All language subtitles for Strength in Numbers - Anthill (2012)

Who doesn't remember the first time that they rode
their bike without training wheels?

Doesn't matter where you come from or who you
are,

it's kind of the first taste of freedom.

Mountain biking for me is like building a
playground you can ride your bike on,

and you might interpret what mountain biking is
differently,

but you're still part of the revolution.

I think the whole event kind of gains momentum

up to the point where that final race on Sunday
afternoon,

and you burst into that finish, and suddenly you're
just hit

with just thousand s and thousands of people, you
know.

Crowds just going wild, you know.

I'm sure it's similar to walking out of a rock concert.

I'd love to be one of the people that's never been to
Fort William,

just turns up and sees the whole show there.

There's pushing 20,000 people there, all cheering
for mountain biking.

They're there just to watch the downhill race and
the four-cross race,

and that's a really special thing for the mountain
bike community.

Any ti m e you're racing in your own country, it's
pretty crazy.

For the Brits in Fort William, it's pretty wild.

It's definitely the most jam-packed, exciting race of
the year.

The buzz you get from the crowd, and knowing that

everyone's there supporting you no matter what
happens.

"The queen of Fort William is Tracy Moseley!"

You're a British rider and you win there,

it's absolutely an unreal feeling.

A good group of fans are there to watch the pure
breed of mountain biking.

Once you start to get some results and gain some
weight in the sport,

you kind of, you gather momentum, if you like.

I always wanted to win. I wouldn't settle for
anything else,

because I've competed against my brothers my
whole life,

and the whole of the mountain bike community
have got that same feeling.

My dad once said to me that, you know, he's never
experienced

such highs and such lows in such short spaces of
time as being a father to us.

It's just a natural progression

to grow into the mountain bike racing and the
downhill racing.

It was just kind of the way our lives happened to
fall, you know?

Yeah, there's a huge down side.

I don't enjoy being beaten at anything, really.

Beaten at foosball by my girlfriend sucks.

No one goes faster week in and week out than a
racer.

They've got to have the best product,

and that has a effect into the rest of mountain
biking.

All the changes we're making are tiny, minute,

but they've made a thousandths of a second
difference, which... that's all we need.

Crossing the finish line, turning around,

seeing the big green on the sign is, I guess, the
reward.

It's easy for the public to come along and get into it,
follow the sport, because it is pretty simple,

and the bigger mountain biking gets, pushed to the
masses,

it's only going to help the sport grow.

Utah's totally unique.

To mountain biking, in my eyes,
it is the best representative of free riding as a
discipline.

It's a lot different than, you know, nother racer
who's just fighting the clock.

Yeah, I definitely felt like it was about time
that I kind of stuck my feet in the soil here.

I always wanted to come,

and for me to, you know, really push the free ride
sce n e,

this is wh ere I need to be.

Now that I've been to Utah,

all those videos I've ever seen, I have way more
respect for it,

'cause this place...

it might look easy, and it might look fun, but it's not.

It's really hard to work with.

It is fun, but you've got to have respect for what's
going down here,

because you're not riding this every day.

Lots of guys can ride bikes, but what's totally
unique here

is the actual scoping of the line,

you need to have vision to see it in the hill.

It's still pure mountain biking, pure free-riding.

There's not very many places like that.

I've been coming here for ten years,
and it really is sort of a love-hate relationship.

The first thing that comes to mind.would be
nervous excitement.

It's awesome to come down here,

but I also know that at some point, I'm going to
scare myself a little bit.

It's your personal take on the terrain,

and your representation of...
of mountain biking and how you see it.

Travelling is getting out and exploring anyways,

and you take it to that next level by doing it with
your bike.

Just to get on the bike and go,

and I think I'm here with the best guy in the world
for that.

People say that Wade's reputation is that he tries to
get lost.

People want to travel with their bikes

because mountain biking's reached a point where
it's main stream.

Every place has, like, their local ripper.

My name is Ludo May.

I live in Villette, seven kilometres from Verbier.

If you're shredding with another biker, it doesn't
matter if you share a language.

You're sharing smiles, and you're gonna be
high-fiving.

To be able to go all these places and ride, and make
friends there,

makes the world seem small.

For me, it's not all about the trail,

it's about where that trail is, or getting to that trail.

That valley was ultra-sick.

"What's over the next valley?" "Can we ride down
into town?"

It's at 1600 metres. 1600 more metres to the oceans.

You're in these cool mountain towns, and there's
trails everywhere,

and the more ways people see that they can ride
their bike, the better.

If you enjoy mountain biking,

you can see the fun in every single one of the
different ways of doing it.

... I don' t know a single person

that could ever look at somebody dirt-jumping and
say that doesn't look fun.

You all right?

You can do back-flips!

This has been peoples' lives, this little lot.

This is where we met our closest friends.

This is where we found our purpose.

Like, it definitely has been the building blocks for
everything we're doing right now.

It started with one jump, then there was another off
the side,

then there was two in a row, and then it just kind of
grew.

We would go trail-ride for a couple hours,

and then jump until it got dark,

and that was where our parents would pick us up
after school.

It was just...the meeting spot.

Having the crew to ride with is one of the biggest
things about it,

and the fact we were all there, we knew to meet
there every day,

it was just like guys meeting for baseball practice or
whatever, you know?

Like, just the same thing, but we weren't into being
on a team.

Every evening, there was five, six kids here on
mountain bikes,

building bigger jumps so we could go faster,

until the point w here we had to start at the very top
of the hill,

and once we started doing really cool stuff,

we knew that we could put the roller blades, the
skateboards,

the baseball bats, the basketballs away,

because we'd found our sport.

They were going to get torn down a long time ago,

but Barry Swenson is a developer, and he sold the
property to the county.

