Written by Nathan Cloud on Thursday, 21 Oct 2010.
Came across this yesterday and was a little surprised that I had not already heard or seen anything about it! It is a great cause, looks like it is going to be a great movie (see the trailer below), and, all in all, this is an important issue! What am I talking about? Watch the trailer!
Pedal-Driven: A Bikeumentary-Extended Trailer from Howell at the Moon Productions on Vimeo.
In their words:
PEDAL-DRIVEN: A BIKE-UMENTARY (www.pedaldriven.org) is designed to be much more than a bike movie. It's part of a movement, a pro-sustainability. pro-cooperation, pro-access, pro-communication movement. This movie will provide a tool for advocacy whether you are a member of the mountain biking community, the conservation community or - even better - both. This documentary will take a fair-minded approach to a contentious topic, with the ultimate goal of promoting respect for the land, the preservation of our rights to access our natural public places and the adoption of sustainable practices by mountain bikers, land managers, and all who care about the future of our limited and shared natural resources.
We open our story with the clash now taking place on America's public lands between mountain bikers - and free-riders in particular - and their federal land managers over illegal trail building. But at root this is a hopeful movie that will document the process as the two factions slowly, but surely, begin to find common ground in the form of creative and sustainable solutions. For a full storyline, please visit www.pedaldriven.org.
Our goal is, through beautiful cinematography and engaging storytelling, to demonstrate the shared goals and inspire further cooperation between the users and managers of our public lands.
What I Really, Really, Like About It?
It is a non-profit movie! Not only are they raising awareness, but "every single dollar of profit it ever generates is earmarked for future sustainable trail building and land stewardship efforts." I like that. I really do.
They need to raise another 4G's in the next two weeks or something like that, so I figure I will throw a few bucks their way (and you actually get some nice schwag for your donation). I hope that in posting this, you might too! If not, at least spread the word! They got all sorts of icons you can click to tweet, facebookm whatever. Easy enough.
More Information
http://pedaldriven.howellatthemoon.com/
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pedaldriven/pedal-driven-a-bike-umentary
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Pedal-Driven-A-Bike-umentary/105216876179184?ref=ts
Its a planned ride center project that will hopefully be here by 2012/2013 but who knows...Nate update this, the film is being screened now and will be released in the fall...It's a great Docum-sorry Bike-umentary and even though CF is kinda flailing these days lets try to get the word out...its definitely worth it
I noticed a circle with an "X" in it over CT when they showed the "ride center" map. Any idea about this? I couldn't find anything about on the intertubes.
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