Chris Akrigg: Going Beyond
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We’re really pleased to welcome one of the world’s leading trials riders, Chris Akrigg, to the Whyte family for 2023 and beyond.
Chris is a former 6x British Bike Trials champion and one of the most technical bike riders on the planet who’s well-known for his jaw-dropping riding videos, such as Five, As It Lies, A Hill In Spain and many more. He has the ability to jump on pretty much any bike - be they hardtails, road and gravel bikes, BMXs, rigid trials bikes, trail full-suspension, fixies, DH rigs and many more - and make them to sing to his unique tune.
There’s very little that Chris can’t make his bike do. With a background in motorcycle and bike trials, he’s forged a career of riding the seemingly impossible. And making it all look smoothly effortless, too. And that’s true whatever bike he’s on: from trail bikes, to fixies, to gravel bikes to hardtails, and beyond, he can turn them all up to 11. Since 2009 his ever-growing catalogue of riding films that cross a wide array of bikes and terrain has clocked up millions of views. Each video is packed full of inspiration and riding wizardry to fuel your fire, with a style and an outlook that’s all his own.
Whyte has been engineering award-winning bikes that perform without compromise and, much like Chris, doing things differently since the day we started some 22 years ago. Our first breakthrough bike (the PRST-1) rewrote the rules. And we continue in that spirit; relentlessly seeking and developing the next big performance and reliability advantages with pioneering innovations that push the limits.
Take our innovative tilted motor and low centre of gravity concept on our award-winning E-160 RSX e-MTB, just one of the bikes that Chris is riding. By rotating the motor we’ve slid the battery down further towards the bottom bracket to lower the bike’s centre of gravity as much as possible. Coupled with our geometry, this makes the bike more agile, capable and confidence inspiring.
“E-bikes are one of the most exciting things,” Chris explains of his passion for embracing electric. ”Once I jumped on one for the first time, I was like ‘Wow! They’re really good fun.’ But then you get to, ‘Right, what can this help me do? How can I make this my own? And how can I push it and make my bike do what other people can't?’”
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Chris rides bikes better than I walk with my legs.
Chris Akrigg is the Bikers' Biker. Everyone easily chears for Danny Macaskills flashy showmanship. But Chris delivers overall impressively perfect bike skills. On every bike he swings his leg over! All hail the king of cobbles and brakeless trials riding!
@superchickensoup
Жыл бұрын
Danny has got a little boring now, his early stuff was good, now it's all the same just with different music and a different set theme
@cyberspongethefirst
6 ай бұрын
We're allowed to like both of them, this doesn't have to turn into a Ronaldo vs Messi debate. We're lucky to have them both.
It's been 13 years watching 👀 Chris videos... always pushing n making extraordinary style of riding
I came for the riding, but was impressed with the down to earth no nonsense life lessons. I'm saving this video to show to my daughter when she's a bit older.
Buah!! I love the trial bike style that you keep, very fluid and clean, it's amazing. Congratulations!
Those super fine little details you mentioned at 4:06 are what makes your videos so unique. Having a trials background I can really appreciate what you are doing on a bike.
What I love about Chris is that he shows that you don't need to be super fast to be impressive.
Congrats on your association with Whyte. Gotta say that I LOVE your Anglia! What a fun car!!
Nice one! Looking forward to seeing what else is on the way!
Cris I live near you ur my hometown hero great riding
After all these years, Chris, you are one of the rare riders that still amaze me. I look almost doable for us... until we think about it :D keep it up mates
So much love for Chris and his riding, can't wait to see what he and Whyte will do this year!
I like Your energy, ideas and determination a lot Chris!
Great riding, great shots 💪
I've always admired your powerful riding style and I think it looks even better on the ebike! Love it! 💪
Been following Chris for years & those older clips were a nice throwback!
That is absolutely beautiful, especially on the emtb!!
epic skill.. 👌 awesome video..
I am a big fan of him ! Was so lucky to meet him some years ago in Benalmadena/Spain
Wow, so nice to see! that style of riding 🙂
Great signing to the brand, well played!
Skillset beyond other bike riders and a joy to watch
Nice Bike!!!!!
