Find a picture of a mountain bike rider doing this, and you'll have found a picture of a mountain biker doing an actual scrub.
Editor's note: I can neither find a picture of a mountain biker doing this, nor can I myself do this.
Monday, April 25, 2011
An actual scrub
Find a picture of a mountain bike rider doing this, and you'll have found a picture of a mountain biker doing an actual scrub.
Editor's note: I can neither find a picture of a mountain biker doing this, nor can I myself do this.
Little Kicks
The president Dmitry Medvedev of Russia dancing (gray suit):
Elaine Bennis dancing (black jacket/skirt):
Oh yeah, and Aaron Gwin won the World Cup in South Africa:
More Mountain Biking Videos
Elaine Bennis dancing (black jacket/skirt):
Oh yeah, and Aaron Gwin won the World Cup in South Africa:
More Mountain Biking Videos
Sunday, April 24, 2011
Hate for your Monday
You hate going to work, and it's Monday. Here's even more hate for your day:
Here's the description for this video:
"The first of many things to come from Silvia, the creative collaboration between three mountain bikers from Kamloops, B.C. elevating lifestyle to an artform. Karl Heldt, Matt Miles, Dylan Sherrard. silviafilms.ca"
Wait. What did they say?
"three mountain bikers from Kamloops, B.C. elevating lifestyle to an artform"
WTF is that supposed to mean? And since when did I even care about your lifestyle?
(By the way, outside of the mountain biking bubble, normal people use the much simpler term "life," instead of "lifestyle." Kind of like "colors" vs. "colorways." It is much easier to say, and doesn't make you sound like such a conceited idiot)
Let's review this kid and his friends "lifestyle" that's apparently "elevated to an artform":
1. Living with your parents? check
2. In the town you grew up in? double check
3. Shooting one video a year? check
4. Still having the nerve to call yourself and your friends a "team" or a "collective" or a "collabo" or whatever term this retard used
5. Having shots of things as unique as "driving to the trail" or "using a shovel" or "pushing your bike to the top of the hill." Things like these really set your "lifestyle" apart from other mountain bikers boring "lives."
If that elevates a persons lifestyle to an artform, then consider me the Mona Lisa. I check all those boxes, and then some. I'm pretty much bi-winning.
Oh, look, it's someone who's actually "elevating lifestyle to an artform": Charlie Sheen. Let's review:
Banging seven gram rocks? check
Total frickin rock star from Mars? check
Tiger blood? check
Absolute victory? check
On a quest? check
Right every single wrong? check
Pretty much winning. Charlie has one gear: Go.
I didn't even watch this carbon copy Canadian neo-freeride movie, but let me take a guess as to what's in there:
1. Soulful music during an excessively long intro. I bet you have to wait a whole minute before you can watch riding.
2. Lots of slow mo, close up super high res, overly color-filtered shots.
3. A bunch of blown out, dusty trail. Because it's in Kamloops, we know the trail will be totally blown out. Because it's a freerider on a downhill bike, we can expect to see lots of boring riding where the rider is going fast-ish, but it's not very interested. Probably at least a couple brake drags in corners to throw up roost.
4. When jumps are included, expect to see the same trick/whip/jump shown over and over again. To make it feel even more dreadful, expect all shots of the same jump to be in slow mo.
5. A bunch of these shoulder buzzer, not a table, not an invert, definitely Canadian things, whatever the shit these are:
How, in the world of Sheen, could ANYONE say that their shitty little life is a "lifestyle," led alone an artform.
If you tried on his brain, you'd be like "dude, can't handle it."
Silvia Introduction - Dylan Sherrard on pinkbike.com
Here's the description for this video:
"The first of many things to come from Silvia, the creative collaboration between three mountain bikers from Kamloops, B.C. elevating lifestyle to an artform. Karl Heldt, Matt Miles, Dylan Sherrard. silviafilms.ca"
Wait. What did they say?
"three mountain bikers from Kamloops, B.C. elevating lifestyle to an artform"
WTF is that supposed to mean? And since when did I even care about your lifestyle?
(By the way, outside of the mountain biking bubble, normal people use the much simpler term "life," instead of "lifestyle." Kind of like "colors" vs. "colorways." It is much easier to say, and doesn't make you sound like such a conceited idiot)
Let's review this kid and his friends "lifestyle" that's apparently "elevated to an artform":
1. Living with your parents? check
2. In the town you grew up in? double check
3. Shooting one video a year? check
4. Still having the nerve to call yourself and your friends a "team" or a "collective" or a "collabo" or whatever term this retard used
5. Having shots of things as unique as "driving to the trail" or "using a shovel" or "pushing your bike to the top of the hill." Things like these really set your "lifestyle" apart from other mountain bikers boring "lives."
