Here's the new generation!

Here's my older son flying on his balance bike the other day. Man, I gotta say that I can't wait to go mountain biking with this little dude!! :)

Just a regular Monday night...

Have a seat, launch the RedBull TV application on XBOX Live and watch some of the finest XC races from the 2013 & 2014 World Cup Season! It's simply prefect from time to time during the "boring" winter months, isn't it?! 

Can't stop watching this!!

It doesn't happen too often since I've stuff to do most of the times, but if I ever have a spare halfen hour in the evening there is no other No.1 than Behind The Barriers with Jeremy Powers. Simply brilliant program that is! 

I just heard about it only a few months back but I'm hooked eversince. I like the behind the scenes type programs like this but the super easy going sense of humor and the way the series has been made (cameras, music & locations) just simply awsome! Not to mention that it's all about cyclocross, so it's even better! :)

I have four of my favourite episodes from Season 3 here, just to get a taste what it's all about. Enjoy! :)

 

Episode 1

 

 Episode 2

 

 Episode 5

                                                                       Episode 6

Just another evening in the cyclocross season

5 hours film recording up on Threerock

The plan was there for ages: "we should record a nice short movie that shows XC mountainbiking!..." But normally I don't have enought time to spend up in the mountains to record materail. Not until today! :)

My friend Csaba (who is into amateur photography) and myself decided to spend properly long time with filming up on Threerock. So we got all the cameras set up, batteries charged and off we went this morning.

We did stay up on the mountain for the half of the day and spent 5 hours with finding the best places and record some sweet footage for our short cycling movie. We really wanted to give back the real mountain biking experience on the well known mountain so we went all over the place back and forward. :) 

The weather was excellent so we really did enjoy every minute of the filming. We captured material on cool trails and places over and over again until we run out of memory card capacity.

Our equipment was the following: Fuji S9500 photo camera (with stand), Sony Cyber-shot photo camera and a GoPro camera.

We have recorded with fixed camera point, moving camera and tested some new ideas as well such as recording from above. 

This part of the day was pretty exhausting but it was only the first half of the job, the editing was still ahead of me. After couple of more hours at home in front of the computer the final movie got shaped better and better in every minute.

Taking a short break off filming :)

We did have a great day out there and when I've seen the finished film for the time I thought we have spent the time well indeed! :) 

Please watch it & enjoy, I hope everyone will like it!

Also would like to say a big thank you for Csaba, his help was essential today. Great stuff man, thanks for all the cool ideas and recording me riding my bike! :)

Short XC film up on ThreeRock

I went up to ThreeRock this morning to have a short, fun spin. I didn't ride the XC bike for nearly 3 weeks time and 'cause the weather was nice I just wanted to enjoy the sun and the excitement of mountain biking. :)  I have decided to record some footage and create a short film that shows the "taste" of mountain biking on some of my favourite trails. :)

Life Cycles

"This isn't a bike movie. This a movie about the bike. Big difference..."

If you like to watch mountain bike movies and you like the nature also I think the film called Life Cycles is the perfect choice. It is more like a freeride type of film but even so it has a very specific point of view, not like the other let's say typical mountain bike movies. 

The quality of the film is amazing: it is recorded in full HD with very professional crew. The other very important thing is that the makers of the film put the nature as a priority through the progress of making the movie. 

If you like brilliant shots and amazing moments of the nature I am sure you'll really like this film. And of course the music is brilliant as well!

They go through all the seasons and the "life cycle" of the bike itself from the manufacturing to the end, when it's not in use anymore...

I really did enjoy the movie, I have watched it many-many times since I have it. I think it is a very good thing to have in your collection for sure. 

You can order it from here.

"Race day"

Here is an excellent video just to help keep up the motivation during the winter time. It gives back everything: excitement, preparation and the adrenalin during the race. Fantastic stuff! I hope you guys will like it too.

                                          "Race day" - Irina Kalentieva