Iowa MTB ~VIDEO~

Simpleton · 10-28-2005

Yeah, our rocks are buried under a couple hundred feet of topsoil and our "mountains" are only a few hundred feet high, but we still have some fun, unique trails. For a first effort I think the video turned out pretty well (except for the case that obviously needs trimmed). I hope you enjoy it.

Iowa MTB Video - 36 MB, 9 minutes

Sorry - trail location must remain undisclosed...

cbuchanan · 10-28-2005

Sweet video! Way to give props to the Iowa trails! Being a fellow Iowan, I feel that you can go ahead and tell me where these trails are even if you have to do it by e-mail

. BTW, nice music selection, fits the video very well. I do believe that video made my day.

imjps · 10-28-2005

Nice video and soundtrack. It's all about the ride. Location is secondary.

jps

catch22 · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by Simpleton

Yeah, our rocks are buried under a couple hundred feet of topsoil and our "mountains" are only a few hundred feet high, but we still have some fun, unique trails. For a first effort I think the video turned out pretty well (except for the case that obviously needs trimmed). I hope you enjoy it.

Iowa MTB Video - 36 MB, 9 minutes

Sorry - trail location must remain undisclosed...

Great video man, looks a lot like all the trails I learned to ride on back in IA. I'm a native Dubuquer and went to college at UNI. I love the tight, winding singletrack for the helmetcam. Gives it that Return of the Jedi effect. The setting looks familiar but I don't think it's anyplace I've ever ridden (Waverly maybe?). Keep 'em coming!

schnauzers · 10-28-2005

Don't let anyone tell you there is anything wrong with those trails. It looks just like the stuff we have here in South Jersey, Delaware, and North Eastern Maryland. Smooth, fast, twisty singletrack. I have just as much fun riding that stuff as anypalce else I have ridden. It's all what you make of it. I've been to Iowa a few times. At least you weren't riding through corn fields and pig farms.

What lake was in the video, or was it the Mississippi (I think I saw a bridge)?

mtbidwell · 10-28-2005

Fun video- I got up from my desk and started dancing! Always makes a guy feel good passing a full quiver of arrows!!!

I can't stop whistling. Thats not Waverly but looks great!

Nat · 10-28-2005

Nice work! It gave me a good feel for the trail. Gotta love the white Dockers riding slacks!

schnauzers · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by Nat

Nice work! It gave me a good feel for the trail. Gotta love the white Dockers riding slacks!

And after labor day, no less. Tisk tisk!

~martini~ · 10-28-2005

Tasty!

That is one nicely done video(now on the HD, and will be played through the winter TYVM), and one spankin' good looking trail. Gotta love the midwest!

Really should get over that way for a ride sometime...

Nater · 10-28-2005

Brown's Woods in Des Moines. Now an off-limits riding area I've heard. It was pretty sweet when I was in school down there from '92-'96.

Simpleton · 10-28-2005

Thanks for all the complements. It was a fun vid to put together.

As far as the white pants go - next time I'll request that he wear something pink & frilly, or maybe black & lacy

ArmySlowRdr · 10-28-2005

PRIMO: **** Wow and that was your 1st effort huh--better than some of the vets here.

sigh--more buff ST--I can't take much more of no flow too techie Oahu---counting down the last months here.

That Iowa trail really has flow--your footage brought it out beautifully!

What is song number 2--I need to download that one.

Squash · 10-28-2005

I think I know where that trail is, but I'll keep me mouth shut. Nice video, good music and excellent flow. You really captured the trail I think. Nice job man!

Good Dirt

Frozenspokes · 10-28-2005

Puff Puff Give.

Nice video and interesting music choice. I'll have to watch it again while not under the influence of 50 some odd ounces of Amber Bach.

Dave. · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by ArmySlowRdr

What is song number 2--I need to download that one.

The band name is Orbital, album is "Orbital 2" (also known as the Brown Album). Track is #5, "Impact". I've ridden with it playing in the headphones many times ...

Simpleton, nice vid!

Nat · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by Nater

Brown's Woods in Des Moines. Now an off-limits riding area I've heard. It was pretty sweet when I was in school down there from '92-'96.

