1.
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 09:46:41 -0800
Subject:
Check out this trash!
Dear
Mike and Lynn: Our national television
station, Global TV, has put this mountain bike "white trash" show on it's stations across Canada.
It
seems you can download the episodes. I
watched about five minutes one Saturday, and it was just the usual riding crap
you see on those videos complete with immature grown-up "boys"
hamming it up for the camera. The filming is even amateurish. Thank goodness it
is not on at prime time. Out here, in
BC, this show is on at 1:30 pm on Saturday (if it keeps them out of our forests
for at least one half hour.... :-\ ).
Is
there anything like this in the US, or California? The media really has a lot to answer for with
this one. Keep this link for your files!
It
covers all styles and places mountain bikers ride,
from sides of buildings, on streets, to the trashing of our wild places. It can
be used as a strong case against mountain biking. I heard this crew is filming
in New Zealand for the next season. Take care
Monica
Craver
http://www.dropintv.com/modules/news/
Updates
on dropin series 4 filming are updated daily here:
2. Check out http://www.mountainbikebill.com and
click (or right click to save) "The Miles
Todd
Crash Video" link.
4. http://www.petefagerlin.com
5.
Here's a video off our local mountain (Peavine) here
in Reno, NV. About 7.5 mins, 70 MB.
Video shot in April.
http://www.tccycling.com/videos/bull_ranch-cow_canyon.mpg
6. Mountain
biking at night:
http://www.thebikinghub.com/mtb/upper-oilcan-on-mt-fromme/
7. Glorifying
downhill & riding structures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gloeXuBQFPY
8. Mountain
bike crashes and carnage - YouTube
Watch the carnage. This one will link you to many other mountain bike crash
videos. This one, below, is about a guy who crashes his mountain bike on a log,
slamming his chest. Watch the results. There is one from Japan about Speed
mountain biking. The guy reaches 172 km (or so they say), but his bike breaks
apart before the end, and he is badly injured. There are a
couple with children trying stunts on mountain bikes, and failing. This
is the legacy of mountain biking that must be shown every landowner. This is
the stupidity of the sport.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQOoV5WTSvs&mode=related&search=
9. Another
crash:
http://break.com/index/moutain_biker_wipes_out.html
10. Mountain
bikers try to justify illegally cutting down trees and building trails in
Vancouver's North Shore rainforest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ulyP8bheCg
11. Maah Daah Hey Trail, North dakota – including lots of off-trail
riding:
To: <bbtcmembers@yahoogroups.com>
From: "Jack Tomkinson"
<jackt@cascade.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 11:34:35 -0800
Subject: Great Maah Daah Hey trail video
From my
friends at Double Forte, the tandem mountainbike listserver.
Makes me want to do a road trip.
Jack
A friend just sent us this video of them riding the MDH trail in 2005. This
a 100 mile off road trail in western ND that we've been down twice and we'll
again be doing this fall. This video was taken during a usually wet year
but the video is pretty good and captures the look and feel of the trail
quite well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YR1lp6yTc
Hope you enjoy it.
Arlyn Aronson @ Superior Tandems (906) 370-2911
12. North
Shore (illegally constructed trails & "play structures")
http://www.supadump.com/v-65-vtt.html
13. mtbmoview.com
14.
Video of illegal North Shore trailbuilding: http://www.norco.com/extras/videogallery.php?id=48&NorcoRegionId=466cf89d954910147d96f416cc94d029
(click on Ryan Leech's video)
15. More
mountain biking videos: http://www.singletracks.com/mountain-bike/video.php
16. Video of
mountain bikers riding illegally-constructed "play structures" near
Vancouver, BC:
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v297/dozer74429/?action=view¤t=descente_vtt.flv
http://www.midsouthtrails.com/images/descente_vtt.wmv
A comment by
a mountain biker: "Crazy.
that was rad stuff. I'm so
impressed with how mountain bikers go out and build stuff. Full on DIY [do it
yourself]. Much respect."
