There's a video accompanying the new Focus 'Atlas' gravel/adventure/bikepacking bike.

Thought you lot would enjoy the marketing wordsmithery in it

https://youtu.be/C9N-R73HBug

(And it must all be true as they've got a northerner narrating)

If they'd just turn down the pretentious b*llo©KS it'd be a nice enough advert.

So embarassingly bad I almost had to hide behind the sofa.

woodsmith wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:24 pm So embarassingly bad I almost had to hide behind the sofa.

Oh my. Now I really want to see it, but I also don't...

Indeed that is top class bollox. Tells you nowt about owt and makes no sense whatsoever ... outstanding result all round

I quite fancy some of that riding though.

Nice camera work / views. Narration just odd or maybe an example of the purest wibble

I do wonder which one of them had the worst farts and therefore was consigned to the tent and whether this was the same individual throughout the trip or rotated for the person suffering the worst digestive disruption from that days boil-in-the-bag meal

It’s either satire or a trailer for a much longer film or they’re trying to replicate a car advert (why do car adverts show everything but the car...?!)

Best of all a Julie Elliott film came on afterwards to balance things out

I was really expecting to see some zoomed in shots of a dangling mug! Raa raa raa

Total w@nk Move along. Move along. Nothing to see here

Stu ... Jeebus H Chreest you and the swear filter ... I go go feck feck feck fuckitty feck feck feck,, but I can't go shuffle

I tried to keep up with what he was talking about but failed miserably, turned the volume down and it was much better!
Would love to go riding like that at the moment though with a few friends.
I cant remember the last time I went to Wales to ride my bike

I liked that.

For those that don't know, that's the area around Loch Ossian/Loch Treig - the old "Road to The Isles".

I liked that.

Any particular incoherent cliche you liked best Colin?

Cheeky Monkey wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:04 pm Narration just odd or maybe an example of the purest wibble

I think that's what the youngsters call 'rap' up there north of the border....

A bikepacker doing wheelies? Per-lease!

I must have missed the bit with them sitting round the huge campfire though . If it wasn't there at least that's a huge step forward!

Standard car advert stuff as Voodoo says. Whatever.

You’ve all got it wrong, pure comedy and obviously quite intentionally so

RIP wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 9:56 pm A bikepacker doing wheelies? Per-lease!

Yeah, who'd do such a thing, eh?

Wasn't that the bunch who rode round Ossian / Rannoch / Ericht that had a film out last year? They back tracked the road to the isles about three times and did the trail across the bottom of loch Ericht and nearly disappeared into the swamp....

PS. I'm a bikepacker and I do wheelies....

And that is not a northern accent.
Says Yorkshireman.

Landslide wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:06 pm Yeah, who'd do such a thing

Phil wrote: and I do wheelies

Any particular incoherent cliche you liked best Colin

Applause
I zoned out totally and just looked at the pretty pictures god I miss proper bikes rides

It kind of feels like it may have been tounge in cheek.

If that's what they meant, well done. If not, I hope the makers can laugh at themselves.

Fun all the same.

Well the advert must be working to some extent because even though there is a bloke with a sore throat spouting cac, it got us all looking at it and I had no idea that Focus made those bikes before.

Not that I would buy one mind.

htrider wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:13 pm PS. I'm a bikepacker and I do wheelies....

I'm a bikepacker and like to try doing unsuccessful wheelies

benp1 wrote: ↑Thu Jan 14, 2021 12:02 pm

htrider wrote: ↑Wed Jan 13, 2021 10:13 pm PS. I'm a bikepacker and I do wheelies....

I'm a bikepacker and like to try doing unsuccessful wheelies

Probably the single most important reason for balancing the weight correctly between bar-harness and saddle-pack; too much weight up front = no wheelie, too much weight out back = oops, I'm off again This should be on the very first page of how-to-pack-your-bikepacking-bags in Stu's forthcoming book

I’ve never managed to master wheelies, I tell myself that they are silly etc and I don’t care but I really do

The strange thing is I spent much of my life riding a motorcycle on the back wheel. I’d drop the clutch if needed, catch it on the back brake and then go through the box, I’d go round corners on one wheel, one handed, with my feet over the handlebars, standing on the seat etc.
Still can’t do it on a push bike, I’d assumed it a transferable skill but no, I’ve given up long ago as it’s just embarrassing.