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Behold! The musings of Folklore Brand, Great Britain. Wilderness, myth & legend. Air, sea and land.

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After all things BMX and motorbike last couple of weeks, I managed to get out on the singletrack this morn. Found some new fun routes, sent a few jumps and got yet another puncture in the exact same section I do every damn week. Fun mind! #ridethemall #folklorebrand #profileracing #coticbfe #haldonforest

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Die cut radness. Available on Saturday at the jam while stocks last! #folklorebrand #decoytrailsjam @decoytrailsjam2015 #profileracing

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Rad to catchup with @kyeforte and @gem40 at the Little Silver MX races last week. #mx #littlesilver #patchquickcup

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@matt_coplon throwing himself down some Milwaukee stairs / rail. Killer. #folklorebrand #decobmx #profileracing

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Sudden death. #tbt My first ever folklore brand tshirt still holding up to daily abuse. I know we're not exactly prolific but hey... #folklorebrand #silentspring #peregrinefalcon

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The Følklore Brand of Fire #folklorebrand

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After a full on weekend of blasting motorcycles around Epping Forest it is back on the tools to make money for the next trip. Cheers @mallelondon for the invite, nice meet to everyone else involved. @amadzersen @lakedistrictmedia #folklorebrand #woodworkers

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Really looking forward to a summer in the woods this year. #folklorebrand

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Roots

I am sure I am not alone in the fact my journey through a life with bikes started with getting out with a shovel and building your own fun. I think it was the first discernible step that took you away from the ‘normal’ kids. Paul Langland’s new series – The Hills celebrates the honestly of a shovel and dirt in a way only he a few others can.

    Roots was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Ghosts of an industrial past #folklorebrand

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Return to Del Mar

Flat Track – Return to Del Mar by Adi Gilbert

Return to Del Mar is a flat track race this month in Cali brought to you by IVLFT.com and Roland Sands Design. I did this poster for them as part of my day job (99seconds.com), you’ll spot the folklore logo if you look. Flat Track rules.

Return to Del Mar was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Chopcult

Zach Kolodziejski’s Heavy Heads show has a great write up on chop cult. Stoked a photo of our Folklore “Truce” Biltwell lid is amongst the throng.

Truce by Adi Gilbert / Folklore. Photo: Dan Venditto

Chopcult was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Bristol's Boxing Day Steps Ride

Every Boxing Day a handful of Bristol’s mountain bikers gather by the water tower on the Downs, braving the weather, shrugging off the gluttony and the resulting lethargy from previous day’s excesses and make their way downhill towards the center via numerous flights of steps.  I have wanted to join this time honoured tradition, reputably dating back as far as 1989, for years and this year finally got the chance.

Oiler; the facilitator for this years ride.

Quarry Steps.

I was the only one stupid enough to ride these this year, put it down to inexperience. Whilst almost being bucked over the bars half way down I discovered why others don’t bother riding this irregular and steep flight.

  Big T waiting for his turn down a tight techy set.

  Off piste.

  Captain Oiler mid flight.

  Murray tackles a tricky flight.

  Temps pops out into the light whilst Murray keeps the tramps at bay.

  Coffee stop.

  Cam – Original step rider. Came along on his cross bike this year to watch it all happen.

  Run what ya brung.

  Going back up – MBUK chop hop style.

Bristol’s Boxing Day Steps Ride was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Gladys Ingle of the 13 Black Cats

  ‘The ’13 Black Cats’ were a company of flamboyant Los Angeles-based stunt pilots who defied both superstition and the odds on survival at Burdette Airport, Los Angeles in the 1920’s. – Gladys Ingle was famous for shooting arrows at a target while standing on the top wing of a Curtiss Jenny’ – Source

Gladys Ingle of the 13 Black Cats was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Space.

I love star gazing. Nothing quite like it for a truly humbling experience but sometimes it seems so utterly massive it scares me, so it nice to simply take a step back a revel in the sheer majesty and beauty of universe.

This video from French film maker Guillaume Juin celebrates some spectacular images shot on board International Space Station.

  Astronaut – A journey to space from Guillaume JUIN on Vimeo.

Some words from the film maker about the film;

What does astronaut see from up there? From the red soil of africa, the blue water of oceans, to the green lights of the poles and yellow light of human activity, discover, throught this journey to space, something astoundingly beautiful and strange at the same time. I wanted to do something different from what has been done before with those shots. Something more dynamic and fast. After all, ISS travel through space at 28.000km/h! There are also more recent footage that have never been used (at least I think…) in other edits. All the credit goes to the crew members of ISS expeditions 28, 29, 30, 31, 34, shot from 2011 to 2014. The international Space Station weigh 377 tons, orbits the earth at around 350km from the surface, and does one spin around the earth in 1h30, at 28.000k/h! At 1’11 we can see a little refueling shuttle desintegrating back to earth. At 1’20, it’s an Orbital Science’s Cygnus Orb-2 spacecraft that is launched into orbit. The little green and purple lights you can see at 1’57 are respectively fishing boats and oil platforms offshore with the big city of Bangkok nearby.

Space. was originally published on FOLKLORE

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Jimmy Chin - National Geographic

– Photography by Jimmy Chin.

National Geographic have recently posted a wonderful feature on a collection of their photographers ‘Give Thanks for the Photos That Changed Them’ – Go peep HERE

This what one of my favourites, Jimmy Chin, had to say about the photograph posted above:

I shot this image of Galen Rowell in 2002 on my first National Geographic expedition crossing the Chang Tang Plateau of Tibet with Galen, Rick Ridgeway, and Conrad Anker. Galen was a hero of mine. I never imagined I would get to meet or work with him, much less go on an expedition with him. We spent a month tracking the endangered Chiru and successfully discovered their birthing grounds, which we aimed to document and protect from poachers. We were completely exhausted from hauling 200-pound rickshaws over 300 miles at more than 17,000 feet. Looking at the map, we still had over 100 miles to go over the Kun Lun mountains to get to our pick-up point up. True to form, on our way out, Galen looked up at the biggest mountain in the range and said, “Let’s go climbing!” I was sure I had misheard him, but I hadn’t. We changed trajectory and headed towards a huge unnamed, unclimbed 20,000 foot-plus peak. After two days of climbing, I burrowed through the summit cornice and happened to see Galen coming up the ridge another way. I barely got the camera out in time to snap this quick shot of Galen, in his element, stomping up the mountain. We climbed the mountain, named it Chiru Peak, and eventually made it back to civilization. Sadly, Galen died a couple months after the expedition in a plane crash. I was devastated that my mentor and new friend was gone. National Geographic decided to use this photo as his tribute photo, and it became my first spread in the magazine. I felt like the photo was his last gift to me and seemed to be the closing of a circle. I was sad Galen never got to see the story or my image published but the Chang Tang expedition, my time with Galen and this photo, changed the course of my career. I have much to be thankful for.—Jimmy Chin

Jimmy Chin – National Geographic was originally published on FOLKLORE

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It's raining out

So fucking what. Get on with it. You will happier for it.

It’s raining out was originally published on FOLKLORE