World Tour Slide Show and Films

Words Chris Winter

Photos Sterling Lorence and Dan Barham

Date Jun 1, 2010

Travel. Mountain bikes.

Sterling Lorence in Iceland.

To Canadians hitting the road or hopping in a plane is one of the top things to do, if you could. Win the lottery? Travel. Take a month off? Travel. Loose your job? Travel.

It could be as simple as packing up the car and heading to Collingwood or Whistler or Canmore for the weekend or planning a first time dream trip to Peru or Colorado or the Alps..

Dan Barham with friends in the Yukon.

If you’re reading this, then you porbably love mountain biking and have a gaggle of bikes, helmets and spare parts in your garage, your kitchen or your bedroom. Beside your toilet you can probably find a stack of Bike and Dirt Magazines. No doubt this time of the year as the weather warms and familiar summer smells return, your thoughts drift off to your favourite rides and dreams of packing the car, or hopping on a plane to a far away place, ultimately with your mountain bike and some good friends.

Sterling Lorence in Iceland

Vancouver and Whistler-based mountain bike travel company Big Mountain Bike Adventures and the North Shore Bike Fest are bringing far-away places to you in the form of photographs and cinematography. The line-up of photographers and locations is impressive: West Vancouver’s Sterling Lorence’s views of Iceland, North Vancouverite Dan Barham in Alaska and the Yukon, Squamish-based Matt Domanski in Utah with New World Disorder, the Shore’s Jordan Manley showcasing his backyard, Camore’s John Gibson in Argentina and Big Mountain owner Chris Winter showing images of Peru.

Dan Barham in the Yukon.

Thanks to the internet, cheaper technology and the ease of sharing video online, filmmaking is changing rapidly. Two years ago we would watch shaky helemt cam footage set to death metal whereas now our tastes for quality have grown and shots have been good and editing even better to keep our attention. Enter locally based full production crews usually armed with a camer or two, a few bucks and a laptop and whole whack of talent; the Coastal Crew, Brock Anderson and Taylor Loughran – who are leading the way in online mountain bike video pleasure. And of course Callum Swift and Anthill Films, who are a few steps ahead in terms of production and budget.