Drop Season 4 Preview

[jabez]

There is a preview of the upcoming season of dropin up on vorb now.

Shows some of the excelent riding in the Queenstown area of New Zealand.

See the video here: http://www.*************/ftopict-29976.html

[dead_sailor]

it looks like bearclaw is the only rider there with a bag of tricks =S

[allex]

that really sucked.

[g1mpy]

its not workin for me.. :S

[.243racer]

those were pretty big.

that guy seemed pissed at darren.

[Dan0]

yah seems alittle clash between darren and that other guy

[M@M]

lemme see...the guy asks for darrens advice, darren gives his opinion. guy takes that into account, takes his own abilities into account, abilities which he knows better than darren. comes up short, blames darren for giving his opinion. uhhh...i think the guy is just a little ticked that he didnt do what he wanted to, but what somebody else suggested.

[Rida Guy]

It is impossible to give somebody else perfect speed advice from watching them run in on a never before tested jump. Everybody jumps different and everyones bike jumps different, like Darren said bikes with big squish set soft will of course absorb more of the lip and give you less height and distance.
What a wanker for getting mad at Darren, he was only trying to help.
No one ever knows for sure until they jump.

[Shocker]

that guy was a pussy

[Jamie_k]

The fall didnt even look that bad. Plus its not like he came up that short. All and all I think there were to many 1 handers.

Jamie

[the flying moose]

dropin 4??? i didnt even know there was a dropin 3.

[.Robinson]

pretty big line,coulda been a few more 1 handers though

[allex]

dropin 4??? i didnt even know there was a dropin 3.

1st had shawn denny
2nd had jared jessperson
3rd had cam mcaul

[WBC]

that guy was a pussy


seriously that guy was a bitch. it wasnt even a bad crash or that much risk involved in the jump itself - plus he didnt even try to pop it. darren should whoop his ass for those comments!

[Marsenault]

yeah that was some bullshit he was saying. he should know if he can do something or not. and 12" of rear suspension.....he deserves to case. and his comment about darren not being all that great and him expecting more was pretty lame too. but all in all that place loosk like sooo much fun to ride.

[Chunk]

that guy was a pussy

No shit man, nobody knows you better than yourself. I think darren was just trying to be encouraging. Half the battle of any stunt is the mental game.

[2 six stallion]

i listened to claw once and broke my gooch, fuck that guy. The one handers got me pumped to ride, and if you didnt already know spangler was old u do now

[slang]

i'm not with the guy on his little case and priss fight with darren, but his comments on darren doing only a one footed table are legit. these are supposed to be the best riders in the world and there were so many straight airs in that vid it was silly. What's worst is that they (or darren) have the ability to launchh it huge and do massive tricks (at least take your hands off the bars?) but they just choose not to. I dont want to pay good money on a dvd to watch "the best riders in the world" straight air a bunch of gaps.

Put your riding on the line because you're representing for all of us, and your sponsers, and the people who look up to you, and ESPECIALLY the guys out there who have the ability but dont have the opportunity. And if given the chance, they will prove themselves more worthy of being able to fly across the world to ride those trails.

Wow this gets me so riled up everytime it's ridiculous. If bmx pros (no matter how old or established) were launching lame tricks/straight airs after being flown halfway across the world, they're sponsers would drop them before you can say oyster. It's too bad the same doesnt happen for mtn. biking. the riding's better at my local skatepark than on dvds off the shelf... and that's pretty sad.

[schoenrock]

its not workin for me.. :S
me neither, literally.

[Jay T.]

that stuff is pretty large, i think tricks off it would be limtied due to the high speed factor but thats just my opinion...as for the guy saying its daren's fault he got hurt...c'mon if you cant judge something on your own you shouldnt be doing it, thats like when n00bs ask what to do off a drop

[Chunk]

that stuff is pretty large, i think tricks off it would be limtied due to the high speed factor but thats just my opinion...as for the guy saying its daren's fault he got hurt...c'mon if you cant judge something on your own you shouldnt be doing it, thats like when n00bs ask what to do off a drop

thats what i was thinking. Not that i would know from personal experience though.

Those arent the kind of jumps you can do backflips on. Maybe a superman seat grab is possible or somthing similar in simplicity, but at those speeds, i wouldnt even be sure about that.

[Professor Frink]

i'm not with the guy on his little case and priss fight with darren, but his comments on darren doing only a one footed table are legit. these are supposed to be the best riders in the world and there were so many straight airs in that vid it was silly. What's worst is that they (or darren) have the ability to launchh it huge and do massive tricks (at least take your hands off the bars?) but they just choose not to. I dont want to pay good money on a dvd to watch "the best riders in the world" straight air a bunch of gaps.

