FOD Testing the New Bike

Testing my new bike. After finishing my exams I had a lot of money to spend on my bike. I was deciding what to do with this money and was considering buying a new frame. I looked up and it was going to cost me way to much to buy a new frame and all the new parts that come with it. I got the suggestion from a friend of powder coating my bike. Looked up and I thought it would transform my bike and make it look brand new. I got my frame powder coated red and the linkage black. The powder coating only cost me £75 and I designed the graphics myself and got them printed for £40. I then changed to a 1x10 gearing and bought a new shimano clutch mech. The clutch mech makes such a different shifting is so much cleaner because it removes any chain slap I used to have. Overall it was a good decision to do this to my bike. 

Lately I have been filming lots of people and making videos for other people. I then got the opportunity to ride with my mate Ben Strain. Great rider normally rides road but is really good at mountain biking as well. He also did photography for GCSE so I thought he would be a great person to help me make my next edit.

Its only a short edit of the trails I ride quite a lot when my parent take me to Forest of Dean. We based our day around the downhill trails and focused on Ben improving some of his downhill and also shooting a short video. Ben came out of it saying he felt as if he learnt a lot in a day riding wise and I got an edit! Sounds like a deal to me! 

I wanted Ben to film for me because he has the experience from his GCSE in art and I thought he could get some good angles for me. He used lots of different angles that made the video flow nicely between the shots. We managed to get lots of filming done in the time we had. I am very happy with what we achieved and thank you to Ben for filming the edit!

I now need to find someone who can do a full edit for me showing other aspects of riding so we can do an even better video! 

Enjoy the edit!