • lister
    Full Member

    Just a page not found notification…

    What’s happened? My guess is the National Park authorities of Brecon and Pembrokeshire have been less than happy with the film.

    I live in south Pembs and when I saw the Green Bridge bit at the end my first thought was ‘I wonder how he got permission for that?’
    Maybe he didnt?

    STW folk, any news please?

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Blimey – yes – taken down off Youtube and Vimeo.

    lister
    Full Member

    And the WalesOnline article too. Big guns are being flexed!

    stilltortoise
    Free Member

    Videos with much MUCH smaller circulation have caused a ruckus by promoting mountain biking on trails in the Peak District that aren’t supposed to be ridden on, so this doesn’t surprise me. Combined with the fear of someone copying him and plummeting into the sea, you can well understand this litigious and fearful society we live in taking issue with the film.

    Can’t deny it was impressive though…whilst it lasted 🙂

    40mpg
    Full Member

    Still on youtube? Just been watching it

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1Pxl39ncY[/video]

    Edit – but yes I can see people getting the hump from him riding those locations, hardly sustainable

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    Hardly official though is it 40mpg.
    It was on Chris’s own YouTube channel yesterday.

    duffmiver
    Free Member

    Not bad. Bit disappointing that he didn’t do the last jump at the end.

    fooman
    Full Member

    Cycling reservoir spillways, who could possibly object?

    sideshow
    Free Member

    That gully at the start wasn’t allowed either, if I identified it correctly, so BBNP might have objected.

    AlexSimon
    Full Member

    I guess his next video will be in Scotland then 🙂

    munrobiker
    Free Member

    Visit Wales! It rains and we won’t let you do anything!

    Great advertising. Well done.

    Malvern Rider
    Free Member

    I recognised the old trout hatchery at Llanddeusant (1:55)

    Stevet1
    Free Member

    Good job no-one watches BMX videos or they’d sh1t themselves.

    maxtorque
    Full Member

    I’m not really sure that a bit of erosion from the maybe 5 people in the world good enough to ride those “features” is an issue!

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    Green Bridge of Wales is on restricted access military land, not to mention an SSSI. Hopefully they got permission to visit it for filming…

    cokie
    Full Member

    Ah, come on! It was a another fantastic video by Chris & Co.
    Seems excessive to be so heavy handed. An official press release by BBNP would of been better than pulling everything without a word.

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    Copycat Chris does happen tho, there was a period about 8 yrs ago when he produced a number of videos which had loads around the woods and rocks at shipley glen, in one vid he actually dropped one of the big rock faces which was absolutely mental. At the same time, in those same locations, loads of trail building started springing up and badly built jumps and cleared lines started appearing all over the place. I’m convinced it was local Chris Akrigg wannabes watching his vids and then going to the same location and building, coz this is where Chris rides.

    PS if anyone has a link of that big rock drop off he does at Shipley Glen, I’d be grateful thanks.

    scotroutes
    Full Member

    I believe the Inn Pin on Skye now has a “No Cycling” sign at the bottom.

    shifter
    Free Member

    Ace video, thanks 40mpg. Oh, and you Mr Akrigg.

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    Given he was riding in a river, was he breaking the rules as he wasn’t on a footpath? 😉

    core
    Full Member

    What bike is he on?

    martinhutch
    Full Member

    On reflection, it may be the last drone shot that is the issue. Castlemartin is a live firing range.

    legend
    Free Member

    core – Member

    What bikewheel size is he on?

    Fixed. The rest is insignificant

    brant
    Free Member

    Copycat Chris does happen tho, there was a period about 8 yrs ago when he produced a number of videos which had loads around the woods and rocks at shipley glen, in one vid he actually dropped one of the big rock faces which was absolutely mental. At the same time, in those same locations, loads of trail building started springing up and badly built jumps and cleared lines started appearing all over the place. I’m convinced it was local Chris Akrigg wannabes watching his vids and then going to the same location and building, coz this is where Chris rides.

    PS if anyone has a link of that big rock drop off he does at Shipley Glen, I’d be grateful thanks.

    I remember doing a photoshoot with Jason McRoy in the quarry at the top of Shipley Glen, as it’s where we used to ride a lot.

    Then some lads built some amazing dirt jumps there.

    People ride Shipley Glen. People build more now.

    bikeneil
    Free Member

    His Facebook has disappeared too.

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    Has the InPin not fallen now?

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    Brant – the quarry has always been fair game, but lads started building stuff all over.

    Chris Akrigg is a bit old hat for Shipley Glen. There’s another lad who’s name I can’t recall now who hangs out on The Glen, his skills are amazing.

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    Did that quarry get used for a piece on the Lotus mountain bike and using the ‘suspension’ to help climb an obstacle? I say suspension, I can’t remember the exact frame but it was like the Lotus super bike used by Boardman for hour records…

    FunkyDunc
    Free Member

    BA Nana – The Glen is towards the end.

    He blatantly rides cheeky trails on this one

    [video]http://youtu.be/zXrFAUX3tJM[/video]

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    This is the video I was thinking of, a lot of people might not have seen it before, it’s fairly poor quality, but nowhere else to be found on the internet. He does the big drop at the end, the camera doesn’t do it justice.
    http://www.pinkbike.com/video/51486/

    brant
    Free Member

    DickBarton – Member
    Did that quarry get used for a piece on the Lotus mountain bike and using the ‘suspension’ to help climb an obstacle? I say suspension, I can’t remember the exact frame but it was like the Lotus super bike used by Boardman for hour records…
    POSTED 40 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST

    No. That was Eldwick Moor.

    bigjim
    Full Member

    Well that’s a bit of a shame, great vid. Maybe this is what the cops mean when they say they will be focusing on cybercrime and not attending burglaries.

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    Ta

    scruff
    Free Member

    Thats a proper huck !

    HD version while it lasts.

    surroundedbyhills
    Free Member

    Still no confirmation as to why this video appears to have been nuked from orbit?

    ell_tell
    Free Member

    Seems like this vid is a bit…

    … for some

    woodlikesbeer
    Free Member

    Seriously, who cares if you need permission to film/ride there/here. This is the best bike video I’ve seen in a year.

    You wouldn’t want to be running SRAM brakes on the last scene would you?!

    Rorschach
    Free Member

    Well apparently his employers do 🙄

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