The music, the visuals, the riding technique: the videos produced by the 50to01 (also known as 50:01, 50-01 or Fifty to One) troupe, led by Josh "Ratboy" Bryceland and "Loosedog" Lewis, are great art. In the style of the early BMX videos from the 80s and 90s, blurred images from a fisheye perspective show guys with and without T-shirts performing really impressive stunts with a lot of style on their mostly maximum-suspension bikes on the dirty bike park tracks of this world. The mountain bike movement has set itself nothing less than the emancipation of mountain biking - without commerce, without brand dictates, but with all the more fun in the freedom to do whatever you want. Well, of course, it can't be completely without commerce, even the former racers still have to work a little. Their speciality: not making it look like work.
Their latest clip "Damm Son" is set in the Welsh hinterland. There (not in faraway Asia) lies the village of Llangynog. The local bike park is a kind of home base for the 50to01 crew and has a new attraction: a hemisphere familiar from skate parks, known as a bowl, which can be entered and exited from virtually any direction. Surrounding it are dozens of waves and ramps for jumping off and landing. It's all about keeping an overview - and simply jamming off on your bike, letting yourself drift, experiencing the flow. You can't get much cooler than the 50to01 crew on their big bikes, and famous colleagues from the scene have already expressed their respect in the comments: "Insane riding boys!!! Love the direction you are taking things!!!" (Danny MacAskill) or "Mega! so rad boys!!" (Sam Reynolds) - enjoy the clip:
Sebastian Brust
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