Dirt Bikes(UZ) - The Spirit of the Place

Val Tramazzo, Parco Nazionale Foreste Casentinesi

...this is about mountain biking, gravity, and going fast downhill till you loose Complete Control. Nonetheless the wheels keep their Revolution down on path 565 of "Foreste Casentinesi" National Park... Of course Adrenailne is flowing, as needed, and today The Four Horsemen we are riding exactly at the same frequence, I can feel this vibration in my strings. But then...what else makes the chemistry happens I could not say...What I got for a few infinite seconds, today riding down Tramazzo Valley after passin' through the ruins of Case Valdanda is a perception of the spirit of the place. The "Genius Loci", as Latins said, as they believed that a site can have a character. Sublimation? Songlines? I couln't say.. What I feel is about life for people that has growth and lived here, strong dependence on woods, poor farming and in the same time tight sense of belonging to the nature around. Something must have remained of all those lives down here. Deep. I went home with a lot of energy to go. Thanks to the spirit of the place. And yes, my cosmic friend, Uz is Back! (UZALABIKE = UZ the bike the more you can!)

http://vimeo.com/34192415 (Video by Cosmicabc)

Many Thanks to Rossella Perugi (Turku University, Finland)