[TANGENT] Let's discuss Brown's Woods. I went to school there (UOMHS, now DMU) from '94-'98 and rode Brown's regularly. That was a nice in-town gem, and I wouldn't mind riding midwest woods like that again. It got posted off-limits in '96 if I recall, and after that we were limited to the fishermens' paths near the river, the trails behind the Science Center, or would have to drive either to Lake Ahquabi or Sugarbottom. Any chance we rode together? [/TANGENT]

hankthespacecowboy · 10-28-2005

Mad props on your video man. It does far more to make me want to ride than any of the Cranked, New World Disorder, or most any other mtb video on the market. It's a trail that I could ride and enjoy, not an endless series of huge drops, gaps and hucks. The music is excellent. Not the screamkillhatedeathmetal of freeride videos, but the sort of stuff I like to play in my mental jukebox on rides. Y'all are real people, with riding skills like mine. I'd probably biff it on the log, screw up a few turns and run out of momentum on a roller just like you.

Here's to real riding with real people.

Hank.

pacman · 10-28-2005

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Originally Posted by Simpleton

Yeah, our rocks are buried under a couple hundred feet of topsoil and our "mountains" are only a few hundred feet high, but we still have some fun, unique trails. For a first effort I think the video turned out pretty well (except for the case that obviously needs trimmed). I hope you enjoy it.

Iowa MTB Video - 36 MB, 9 minutes

Sorry - trail location must remain undisclosed...

I enjoyed it, great flow and music too. One small request, could you double the bit rate? That video is too good to suffer pixel smudge.

ArmySlowRdr · 10-28-2005

thx for the info Dave..
I have checked it out on Rhapsody and as I type I'm downloading the work album on my favorite download spot.

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Originally Posted by Dave.

The band name is Orbital, album is "Orbital 2" (also known as the Brown Album). Track is #5, "Impact". I've ridden with it playing in the headphones many times ...

Simpleton, nice vid!

loonyOne · 10-29-2005

Wow Simpleton, that's a great video! I saw what you meant by needing to trim some more, but I would just leave it. It adds a bit of reality. Very nicely done as well. I read the whole thread before I watched the vid and like everyone else, damn fine job!

That's one fine trail too. I am now going to employ my Jedi mind powers....

You will log into your email...You will give me coordinates and direction to this trail...We will hook up with a few trusted friends and ride the trail together...This will be good for us all...

I think it is going to work. One other thing, the section of trail by the ravine, I gotta ride that.

Latah~

Structure · 10-29-2005

Wish I'd known the trail during my years in Iowa. Would have made life there more barable. I gave up biking in Iowa after a couple of years. No duration to any of the rides. No hills. No technical. bla

But that is a nice flowy looking tail. Iowa needs more trails and more folks recognizing the need to give Iowans outdoor recreation options. I hear there are some nice trails now by Boone too.

Simpleton · 10-29-2005

Thanks for the kind words. I've watched a lot of videos on this site & I think I had a pretty good feel for how to make a good one based on them and from the info at petefagerlin.com and mountainbikebill.com. Kind of one of those "standing on the shoulders of giants" things.

That Orbital song has always seemed like the perfect MTB tune. It's like a soundtrack for a perfectly functioning mind-body-bike-trail connection. If you liked that tune you should probably pick up the cd (does anybody buy cd's anymore?). Halcyon + On + On is one of the most dead sexy beautiful songs that I've ever had the pleasure of surrendering my conciousness to...

Matt

Simpleton · 10-29-2005

Your Jedi mind powers have been thwarted by a disturbance in the force.

"Mail Server unavailable"

When did MTBR start hosting my email???

I'll try my email again on Monday after the sysadmin has had time to fix it. God knows he won't be working on a weekend..

SSweetleaf · 10-29-2005

That made me homesick for my trails back in MD.Man that looked like a fun ride.Thanks for sharing.

KERKOVEJ · 10-30-2005

As another fellow Iowa'n, I must say that looks good to me. I am going to throw a guess into the air and say the location is in the Losses Hills area on the west coast of Iowa.

crager34 · 10-30-2005

RIGHT ON!!!