Cam McCaul riding an Issaquah
WA trail (the same trail?): http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bm4NU4Ffe8w
17. Nature
turned into a racetrack!:
From:
LIBERATOR <spy.expert@linuxmail.org>
Newsgroups: alt.music.rush,alt.mountain-bike
Subject:
LIBERATOR MTB video
Date: Tue, 31
Jul 2007
All the guys
in this video are me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmXfBWX3P8U
Ride-A-Lot[Fred with winkys] (Cherry
Blossom[Fred with winkys]) ought to take note of who
his master is (that be me).
18.
"ROAM" Video -- Destructive Mountain Biking in BC, Moab, Idaho,
Morocco, and the Czech Republic
From: Slack
Newsgroups: alt.mountain-bike
Subject: You suck
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007
Since you guys are so boring, all the chicks have left amb,
and the TDF girls are slaming every drug they can get
their cheating hands on, you might as well watch this:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4922819970885011457&q=ROAM+duration%3Along&total=60&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2
--
Slack
19. An MTB
television channel: http://www.mtbcut.tv/
20. It speaks
for itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRGGm7wpVvo
21. Mountain
biking in mud!: http://www.kbvp.com/node/111
22. What
mountain bikers have done to the woods on the North Shore of Vancouver: http://www.greatoutdoors.com/video/mountain-bike-magic
23. "Freeride" mountain bike jumps: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSaQWTfVSPw
24.
Glorifying the building and use of structures in the woods: http://www.litterfilms.com/littermag/stinc.html
25. Whistler,
BC: http://www.monkeymag.co.uk/videos/sport/4560/mad-downhill-mountain-biking.html
26. Illegally
constructed trails in North Vancouver, B.C.: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3LqkB13iv8
27. Destroying wildlife
habitat to create thrills for mountain bikers:
Subject: [morca] Re: Toro Park trails --QUESTIONS
From: crankspd <bobgmac@gmail.com>
To: "Monterey Off-Road Cycling Association
(MORCA)" <morca@googlegroups.com>
<http://googlegroups.com/group/morca/subscribe>
There are 6 short videos on Youtube.com now of the trail work from
March 14th. Just search on youtube under "toro park" and "aquaduct",
the temporary name for this new trail. If that doesn't work, here are
the links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEZWMPd9ODA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emqMVlGVlFM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqis3NNGWB0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1o-zjGSLxs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr9gwWr8poc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvSJqNJOU1g
28. "North
Shore" Vancouver, BC, illegal trail construction:
The first one includes
good comments from the former politician, Ernie Crist,
who passed away last year (His comments get watered down in the mtb'ing mayhem. He took a brunt of abuse from the mountain
bikers for his strong stance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpSWrpn1pg (shows
a wall ride and teeter-totter)
This one shows a
Hamster/Gerbil Wheel built in the woods:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWYfoF4a9fQ
Unbelievable, isn't it?
29. Sweden & England try to emulate Vancouver's North Shore: http://vimeo.com/3449923, http://vimeo.com/3000950.
30. Amazingly cynical
rainforest destruction!: http://vimeo.com/3338567?pg=embed&sec=&hd=1
31. The
"Porsche of mountain bikes": http://www.globaltv.com/globaltv/bc/video/index.html?releasePID=eNvWpR8rs1bSUu1i5b1P_OyD_P39lLjR
32. Speeding
in Annadel State Park, near Santa Rosa, CA: http://vimeo.com/1854218?pg=embed&sec=1854218
33. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnEyZXqqTIw. Now try to name any of the
features of the trail! The speed of mountain biking doesn't allow one to
remember much of the experience! Bored yet? Yes, mountain biking really is
that boring!
34.
"Trials of the Trails", North Vancouver, BC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHpSWrpn1pg.
The trail-building, by their own admission, increased the number of people
in the woods by a factor of 10! This effectively makes the habitat unusable by
the wildlife. Of course, trail-building also destroys habitat directly, and
fragments the existing habitat so that it is effectively destroyed as habitat.