We just got a quick e-mail from Seb Kemp (Spoke contributor) about another of his many projects. This time it’s a web vid series that follows the stories of riders ‘living the dream’ and spending seasons in Whistler. Vid and details after the jump:
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Each summer a growing number of lads and lasses come from far and wide to live the life of bikes and bikes and bikes. It’s the dream of riding bikes that brings them here, but the reality is that there are deeper reasons that keep them here. Some people come for a visit and never leave. Some come to find something specific but end up learning something entirely different. Some come alone, some come with friends but everyone leaves with more.
People uproot from their lives elsewhere to be in Whistler. Some make giant life changes, other have had their lives changed by one short visit to Whistler. Some are here for just one summer, some will be here forever more, either as a permanent fixture or a seasonal migratory bird.
There are thousands of stories and tales to tell, but filmer Tom Grundy, super shooter Mattias Fredriksson and myself grabbed just five of them to give you a brief glimpse of living the dream.
On the face of it this series is just about riding bikes in Whistler. However this series hopes to look beyond this and explore the motivations of people to radically alter their lives just to ride bikes as much as they can. We chose five people and used their particular experiences as a magnifying glass to be able to discover more about a few of the motivations for some people to make bikes their life.
The following is five short stories, five characters, five windows and five motivations.
