The Pinkbike Podcast: The Heaviest Freeride Moments in 'Nothing's For Free' (with Tippie & Westerlund)
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A partnership between Freeride Entertainment, Outside Studios, and Pinkbike, Nothing's For Free is a full length film that takes a deep dive into the evolution of freeride mountain biking—and the enormous sacrifices that have been made in the name of the sport's progression. From fringe sport to global phenomenon, the film chronicles a three-decade journey with the pioneers, visionaries, and industry masterminds that pushed the sport to where it is today.
**Spoiler Alert: If you don’t want to know what happens in the film, especially surrounding that one extra-psychotic move, maybe skip this podcast and the comments under this article until you’ve had a chance to watch. Also this episode is even less family friendly than usual—not the thing to listen to with your preteens on the way to camp.**
We think some parts of this film will change the sport forever, and we're so excited for the mountain bike world to see it. Special guest host Jason Lucas and I sat down with director Derek Westerlund and one of the film's main subjects Brett Tippie to talk about why and how the film was made—as well as some behind the scenes stories of the film's biggest, heaviest moments.
Brett Tippie was his usual quiet, reserved self.
Whatever you do don't call Derek Westerlund a filmmaker. Photo: Peter Jamison.
Nothing's For Free is available on Outside Watch now. There will also be a limited free stream at some point in the near future thanks to GT Bicycles, a world tour of in-person events to be announced soon, and eventually other ways to view the film.
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music, repetitive tasks, or best - just sitting in the woods letting sound and peripheral / full-field vision take over - try to turn off the words. Just seems to provide a level of happy & stoke that logic doesn't. There's no one way.
For people who grew up freeriding, seeing this laid out from OG to new school riders tore my guts out. Its one thing to see freeride history in long format (and yeah, its not 100% comprehensive - not the point) but having grown up seeing freeriding in mags, VHS vids, up to the evolution to where it is today - this film just feels cathartic. Not at all hanging on the past...I love where freeriding & bikes is today, but this film just hammers it in as a bigger part of your life than just your own rides. I'm sure its even deeper for the OG riders in the film and 100's of other ragers in the past most of us will never know.
Will prob have to watch this another 3-4 times. Totally badass. I wanna buy a copy.
Also freeride didn’t just morph into slopestyle and rampage. Guys like the Sea-to-Sky crew (Remy, SVH, Yoann, etc) are all pushing the original spirit of freeriding forward outside of competitions. Maybe a little props for all of them would have been nice (I know one clip of Steve made it in the edit)
Worth watching for sure tho. Excellent!
The number one issue I have with current freeride video content is that some people will film on trails that they did not build without taking the proper steps to not blow up the spot
i find it hard to believe that there are total unknowns out there sending stuff bigger / harder stuff than Holonko, Remy, Barelli, Spitz, SVH, Bolton, Sheffer, Matthews, Lunn, etc.
Holonko (Lights Out), Remy (tons & tons), Barelli (TdG), SVH (Risk is Reward), Spitz (GG promos), Bolton (insta, etc.), Sheffer (Freeride Lives), Matthews (tons), Lunn (Rough AF).
i don't understand what your argument is. these guys are known to be top of the game and they're all filming...influencer or not, these are heavy moves and freeride AF
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8 years ago now... what's the cutoff? Someone enlighten me? I've been watching all the DVD releases from NWD, Kranked and Anthill since 2005 and still enjoy these new youtubers.
Remi probably had recorded plenty in 3rd person before this even, but this was the first one I remember really standing out long before he started his channel. Doing it "for the views"... is it not obvious these guys have to be passionate about the sport to spend the countless hours becoming so creative at it?
I guess if people don't know, they just... don't know. Should they dig harder to discover the really real hidden freeriders of Canada? Some might, but maybe they are also too busy getting out whenever they can, riding half as well as anyone from the lists above, and simply have the youtube algorithm point out to them the people feeding it for a living in between the rest of their busy lives. Everyone's gotta earn a living.
As for YouTube, it's a way to help these guys get paid. What's wrong with that? Not a lot of opportunities for that...
just wanna ride my bike now
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