[trib]

First track shots are up, and it looks like we’re in for a solid weekend of free-racing.

I’m surprised Dunne is on the rider list, as per normal the majority of the invite list is guys outside the top 20 and a few semi-retired DH guys plus some freeride folk/content creators.

Fingers crossed no one dies, but they seem to get closer each year.

 

[canadmos]

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/rider-list-announced-for-red-bull-hardline-wales-2024.html

 

[toodles]

 

[DaveW]

No go round line for that, so the odds of a weather event closing the race is pretty high.

 

[canadmos]

According to the fort William race though, global warming has settled all ill weather for England's arm pit region.

 

[trib]

No go round line for that, so the odds of a weather event closing the race is pretty high.

It doesn’t even look like it’s the start or finish section, so really no way to complete the course if the weather doesn’t comply

 

[toodles]

It doesn’t even look like it’s the start or finish section, so really no way to complete the course if the weather doesn’t comply

It would definitely be the finish section if i tried it.

 

[mykel]

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I'm assuming that this has to be a gap or step up for those with no sense of self preservation?

Any dimensions yet?

 

[Fool]

 

[canadmos]

It would definitely be the finish section if i tried it.

You'd have an......off......if you'd say?

 

[Jm_]

According to the fort William race though, global warming has settled all ill weather for England's arm pit region.

So still wet then?

 

[Jm_]

Be pretty fly if they could jump over the EMS helicopter in a hover.

 

[Jm_]

These whales are pretty harcore too:

Killer whales keep ramming and sinking boats. Scientists now may know why, report says.

An international group of orca experts met to determine why orcas are ramming boats. The leading theory: They're bored and playful.

www.usatoday.com

 

[toodles]

I'm assuming that this has to be a gap or step up for those with no sense of self preservation?

Any dimensions yet?

Photoshop stitching done by BKS on Vital

 

[Nick]

OK that’s insane.

 

[canadmos]

Insane in the membrane

 

[DaveW]

Oh like any of us would actually make it as far down the track as that before crashing our brains out!
We'd all be in the air ambulance well before then.

 

[trib]

There is a rock lily pad/on-off section to even get to the roll in.

So much of hard line looks like it was made by people who don’t actually know what they’re doing. Because who would put a wet rock transition in to a wooden roll in to a huge gap? Either people who have no idea how to make a track, or people who have a very very specific idea of who they’re building a track for.

 

[sethimus]

You'd have an......off......if you'd say?

hugey

 

[Jm_]

Oh like any of us would actually make it as far down the track as that before crashing our brains out!
We'd all be in the air ambulance well before then.

Too soon?

 

[HardtailHack]

Looked like a nice place before they fucked it up with all that scaffolding.

 

[konifere]

Photoshop stitching done by BKS on Vital

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I’m sorry, but that ramp looks like it was built by a carpenter that had no clue of what it’s like to go down that fast and set up for a canyon gap like that. Looks like a bucking contest waiting to happen. I don’t even want to see the first rider trying it.

 

[Westy]

I’m sorry, but that ramp looks like it was built by a carpenter that had no clue of what it’s like to go down that fast and set up for a canyon gap like that. Looks like a bucking contest waiting to happen. I don’t even want to see the first rider trying it.

Just need a pool in the middle with some sharks...


With lasers on their freakin' heads.

 

[Andeh]

Someone on Vital posted something along the lines of, "Well they may as well just have the medevac helicopter hoover under the gap and jump it too while they're at it."

 

[Jm_]

Someone on Vital posted something along the lines of, "Well they may as well just have the medevac helicopter hoover under the gap and jump it too while they're at it."

 

[trib]

Not sure if this angle helps show the size better or not. Kip definitely looks like it has a kick to it from the other images.

 

[Pneuma]

Sign the Petition

A Petition For Gee Atherton To Chill Out Already

www.change.org

 

[Westy]

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Not sure if this angle helps show the size better or not. Kip definitely looks like it has a kick to it from the other images.

At least they have pads at the bottom.

 

[jonKranked]

This is still worlds better than wbd

 

[chuffer]

Just watched BK send the gap!

The level of adrenaline in my system is so high right now from watching that I can’t imagine how the whopper feels. He must feel high as fucking kite. Jeebus!

 

[schwaaa31]

2024 Red Bull Hardline

Hardline UK is rolling in less than two weeks and the teaser shots of the canyon gap are pretty insane. Talk all things Hardline right here.

www.vitalmtb.com

Where did you see the POV of that? I’m dying to see that.

 

[chuffer]

Kerr’s youtube has the POV. Kerr’s Instagram has a video of him sending it.

 

[Carraig042]

Matt Jones also post Kerr's and his jump. Sounds like the lip is going to get a re-work.

 

[schwaaa31]

Bike Magazine on Instagram: "The @redbulluk Hardline crew in Wales is pushing the limits of our sport @jimbomonro somehow walking away from this with only a concussion Hope to see Jim back on two wheels soon !! Huge congrats to @bernard_kerr @mattjonesmtb for guinea pigging #redbullhardline #bikemag #mtb"

611 likes, 14 comments - bikemag on May 26, 2024: "The @redbulluk Hardline crew in Wales is pushing the limits of our sport @jimbomonro somehow walking away from this with only a conc...".

www.instagram.com

Holy shit

 

[Gary]

Bike Magazine on Instagram: "The @redbulluk Hardline crew in Wales is pushing the limits of our sport @jimbomonro somehow walking away from this with only a concussion Hope to see Jim back on two wheels soon !! Huge congrats to @bernard_kerr @mattjonesmtb for guinea pigging #redbullhardline #bikemag #mtb"

611 likes, 14 comments - bikemag on May 26, 2024: "The @redbulluk Hardline crew in Wales is pushing the limits of our sport @jimbomonro somehow walking away from this with only a conc...".

www.instagram.com

Holy shit

Healing vibes to Jim.
Hope the guy behind the camera having a stroke got medical attention too

This shit seems pretty stupid outside Pastrana type stunts, nutty video segments or rampage style events. Does anyone actually see features like this make for good "racing"?

 

[toodles]

Wonder what the actual dimensions of the jump are? Over on Pinkbike there's a few people saying its too stupid and risky, and others telling them to shut up because this is progressing the sport.

Out of curiosity is it actually progression in terms of distance or whatever or is it just really fucken dangerous if someone makes a mistake? Sure is a fucking wild spectacle though. Can't wait to have every non-MTB riding friend and family member forward this to me for months once it goes onto Facebook.....

 

[Jm_]

Healing vibes to Jim.
Hope the guy behind the camera having a stroke got medical attention too

This shit seems pretty stupid outside Pastrana type stunts, nutty video segments or rampage style events. Does anyone actually see features like this make for good "racing"?

Definitely needs to be more cheese-wedge shaped, because it's not like you are trying to cover a shit-load of horizontal distance...

 

[toodles]

This shit seems pretty stupid outside Pastrana type stunts, nutty video segments or rampage style events. Does anyone actually see features like this make for good "racing"?

I always forget that its technically a race hey. Looking at how much the G-out and kick compressed the bike on the practise run, it will be wild when they come in at race pace and exhausted/fatigued. Hope no-one collapses in the compression because oooooffft that will be bad.

 

[Pneuma]

That thing is the motherbucker.

 

[Bikael Molton]

Not a fan of the canyon jump.