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[[{“value”:”The bike doesn’t solve our problems, it gives us the opportunity to fight them.
As speed becomes introspection, we use the trail to process what lies beneath the surface. Away from the noise of the routine world, the trail blurs the boundary between self and the terrain ahead, leaving room only for internal dialogue: the quiet battles and emotional weight we carry up every climb and drop with every descent.
Set to Wye Oak’s “Civilian”, this edit visually explores the space between who we are to the outside world and who we are when it’s just us, the bike, and the dirt. To those outside the sport – the “civilians” who don’t understand this obsession – it just looks like we’re riding through trees and flying through the air for a rise. “You’re crazy.” “That’s dangerous.” Both are oversimplifications.
But for those who know the battles we wage and have felt the wars we’ve fought on these trails, every turn is a release, every feature a confrontation, and every ride a step toward processing what we are currently unable to express in words.
May the rhythm of the trail quiet the noise, help you process the heavy stuff, and continually bring you back to solid ground.
Produced: Daniel Gillooley & Nick Barille
Cinematography: Scott Secco
Edit: Scott Secco & Daniel Gillooley
Color: Daniel Gillooley
Music: “Civilian” by Wye Oak
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