“I was right after a BSD trip with Luc Legrand that I met up with Vince Perraud and Sergio Layos on the big transitions of the Ocean Museum of Biarritz (aka The Surf Museum). This spot, between the Pyrenees mountains and the Atlantic Ocean is both beautiful and scary; the ground is like a rough pavement and you need to pedal like a madman to catch any air at all. I had already seen Max Bonfil and Alex Valentino doing some high airs on this but i have to say that Sergio was pretty unbelievable…” – Antoine Sabourin
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When mountain bike riders clear unauthorised trails, move earth and install jumps in a patch of bushland, they’re the baddies, right? Not necessarily. Every visit to the wilderness causes an impact, and the challenge for conservation managers is balancing that while trying to help people maintain a connection with nature. Ann Jones reports:
Did you make a cubby house when you were a child? Did you climb trees, dig holes, drag branches and smell the leaf litter as you went about playing in the bush?
That experience was both ecologically destructive and imperative for the future of conservation.
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Shifted is a new mountain bike film created by Matt Butterworth and Eric Marciniak. Shot primarily across British Columbia, including Kelowna, Vernon, Vancouver’s North Shore, Squamish, Whistler, Pemberton, and Vancouver Island.
8 Months in the making, spanning across 2 continents.