bikeperson45

Thanks for posting these, I'm still relying on TF for my trials content. Good interviews, will have to listen to the Akrigg one in full another time. Danny Mac in the thumbnail does remind me of everyone putting 'Danny Macaskill' in the youtube titles in descriptions in 2009

Great video, the editing, angles, transitions, were top notch and that pedal up is bananas.

I'm very up for this, got caught up at work scrolling through FB Marketplace so hopefully will have something to thrash about on soon

Amazing pictures 👏

I'm basically the same @Phantom87, had a few too many injuries in my late teens to really want to push myself to progress. I ruled out a lot of spin moves for myself after tearing my ACL doing a 180, and I realised that because of some hypermobility I spent half my time between 18-22 being semi-injured basically. Hard pill to swallow but I just ended up making peace with the fact trials isn't worth sacrificing that much injury time for.

Tried to go into Across The Spider-verse knowing as little as possible and it was great, actually got excited about what I was looking at in a way that managed to make me feel like a kid again. I have some nitpicks, but the art of it alone is worth seeing, even more so than the first.

Great video, such a good ratio between great clips, fails, and editing stuff.

Covid's brought me to the angry thread on Christmas eve... I'd had a flu a few weeks ago and on 13 December I started isolating to be on the safe side, just didn't seem fair to go into the office if I didn't need to and risk getting people sick before Christmas. I've been fine the past week and came home for Christmas not thinking much of it, was going to go out with some friends a few days ago and did a test to be on the safe side and got the positive result, so I've been hiding away in a bedroom and wearing a mask in the house. My family are angry at me for being OCD about covid and are reminding me legally I don't have to do anything, but I just can't shake the idea that if I know I have it I should isolate before I get a few negative tests back. Obviously don't want to spend time with my parents because they're getting on a bit now, but they're angry with me for not joining them downstairs. Waiting for a fight through a door tomorrow about not wanting to join them for Christmas dinner... I don't think I'm being over the top about it but I think I'm just fatigued on the moral scrupples of the last few years.

Nice job with that, can't really go wrong with a seatless silver trials bike

Sorry mate but I actually shotgunned the next Heatsink tensioner back in 2015 so you're after me

Now I'm reading up on energy savings for different temperatures, doesn't sound like as much as I thought it was... I assumed I'm just a smelly boy but maybe going up 10 degrees will help - much to learn, I guess. Flatmate's still a tool.

That's what I wanted to hear :p I haven't had a need for the longer cycles so far, 40 minutes at 30 degrees seems to do me just fine.

Am I being naïve for thinking that in a flatshare there's no reason for a washing machine cycle lasting longer than an hour? My flatmate better be going somewhere real special to have warranted this two and a half hour spin... We've been without a washing machine for 11 days so my logic was we should all do some quick spins but guess he had other ideas.

Glad this got a bump, missed it when it was posted but great video - always cool to see riders putting longer edits together and great clips in there. That gap to the little slant on the vertical wall near the start was top notch stuff.

These bloody train strikes... I'd been training and getting ready to break my longest bike ride record the past few months and the plan's out the window now. Really resent the weekend strikes.

School shooting stuff... I feel like the media's focussing too much on the police response rather than the inciting issue of why kids are getting guns so easily. I get that people are angry with the police, and rightfully so, but it just feels like a bit of a deflection to me still.

Taking this is a sign to get aero bars for my roadie this summer, they do look fast

On a basic level, it was funny to go out riding and have more people approach me asking if I was trying to do what the Youtube guy was doing, and even having people name Danny Macaskill was a fun change compared to 2008. I went from being a lone trials rider at school to seeing 3-4 more trials bikes being locked up in the school bike shed, mainly Onzas and those guys were trying to whip like Danny Mac. Since I've gotten more involved in climbing it's funny to see the similarities with how some purists don't like how there's a slight free running influence making it's way into bouldering. Seems like those splits in styles are bound to happen in individual sports that allow for creativity in ways that group sports don't.

I'm always impressed his ability to make these videos that ride the line between fun and gimmicky so well, and the Hans Rey part was great.

https://www.instagram.com/dwatstrials/?hl=en to be honest he can't tailwhip drop so I stopped watching

Are you using any ergonomic keyboards or mouse? I do find my vertical mouse helped with some strain in my forearm.

Pretty transparent WPM brag there

Great video, and liked reading about your experience with making the videos too I'm pretty sure you had a video with the song Kolnidur by Jonsi a while ago, am I remembering that right? I've looked for it a few times but never had any luck

Feels weird sitting in an empty office trying to motivate myself while Russia's sending out bombs...