Put your riding on the line because you're representing for all of us, and your sponsers, and the people who look up to you, and ESPECIALLY the guys out there who have the ability but dont have the opportunity. And if given the chance, they will prove themselves more worthy of being able to fly across the world to ride those trails.

Wow this gets me so riled up everytime it's ridiculous. If bmx pros (no matter how old or established) were launching lame tricks/straight airs after being flown halfway across the world, they're sponsers would drop them before you can say oyster. It's too bad the same doesnt happen for mtn. biking. the riding's better at my local skatepark than on dvds off the shelf... and that's pretty sad.

Agreed. The jumps may have been big and required a lot of speed, but to only do some tables on it was lame. Berrecloth is the guy who 360s off drops, tailwhips dirtjumps, no foot cans the curb, etc. He could have pulled out something bigger. He can thrive in MTB, but obviously not in BMX.

[Death Lens]

meh. that track looks like fun. i agree...lots of straight airs and slo-mo 16mm straight airs.

[Jay T.]

kinda pisses me off that guy saying darren only did a one foot table when he was doing one handers, spanglers style is soo nice i dont even care if he is doing tricks, but like the one guy said they were all tired and hungry, that could have been a factor in the limited tricks on big airs..lets not forget when you see guys ride in movies and trick stuff they usually have hit it before, i noticed drop-in likes to show the first attemt at a stunt alot which is usually a little tweek or straight air

[counterpoint]

holy sour grapes kiwi. You can totally tell his bike had ZERO pop off the lip and sucked it all up. Then blames someone else? There goes any inkling of a career he may have thought of...

Why so much of the same footage though?

[Rida Guy]

i'm not with the guy on his little case and priss fight with darren, but his comments on darren doing only a one footed table are legit. these are supposed to be the best riders in the world and there were so many straight airs in that vid it was silly. What's worst is that they (or darren) have the ability to launchh it huge and do massive tricks (at least take your hands off the bars?) but they just choose not to. I dont want to pay good money on a dvd to watch "the best riders in the world" straight air a bunch of gaps.

Put your riding on the line because you're representing for all of us, and your sponsers, and the people who look up to you, and ESPECIALLY the guys out there who have the ability but dont have the opportunity. And if given the chance, they will prove themselves more worthy of being able to fly across the world to ride those trails.

Wow this gets me so riled up everytime it's ridiculous. If bmx pros (no matter how old or established) were launching lame tricks/straight airs after being flown halfway across the world, they're sponsers would drop them before you can say oyster. It's too bad the same doesnt happen for mtn. biking. the riding's better at my local skatepark than on dvds off the shelf... and that's pretty sad.

Hmm no one complained when Dave Watson did bar turns on this exact same
line in NWD 5. Come on peopl these are some very large moves I am quite happy seeing them styling it up and landing smoothly. MTB'ing is not all about tricks, this is not a slopestyle comp , this is reality tv.

[Jonathon_M_BC]

It was cool to watch. Would have been better to see Darren bust out his bag of tricks but its all good. Looked fun to ride. Does anybody know the name of the song that they play during the big stuff?

[Taylor_P]

those lines were pretty huge. maybe busting tricks over that road gap would be a bit hard but the first 2 jumps looked like the kind you find in the bone yard.

[dawnchairy]

It was like watching a record skip. Same stuff again and again, and again, and... Watching 30 minutes of that would be agony. Great riders, lousy trailer.

[hobo man]

that guy was such a bitch, i can' t belive it

[Emmens]

that guy sucks balls the claw should have shit kicked him when he was bitching about darren only doing 1 footed tables.

[Jonathon_M_BC]

I think he was just pissed about putting his trust in someone else but himself. He went on what Darren said and not how he felt. Its his own fault but Darren thought he could have made it, it was just his opinion.

[hellionflyer]

the guy needs a smack on the head darren had it right.

[desson]

so, where were the tricks?

[Jonathon_M_BC]

It was cool to watch. Would have been better to see Darren bust out his bag of tricks but its all good. Looked fun to ride. Does anybody know the name of the song that they play during the big stuff?

Anybody?

[pdirt]

Catfight on Rennie...

the Claw ownz

"his bike has like 12 inches of rear travel...so.."

Spangler is teh shizzle

[onepunch]

Those are HUGE friggen lines. I think every one is getting a little desesitized to how big those gaps, and drops are. Tricks? how about surviving the drop, and hitting it again and again with out hesitating, or spilling. Any one who thinks that a 360 or a back flip off of lines the first day they ride it is being unrealistic. There is more speed there than any where on the crankworks course for sure. I think The dude complaining about DB was putting urealistic blame on him. Bearclaw questioned why he stopped pedaling at one point, and he said he was grabbing a bigger gear. Darren said "Spin to win". Suggesting what he would have done different. I guess he was not puting enough faith in Darren's advice to do the same approach, so why blame him? Blaming some one else for that type of thing is ludicrus. IMO. Season 4 should be good stuff.

