Urban Downhill Mountain Biking // Tbilisi Georgia // Redbull Mountain Bike // Adventure Cycling // Scott Gambler 710

The Scott Gambler 710 (in burnt orange/black colors) a Shimano-equipped DH machine with 27.5 inch wheels and boxer-framed floating suspension, the FOX RC4 Coil Kashmira rear suspension unit.  This 6061 aluminum hydroformed frame is custom-butted. The BB height is adjustable and the headset angle are also custom adjusted for rider preferences. A World Cup clone, setup with Syncros Handlebar components and features larger diameter 27.5 inch DT Swiss wheels with their Competition level steel spokes. The front suspension is completed using Fox Racing's FOX 40 RC2 FIT with 203mm of suspension travel. The price tag is mind-numbing, but the ride is smooth. Priced at a mouth watering $6499.99 MSRP.

 Hydroformed 6061 aluminum linkage.

Kashmira coated Fox Racing Fox 40 RC2 FIT

[Authors notes] Who needs dirt trails when you've got 132 flights of stairs? Filip Polc shot over to Tbilisi, Georgia for a chance to show the locals how urban downhill mountain biking really goes down, hosting a race that ran between urban stair sets and dirt trails in a day filled with all-out riding.

Lines of Lofoten // Adventure Cycling in Norway // Dirtjump and Freeride // Mountain bike films //

Dirtjump mountain biking at Sea Otter Classic 2013

Lines of Lofoten from ANTIMEDIA on Vimeo.

[Authors notes] We spent four weeks in the summer of 2012 building two lines in Lofoten, Norway; a dirt line and a big bike line. Our goal was to capture world-class riding in the untouched and unique nature around Lofoten. Lines of Lofoten - a 5 episode web-series will be released shortly.

Riders: Kristoffer Haugland, Adrian Tell, Didrik Dege Dimmen, Niclas Andersen and Nico Vink
Project manager: Vegeir Selboe Director: Niels Windfeldt Producers: Andreas Braaten and Vegeir Selboe Filmers: Andreas Luft Johannessen, Trond Hansen, Niels Windfeldt and Andreas Braaten
Grip/Drone: Daniell Khardi Ashby Sound: Trond Hansen Music: J Sigsworth
Builders: Kenneth Bøster Helgestad Graphic Design: Dennis Magnus-Andresen 

Crew: Andy Yeyo and Carl Joachim Leegaard [End notes]

Lofoton, Norway is an archipelago [island group or chain] in the county of Nordland, Norway. Though lying within the Arctic Circle, the archipelago experiences one of the world's largest elevated temperatures relative to it's high latitude. Lofoton is known for a distinctive scenery with mountains and peaks, open sea and sheltered bays, beaches and untouched lands [Wiki].

Shifted // Adventure Cycling in British Columbia's Okanagan Valley // Freeride Mountain Bike // Green River, Utah, USA // Mountain Bike film

2012 Rocky Mountain Flatline World Cup freeride mountain bike

[Author's notes] Created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak of Virtu Media, this will be their first full length film release. Featuring up and coming riders in British Columbia; we follow them throughout the province and down into the United States. Shot on location in Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver's North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, Vancouver Island, Oyama, and Green River, Utah. [End notes] Freeride is a discipline of mountain biking closely related to downhill biking and dirt jumping focused on tricks, style, and technical trail features. It is now recognized as one of the most popular disciplines within mountain biking. National Geographic lists Utah's Green River mountains as some of the best mountain biking locations out there in the United States.

Ride Positive. A Mountain bike Manifesto // Adventure Mountain Biking // Davos, Switzerland // Alps Freerides //

Ride Positive. A Mountainbike Manifesto. from Filme von Draussen on Vimeo.

[Author notes] A short reminder for all the people who ride bikes to ride bikes.
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Filmed (almost entirely) in Davos, Switzerland.
Soundtrack: Reid Willis "Bloom"
Riders: Ben Schulz, Johannes Riebl & Tom Malecha
Contact us at: filme-von-draussen.ch

Ibis Mojo SL

2013 Sea Otter Classic Dual Slalom //...from Vital MTB // Mongoose Fat bikes //

The Sea Otter Classic is a bicycling and outdoor sports festival and tradeshow held each spring since 1991 at the Laguna Seca Recreation Area in Monterey, California. The four-day event is considered the world's largest cycling festival, drawing nearly 10,000 professional and amateur athletes and 50,000 fans. The Sea Otter Classic is named in honor of the southern sea otter, an indigenous mammal which flourishes along the neighboring Pacific coast. [More information...]

Manuel Beastly - Mongoose Fat bike took down the field at 2013 Sea Otter Classic -  Enjoy! 
The real story on Mongoose Fat bikes and mystery rider Manuel Beastly a.k.a. Adam Craig