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Just a day after it was announced he'd be riding Red Bull Rampage this year, Gee Atherton has released a video which perhaps shows why. Apparently ver ...
By stwhannah
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Amazing. 👍
...and breathe again. 🤯
Those photos have made me think I need this on a big screen, not the office monitor, will enjoy this this evening I reckon.
I was hoping after his crashes this was going to be Gee on a cycling proficiency course and pootling along canal tow paths....
Ridonculous.
Proper breathtaking stuff.
That Atherton bike looked to be making incredibly light work of all that - Not taking anything in the slightest away from Gee and his mahoosive cahoonies - but as an advert for a bike I don't think I have seen better.
I'm a wheels on the ground XC (old XC not new enduro XC) rider at best but I would love a go on a well set up bike like that - maybe with a few crashpads and a parachute at hand though!
I met Gee & his team up there after we had just climbed up a nearby mountain and can confirm that the exposure is even more dramatic in real life!!
they seemed to be having a great time & couldn’t have been more friendly to my star-struck kids!
Awesome effort
Fair play, wow! That is impressive! Great film too...
That's a very special video at all levels.... the scenery, the filming and, of course, the skill and daring of Gee. Makes you realise how the ability of riders like Gee is so far removed from most of us.
That was absolute madness! My palms are actually sweating from watching that
Is the trail cut in the cliff face man made
Usually WWI fortifications
Do be careful George. 😳
no
The cut over to the onboard camera is pretty spectacular, suddenly everything goes from looking insane but sort of serene, to looking insane and also sort of insane. The amount of loose crap he's kicking up, aaaargh.
I guess after the mistakes of that earlier one where they didn't have good accident responses in place, he's decided to make sure any accidents aren't survivable 🙂
Danny still has it for me on size of balls and skill
My advice for Gee would be to slow down and enjoy the view a bit more, going at that speed your missing the point of being there 🙂
I hope he is doing all this just to try and say their bikes are not just DH bikes. If he falls again his body will be screwed
Didn't someone else (Killian Bron or Fabio Wilmer?) do something almost identical to this?
Yep, but the more the merrier!
I'm just a big old scaredy cat but... while is great to see someone so good demonstrating their skills it's for our entertainment. A mistake goes beyond a thumbs up from a hospital bed the next day and do we want to hear of a rider plunging to their death?
I know there's the IoM TT and many other super dangerous sports and no one is forced to do it but surely there's a line that shouldn't be crossed?
it’s a great video with a lot of energy put into it and some amazing shots.
is anyone familiar with that area? did he ride/hike an actual route or did they select particular sections to film some crazy riding?
Also done here, though a little less frantic..
Utterly speechless watching this. But it’s his choice, as with a lot of other riders, to push boundaries, same as many other sports.
Ok that’s huge
But it’s a weird thing. Sort of tech downhill. Danny on the ridge and the slab are slower but way more technical
Rob Warner's quote concerning a yawning hippo applied to me just watching that.
Great vid, really captures the sensation of speed.
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Danny still has it for me on size of balls and skill
Not convinced, it looks pretty ballsy to me
Fantastic video.
I thought yeah that’s a bit nerving. Then when it went POV I thought **** me!
To paraphrase.
“Dude! Look at the penalty for failure.”
Having ridden in the Dolomites it can make a man feel small and insignificant but also very alive (even at my plodding speeds).
met Gee & his team up there after we had just climbed up a nearby mountain
Whereabouts were you/they?
I used to guide ViaFerrata in the Dollies, its so dramatic but also accessible if you have a head for heights. Must go back soon...
Someone on the PB comments for this video has listed the places this was shot, it’s apparently not just one mountain but several different areas. Doubt I’d even have the balls to walk it myself.
Amazing, even more so in light of his major accident a couple of years back.
Big shout also to Brodie and the film crew, they've contributed towards something special here.
“Whereabouts were you/they?
I used to guide ViaFerrata in the Dollies, it’s so dramatic but also accessible if you have a head for heights. Must go back soon…”
We were at Tofana di mezzo close to the cable car station: we’d just climbed up from Tofana di dentro. They were heading towards VF Punta Anna…
FWIW I think that the film is from a number of different sites: the window in the rock can be seen from the summit of Tofana di mezzo and forms part of an epic ski tour.
The exposure on the ridges is pretty spectacular!
It was like watching Free Solo for the first time. Had to keep reminding myself that Alex Honal was still alive after they finished filming
I thought ridgeline2 was the one showcasing Gee's skillset. Properly impressive bike handling, and new territory.
This feels too derivative, Oehler did some of the same bits previously, and others have done other scary dolomite descents.
The camera work was good, but I kinda felt having watched the earlier dolomite route finding vids he posted that they weren't really on it, felt a bit amateur hour, and a bit scary, sh1t about to happen