Mercedes are trying to tap into the lifestyle van market that Volkswagen have got the lions share of (45 years of heritage!). The art director had clear ideas which helped immensely with finding the locations. We used normal riders and kit to try a make it seem more accessible.

This is the finished article, apologies for the splitting of the double page spreads they were just too big otherwise.

Thanks to all the riders that helped over the 3 days, Jamie Stephenson, Jodie Weston, Adam Carr, James Todd and Rowan Johns.

We got Jamie to show us some moves and wow, this guy does stuff on 26in wheels that you’d normally only see on 20in, and not that often then!

Here’s a few images from the shoot.

The team is spearheaded by Neil Donahue and Helen Gaskell, both top 10 world riders.

I got the bike finished on Monday and went out for a quick 3 1/2 hour test ride on Tuesday afternoon.

Here is the bike all shiny and new;

This is Metz, our personal trainer, every time we stop Metz go’s mad barking at us to get moving!

3 1/2 hours later!