They just lease it to them super-cheap so they can
make it a park.

It's cool that they let us build

and do whatever we want for the time we have left.

Just because this place is getting torn down,

it won't stop us from doing what we love.

It's Aptos. We ride bikes.

We don't do anything else.

We'll keep it a live, for sure.

Like, if I was little, thinking,

"One day, these are going to be the coolest jumps
ever."

It was always just, "Oh, yeah, this is our jump spot."

Last year when I was here, there was nine different
countries here.

People come from all over the world to ride here

just 'cause it's such a good spot.

People tell you when you're in school

and you're skipping homework and leaving early

to come ride Post Office jumps,

that's a bad idea, you'll wake up one day

and think, "I shouldn't have spent so much time on
my bike.

I should have got better grades, gone to college,
got a job,"

but sure seem s to be working out pretty darn well
for everybody.

Just hangout there,

you can't help but become a better rider at Post
Office.

Nobody rides here alone. We all ride together.

The best way to finish it off would be a train that is
still going

by the time the last person drops in.

My dream is that dirt would fall like snow does,

and we could just sculpt everything.

I wish it never began. I wi shit didn't even exist.

I can't wait to put my bike on the chairlift,

back to the life that I want to lead, day one.

It's the opening day of the Whistler bike Park.

The beginning of summer, officially.

It's like Christmas, the night before Christmas,

when you can't sleep, you're just waiting.

I feel like I have to be here in the summer.

I have to ride the bike park.

I'd probably go crazy if I was elsewhere.

A ski bum, or a bike bum,

is someone that feels so passionately about that
sport

that's w hat they do every day, that's what they're
known for.

If I'm known for riding my bike, I'm fine with that.

There's hundreds of people that live here

that feel the same way about it,

thousands of people that visit here that feel the
same way I do.

I'd just say passionate.

Our local cycling club is thousands of members in a
town with 10,000 people.

The local talent is crazy.

I'll meet someone new every year

that I want to ride with, that is an absolute shredder,

and I love that about here.

I think very few people realize how big a contrast
there is in Nepal

from 71 metres above sea level, the lowest place in
Nepal,

to 8,850, the top of world on Everest, right?

You have every climate zone imaginable,

from subtropical to, you know, fully arctic.

There's a diverse group of people here

that are totally passionate about mountain biking

that want to share it with the world, basically.

In ever forget my first no-footer can-can.

Mountain biking was where it was for us,

then suddenly it became something else.

You see places you've never been to, and people
you meet,

and the reaction they have when you're cycling,

I think we've shown that mountain biking is a
lifestyle, you know,

and we want to build on that as a community.

It is like going to the moon for most people.

You know, it's t hat different to what they're used to.

However, if you have the right guidance, it can be a
great ride,

where you see the biggest mountains on the
planet,

ride some really nice trails,

and learn about a new culture at least every day.

When you're on 4,000 metres, then you look up to
these 8,000-metre - high mountains, it's incredible.

In Switzerland, I'm on the top of a mountain, and
there's nothing else.

Climbing up these passes that are 12,000 to 15,000
feet,

and it's hard, you can barely catch your breath,

but then being rewarded with this descent that just
continues for, like, thousands of vertical feet.

In a relatively few years, say five, six,

the numbers have probably gone up tenfold in
terms of riders in Nepal,

and if we can keep that going, it'll be a pretty good
scene in a few years.

Probably everybody borrows a little bit

from the strong points of other communities,

and uses that for inspiration for their own riding.

I just love to hear that people know about
Kam loops,

and recognize the scene that we have here.

To look at something and be like, "I think you don't
need brakes to ride that,"

there's, like, the acceleration,

and then you're in a different... you're in a different
world.

I think that Gnarcroft is the wildest trail in the world,
for sure.

The people that came together to build that trail,

the goal that those guys had, and what they
wanted to create,

I've never seen anything quite like it.

The size and the speed of the jumps from the
grasslands have invaded the forest.

Your heart's just givin' 'er, but you have the biggest
smile,

and the biggest high-fives at the bottom, too.

Like, for me and, like, a handful of dudes here,

like, the trail is all-time.

Trails are mountain biking.

That's why we have mountain bikes.

That's what they're for.

The best thing you can do is go ride a trail.

I've been riding this stuff for so long, my friends, this
is what they ride.

There's no place that I'd rather be.

I'll never leave the scene.

It's just a part of me.

I'll be riding till I can't ride anymore, that's for sure.

Riding the trail, you definitely get a feel for who that.
person is,

how they envision mountain biking.

We owe it to trail-builders

for every smile they put on our face when we ride
our bike.

Well, there's a big movement to get out and build
tra il.

I mean, people see the potential in their own
backyards now,

and they'll pick up a shovel, and they'll move dirt
until...

you know, their vision is a reality.

No, I'll do it too, man. I can do that.

Do the whole thing?

It's going to be the worst shot ever.

Whoa, yeah, slow.

Just a couple of guys.

Just a couple guys hanging out.

You guys doing some travelling?

Shoulder hopping?

I shouldn't accentuate it.

Darren, did you get that?

4:20.

Seriously?

Hanging out...

Another valley.

All relaxed, and--

...it comes from here.

I don't want to leave my coffee here.

Do you think I could flip the jump with this coffee in
my mouth?

I don't know how I'm going to breathe, though.

Through your nose?

Here we go. Yeah, through my nose.

Coffee in the mouth.

Dude...

My name is Mujir.

My nickname is called "Snow monkey."

I don't know, where are we going with this?

P-Card? That's bull.

Oh, man...

And again, I will take that P-Card,

because that pisses me off that I actually didn't see that.

But, you know, if you guys think I deserve that belt, then I'll take it.