I wonder who did it, took over, and now is producing their second
video, "Roam".
http://www.thecollectivefilm.com/roam/index_roam.html
Put it this way folks, I've seen many of the videos out there, and none
of them have compared to "The Collective", still.
In this video, a guy does a 60 foot jump off the side of a mountain,
over a road with traffic, lands it perfectly, and still romps on.
What's better about The Collective than the other videos, is that "The
Collective" albeit pros, they're not making the video geared for
racing, or racers. It's about the spirit of riding, and being in
nature.
So, the way I detected someone connected to me, or interested in
stealing my life from me has taken over "The collective", is that they
intensified the focus for the nature of riding and being out in nature
(my exact discontent is being appeased), on the mountains for the
scenery, while pushing it to the edge.
I think I'm very accurate in saying that the weak following MTBing has
still today, is due to the media being geared for racers, stylists, &
extremists. Although in "The collective" the guys were doing
"extremist" level riding, it wasn't alienating the non-expert riders
because it was all on normal trails & mountains, and none of it was
close captioned to racers & racing. So again, those whom have saw "The
Collective" weren't pushed away although it was highly advanced riding.
The reports in the latest MTBing magazines indicated "Roam" is going to
be geared for the "everyday common rider", mostly singletrack riders,
which is the lot of us who don't race.
Getting non-MTBers into MTBing is going to require videos that don't
focus on the formal cliques such as racing, and just being out in
nature, and I think this video will be the example to start the trend
which will lead more non-MTBers into the sport/recreation. The more
MTBers we have, the more power we have over land management and trail
access. That's the main point of me talking here.