Congrats to Akrigg for finding a home with a brand that has some trials legacy with Hans. Hoping it lasts him as long as he wants to ride.
But wait, moving from Mongoose to GT is like taking a piss in the upstairs bathroom at Doral, right?
Whatever gets us more Akrigg videos in the world, full support.
We asked for Fabio’s videos to have a more humorous take on things and boy did that media team deliver.
The foley crunch noise dropped in over this shot was just magnificent:
In a related story, good to see Israel and Austria/Germany putting that whole silly beef behind them and collaborate on this sponsorship launch video.
Can’t wait to see what the Red Bull/Fabio squad that will release next that will surely have amazing riding and then leave us scratching our heads in confusion for other aspects.
Bernard Kerr won’t be in the big show at A1.
Literally no one could have seen this coming:
This post also prompted us to ask the question: Does Miss Cleo have a podcast?
Well, she died in 2016 so under cursory inspection, no, she currently does not have one. Rats.
Finn is seen here “earning a paycheck” by always making sure the logo is facing the camera. 
Obviously we just mocked Fabio for having whack product placement in his videos and we’ll stand by that. Mainly because this one of Finn is so egregiously obvious that they didn’t even have to include the clip where he says “Oh, maybe I should yart myth beanie off to the side so it’s right in the shot as a joke?”
Also left out of the video was the shot where he drives to the bank to deposit that sweet sweet Red Bull money.
Sometimes the venn diagram of looking silly and looking paid are heavy on the overlap. But Trivial approves of leaning into it.
Wonder if Red Bull takes as long as contractually possible to cut checks to their athletes the same as Media House do to their film crews?
Back in the early days of mountain biking during the early 1990s, the East Coast filed for and was granted a patent on having rocks on trails. That ownership hasn’t been thoroughly enforced over the last few decades in court, but one is legally required to mention how “rocky” the trails on the east coast are if a related subject is brought up, regardless of how much of a reach that tangent may be:
Tom’s not wrong. Backpacks do make for nice anti-beef protection. And he’s merely upholding the law in mentioning the fact that east coast trails are where rocks were invented. If you happen to find a rock on a trail anywhere else, it’s there purely by the grace of a licensing agreement.
Look, there is a LOT to love about Fabio Wibmer’s videos. But one of the things that does not get us pumped is that the sponsor plugs are always about as subtle as a hammer. Not since Spike Lee has anyone been so heavy handed with a message. And yeah, sometimes we need Spike Lee to slap us with a message as a society, but literally no one needs to have Conti tires suggested in such a BUY BUY BUY manner.
Every time it would just be more tolerable if Fabio’s videos would just lean into it with some humor:
While the rest of us are complaining about sore backs and creaky knees, Ali C is out there just getting better with age.
Always a cool feeling to know that no matter what, you’ll never be as good at riding a bike as some people. Lifetime pack fill. Best to accept this early and often.
Did y’all know that if you run a bike through some ink and then ghost ride it a bunch of times, you’ll eventually end up with promotional art from the J-Horror film The Grudge?
Now you know.
Pacific Cycles: Official Bicycle Brand Of The DUI:
And we all make mistakes. People with DUIs need to still get around, and go to work, and all that so this isn’t some mean spirited attempt to shit on everyone living through that.
Just show us someone riding that bike that isn’t down and out, ya know?
Chris Akrigg back at it again making all of us look like a bunch of god damn idiots.
We’ll go ahead and say an outlandish claim that he could probably make riding a unicycle look good if he really wanted to.
But he never would, because he’s got better things to do like destroy every bike in Mongoose’s catalog.
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