Sunday, 9 February 2020

Mountain Biking in the Forest

Went mountain biking yesterday for the first time in my life .. was kind of fun, though will probably work on my off roading skills a little more before trying the red run again; was a bit of white knuckle ride at times! Oh yes, and I need to sort out my MTB wardrobe too, as the local kids did not seem quite ready for what's currently hot on the Paris and Milan trails!


Anyway, I dusted off the video cameras to record the momentous event; also for my club, which has not spoken of MTBing since the 'night of the long forks'. The results of filming can be viewed below. I'm only disappointed that the images do not look as scary as I remember, mainly because those shots were of either closeups of rocks, bushes or just of the blue sky above and so not perhaps as interesting as the calmer pictures of cyclists processing through the forest!


I've used another of Rob Longstaff's great tunes, 'Like Candy', for this video's soundtrack. I am working my way through the tracks on his latest album 'Groovefish' (https://soundcloud.com/robert_longstaff/sets/groovefish), in my view, his best .. so will be looking for more filming options to add further tracks to as the year unfolds.