MADE in NL - A Mountainbike Film with Tristan Botteram

Tristan Botteram is an unlikely mountain bike talent. He comes from the flattest country on earth, yet has a natural ability to ride bikes down mountains. And super fast.

The young Dutch downhill racer killed his last season as a junior in 2018. He won the iXS Downhill Cup, finished second overall in the iXS European Cup, ended 4th at his first ever World Cup in La Bresse and 9th at World Champs in Lenzerheide, despite injuring his hand in practice.

But Tristan's ultimate goal is a lot bigger than that. He wants to become a professional mountain biker, earn a spot on a downhill factory time and move to a place where lush mountains and rowdy trails are right outside the doorstep. "Like Austria, or something."

In this video, we follow Tristan on his way to achieve that goal, at the eighth round of the iXS Downhill Cup in Thale, Germany, where he had to fight hard for the win.

A special thanks(!) to Royal Boskalis for providing awesome aerial footage of a dredging vessel reinforcing the Dutch coastline.

Filming and production: Fine Line Media

Music in order of appearance: Selfish by Theevs, Once and for All by Ian Post, Lullaby by Assaf Ayalon, The Chapman Run by Eyal Raz and Derive by Theevs.

All Music licensed through Artlist.

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