[desson]

whats a tv show with out tricks!

[Jer]

yah i agree with all of you....that austrailian guy was a bitch

[freerider4ever]

Eventhough its lame that hes blaming Darren, I STILL wouldn't mind being as good a rider as him. He was no footing one of the jumps and threw a pretty cool whip over another. He has that track dialed, and I sure as hell wish I could do everything there.

[snizzy]

spanglers tables are FLAT. those looked nice, and so did the claws 1 foot flatties and that dude bitching about no tricks should suck on a camels dick, cause he did shit all.

[HeadOverWheels]

That guy is NOT Nathan Rennie - top Aussie Downhiller - and he OBVIOUSLY needs this advise. Then he asks for advise, screws up, looks bad and then has the LITTLE balls to blame darren. Darren PROBABLY hit it right after and said, "like that dude"

whatever, Kiwis are just fruits, no deadly animals and the sheep to people ratio is 20:1 so what can you expect, Ha.

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Trusted Darren? are you serious, he didnt have the speed or the right bike for that lip. Why would anyone ask someone else they don't know they should hit something big like that. They should already sort of feel comfortable with it or you get Gong show of cases.

On another note its funny Drop In even wasted their time putting all that talk shit in the vid at all?

And the final note: the line with the doubles and Road gap is sweet!!!

[Alan]

ur all pretty fuking stupid,

1- rennie was no where near drop in, it's nathan greenwood a New Zealand rider that had issues with darren.

2- ur all on berrecloths side only cause u know of him and that he must be the good guy, and because obviously the canadian produces will always favor darren cause he is a canucker.

3- I have talked to new zealanders riders that were with the crew when they were riding there and the like of darren and romaniuk were apparantly cocky pricks and Romaniuk kept casing easy jumps and didnt fix em and all ways wanted to out do the localsn, they only show bits that make them look good and cool.

4- u only see the edited version of what went on with the whole darren and nathan issue, there could have been a lot more things said then what was shown. and he admitted to being silly for trusting darran so lay off him he's a good bloke and learnt his lesson.

I know ur all gonna be angry at this cause u will refuse to beleive it and its truth. get over the hype bullshit.

[freerider4ever]

I think MAYBE there is a little more behind it. None of us were there to see everything only a 7 minute clip. I guess I can understand what Nathan Greenwood is saying about the "no tricks" thing. Hes this unknown rider who is throwing down on the track he built, and Darren is living the life, not doing as much as Nathan w/e. Its kind of weird how dropin chose to throw all that "trash" talking in.

[TokSik]

ur all pretty fuking stupid,

Off to a good start.

2- ur all on berrecloths side only cause u know of him and that he must be the good guy, and because obviously the canadian produces will always favor darren cause he is a canucker.

Actually you're wrong. I'm on Darren's side because nobody can tell you if you're capable of doing something. Only you can know that. This guy obviously didn't know his capabilities or he screwed up. Either way he blamed someone else for that. That's stupid.

3- I have talked to new zealanders riders that were with the crew when they were riding there and the like of darren and romaniuk were apparantly cocky pricks and Romaniuk kept casing easy jumps and didnt fix em and all ways wanted to out do the localsn, they only show bits that make them look good and cool.

I was talking to my neighbour's friend and he said you're a prick. That doesn't hold much water does it? The second part about "they only show bits that make them look good and cool", well isn't that the point of editing and watching pro's ride on shows or in a movie? I wouldn't want to buy a DVD or watch a show of my riding.

4- u only see the edited version of what went on with the whole darren and nathan issue, there could have been a lot more things said then what was shown. and he admitted to being silly for trusting darran so lay off him he's a good bloke and learnt his lesson.

We may have seen the edited version but that doesn't change the fact that Nathan blamed Darren for his crash. He may have learned that you can't ask other people if you're capable of something (isn't that a given?), but you can't blame someone else for your own misjudgement.

I know ur all gonna be angry at this cause u will refuse to beleive it and its truth. get over the hype bullshit.

Who says it's the truth? You? What weight do you hold around here with comments like this "ur all pretty fucking stupid".

[jonny.zee]

I agree with Toksik - Blaming someone else for your crash is just L-A-M-E. That being said, does it really matter what else happened when the cameras weren't rolling?

[redsdisease]

I think it's especially stupid that he was asking advice on a jump that HE built and then blaming the person for it. Why would you build a jump and then get mad at someone who told you that they thought you could do it?

