- Wooo- Hooo!!
- Whoa haha!!
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- Woo-Hoo-Hoo!
Whoa! (laughing)
Today, I find myself with BKXC, Brian.
This guy...you don't know what he's all about,
take a look at this.
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- Oh, yeah! Nice!
Woo! Woo! Ooh.
Yes! (laughing) Oh, yeah!
- So we gonna hit Roots Manuva, it's one of my favorites.
It's quite rooty, it's quite gnarly, it's all in the name.
It's a black and it's pretty fun.
It's not. It's a red.
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- Yea-ha!
Ahh! Whoo! (heavy breathing) (laughing)
Wow! Wow! Whoa, right turn.
(laughing) Woo-hoo!
Oh, no! Wow!
Oh God. I'll have to straddle the line.
- (Other Biker) Straddle the line.
Whoo-ho! Whoa! (laughing)
- Brian. Brian can ride! (laughing)
Nice! Wow!
Right! I have a few questions because some of the viewers
probably don't know who are.
They're like, "Who's BKXC".
So your names, Brian. So what's your full name?
Where are you from?
And what do you do?
- So, I'm Brian Kennedy, and it's BKXC.
You know, when I first named the channel
I was like, Brian Kennedy Cross Country.
- Yeah. - What I didn't realize
is that cross country meant like spandex,
and shaving your legs and all that.
So, now I say, Brian Kennedy Across the Countries.
And I ride the best trails in the world.
That's the deal, that's the one line.
- The dream job.
You get to travel the world.
Get to ride a number of cool locations.
I've seen a lot.
I've watched your videos.
You're here in England.
You live in where?
- California. - Yep.
- San Francisco Bay area.
- There ya go, so you actually got like some of the best...
- Tons of good stuff.
- Some of the best riding I've ever ridden before is there.
Okay, so you've ridden so many great places.
Is there...do you have an actual bucket list
to where you actually want to be riding?
- Yeah! Rotorua, New Zealand is one
that I've never been to, I hear a lot about it.
- (Interviewer) Your favorite trail that
you've ever ridden, like ever.
- (Brian) There's so many man. There so many.
- (Interviewer) I wouldn't say...
- (Brian) There's so many.
It's like picking your favorite kid.
- (Interviewer) Yeah.
- So for me, It was riding in the North of Spain,
- (Interviewer) Yeah.
- (Brian) with Bask MTB.
It's like an all inclusive tour kind of thing.
- (Interviewer) Yeah, Yeah.
- (Brian) Your meals are covered, your lodging is covered
- (Interviewer) Wow!
- (Brian) and your shuttles are covered.
So it's like six days of the most crazy riding,
like way above my level, but it's just so good,
- Wow.
- And that's like the total package for me.
To be able to go somewhere and just have them
take care of everything.
- (Interviewer) Just get everything done.
Yeah. So there's heli drops and...
- No heli drops in that one.
Just shuttle vans and stuff, but I have done heli drops
- You have?
- (Brian) in Rebelstoke BC and that's another one
that's freaking amazing.
- (Interviewer) Is that good? The BC one?
- (Brian) So good! So good.
- (Interviewer) Helicopters man.
- (Brian) In Alpine and just...
- (Interviewer) With the birds.
- (Brian) 7000 feet of descending?
Is that what is was, 7000? Aha!
So basically, all my suggestions come from my audience,
my comments and people say, "Hey go to Blue Durby,
go to Blue Du...", like go here, go there.
That's how I mold all my trips.
- Yeah.
- So Guy reached out to me, sent me an email
say, "Hey man you want to come over",
like okay lets do it, two weeks.
- Yeah.
- I know that Guy would give me the best tour
of the UK possible and I dove in.
- Cool! Impressive. - Yeah.
- So you film with stuff like this.
See, that's how you get good audience.
- Exactly.
- So, that's a GoPro with no...
- It's naked. - Yeah.
- So, when you take the GoPro out of the water-proof
housing it sounds amazing but its very naked
and it's very vulnerable - Yeah.
- To getting hit and broken by stuff
but I take that risk since is like my full time job.
- Yeah.
- So it's like, hey, if something breaks, you replace it.
- Yeah.
- But, you get it out of the case, the audio is fantastic,
- Yeah.
- but you have to get this little wind muffler thing
on here or else the wind destroys it.
- Winds just kills it. - Yeah.
- Kills it. Yeah.
So there you go.
A little insight to Brian BKXC.
It's not XC as in Cross Country
- (laughs) Across the countries.
- It's across the countries.
I like that a bit more.
So you carry on, there's a black or red.
