OverDrive Media Group

OverDrive Media Group is owned and run by Felix van Oost, a 15-year-old freeride and downhill mountain biker who is passionate about riding and showcasing the sport, which we consider a way of life, to the world in stunning high-definition video, using our unique point of view on the sport of mountain biking derived from our age.

We do not usually cover MTB-related events, as we believe that these are usually well-documented in video and photo form by others, although we do attend some of the more important and interesting things going on. Instead, we focus mainly on filming ourselves and close friends in remote or less popular locations, which helps ensure that our footage is unique and isn't just a new angle of a location you've all seen before. For this reason we do not produce as many videos each year as other videographers, as we cannot plan trips very often since we are in the middle of a high-school education. Our focus is on quality, not quantity, and we hope this will make the viewing experience more enjoyable for you.

"It all started in February 2008, when I met Vivian Viljoen. Myself and Vivian were the only two people riding downhill at school, and being classmates we had plenty of time to talk about mountain biking. In February one of us casually threw around the idea of making a video together, and after days of brainstorming we finally came up with a name - 2WO FO4R ZER0, which stands for 2 Riders, 4 Locations, and Zero gravity. That summer, in July, we went to film for a week in Verbier, Switzerland as my family have a residence there, we we had plans to shoot in 3 other locations in Germany. However, the project stalled shortly after shooting in Switzerland due to exams at school, and we only resumed work on 2WO FO4R ZER0 in April 2009. About a month before we had planned to film at the other 3 locations, Vivian has some bad news to share. He had just found out that he was moving back to his home country of South Africa - in 4 days' time. We frantically got back to work and filmed the Hamburg, Germant segment (one of the local spots) literally hours before Vivian had to pack his bike up for the move. Vivian's early departure mean that we never managed to film in the other 2 planned locations, so we had to leave 2WO FO4R ZER0 as it was. Editing the thing took me almost 3 weeks, as I had never edited a video in my life before. It was finally released late May this year, just over 10 months after we started filming. In the end, 2WO FO4R ZER0 was never really a success, but nevertheless we were proud of what we managed to achieve. What 2WO FO4R ZER0 did do was show us how much fun we could have filming, riding, and editing a movie together. I decided that I would persue this new hobby and make more videos in the future, so I created OverDrive Media Group as a name to go by for my future videos.'' - Felix van Oost