{"id":694,"date":"2013-06-18T13:07:42","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=694"},"modified":"2013-12-24T09:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-24T14:48:56","slug":"a-little-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=694","title":{"rendered":"SRAM \u201cChasing Trail\u201d video contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year around the spring\/summer the website pinkbike.com will post up various video contests. This time they&#8217;ve posted up one sponsored by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sram.com\/sram\/mountain\" title=\"SRAM components\" target=\"_blank\">SRAM<\/a> titled &#8220;Chasing Trail&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how it works: Shoot, edit and submit your video of two minutes or less. The theme is simple: Chasing Trail. It doesn&#8217;t matter if you&#8217;re a racer or just getting started &#8211; tell a story about what pursuit of the perfect mountain bike trail means to you.<\/p>\n<p>After reading this I thought that our perspective on what chasing trail means might have a shot at winning this so I put together an outline for it and shot some video. Here is my entry in the Chasing Trail video contest.<\/p>\n<p><object width='500' height='281'><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' \/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' \/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/v\/317594\/l\/' \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com\/video\/317594\/'>Chasing Trail &#8211; Gerry Creighton<\/a> on <a href='http:\/\/www.pinkbike.com'>Pinkbike<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year around the spring\/summer the website pinkbike.com will post up various video contests. This time they&#8217;ve posted up one sponsored by SRAM titled &#8220;Chasing Trail&#8221;. Here&#8217;s how it works: Shoot, edit and submit&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,17,27,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enduro","category-trail-riding","category-trails","category-videos"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.werideourbikes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/sramChasingTrail.jpg?fit=640%2C360&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1YdqL-bc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":533,"url":"https:\/\/www.werideourbikes.com\/?p=533","url_meta":{"origin":694,"position":0},"title":"2013 Bear Creek Super D preview","author":"Gerry","date":"May 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I planned a trip for this holiday weekend to accomplish two things, pre-ride the new Super D course at Bear Creek while getting some climbing in and to ride at Launch Bike Park. 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