I think we should... - Lets go red! Lets go red!
- Lets go Roots Maneuver? - Yeah.
- Yeah? I'll follow you.
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- (Background voices) Whoo-hoo!
(laughing)
- Whoo! Whoo!
- Dead sailer!
- Aha! Who hoo!!
- Hehehe Going in Hot!!
- That was so good!
- Nice. Thanks for riding with me man.
- Oh mate, I want to do it more.
(Interviewer) - So you're going to choose the next trail
but I want to be a bit of BKXC, can I be BKXC #2?
- (Brian) - Yeah.
- I can't be, I can't be...
BSXC. Blake Sampson Across the Countries.
- (Brian laughing) There you go!
Is that how you set it up? Cause I..
- Don't know how you're the king
at this and I.. is that right?
- First of all it's on backwards.
- (Blake laughing)
- It really is. You got to go this way.
That helps.
- (Blake) Okay.
- (Brian) And so there's one thing, it helps if you
already have kind of a flat thing going here.
- Buff like. Yeah.
- Exactly. You got to be washboard abs.
- Washboard abs.
- It's tough so if your a female or if you're a guy
with a gut you're never going to have quite the..
- Quite the thing.
- Yeah quite the canvas. So you want it flat.
- Right.
- I like it low also.
I Try to get it pretty low.
- Is that low enough?
- Yeah.
- Get that shot over the bars and then I'm always
using my hydration pack. These little things.
- Oh yeah.
- You're moving these things down but you don't
want to go too low because then they pop off.
I pretty much get mine as low as possible. Yeah.
But it's a dangerous zone.
- Okay.
- And then you get it sinched up real right there.
You need clearance. You need clearance with this
thing, you can always rock it back and forth.
- Yeah.
- And then this, these little straps, they need to be
tucked away because you'll hear them flapping,
they'll get in the shot, it's terrible.
- Okay.
- The next thing, this screw needs to
be really tight because look.
- Oh right. Really done. Yeah.
- And that takes a special tool.
- You got it.
- Always. Always on hand.
- No I don't have it.
- And you've got it.
- There it is!
- There it is! Haha
- Oh wow okay.
- Lock them up so it fits in there.
Oh oh. Wrench it down.
That was trying to break it.
- That's not going to move. It's not moving.
- A little bit better.
- Okay. So that's tight.
- Decent.
- Now, how do you turn it on? Is that this button?
- Yeah. Hold it down.
- Hold it down.
- Hands off. Let it come to life.
- Wow wow. Cool.
- So I run the Hero Four because the audio on
the Hero Four is a little bit better
than the Hero Five and Hero Six.
This is built in waterproofing.
Built in waterproofing means a
little bit worse sound.
- Okay, so the older one is the better one?
- For me, and for a lot of the mountain bike
youtube community is the older one.
- Yeah.
- But, this is still good cause you can use it
in the rain and it's the latest technology
with the image stabilization and all that stuff.
- Okay.
- So now you got to get mounted on your bike.
- Yep.
- And you want to get an angle. So for me..
- Why is it like pointing that way?
- Ha ha. Just give it a little shake.
(laughing)
- Sometimes it will..it does what it
wants to do sometimes.
(Brian laughing)
Yeah exactly. There you go.
- Okay.
- So when I'm on the bike I kind of always look
down and I try to get to be able to see
just a little bit of the lens.
- Okay. I can see a bit.
- Maybe just a little bit more like that.
And these are neat because you can
manually adjust them.
- Hold it and...
- Sometimes you got to stop on the trail,
that's something I'm doing all the time,
stopping on the trail, checking my lens...
- Yeah Yeah.
- ..Checking the angle,
- See if it's dusty, get it off, yeah.
- And it's just a lot of experimentation.
- Wicked.
- From here, you're pretty much good to go.
- Okay. And the settings on this thing, do you do
super wide on that or do you do wide?
- No, I do wide. I used to even shoot in medium
because the more narrow you go the trail looks
a little more gnarly, kind of captures it
a little bit better but wide is really nice,
you get to see so much of your handlebars and
everything that is going on with the bike,
some guys shoot super wide, I think it flattens
out the trail a little too much.
- That's a good point. That's a good tip.
We don't want to make that flat do we?
- No.
- I'm gonna shut off the gnarlyness.
Wicked. Oh I'm BSXC.
- It's perfect man.
- Wow cool. Choose the trail. Which one?
- I rode one earlier that was really good.
Rimdinger.
- Sounds like punture heaven.
(laughing)
Should we do it?
- Let's do it.
- Alright.
- Wooo!
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- Rim Dinger. Where are we?
