Must Watch: DJ Brandt, Hugo Frixtalon, & William Robert Ride Commencal's New Furious in 'The Calm Before the Storm'
Words: Commencal
Riders: DJ Brandt / Hugo Frixtalon / William Robert
Video: Léon Perrin
Photography: Jb Liautard
The Calm Before the Storm
Look at it, in the garage, with an air of California Dreamin’.
The elegance. With its new lines, even cleaner, more modern and vibrant.
You imagine being in the Alps, Utah or on the Sunshine Coast.
You think of a sunset, a light warm breeze or the sound of crashing waves.
Enjoy the calm. As long as there's still time.
Because once behind the handlebars you're not the same anymore!
You're launching into that freeride line you’ve always dreamt about.
Dirt is getting roosted and berms are being destroyed.
Finally after all this time, your whips look like whips.
You listen to Peewee Longway or Nekfeu in your headphones.
You feel powerful, unstoppable, fearless.
They say you have an insolence and arrogance about you.
That’s just how things are now.
This video represents weeks of organisation, discussion, filming and editing.
The finished product is 10 minutes long. So don’t be in a hurry to watch it.
Take 10 for yourself, turn the speaker on or put your headphones in.
On the biggest screen possible, launch the video.
And let yourself be swept up into the eye of the storm!
DJ Brandt - Colorado & Utah
Hugo Frixtalon - Sunshine Coast, BC
William Robert - Les 2 Alpes, France
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Frix has style for miles. And speed.
Definitely not enough of him in this vid.
And DJ segment - much better with mute...:p
Props for using Jose Feliciano (song) and La Haine (movie clip) in the intro!
(special props to dj brandt for that fakie 180 drop at 2min45)
And, nerding out aside, holy shit that was unreal. I thought the Slayer video with Carson, Vanderham, and Remi would be the best thing to come out this year, but this tops it. Amazing!
Wife had me try some Levis on at the mall for laughs and I'm pretty sure they are winter riding tights with denim dye & pockets stitched on. Felt no different. Then I can buy them for cold days instead of $120 set of lycra that have a bike brand on them.
40+ could be my age or waist, or both...
I’m thinking of selling my Process 153 yo get a Capra or AM.
Thoughts!
But... I am sitting and watching it with a F..g broken ankle.
It is a special version of a masochism ffs. :/
NVM - Sous Les Nuages by Kekteu
BRAVO!
love the downvotes from butthurt rap kids