[Jerry-Rig]

someone needs to take responsiblity for his own actions....

talking smack against Romi ? the kid placed 2nd at Redbull last year. How did Nathan do ?

[desson]

seriously, TRICKS!

[Alan]

lol just stiring fellas, who really cares, what happened happened.

All tho some of what i said is true.

[Tama]

Morning - just thought I'd throw in my 2 cents :)

It is most definitely Nathan Greenwood in the preview - not Nathan Rennie. Nathan Greenwood is a New Zealander and pretty much single-handedly design and built "Dreamtrack" - he's also a lot shorter than Nathan Rennie :p

Also Steve isn't in the preview, he came in for the North Island segment of the tour after Darren left (New Zealand has two main island of close to equal size - imaginatively called the North Island and South Island.)

One of the things I really like about Drop In is that it gives a far more complete picture of mountain biking. Instead of movies where we get 10 seconds of perfectly executed stunt with Drop In you get the triumphs and the failures, plus the background and context of what's going on.

Keep in mind that the preview shows only 7 minutes of over 6 hours of end footage so there's lots of different riding styles/ riders/ scenery etc. and it's all from a country which is completely unknown to most of you for added interest.

I can't wait until it shows:thepimp:

[seand]

that place looks like a crapload of fun!

why anyone would ask someone else if they think they can do something is beyond me...know your own limits..silly aussie :) dont blame darren for your shortcomings... that case could have been much worse...

this upcoming dropin season should be a good one

[Troup]

Haha, It's funny because there was a lapse in the video where the audio kept going of the guy talking and the viewer frozen on his face.
Kinda long, but meh...

[Tama]

Haha, It's funny because there was a lapse in the video where the audio kept going of the guy talking and the viewer frozen on his face.Aye? That sounds like your computer is trying to do too much while playing the video. Close some other applications down and try it again.

[TokSik]

lol just stiring fellas, who really cares, what happened happened.

All tho some of what i said is true.

:rolleyes:

[Dalifted1]

the fact someone heard that romi was casin jumps everywhere kind of makes me laugh. he just doesnt seem like the guy to come up short too often. i guess he was scared to go fast haha. I talked to him thou after he was there and it was way different then what he expected. I cant wait to see the back half of the season with romi and tremblay and jesperson.

[Tama]

the fact someone heard that romi was casin jumps everywhere kind of makes me laugh. he just doesnt seem like the guy to come up short too often. i guess he was scared to go fast haha. I talked to him thou after he was there and it was way different then what he expected. I cant wait to see the back half of the season with romi and tremblay and jesperson.I got the feeling he expected a mini-Canada. But New Zealand only has 4 million people and a more race focussed culture - so our trails aren't as developed in the freeride sense of things.

[Brad Dawg]

i feel sorry for that guy... he was riding a v10.... i think he should blame the bike shop for selling him that thing.

[the flying moose]

i blame darren because i cant huck the gnar.

[Alan]

:rolleyes:

lol get over it

[t-town dirt jumper]

you guys are all fucking flakes who think that they should have riden better then wat they were(darren or spangle). If you even remotly had the knoladge of how it feels to jump over a gap that is bigger then ur computer, maybe u could realize that not everyone can do there normal or easy tricks off jumps that size. why the fuck would darren have to do a 360 over a 60 foot gap(or bigger) just because u n00bs think it is the same thing as 3ing off a drop or normal sized dirt jump. Maybe u should take into consideration that darren is a normal guy, and just because he has some exceptional skills where he pushes this sport more then u could ever even dream of doin, and that he can have a riding day where he doesn't feel like risking his body just for a little more excitment or some more recogntion from some dull 'fans'.

oh and if u goons wanna compare that course to the "bone yard" ill put it into perspctive for ya... it would be like starting from the top of the 4x course then coming into the jumps where the quarter pipe is and having to jump over 2 of the boxes in a row then landing and goin into a burm and hitting another 2 boxes then another burm and hiting a jump over the giro box and down to the lift line up. id like to c any of u pull nicer style then spangler or the claw have goin over that course.

sit down, shut up, and dont even try and call urself a mountain biker let alone a mountain biking fan, untill u have some respect for the ones who show u wat is possible on two wheels.

[skimtb1]

i saw berrecloth the other day at the disorder premiere. he was just talking on his cell phone and signing posters. he wasn't interacting or even acnolaging (sp?) the kids. it seemed kinda arrogant.

[TokSik]

lol get over it

Don't worry, I'm not losing sleep. I just found it lame how quickly you back pedaled and then said "who really cares". You made it quite apparent that you did.