If that elevates a persons lifestyle to an artform, then consider me the Mona Lisa. I check all those boxes, and then some. I'm pretty much bi-winning.
Oh, look, it's someone who's actually "elevating lifestyle to an artform": Charlie Sheen. Let's review:
Banging seven gram rocks? check
Total frickin rock star from Mars? check
Tiger blood? check
Absolute victory? check
On a quest? check
Right every single wrong? check
Pretty much winning. Charlie has one gear: Go.
I didn't even watch this carbon copy Canadian neo-freeride movie, but let me take a guess as to what's in there:
1. Soulful music during an excessively long intro. I bet you have to wait a whole minute before you can watch riding.
2. Lots of slow mo, close up super high res, overly color-filtered shots.
3. A bunch of blown out, dusty trail. Because it's in Kamloops, we know the trail will be totally blown out. Because it's a freerider on a downhill bike, we can expect to see lots of boring riding where the rider is going fast-ish, but it's not very interested. Probably at least a couple brake drags in corners to throw up roost.
4. When jumps are included, expect to see the same trick/whip/jump shown over and over again. To make it feel even more dreadful, expect all shots of the same jump to be in slow mo.
5. A bunch of these shoulder buzzer, not a table, not an invert, definitely Canadian things, whatever the shit these are:
How, in the world of Sheen, could ANYONE say that their shitty little life is a "lifestyle," led alone an artform.
If you tried on his brain, you'd be like "dude, can't handle it."
More hate for your Monday
The good: This photo is really cool, has very impressive riding, and is generally well done.
The hate: Is this really a scrub? If you read the comments on pinkbike, it obviously is, because it meets three criteria:
1. He is wearing a racer kit. Racers scrub everything in pinkbike world.
2. His bike is not perfectly vertical going off the lip. Plus 5 horsepower, and instant scrub status.
3. He's staying low. Anytime you stay low on a jump, it's obviously a scrub.
Sure he's leaned over, and is compressing to stay low on this jump, but is his rear tire drifting sideways off the lip? His bike isn't turned sideways off the lip, so why would his tire slide. By the way, being de-weighted and having your itre slide half an inch on the last 5 inches of lip doesn't count.
But, 90% of the comments for this photo still included the word "scrub." My personal favorite:
"I've never even seen a woman in the kitchen scrubbing that hard."
Odd choice of words, though. When I make fun of the opposite sex, I assume the woman is already in the kitchen. No need to spell that one out.
Let's do a quick review of what pictures that pinkbike users self-titled "scrubs:"
This is called "squashing." When you stay low off a jump, you have squashed it. And no, doing a mild turnbar does not upgrade a squash to a scrub. Good try, though.
That's just leaning while you go off a lip. He's turning to go to the right, so it's not really anything. If this is a scrub, then I have scrubbed every hip I've even ridden.
That's just a whip. C'mon people.
This guys not even trying. He's literally not doing anything.
The hate: Is this really a scrub? If you read the comments on pinkbike, it obviously is, because it meets three criteria:
1. He is wearing a racer kit. Racers scrub everything in pinkbike world.
2. His bike is not perfectly vertical going off the lip. Plus 5 horsepower, and instant scrub status.
3. He's staying low. Anytime you stay low on a jump, it's obviously a scrub.
Sure he's leaned over, and is compressing to stay low on this jump, but is his rear tire drifting sideways off the lip? His bike isn't turned sideways off the lip, so why would his tire slide. By the way, being de-weighted and having your itre slide half an inch on the last 5 inches of lip doesn't count.
But, 90% of the comments for this photo still included the word "scrub." My personal favorite:
"I've never even seen a woman in the kitchen scrubbing that hard."
Odd choice of words, though. When I make fun of the opposite sex, I assume the woman is already in the kitchen. No need to spell that one out.
Let's do a quick review of what pictures that pinkbike users self-titled "scrubs:"
This is called "squashing." When you stay low off a jump, you have squashed it. And no, doing a mild turnbar does not upgrade a squash to a scrub. Good try, though.
That's just leaning while you go off a lip. He's turning to go to the right, so it's not really anything. If this is a scrub, then I have scrubbed every hip I've even ridden.
That's just a whip. C'mon people.
This guys not even trying. He's literally not doing anything.
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Monday, April 18, 2011
Getting it done
Us getting it done at the trails:
Phil getting it done at Deer Valley in 07 (found this one on the old hard drive. Sweet, but should have been a little closer, I think):
Deer Valley=best race course ever.
Phil getting it done at Deer Valley in 07 (found this one on the old hard drive. Sweet, but should have been a little closer, I think):
Deer Valley=best race course ever.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sea Otter 2011
A bunch of people got on podiums and received medals, but Eliot Jackson won Sea Otter this year.
Friday, April 15, 2011
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