'CHASING THE CLOCK' - BMX IN THE BALTICS

May 12, 2023

Written by Bart de Jong

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A new full length from Toms Silins and the locals out in Riga, Latvia that they've been plugging away at for the last 8 years. Sit back and enjoy all their efforts.

"CHASING THE CLOCK is the name of our full-length BMX project hailing from Riga, Latvia. We're a group of close friends who are all lifelong riders. We're well in our thirties and wanted to leave something behind before riding off into the sunset.

For some of us this is our video debut, for some of us this was something more like a comeback, for most of us this is our last ever BMX video project. Each one of our small group of friends has a regular dayjob, a family and everyday struggles - same as with most BMX riders who at some point realize they are not 16 years old anymore. This is us trying to catch up with time that is constantly slipping away.

There’s this theory known as ‘log time’. It’s that as we age, a year becomes a smaller fraction of our entire lives up to that point.

A year for a 5-year-old is one fifth (or 20%) of their life so far, but a year to a 50-year old is one fiftieth of their life (or 2% of it) so it seems to pass ten times faster. If you’re 33, a year is 3% of your life so far, so time passes almost seven times faster than it did when you were five. Time for an 80-year-old passes almost in the blink of an eye, sixteen times faster than it does for a 5-year-old.

This video is us trying to catch up with time that is constantly slipping away. Hence the name - CHASING THE CLOCK." - Toms Silins

Featured riders: Artūrs Lūrins, Gundars Cipruss, Girts Bērzins, Kārlis Stutāns, Toms Goizevskis, Toms Silins, Ugis Rozlapa.

Edit: Toms Silins
Camera: Toms Silins, Arturs Lurins, Ugis Rozlapa & the rest of the crew
Additional camera: Renars Zvirgzdins, Janis Dreimanis, Egils Kalnins, Eriks Ulankins, Reinis Janulis, Alvis Norde, Janis Bauska & others. Thank you!

Soundtrack (in order):

INTRO - Bright Eyes - Time Code
Girts Berzins - Underworld - I Exhale
Interlude #1 - trakaMelodija - Mana Riga
Ugis Rozlapa - Wu-Tang Clan - Back in the Game (Phoniks Remix)
Interlude #2 - Dirt For Sale - Time
Gundars Cipruss - Gustavo - Senci
Toms Goizevskis - Flying Lotus - Coronus, The Terminator
Interlude #3 - Luc, Hemran Sabity - Chamber of Reflection
Arturs Lurins - BONES - TimeshareCondominium / Alex Burey - Family Stone
Toms Silins - Arturs Skutelis & monkeymusician - Cels ir no kalna
Interlude #4 - CunninLynguists - The Light
Karlis Stutans - Skinshape - Take My Time / Mondo Drag - Zephyr
OUTRO - CunninLynguists - The Gates