Hit the trails with Ryan Condrashoff and Scott Bikes

What does your daily ride look like? If it looks anything like Ryan Condrashoff’s, colour us a million shades of insanely-envious green.

Filmed in gorgeous high definition, this video shows how Condrashoff gets in shape: riding his Scott Genius 700 through terrain perfectly suited to it. In slow motion, the tires bite into the Pacific Northwest soil, manoeuvring his Genius 700 between towering firs, down hills, through grasslands, and presumably, back to the starting point to do the whole thing all over again. For a simple video, you can actually get a sense of that otherwise-indescribable peace that comes at the midpoint of a ride through nature. It’s like an exercise in mist-shrouded, all-terrain Zen.

It also nicely expresses the cycling philosophy of Condrashoff himself, articulated with an all-caps hashtag at the bottom of the YouTube page: #NOSHORTCUTS.

Breathe in, breathe out, keep riding.