LIFE CYCLES
Title: Life Cycles
Running Time: 35 minutes
Created by: Derek Frankowski & Ryan Gibb
A Stance Films Production
“Balance a bike right, keep the pedals turning, forget about everything except right now and there’s no place you can’t ride” – this film will prove that to you. There are no boundaries when it comes to seeking and building new trails that will push the mountain bike and mountain biker to its limits and sometimes beyond, leaving both man and machine broken. Although the ride may come to an end, ‘Life Cycles’ shows that there is always a way to pick it back up and begin again. The cycle will always continue.
Featuring world class riders such as Brandon Semenuk and Mike Hopkins from British Columbia, ‘Life Cycles’ is not just about capturing those thrilling downhill moments. This film evokes the harmony between the bike and the earth, a harmony that is only achieved when the “human motor” starts the ride. Nature responds to the bike as it flies through dirt and trees, the seasons blending into one another as the rider makes his mark. Beautiful, colourful and elegant, this action sport takes on the qualities of life itself – its ebb and flow, its ups and downs and its beginnings and ends.
Film-maker Ryan Gibb and photographer Derek Frankowski created this mountain biking masterpiece, which has gone on to win a string of awards including Best Film at this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. One of the most aesthetic bike movies to date, the vast golden fields and bare mountain tracks provide the perfect backdrop to the incredible stunts and skills displayed by the riders.
For these guys, mountain biking isn’t just a way of life – it is life.
Did you know?
Brandon Semenuk was just 14 when he gave up mountain bike racing to pursue a career as a freestyle rider.
Markus ‘Hercules’ Stoeckl holds the world speed record for downhill mountain biking on snow – he reached a top speed of 130.7mph in 2007.
Stoeckl also set the record for serial mountain bikes on gravel in 2011 when he hit 102.5mph on the side of a volcano in Nicaragua.
Featuring world class riders such as Brandon Semenuk and Mike Hopkins from British Columbia, ‘Life Cycles’ is not just about capturing those thrilling downhill moments. This film evokes the harmony between the bike and the earth, a harmony that is only achieved when the “human motor” starts the ride. Nature responds to the bike as it flies through dirt and trees, the seasons blending into one another as the rider makes his mark. Beautiful, colourful and elegant, this action sport takes on the qualities of life itself – its ebb and flow, its ups and downs and its beginnings and ends.
Film-maker Ryan Gibb and photographer Derek Frankowski created this mountain biking masterpiece, which has gone on to win a string of awards including Best Film at this year’s Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival. One of the most aesthetic bike movies to date, the vast golden fields and bare mountain tracks provide the perfect backdrop to the incredible stunts and skills displayed by the riders.
For these guys, mountain biking isn’t just a way of life – it is life.
Did you know?
Brandon Semenuk was just 14 when he gave up mountain bike racing to pursue a career as a freestyle rider.
Markus ‘Hercules’ Stoeckl holds the world speed record for downhill mountain biking on snow – he reached a top speed of 130.7mph in 2007.
Stoeckl also set the record for serial mountain bikes on gravel in 2011 when he hit 102.5mph on the side of a volcano in Nicaragua.
