Author Topic: Road Bike Party (Read 7476 times)

gostwyck · « **on:** October 12, 2012, 16:12 »

Martyn Ashton takes his new $16K carbon road bike for an extreme spin around Britain. The bike, a Pinarella Dogma, was as ridden by Bradley Wiggins whilst winning the 2012 Tour de France. Cracking camera work too.


Martyn Ashton - Road Bike Party

rubyroo · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2012, 17:33 »

I was speechless watching that, apart from 'Wow!' and 'Woah!' (often!)

Amazing.

MicrostockExp · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2012, 21:09 »

Speechless, never saw something like that with a road bike, thanks for sharing

leaf · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2012, 03:58 »

crazy!

qwerty · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2012, 04:01 »

I wonder how many wheels he broke during the filming. Super heavy strong mountain bike wheels break even with suspension.

gostwyck · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2012, 16:27 »

Quote from: qwerty on October 15, 2012, 04:01

I wonder how many wheels he broke during the filming. Super heavy strong mountain bike wheels break even with suspension.

Indeed. Makes me wonder who paid for it all? It was filmed at several locations (with several cameras at each), over a few days of decent weather and must have required a budget of say $50K+. Most of the stunts would have taken several takes to pull off so smoothly and, as you say, would probably have required the back-up of a van fully loaded with spare bikes, components and a mechanic to fit them.

Maybe Pinarello paid for it all and what we are really viewing is an extraordinary advertisement for the Dogma 2. Even if it cost them $150K it would have been cheap. They've already had nearly 5M pairs of eye-balls on YouTube.

The overturned gravel truck that he passed at 2.15 happened in Bristol on 6th September.

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/Bristol-city-centre-gridlocked-gravel-lorry/story-16846553-detail/story.html

The railway bridge is also in Bristol. The wooden wall at 3.54 is at Sandbanks in Dorset (about 3 miles from where I live) and then he goes along the seafront to Bournemouth where he bunny-hops down the cliff retaining wall which is unnervingly high. The golf course at 4.30 was I think either Weymouth or Came Down, probably the latter. I played them both this year and they are quite similar so I struggle to remember which was which from the view.

click_click · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2012, 22:08 »

Yeah, looks like a long commercial that's it.

Nicely executed to entertain the masses. It's called creating brand awareness - marketing 101.

Nice camera work. Too lazy to check right now but is there a making of?

This here is basically the same thing for DC Shoes. May I present Ken Block:


DC SHOES: KEN BLOCK'S GYMKHANA FIVE: ULTIMATE URBAN PLAYGROUND; SAN FRANCISCO

gostwyck · « **Reply #7 on:** October 16, 2012, 13:07 »

^^^ Incredible driving that! Beats me how they got the authorities to provide closed roads in the middle of SF for 4 days, even if it was at 4am (judging by the clock they drove past).

No 'making of' for Road Bike Party, at least yet. They obviously went to a lot of trouble editing such an incredible sequence of shots so I can't see them destroying the myth they have created.

click_click · « **Reply #8 on:** October 16, 2012, 13:29 »

Quote from: gostwyck on October 16, 2012, 13:07

... Beats me how they got the authorities to provide closed roads in the middle of SF for 4 days, ...

$$$

It's really not that much of a secret. Here in South Florida film productions constantly require road closures, despite creating major traffic chaos and cursing drivers.

They just have to pay the city handsomely plus their little city name will occur in the description and credits widening their marketing efforts in terms of branding themselves.

It's just a big cirucs, no one "needs" to race through a city. It's just so extraordinary because they can make it happen as DC Shoes pumped enough money into the whole project.

Btw, this was only one of many episodes that Ken Block did for DC shoes and frankly I don't even like this one too much. Some of the previous ones are more breath taking IMO. Google it and judge for yourself.

gostwyck · « **Reply #9 on:** October 23, 2012, 14:58 »

Here's the outtakes video. Amazingly the Road Bike Party video was filmed with just one bike, one set of wheels ... and just the one puncture;


Martyn Ashton - Road Bike Party "The Outtakes"

RacePhoto · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2012, 01:33 »

Quote from: gostwyck on October 16, 2012, 13:07

^^^ Incredible driving that! Beats me how they got the authorities to provide closed roads in the middle of SF for 4 days, even if it was at 4am (judging by the clock they drove past).

No 'making of' for Road Bike Party, at least yet. They obviously went to a lot of trouble editing such an incredible sequence of shots so I can't see them destroying the myth they have created.

Enjoyed both the road bike videos.

Nash Bridges and many other shows were shot on the streets of San Francisco. Just what someone else said. Money talks and film crews pay well to use those streets. You remember Bullitt right?

Two weeks of shooting, not continuous or all day every day, but two weeks. One of my favorites, Mad Mad Mad Mad world was filmed there also.