I am working in Omaha, NE for a few months and love the riding in the mid-west. I hate it when people compare rides here to rides, say in Moab, UT or the Rockies. I have yet to go on a single Mt. Bike ride and not like it. If anyone out there has been on a ride they didn't like... then your riding for the wrong reasons.

The music put to your video was great....up-beat, fun.... just the kind of music I like to listen to on my rides. Keep em coming.

JeffSkisMontana · 10-30-2005

Been ridin' rocks too long in Pennsylvania.... Wow, forgot what it was like to ride stuff like that! Reminds me of Angel Mounds along the Ohio in Evansville, Indiana! Thanks for the flashback.

Simpleton · 10-31-2005

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Originally Posted by pacman

I enjoyed it, great flow and music too. One small request, could you double the bit rate? That video is too good to suffer pixel smudge.

Higher bit rate is here (53 MB). Thanks for giving me a reason to figure out how to tweak windows movie maker.

IBBake · 10-31-2005

Great vid Man. I'm looking forward to heading over/down/up/back your way this spring.

Nater · 11-01-2005

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Originally Posted by Nat

[TANGENT] Let's discuss Brown's Woods. I went to school there (UOMHS, now DMU) from '94-'98 and rode Brown's regularly. That was a nice in-town gem, and I wouldn't mind riding midwest woods like that again. It got posted off-limits in '96 if I recall, and after that we were limited to the fishermens' paths near the river, the trails behind the Science Center, or would have to drive either to Lake Ahquabi or Sugarbottom. Any chance we rode together? [/TANGENT]

I was at Drake from 92-96. I used to ride behind the Science Center too but back then there wasn't much there. Brown's really was a gem...I was back the yeat after I graduated and bought a bike from Rasmussen's Bike Shop in the Brown's Woods neighborhood and I remember them saying that it had closed and was off limits to bikes. I was bummed!

Nat · 11-01-2005

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Originally Posted by Nater

I was at Drake from 92-96. I used to ride behind the Science Center too but back then there wasn't much there. Brown's really was a gem...I was back the yeat after I graduated and bought a bike from Rasmussen's Bike Shop in the Brown's Woods neighborhood and I remember them saying that it had closed and was off limits to bikes. I was bummed!

There was some riding around that reservoir north of the city. Did you check that out? It was a 10 mile ride up the path I think, before you'd get to singletrack. The whole time I was there, I'd only seen a couple of dozen mtb'ers or so. I don't think it was a very big community at the time. In hindsight I wish I'd had a road bike or 'cross bike to hit the farm roads and dirt roads.

What kind of bike did you ride back then? I had a polished silver Manitou FS and then a polished silver AMP Research B4.

Nater · 11-01-2005

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Originally Posted by Nat

There was some riding around that reservoir north of the city. Did you check that out? It was a 10 mile ride up the path I think, before you'd get to singletrack. The whole time I was there, I'd only seen a couple of dozen mtb'ers or so. I don't think it was a very big community at the time. In hindsight I wish I'd had a road bike or 'cross bike to hit the farm roads and dirt roads.

What kind of bike did you ride back then? I had a polished silver Manitou FS and then a polished silver AMP Research B4.

I did do some "road" riding up the bike path towards the reservoir once in awhile. I was riding a 1993 blue/black splatter paint GT Karakoram that may or may not have had a Manitou 4 on it, depending on what year it was.

Nat · 11-04-2005

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Originally Posted by Nater

I did do some "road" riding up the bike path towards the reservoir once in awhile. I was riding a 1993 blue/black splatter paint GT Karakoram that may or may not have had a Manitou 4 on it, depending on what year it was.

Are you the guy who had the purple wheels with the titanium spokes on that GT?

Nater · 11-04-2005

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Originally Posted by Nat

Are you the guy who had the purple wheels with the titanium spokes on that GT?

I had pretty much the stock set-up on that bike except for the fork. The chronic need to upgraded hadn't hit me yet at that point and it's a good thing that it didn't...I didn't have the money.

Floater · 11-04-2005

I can't believe I waited a whole week to check out your video. Great Job! I looking forward to your next one.

smw · 11-04-2005

Nice video, thanks for sharing the ride, it was fun.
Sean