- Rim Dinger.
- Look at that rim dude.
- Haha it's had a heck of a ding.
- Hopefully it's not our rims.
- I'm good. I'll be fine.
- You good?
- Yeah.
- Recording?
- Powered up.
- Powered up. 2927.5
- Woo!
- Following you.
(laughing)
Whoa!! That was..oh man Blake just made
the perfect noise with his mouth that
made it like he flatted.
Okay.
(laughing)
- Wow.
- This is fun.
(laughing)
- Hahaha. Ohhh.
- The BKXC Line.
- That was good.
- Ahaha. Ohh. Still on the jumps.
Funky but all that techy high level stuff.
Yeah. You were flying through those rockies.
- That's why I feel good on that stuff man
I know it I can feel it, everything else
is so uncomfortable in the gones.
- I hate rogones.
I love them. I love the rough stuff.
The technical rock stuff, it's the jumps.
I can't get the jumps, I'm still uncomfortable.
- Well I love jumps. I reckon I can get you to
jump today, improve your jumping skill
a little bit I reckon.
- Professor Blake.
- Yeah. I got some jumps that are pretty good.
Not too massive. Nothing is perfect.
They're down there.
- Let's do it. Lead the way.
- Yeah? Alright. Follow.
Right, I reckon this jump, it's quite a distance
but you got enough speed to come into it,
there's a nice step up so...
- Very forgiving.
- Yeah. Very forgiving, there's no like crazy
landing you can head out?
- It's good to go.
- And I'll see. And we want to get you to there.
- Okay.
- Yeah. Clearing this guy to there. Yeah?
- Woo! I'm going to leave the camera behind.
- Yeah? What did you feel like?
- Felt like I wheelied the whole thing? Haha.
- So that's like you didn't pull up with your
toes but you don't want to pull too much
cause you clipped in and I've seen that
happen a lot so maybe, you had the right technique
going off perfect, the front wheel was...
You took that front wheel good, it's just that
rear you bring it up a bit too much
that front and then land two wheels.
- Okay.
- But speedwise it was good. There wasn't any pop
cause you kind of just went like that.
(Brian laughing)
- But you don't want to put too much pop
cause if you put too much it sends you that way.
So just going into it, feel the bottom of that lip
like push into it a little bit, and let that front
wheel go up like you did, and when it leaves the
takeoff that's when you start to push your
weight forward a little bit.
- Okay.
- And bring up your, cool your feet on the pedals,
bring that backwheel up a little bit, yeah?
- Okay.
(Brian laughing)
- So it's just like pump, pull up, but not
too much, it's more in you know
your hips and your heels.
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- Okay so I watched the replay and what you did,
you did it, I saw the bike squashing a bit,
and you like let it glide over but you didn't
pull enough on the arms.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- I saw your arms just roll over the lip and you
kind of went....Wooah.
- Yeah.
- Just let the speed get you the distance.
To get a little more height, just ride, like
sit back into it a little bit.
- Okay.
- And kind of like..when the front wheel is going
off the lip, give it you know just go with it,
don't prolong the lip even though it's an
invisible lip just keep going with it,
but then you did the legs, I saw you
bring your toes in.
- Ahh. Look at that!
Hey that was better. It was!
That was way better.
- Haha It felt better.
- Front wheel was in the transition.
- Upper body still very stiff.
But I felt like I pushed it in.
- I saw you pushed in.
- Exactly.
So that actually did get a little pop out of it.
Yeah. It's the pop, it's all about the transition.
It's like the landing you know, you know you can land.
- Exactly.
- You've done drops and stuff so that's the same thing.
It's just perfecting the lip.
- Yeah. One step at a time.
- One step at a time but that's it, squash in,
pull up off the lip, it's that bunny hop technique
but you don't want to pull off of it cause then
you are going to...send you over the bars.
- A little bit better.
- There you go guys, a little ride along with Brian
BKXC, he has his own youtube channel
check it out, it's insane, he travels around
the world, I love it, I follow you, it's insane stuff.
- But the sunshine, everybody said
it was going to be wet.
- I know, you brought the sunshine from California
dude that's good, I don't play with Gimbal man.
- Dude I'm gonna play with the jumps,
a lot of work to go on the jumps.
- Yes, cause the next time I see you I want to
see you sending it large in front of me
I'll be like, "Oh my God, he's..
you've perfected your jumps dude."
- Someday.
- And I'll be with,
perfecting my Gimbal, following you,
it's a big happy marriage isn't it? Yeah?
While he's touring around England,
doing a number of things, he's going to ride
some cool trails so check out his bit there
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