Ric, September 27, 2012 — 08:00am

Video Club: Where The Trail Ends

The Chop MTB office was split right down the middle last week thanks to Red Bull’s Where The Trail Ends. Some gasped in amazement whilst others scratched their heads in uncertainty. Here are the opinions of two of our independent ‘experts’…

Jake Ireland, freelance mountain bike scribe

“I appreciate the fact that they were traveling to new locations where bikes have never been before, but the action is nothing new. It felt like the same tricks, the same kind of desert terrain but just in a different location.

“The one quote I can pick out from the film was ‘If I wanted to ride in a forest, I’d have just stayed in BC’. What a short-sighted approach! You’re willing to travel the world looking for deserts but you can’t be arsed to go and ride a forest anywhere else?! All they seemed to want to do was find somewhere the same as Utah, ride it in the same way, and claim it’s pushing the sport – unfortunately guys, it didn’t do it for me.”

Ric McLaughlin, senior staff writer at Mountain Biking UK magazine

“I understand a lot of people’s gripes with the movie. Yes, if you’ve seen The Art Of Flight then you may feel a bit short-changed and yes, a bit of variation on the riding front would’ve been nice. I enjoyed it though

“I thought Cam Zink pretty much stole the show and the cinematography (predictably) was up there with the best we’ve seen when it comes to bike movies. Maybe not the ‘game changer’ us riders had hoped for but in terms of promoting our sport and what can be done with it on the big screen I still think it’ll be seen as a breakthrough film.”