I’ve asked a lot of people a lot of questions in the course of my ‘career’ as a writer. I’ve always been fascinated by what makes people tick, what motivates them, what is the process of their critical thinking and what defining moments forged them into the people they are and the path that they…
The most essential thing to learn to do in mountain biking is…anyone? Well, I believe the answer is how to corner. Every trail has corners, it’s the only thing that every trail will have. Corners might be the only feature that singletrack in a Welsh trail center and an ancient packhorse track in the Upper…
I just unearthed this old video I made of an interview with Marc Beaumont after news broke that he was to be the fourth Atherton. Wow, that was fun to make but it’s no surprise that I didn’t make it past the first set of interviews to be a Newsnight presenter. Warning: this video may…
Despite injury and busy schedules, we have managed to pump out episode two of Hey Coach. Of course, because of the injuries and hectic summer schedule, Darren Butler and I have had to hand over the presenting reigns to Mason Mashon and Ken Doraty. For a long time it looked like we wouldn’t get another…
My video editing learning curve feels like a very steep climb at the moment. However, it is only by exercising that we can strengthen ourselves. Last week I visited Paddy Kaye, the man responsible for building the Joyride Crankworx slopestyle course in Whistler. While he walked me through this years course I hobbled around and…
Here’s the commentary piece I wrote for NSMB.com for last weekend’s UCI World Cup downhill race in Fort William. Read it on NSMB.com HERE. Big Bill’s Mind Games I don’t know how those racers do it. I don’t mean covering ground as fast as they do; that’s pretty obvious how they do that: a totally…
This is a super secret post because this video doesn’t go live till next week. So don’t tell anyone about it. Who Are They? is a look behind the scenes at the people who make the Whistler Bike Park possible. In the first episode we hang out with the trail crew for a morning to…
Thinking you know it all or know everything that people are thinking is an easy trap to fall into. Whistler Bike Park is the most media saturated mountain bike destination. Or so you would think. With this simple weekly video series, that appears on NSMB.com, I step into the Bike Park lift line and ask…
The third installment of Hey Neighbour dropped this week. In this episode our guide for some North Shore history was Sterling Lorence, one of mountain biking’s most respected photographers. Enjoy the video and words which accompanied it. For the full piece, including Sterling’s incredible shots, go to NSMB.com. Hey Neighbour #3: Sterling Lorence’s One Roll…
Laughing is important. Laughing at yourself is even more important. Dan Barham, Matt Dennison and I laugh at ourselves more than most…a statement which sounds like I’m saying something else entirely. Anyway, the Ultramontane series was one of the boldest and most refreshing pieces of branding and creativity that mountain biking has ever seen. Ideal…
We said we may never do it but we did – Hey Coach! Light hearted, highly visual and easy to digest with simple, small pointers, Hey Coach! is a brand new video coaching series that NSMB.com produced in collaboration with Endless Biking. May the 4th be with you.
Recently, 2FLAT partnered up with snappy dresser and photographic craftsman Dan Barham, to produce a promotional video for BC based Enduro race team The Nomads. Dan has been experimenting with video lately and I’ve had more than a passing interest in it, so when I started working on a written story about The Nomads for NSMB.com it…
On Friday NSMB.com published Wheel Wars I, a brief overview of some of the new wheel size offerings, prototypes, products and perspectives on the practical implications of an ever-expanding wheel size catalogue. On Thursday we followed up with Cosmic Compromises: Is 650b Just Right or is it All Wrong? — Rumors and speculation have abound…
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