PSA Countryfile tonight Extreme mountainbiking…..

Sure I saw someone fall off a bike and subsequently a cliff – are the One Show now looking for a new presenter?

just about to begin? its the weather….

How come it’s acceptable for the weather forecasters to be dressed casually for the countyfile weather? He had a suit on 50 minutes ago.

better fit my mudguards…
…oh wait

That New Holland was cool. Mmmmm self steering 🙂

Oh good a wet commute all week, and for the race sportive on the weekend 😐

Holly Crap!!!!!!
That was some fall.

Good article.

Wet racing strava times commute for me too.

that’s it?

That wasn’t worth sitting through the whole of blue peter Countryfile for.

Well that was ‘extremely’ tenuous, Mat’s bike time must have totalled 2 minutes on screen. Nasty leg injury though.

Hmm, beaten to it, not as good as I was hoping for. Once again showing mountain biking as being elitist and dangerous. Bit of a missed opportunity for the area, particularly given the amount of time whinging on about wind turbines.

Luckily I switch it on right near the end thinking I’d have missed it.

There was nothing that wasn’t covered in this thread about 10 months ago!

Did I missing anything?

Aye- and since that thread was broadcast on the BBC it’s hard to see why they’d bother eh .

You missed how to ride up a rock step.

The fall made me feel sick (having broken my tibia in a crash), the pilot is my uncle (who also collected Richard Hammond, which is why he went on to make the show to raise profile of air ambulance charity).

Bad fall that it was funny though when his mate shouted down you ok, cool calm reply Ambulance 😀 gave me a chuckle.

It may have been brief but I found ir very encourageing, knew he had taken a tumble but did not know it was that serious. fell of my bike and broke my femur about 4 weeks ago, seeing him back on his bike has given me a bit of a lift. Those xrays were very close to mine, long pins with bolts holding them inside the bone. It will be a long time before I’m one leg spinning on the turbo but I have it all set up and ready to go. A slight nod from the doc in the bikes direction and I’ll be pedalling away for as long as possible. Hope you all had a good ride today, wish I had been with you.

Hope you can make as good progress as Chris Akrigg mt. It must be hard to wait for your body to heal.

I thought it was quite a good feature.

thanks for the good wishes. told the ambulance person on the phone that there was no way I was getting put on a helicopter without my lovely bike being looked after. Learned a lot of leasons on the day about bikes rides off road on my own.
I was really lucky.

I thought it wasn’t bad. These MTBing features on regular tv are usually much much worse with over-use of the word Extreme and Awesome, like on the Gadget Show for instance.

I wasn’t sure how extreme it was going to be, but when Chris Akrigg turned up I though Fair enough, he is normally does do extreme mountain biking.

is it balm cakes up there 😆

My word that accident was horrendous, I too felt sick and as mantioned above how cool and calm was Chris?

Made up – watched 2 good looking chaps ride mtbs and my favourite sheep of all time, the Herdwick with lamb, going to sleep well tonight.

I know the feeling, I’m exiled in North Yorkshire, not bad though, only 35/40 mins from the Dales or Moors.

Try being exiled at the top end of the Midlands with people who make a great deal about there northerness because they are denying their true nature.

I know the feeling, I’m exiled in North Yorkshire, not bad though, only 35/40 mins from the Dales or Moors.

Nowt wrong with North Yorkshire. which part??

here guys there is a recent video of him back on his bike…pretty cool to see after the accident

http://vimeo.com/35502958

Good to see.

I take it someone has taken pity on Matt Baker after his last mtb feature on CF and bought him a decent bike?

anyone know who Chris uses as a physio?

Best bet is to ask him on Twitter: @chrisakrigg

That new clip is fantastic… Found myself welling up a wee bit on the teocali bit

who was asking about the physio, he is on this new video which was on pinkbike today!

http://vimeo.com/40308950

Had to skip all the way to the end for a shoddy couple of minutes wasted from my life and that’s saying something.