ABSTRACT
This chapter draws upon two case studies that use naturalistic third-party video data, that is, mountain biking action captured from helmet-mounted action cameras which are then posted on social media sites. The aim is to understand how things ‘fall into place’, and to show the salience of social interaction in spatially situated mountain biking action. Necessarily, there is an inferential aspect to the sociological interpretation, but the beauty of video data is that close examination and the presentation of graphic transcripts can give an outside reader a good feel for how mountain biking problems unfold in the vivid present. Thus, the chapter offers a contribution to the understanding of how spatial, interactive, and embodied elements coalesce to constitute the unfortunate elements that are the other side to the thrill and pleasure of mountain biking.
