Film pearl: Chainsmoke - Full throttle in 1996 | Ride MTB

Film pearl: Chainsmoke - Full throttle in 1996

Fluttering shirts, narrow handlebars, little suspension travel, but plenty of speed. This is how the film Chainsmoke sums up the state of mountain biking in the mid-nineties. Cross country, downhill, dirt jumps and the first attempts at freeriding coexist peacefully. The action and especially the tricks are no longer quite as spectacular from today's perspective, but in terms of speed and risk-taking, the class of 1996 has nothing to hide from its modern-day successors.

The Chainsmoke producers also made no compromises when it came to the music: the guitars have hardly ever cut through the brain more beautifully. Faith no More, downset and other HC greats from back then let it rip. In addition, the heroes of the time burn across the screen: Shaun Palmer, Missy Giove, Tinker Juarez and more. Freestyle motocross pioneer Mike Metzger can be seen as a young daredevil on a mountain bike. The film, shot on 16 millimetre film, was recently re-digitized and made available to the mountain biking community sitting at home on YouTube.


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