[Closed] At last. A cycling film I might actually want to watch....

me too

Looks fun. I recently enjoyed this. 🙂

That bus video was all filmed in my local area, and it's scary when cyclists think they can turn left at the same time as the bus. Some poor bus driver decisions in there, but also some awful cycling.

We think the rider was deliberately riding badly for the filming.

awesome goats 🙂

Is it because it's the only ever cycling film to have a bagpipes backing track?

🙂 I think it's more that this is something I recognise as Mountain Biking, whereas footage of folk jumping off things, regardless of how "arty" the camera work, is completely irrelevant to me.

Yea I get you. They could have done with something like the above at the Banff film festival it would have been more inspiring. A lot of films, although impressive are very jump and downhill orientated. 'Home' was a good one, had a good mix of stuff.

Thanks! We're stoked you guys are excited for the film!

Looks good. I'm not too keen on the usual freeride style stuff either. Just want to see people riding in places they get excited about, and the subsequent stories.

just rented ride the divide previous film but same guy, and it's got me thinking....

looks fantastic that Druidh......i get where you are coming from.
let us know when/how it is available please someone.
also where can i see/get olf a copy of the divide film?

Does look pretty good, I'm most definitely "stoked" 🙂

Ride the divide is ok, but lingers too much on sentimentality and trying to make the ride into some sort of spiritual awakening, in many ways it was a bit of a missed opportunity.
They concentrated on the riders that fell in with that philosophy, and virtually ignored the others, including the Brit and the German who looked like they would have been a bit more down to earth and funnier characters.

Still I will probably get "reveal the path" anyway.

Revealthepath, trying to get a copy of Ride the Divide, is it available here in the UK ?
New film looks brilliant, just my thing.

I ordered it direct from America.

takisawa2 - Member

Revealthepath, trying to get a copy of Ride the Divide, is it available here in the UK ?
New film looks brilliant, just my thing

Mmmm....

Looks like exactly the kind of thing I would avoid, largely because of the 'spiritual' and 'otherworldly' thing going on. To me, and I appreciate this is an extremely personal outlook, it's just about riding a bike and the joy and spirituality is something that well fed, privileged folk add on to that basic activity to validate it in some way.

Anyway, as you were...

Cheers, just ordered it. £16.89 delivered.
[url= http://www.ridethedividemovie.com/store/ ]Here[/url] if anyone's intrested.

Ride The Divide was free on youtube for a few days last year, watched it then 🙂

Ride The Divide was free on youtube for a few days last year, watched it then

+1 - The landscape was spectacular - the whiney (mostly American) riders were not.

I'm the opposite. I watch the clip and think that there's heaps of stuff within 200 miles that,on the right day,can have amazing scenery and changes in weather on par with anything I have seen on tinternet. So it leaves me asking myself half way through the clip 'where WOULD I like to ride?"

...and with the bagpipes in the background I find I have no answer.

Happy where I am.

crikey - Member

Looks like exactly the kind of thing I would avoid, largely because of the 'spiritual' and 'otherworldly' thing going on. To me, and I appreciate this is an extremely personal outlook, it's just about riding a bike and the joy and spirituality is something that well fed, privileged folk add on to that basic activity to validate it in some way.

martinxyz - Member

I'm the opposite. I watch the clip and think that there's heaps of stuff within 200 miles that,on the right day,can have amazing scenery and changes in weather on par with anything I have seen on tinternet. So it leaves me asking myself half way through the clip 'where WOULD I like to ride?"

...and with the bagpipes in the background I find I have no answer.

Here's an example...a beautiful beach on Skye. Nice scenery, mountains and stuff.
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Here's what you're missing by not taking the time to take time with it, study it a bit closer and with more time.
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There is so much more intricacy and detail available to use if we'd only slow down and take the time to appreciate it.

nice post ^^, totally agree.

That sort of video doesn't do it for me but the jumpy ones do! Think it's because I used to bmx and my riding doesn't really involve much riding up mountains. Videos like [url= http://www.pinkbike.com/video/231118/ ]this[/url] make me want to go ride.

I sawthe Salsa logo in the first coupla seconds and instantly thought- fat bikes! And I was right. Is that why druidh likes it??
In saying that though, it does look kinda cool, a much different vibe to the usual gnar-fest.. Think I'll give it a watch.

For me there's no better way to see a country than on a bike, something special about it I've not experienced otherwise.