Sick 🤟🏻
The GOAT
Kick ass!
As a proud owner of a Whyte mtb myself, apart from the terrifying skills of the Star of the video, that is a fine specimen of filming, photography and production of this excellent video!! 👌🤙🤟
gooood 👍🏽
Крис Акригг - Молодец! Благодаря ему, и таким, как он, мы любим велосипед.
Yessss! 105E 🤘
Class rider
I would do that stuff but it's a day of the week, so you understand.... Ahem... Chris is amazing this biking thing. And that doggo is love, doggo is life.
👌you have skills👍😉
🤘
💯
Dog is beatiful and Cup from Czech republic is TOP. :-)))
amazing what you can do on a bike even more amazing what you can do on the E bikes
Good stuff, an English bike brand for a crazy good English rider.
Im not sure Chris will read this but I used to ride comp trials and was at the national events that you won Chris, im 42 this year and still riding street trials. For me you are the most inovative and talented person to touch a bike, I still watch a day at the sea side and trial noir to get pumped. Please treat us to a street edit, maybe a colab with the new generation of street trials riders.
@zizusaid
Жыл бұрын
Get out from your city environment and enjoy the nature. You will find your true inside out there...
@grimsbybrazilianjiu-jitsu7423
Жыл бұрын
@@zizusaid I love riding in nature too but I live in a mega city, Chris has done so much natural riding and it's amazing, I just would love to see one last street edit is all :)
UCI worlds coming up soon. Is Chris in anyway involved? If not people at UCI and British Cycling need their heads read. Legend.
I’m only 43yrs old and hopefully one day I’ll have those skills at his tender old age!
What bash guard do you have? My E160 has been battered underneath.
Chris never deceive, he reached the apogee of mountain biking
Круто 🤟 бро
How does he do it?!
佩服
How do I contact you guys with warranty issues? Through the dealer?
1:50 - 2:00 I'm eating my dinner and that set was so sick i had to stop and watch it back
@Dieterbe
Жыл бұрын
I believe he did the same trick on his trail/enduro bike as well, can’t remember which video though. But Phil Metz tried to recreate it
1:36 oh i know that place.
I understand the phenomenon, I snowboard places where I wouldn't have ropes, crampons and pickaxes.. 😂but how much did that bike break to make the video? Perche tutti noi abbiamo spaccato di tutto per imparare.
My house is near Shipley glen
What did I mis? What happened to GT?
@leeson24
Жыл бұрын
Contract ended.
@mountaincruiser817
Жыл бұрын
@@leeson24 to bad but , luckely White's got him covered and got some nice bikes.
Surprised he doesn't wear gloves would of thought they would have been essential with the falling off when doing first attempts like that log fall showed
I love my whyte e 160 bike but getting any info from them is a nightmare, they just ignore you whether you ask through videos like this or send them a direct email, after sales service is non existent and you are forced to go through the bike shop dealing with some uninterested teenager and on that basis I won’t be buying another one. I need to know custom tuning specifications for upgrades regarding the rear shock that can only be supplied by the manufacturer but if they are silent it becomes a real chore.
@WhyteBikesgb
Жыл бұрын
Hello. Sorry, we did not mean to ignore you. Can you let me know when you emailed the customer service, and your name, and I'll make sure to give them a nudge.Alternatively feel free to drop us a message on instagram or facebook if you would rather keep the details private! Thanks, Tom
Why using a E-bike?
not a human...
Too much pictures and storie, but still fun.
Being 60 not sure I liked 5he scaring old people comment but other than that…. Come On do it for Yorkshire!!!
Refreshing to see, skill, age, and reasonable video work in place of shitty "Energy" drinks, "daddies money mullets" and no hiding behind silly clown sunglasses.
Good or not. I will quit riding before I ride an Ebike.
Remind me to never loan my bike to him.
That was subpar. Call Commoncal for some pointers.
I couldn't watch this all the way through. The prolific, incorrect use of the word, 'like' in practically every sentence, did my head in. Sorry. Maybe I'll try it with the sound muted.
So good to see a rider of chris’s caliber not riding a mass merchant brand. 🙌🏻🙌🏻