Mountain Biking - a different way!

[GeoffApps]

Just to let folks know: the video on the home page has now been uploaded to vimeo and should be available to the whole world, and CycleChat forum fans.

I'd appreciate it if anyone could give it a test viewing and post here if there are any problems.

 

[Norm]

I'd appreciate it if anyone could give it a test viewing and post here if there are any problems.

Works fine for me now. Thanks for making the change, interesting video.

 

[jonny jeez]

Works fine now, thanks

 

[GeoffApps]

I've just added another vidette, going the other way this time...

 

[jonny jeez]

in my opinion the second vid does a finer job of illustrating the bike (which looks a lolot more elegant in video than in photo!)

Great ground clearance, better centre of gravity, gearing ratios seem to stand out in this vid too.

there's just no stopping it!

 

[GeoffApps]

A few weeks ago I took the AventuraTT round the Innerleithen Red Route with my friend Jez Turner on his Stumpy. It was my first time at a trail centre. How delightful to have the trails all laid out for us, no gates to open and close, no fallen trees to jump over, no quagmires etc. It was all quite easy really. The last part of the route had been closed for forestry work, so we took one of the Orange graded downhill routes, which was a bit scary in places. Jez had several goes on the Aventura and has written his impressions in a separate article which is not published just yet. I'll put a link here when it is available.
Also, there's a new video on the website:
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbWuIHESe5M
showing the opposite of trail centres; off-piste trailblazing. There is no path during the first bit, just picking best a way over piles of 'brashings'. And here's another one with more normal path riding:

View: http://vimeo.com/33272249