"To me, and I appreciate this is an extremely personal outlook, it's just about riding a bike and the joy and spirituality is something that well fed, privileged folk add on to that basic activity to validate it in some way"

Interesting comment. Cycling is a basic activity, like walking I suppose. But with this comment do you admit you gain no joy from it? Do you equate this activity to shopping at Tesco? (a basic activity?) that you also gain no joy from? With joy does it not lift your spirit and hence why people get all "spiritual"? If this is something only enjoyed by well fed and privileged folk, why do they find travelling to a country where people are not well fed and privileged but are rich in spiritual well being affects them so?

There is so much more intricacy and detail available to us if we'd only slow down and take the time to appreciate it.

But then how would I carry enough speed to clear that gnarly road gap?

*scratches head*

[i]But with this comment do you admit you gain no joy from it?[/i]

No, but you seem to be attributing this to me.

[i]Do you equate this activity to shopping at Tesco?[/i]

No, but you appear to be attributing this to me.

[i]If this is something only enjoyed by well fed and privileged folk, why do they find travelling to a country where people are not well fed and privileged but are rich in spiritual well being affects them so? [/i]

I can't be arsed working out what you are attempting to convey with this statement.

I think you deliberately ignored the bit that said '[i]I appreciate this is an extremely personal outlook[/i]'.

I enjoy it for its own sake, as an enjoyable activity, from which I gain enjoyment. I don't see the need for it to be anything else; it doesn't have to enrich my soul, it doesn't have to lift me above the mundane, it doesn't have to help me to see further into the marvel that is the universe.

Sometimes it's grim, sometimes it's crap, sometimes it's painful.

It's riding a bike. C'est tout.

Dirt did this so well and i don't think any MTB video has come anywhere near since. It wasn't just jumpy stuff, but it didn't have any pseudo-spiritual pretensions either.

I find jumpy films boring, I've seen enough of them. The Divide film is different enough to keep me interested. I think the path will follow and similarly work well for me. The others I liked were Life cycles and 24 solo. Horses for courses ... It's all just riding. 🙂

The DH films are cool to watch, some great skill. Follow me and [url= http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Loose-again-Full-Movie-The-Motion-Circle-2012.html ]Loose again[/url] are my favourites, but there are so many DH films, watching somebody shred a berm and beast a jump has gotten old.

Also since wearing a full face and pyjamas isn't the way I like to ride my bike.

This films looks ok, but I am not keen on the "spiritual journey" of it all.

I like to ride fast, in nice scenic places, I don't get all "feel the zen of the woods man" nor do I get all "totally shredin the gnarr doood".

I want to see a bike film, something uk centric, something with rain, mud and sunburn, oh and some night riding too.

I forgot to look back at this thread. Is that the coral beach north of Dunvegan,Druid? I remember D.M. go on about the coral beach/beaches up there. I could sit there for hours sifting through that!

That's the one!

Film looks interesting. I generally like DH films but not ones where there are excessive slow-mo montages of people flying through the air. I like to see full runs if possible.

Druidh - if you want to slow down and look at stuff why not just ditch the bike and go for a walk?

grum - I often do.

A bike is, however, very useful because it can get you into more remote locations in a limited time. Bikes can also offer a better chance of seeing some wildlife. A car will pass to quickly, a walker will be heard coming and so animals and birds will often get out of the way. A cyclist can make less noise and has a certain element of surprise.

Also - I have heel pain issues which prevent me doing long or multi-day walks......

That looks ace. When and where will it be released?

"I think it's more that this is something I recognise as Mountain Biking, whereas footage of folk jumping off things, regardless of how "arty" the camera work, is completely irrelevant to me."

+1.
looks smart.

+1 for what Crikey said and+ 1 for Dirt being the best bike vid ever. Tis what riding a bike is about, having a laugh, because bikes are stupid.

100% with druidh on this one. Nice beach pics.

Damn you Reveal The Path makers. I build my perfect bikepacker at last. I get it all set up and do some fun rides. I book 2 big rides this summer. I try to itch the itch. And then I watch that trailer and focus on normal life becomes difficult again )

I'm not sure how well it'll all translate into film, but I couldn't agree more about the subject. DH speed is good to watch but this will inspire people to go out and ride for different reasons, there's more to riding than the tech and the hucks and all that but I imagine it's hard to make touring etc work on film. Adventure is a spirit lost by too many today. Grum has a point on walking, I enjoyed that too for a while, but on a bike you can cover more ground, take it in or speed up, it's the perfect way to travel.

If it concentrates on the riding and the locations great, but unfortunately ride the divide concentrated on the rather dull riders quests for finding some kind of extra meaning for life, other than wow this is great I need to do more of this, isn't it brilliant.