Richie Rude - This Is Home

"Home to me is everything familiar; where I know every street, every trail, every store and all my family is there. Its where I can just relax and focus on training and not worry about what hotel we are going to next" - Richie Rude

Featuring: Richie Rude
Directed by: Harrison Mendel
Cinematography By: Harrison Mendel and Rupert Walker
Edited By: Harrison Mendel
Sound Design: Racket Sound
Title Design: Studio Dialog
Still Photography: Paris Gore

Special Thanks: Karen Rude, Richard Rude, Mountain Creek Bike Park, Clayton Harper, Kara Chase, Brooklyn Bike Park

"Blue Rise"
Oliver Michael
www.olivermichael.com

"Hollow Bones, Pt1"
Rival Sons
www.rivalsons.com

"Summer Spliffs"
Broke For Free
www.brokeforfree.com

Ride The Rocks With Richie Rude

When it comes to enduro racing, the USA's Richie Rude is the fastest rider in the world at the minute. Yes, the sport has other big names capable of taking wins, but none of them can match the brute force and ability to win anywhere and any time that Rude boasts.

He took us to Mountain Creek Bike Park in New Jersey to tackle some wet rocks for our Sound of Speed series. Richie's sheer physical size and strength is obvious, but his style remains incredibly fluid and smooth.

Flashes of the Altai

Three childhood friends set out for the far western corner of Mongolia to combine
mountain biking and packrafting in a self-supported adventure into the unknown. Never
having attempted a mountain bike to packraft link-up, they decided it was a great idea to
travel to one of the most remote and sparsely populated places in the world to try it out.

The goal was to traverse the Mongolian Altai, a remote range of high glaciated peaks
with silt-laden rivers draining from their heights. The only inhabitants of the region are
Kazakh nomads, the last people on earth who continue the tradition of hunting with
golden eagles. Ancient standing stones carved over the millennia stand guard over the
landscape.

Twelve days in the wilderness, riding over high passes loaded with gear, surviving
raging whitewater, drinking fermented mare’s milk, and battling the elements, this was
not an adventure these young lads would soon forget.


A Film By: Joey Schusler
Featuring: Mason Lacy, Sam Seward, & Joey Schusler
Editor: Joey Schusler & Thomas Woodson
Motion Design & VFX: Paul Harrison (Shotgun Infinity)
Art Direction: Drew Pautler (Good Fortune Collective)
Post Production Sound: Keith White (Keith White Audio)
Expedition Logistics: Mason Lacy, Sam Seward, & Canat Chiryazdan
Supported by: Yeti Cycles, Smith Optics, Outdoor Research, ENVE Composites,
SRAM, RockShox, Skratch Labs, Big Agnes, Revelate Designs
Media Partners: Bike Magazine, 5 Point Film Festival
Run Time: 5 mins
Date of Completion: April 2016
Language: English

NEW ZEALAND. PROVEN HERE.

From the tangled sheep paths of the tussock grasslands to purpose-built trails snaking through the sharp mountain peaks, New Zealand ’s varied topography makes for an awe-inspiring mountain bike playground. We traveled throughout the South Island testing the SB5.5c on the fast, ragged conditions in Queenstown and Mount Cook to the mud and gnarled roots of the beach forests of Craigieburn.
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Cinematography By: Joey Schusler
Directed By: Joey Schusler
Edited By: Craig Grant
Sound Design: Keith White
Original Music: Ajay Bhattacharyya
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Yeti World Enduro Riders: Richie Rude and Cody Kelley
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Yeti Cycles SOUTHWEST. PROVEN HERE

The landscape of the American southwest is an ethereal place. The cathedral towers, deep canyons, and crushed red dirt produce terrain with endless riding possibilities. One is only limited by his efforts to push further. Pedaling along the sun drenched plateaus and in the shadowed canyons, all while sleeping below the stars in the cool night, you can start to feel displaced from the daily grind. That is until the beer runs low, the skins begins to redden and you head back to civilization to refuel. The deserts of the southwest are like a second home for many mountain bikers, providing a sanctuary in the winter months as an escape from whatever ails.
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Cinematography By: Craig Grant 

Directed and Edited By: Craig Grant
Additional Timelapse Photography By: Joey Schusler

Sound Design: Keith White
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Yeti Ambassadors:
Joey Schusler & Michael Larsen
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Music:
A River’s Journey by Todd Hannigan
Illuminate by The Earth and Arrow
Skylight by The Earth and Arrow

Cloudine by Joseph
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