Ed is not dead!

After last year’s Internet phenomenon, “The Chop” vimeo.com/79572828 which had over 32,000 views and a showing at the Kendal Mountain Festival, Ed Oxley aka Great Rock is back with more stories from the hills.

“Despite an apparent beheading at the end of his last film, Ed has returned! Come with him as he joins Andy McKenna from Go Where Scotland go-where.co.uk/ on another journey of discovery, not this time into the strange alternate universe of Accrington, but instead into the wilds of Scotland. Ed searches for the ‘Peaty’ he’s heard so much about but never tasted – but what will this search lead to?

A story of bothies, bogs (both sat on and rode over) beer electronic cigarette forum, bikes and something Peaty….

The first from a series of four longer videos scheduled for 2014, this story of adventure chimes with Ed’s plans for the rest of the year, with the new guided trips in the UK called Northern Rock and trips abroad, in the Basque Country and the French Riviera adding to the renowned UK skills courses.

For 2014 Great Rock is joined in adventure by these sponsors:

Chromag – shore-lines.co.uk

KS Seatposts – jungleproducts.co.uk/

Santa Cruz Bikes -santacruzbikes.co.uk/

Shimano – madison.co.uk/

X fusion -upgradebikes.co.uk/

Magic Rock Brewing – magicrockbrewing.com

Alpkit – alpkit.co.uk

Shot and edited by Benji Haworth benjimedia.wordpress.com/

Many Thanks to Andy McKenna and a certain World Champion for helping to make it happen.

Music by The Black Angels

And now for something completely different to ‘The Chop’. I went off with my riding buddy Benji Haworth on a 2 day bikepacking trip  to Snowdonia. The trip was supported by Madison who supplied Genesis bikes and GoPro cameras. The brief was simple. Go for an adventure on bikes, sleep out somewhere and make a Natox video. Benji did all the camera work and editing and proved that GoPro films can be good if you choose your shots carefully and use plenty of static shots.

Special mention goes to Alpkit who once again provided the excellent bike frame bags. We also used their brilliant sleeping bags, mats, titanium pans and torches.