VOUCH: Tales On Tyres – Riding the Baja Divide

    I’m finding myself really drawn to things like this right now. Partly out of curiosity for attempting and accomplishing big feats like riding the Baja Divide, partly out of…just wanting to hit the road myself and just go really simple for a while. It’s not that my life is complicated, I’ve worked ‘hard’…

THE ESCAPE…FOUR YEARS AGO

  Wow, four years ago Dave, We Are Union Co. and I set out on a two-week backyard adventure from Whistler with the goal of looping the lesser known and snow-free winter riding areas of BC. We loaded a couple Chromag Stylus’ with Bob Trailers and off we went. We wanted to escape the winter…

THRIVOR – video

This is the best video I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not mountain biking but it’s still cycling and the story and the metaphors in this universal. A powerful half-hour film documenting one man’s experience of his body at war with itself. Founded in Australia by cyclist and former cancer patient Justin McLean, thrivor…

Hey Neighbour

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…

Between The Eyes: Jordan Manley’s #dailywalk

In November 2012, Jordan Manley, a very well respected action sport photographer and filmmaker, suffered a concussion that severely changed his life. The concussion was such that Jordan was unable to perform even quite simple tasks without triggering his symptoms. Recovery for this kind of injury, which is effectively brain damage, means resting the brain…

I was once a World Champion…sort of.

Here’s a GoPro video of me winning the TiS Dual Slalom World Championship at Peaty’s house in 2011. Well, the ghetto equivalent. Thanks to WideOpenMag for the video. I just realized that the ‘ghetto’ in the above paragraph might be a little misleading. I’m not saying Steve Peat lives in a ghetto or that the…

The Caliber Of A Question

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…

Slate Reel

After the long and agonizing Bible Of Bike Tests process, Dan Barham put together this slate reel. In it you get to see how confusing things become when you ride bikes in the sunshine all-day and then get dragged away from your dinner to talk about them, for 15 days straight. See the bumbles and…

Between The Eyes: Grant Robinson – We Have Served Thee Well

I’ll confess, I’m a big fan of Grant Robinson’s photography. His work demonstrates that there’s many ways to take a good photo and there’s no such thing as the perfect way to do so. While many action sport photographers create beautiful, pixel-perfect photos, Grant is one of the few who doesn’t just document the act…

Simple Machines

A little while back Union Production Co. (one of the production companies 2Flat collaborates with) was asked to created two short videos to coincide with the release of two new Santa Cruz bikes. We were given very little brief other than they needed to be driven by the personality and work of some of their…

You Don’t Know…Brett Tippie

Brett Tippie is famous for his skills on the bike, for the role he played in bringing freeride to the masses and for his infectious laugh and famously oversized sense of humor. All of that is just scraping the surface of who Brett Tippie truly is. This is a look into the life of a…

Las Vegas Video

The following is a collection of just some of the videos that we collaborated with Dan Barham, Vernon Felton and Bike Magazine (bikemag.com) for the annual bike show gathering, Interbike in Las Vegas. Rather than go down a familiar route we chose to try something a little different, a little humorous and a little more…

You Don’t Know…Mark Weir

*Here’s a video that Dan Barham, Vernon Felton and 2Flat collaborated on for Bikemag.com. This was an amazing opportunity to get to know an incredible person and in the process produce something quite heartfelt and moving. Mark Weir is an icon. He’s the tough man of modern mountain biking. The grimacing guy, charging down an…

The Escape – Full Movie

One of the most interesting and rewarding projects that 2Flat has been a part of this year is our collaboration with several other creatives to form the Union and execute The Escape, our contribution of love letters (and photos and videos) to British Columbia. Our partners on this project were Dan Barham Photography and Tall…

The Corner: Sea Otter Slalom

  It’s louder than a fart in an elevator, and just as menacing. The Corner, looks like a bunch of spring breakers who have gate crashed the civil war front line. A round pf rolling thunderous shouts issue from the assembled, half naked men and women. Flags waving above them, beers cans scattered like emptied…

You try so hard…

  Video kills me. Remembering lines kills me. Dan Barham heckling me at 6am in the morning after a neck full of spiked drinks while I’m trying to remember my lines for a video kills me. This is a teaser for an upcoming video segment that 2FLAT, Dan Barham Photography and Vernon Felton of Bike…

The Escape

The Escape – Teaser from Union Production Co. on Vimeo. Recently I did a wee cycle mission around BC, trying to escape the snow (or lack of). Dave Roth and I set out from Whistler on our mountain bikes, towing trailers with our gear, and circumnavigated the Salish Sea entirely by our own power (and…

STAND

STAND- Power Teaser from b4apres media on Vimeo. I’m very fortunate to say that Nicolas Teichrob is a good friend. We have worked together several times and I hope we work together a lot more in the future. One of the things that makes Nic such a good person and talented individual is that he…

BEST LAID PLANS

Back in May, after getting a substantial amount of metal work put into my foot, Dan Barham and I worked on this little snippet together. We had being planning a video shoot of an entirely different kind but when I injured myself it called for a radical re-think. We were then going to make a…

Deep Summer

The Deep Summer Photo Challenge is a high point of the Crankworx festival. This year I was part of Jonathon Hayward’s team that also included Dylan Sherrard and Paul Stevens. We didn’t win. We did have fun though. Dylan Sherrard just posted a lovely report of his time at the event on Pinkbike.com.

HEY COACH 2

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…

Joyride Course Walk

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…

WHO ARE THEY?

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…

Line Up #2

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…

Arbutus Routes X Darren Camplin

You can not fight time and finally we have time to start playing with Final Cut Pro. We have been playing with video creation and content for a while now but this is our first attempt at editing, and, WOW, it is going to take time to get to the level we want. However, we…

HEY NEIGHBOUR: STERLING LORENCE

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…

Ultramundane

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…

The Nomads’ Art Of War

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…

P***s Song

What else are you meant to do when Bike Magazine’s editor shoves a microphone in your hand (the one without a beer in it) and tells you to fill 30 seconds of camera time? Being in California makes you do weird things.

April Fools?

Back in March, filmer Matt Dennison and I set out to make a humorous video about the Coastal Crew’s new secret sponsor, Specialized Bikes. In order to get the story out but hide their identity we came up with the concept of making a spoof commercial with fictional energy water, Brown Pow. Oh, and it…

TOTAL RIPOFF URL MOTO

I don’t want to get into the habit of posting videos from all over the net that have already been posted all over the net like some blogs or websites, but here’s one that’s worthwhile for all those poor souls that couldn’t make it to the Frew Farm 2010. This is Unit Clothings awesome moto…

FILMING AND THE GINGER

Last thursday instead of heading down to the Farm early I went out filming with Ginger Si for the third installment of Matty Smiths Summer Sessions. The above video is nothing to do with that day but does contain a rather humorous video of Si being the gayest man on earth. Ah Mate!

MEXICO: THE MOVIE

“A moving tale of mans quest for happiness in a world characterized by malaise” The New York Times “A visual fiesta…gripping, inspiring and otherworldly” The Guardian “What a right bunch of cabrons…didn’t we see their testicles at Feliz Nuevo?” Sabinas Weekly

TURD SANDWICH

Here’s a headcam video that Pangus (Paul Angus) just posted of the brand new TURD SANDWICH trail on Skyline hill in Queenstown. Watching this video gave me a boner. A stonking blood dick twitching boner.