1 BIKECAR
Top speed - 32 mph
Up hill - 5 mph
Flats - 10-15 mph
1 broken ankle - Scotty Whitlake
1 tweaked back - Louie Fountain
1 radical rhythm section
1 even more radical sand boarding session
850 MILES OF KEEPING SNOWBOARDING INTERESTING
"Well, we were going down highway something or other, and saw a little turn off and took it as a turn on. Came over here checked out the view..."
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I have been trying to get an interview with the Bikecar movie dudes for a while. The goods are in, quick interview with producer JT Fountain below. (If you haven't seen the movie get it here, www.bikecarmovie.com)
Lowedown:I just had a big debate on the blog recently on how to keep snowboarding cool - as it gets so saturated? I think carrying out adventures like Bikecar is the answer? Any thoughts on this?
JT Fountain:I definitely think it's important to keep mixing it up in snowboarding and trying to do some things outside the box. It seems like there are more snowboard videos now than ever, but so many of them seem the same. I don't like the idea of trying to do something different just to be different. I think if you go out with the idea of having fun, regardless of what everyone else is doing, only good can come. You don't need perfect conditions to make things happen... in fact, I'd say better things come when the conditions or circumstances aren't ideal. It forces creativity. The bikecar trip was a good example of less than ideal conditions, which is probably why it's entertaining to watch. We could have done a snowboard road trip in a conventional automobile, but I don't think it would have been quite as entertaining.
LD:Rythm Section looks hard? Tell me about it?
JT:The rhythm section was something Travis had been wanting to do for a while. He saw something like it in an old snowboard video and thought it looked fun. It was definitely an experiment. What you don't see in the movie is all the cutting down and reshaping of the jumps. It was hard figuring out how far apart they should be spaced and how steep they should be. I don't even know how many times Travis hit it, but it was a lot. I think he was frustrating himself and psyching himself out, but he got it in the end.
LD:Did Parker hold the fact he had to run down Mission Ridge against you for a while?
JT:No way, Travis was always a good sport about everything. He was kinda like our own personal cheerleader. By that I mean he always kept a positive spirit going throughout the trip. There were times where without Travis, the whole thing would have imploded. Oh yeah, another thing the movie didn't show was that Louie took a turn running down from Mission Ridge too.
LD:Sandboarding run looked epic! Behind the scenes on that?
JT:The sandboarding was totally spur of the moment. I was riding a bike along behind the bikecar and next thing I new those guys had pulled over and were hiking up a giant sand hill. I barely had time to get my camera set up on the tripod before they dropped in. I think Scotty was kinda bummed that he couldn't join in the fun because of his hurt foot, which he found out later was broken.
LD: What are some of the added scenes in the new Director's Cut that you like?
JT:The scenes that come to mind are when Louie tweaks his back throwing rocks and then has to go to a physical therapist. Another one is when the bikecar's brakes fail coming down from Mission Ridge.
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