MARIN NEWS & REVIEWS

Check out this amazing picture of Andrew Taylor shredding trails in California from the 100th edition of Dirt.

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Handling is an inspiring mix of confident stability and quick-witted agility with a contagiously enthusiastic character.”……. www.bikeradar.com

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Dan’s got GCSE exams at the moment, and last weekend he took a break from revision to do some riding in the Forest of Dean, which his sister filmed (Marin blog item: http://www.marin.co.uk/wp-marin/?p=1215), but we also wanted to capture a photo for his school’s ‘Extreme Reading’ competition. The competition is run by the library at the school to encourage reading and entails having a photo taken of you reading a book in an unusual place/situation – the more ‘extreme’ the better! Last year Dan entered with a shot of him reading whilst on the bike in full race gear, but static, so this year he thought he could take it to a more extreme level by trying to get a shot of him reading whilst in the air during a jump.

He had a jump in mind, which was big enough for him to have enough air-time to get the book into a position where he could glance down at it convincingly whilst one-handing mid-jump for long enough to get the photo, and then be able to land safely with both hands back on the bars having thrown the book to the side. The jump he chose was the 30ft jump as seen in the video mentioned earlier – and it was up to me to make good use of the new flash I have for my camera to capture the right moment.

Dan’s description of how he did it: “I held the book with my thumb and forefinger, then rode down to the jump holding on with 3 fingers, then pulled a one hander, looked at the book, threw it to the side and landed ”

It’s as simple as that! It took a couple of trial runs to get my camera-work able to capture the shot at exactly the right time, but the final result was one of those just-perfect shots that I can sometimes get when things work well.

The shot of Dan has been uploaded to Pinkbike…….. (http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/5060018/?s5 ) where it has already gained 1550 view hits, and recommendations for ‘picture-of-the-day’. Dan is wearing his ZeroG race top with the arm logo showing prominently, the ZeroG stickers we had made up to go on the helmet and the large ‘Marin’ branding on the bike frame.

Dan also notes that this is quite a good way to keep up with the GCSE revision reading whilst still being able to ride the bike – or so he tells us!

Tim (Dan’s Dad)

aaagggghhhhhh, always wear a helmet.

 There is still time to get an entry in for this year’s tenth annual Marin Dusk Til Dawn event in Thetford Forest. More »

A former Commonwealth Games triathlete who came through a cancer scare last year is set to raise thousands for a Cancer Cell Scanning machine by riding 1100 miles across France and Spain with a little help from Marin. More »

Check out the latest from Dan Joyce………….

The last two weeks have been pretty relaxed, no races, and for most of the time, no DH riding, just some corner practice in the woods on my hardtail working on areas where I know I need to improve. I went to the Forest Of Dean on Saturday for some DH practice on the area that I had been practising earlier in the week, mainly right hand corners, and found that I had improved notably since the last time I rode the Forest Of Dean track. Whilst I was at the FOD, I made a 3 minute video with some good riding in it.

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/138474/

Another free weekend next week, then It’s Southern Champs time. The race is at the UK Bike Park where I have ridden very well this year ( 3 races, 3 podiums) and I’m aiming to get another podium at this race; which is meant to be using a new, harder variation of an old track, which should be great as I can put my practice into play and see how well I can do.

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