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Holy Fuck!
Well said Sir!
Looks super chill
holy crap. also, confirmed rider list
(Friday 24th May, 2024) Red Bull Hardline, known as the most challenging downhill mountain bike race world wide, confirms the final rider list for this year’s Wales event.
Following its first event overseas, with a stop Down Under, Red Bull Hardline returns to its home in Wales’ Dyfi valley to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The brainchild of Dan Atherton a decade ago, 34 of the brightest and best talents in downhill mountain biking are set to descend on the north Wales course. With the 2023 event sadly curtailed by the Welsh weather, there’s old scores to settle and it’s all to play for in 2024.
Confirmed Rider List
Ronan Dunne
Bernard Kerr
Brook MacDonald
Charlie Hatton
Adam Brayton
Craig Evans
Theo Erlangsen
Matteo Iniguez
Juanfer Velez
Gaetan Vige
Jim Monro
Matt Jones
Edgar Briole
George Brannigan
Sam Gale
Jono Jones
Sam Blenkinsop
Brendan Fairclough
Josh Bryceland
Dennis Luffman
Sam Hockenhull
Josh Lowe
Taylor Vernon
Thibault Laly
Thomas Genon
Szymon Godziek
Sebastian Holguin
Alex Storr
Vincent Tupin
Harry Molloy
Matteo Iniguez
Female riders will begin training on Monday, giving them ample time to familiarise themselves with the new course, with Tahnée Seagrave, Cami Nogueira and Hannah Bergmann all set to continue to push the boundaries of their sport once again. Louise-Anna Ferguson will be returning to Wales fresh from her success at Red Bull Hardline Tasmania, putting on a gutsy performance to finish a full finals race run despite an early crash. New to Red Bull Hardline, Vaea Verbeeck will make her first appearance, bringing fresh fire power to the women’s lineup
Following his stand-out success at Red Bull Hardline Tasmania, Ronan Dunne will be taking to the start line with aims of achieving the double. Nipping at his heels will be three-time winner Bernard Kerr, who placed second in Tasmania back in February. 2017 champion Craig Evans is back once again and eager to replicate his success of 7 years previous.
The breathtaking race will be broadcasted live globally on Red Bull TV on Sunday 2nd June at 2.30pm GMT. Ahead of the event, fans can enjoy the week’s best action from course walk and practice on the Red Bull Bike YouTube ahead of the main event.
For further Red Bull Hardline rider updates and for more information visit www.redbull.com/hardline and make sure to save the link to Red Bull Bike YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@RedBullBike/featured to not miss out on the week’s best action.
Bummed to not see goldstone or fearon on the list
I believe Louise-Anna Ferguson has said she won't be there as she's focusing on WCDH this season.
Looks like BK has been appointed guinea pig again.
For me, the scaffold structure takes away from the rugged Welsh mountains
bit of a shame to see it head this directions on track building
I started a petition for Gee Atherton to please chill out already:
https://www.change.org/gee_please_stop
I still enjoy Hardline, but I think I preferred it back when there was more tech and it was less about the jumps.
Charlie ftw!
I signed Gee, but also am riding 4 weeks after a broken wrist, have more hardware in my body than I can count, and, can also relate to your perseverance. So, yeah...
Keep it together!
Maybe it’s the angle of the picture, but with the speed they’ll be coming down on that ramp, the flat part before the takeoff looks like a weird flow breaker.
I don't think I'll watch the live broadcast this year.
Nah.. After seeing the brake check on Gee's story, if you get the line in wrong your in for it. Looks brutal.
Is Bernard to be the guinea pig again?
I’ve never met these people but I find the Atherton family terrifying.
Just sayin,
that takeoff doesnt look all nice and floaty. Looks like two separate big compressions with a surprisingly steep and short lip.
Maybe they're gonna add a net? Please?
At this point they should contact Klemens and Sam to get their book of jumps, the Darkfest crew can build insane jumps that are consistent and safe from the first run because of their knowledge, whereas Gee and co have had a less than stellar history of building them correctly first time.
Jesus that looks sketch 😳
I nominate this guy to to test it out
https://youtu.be/nZ950ywJy0M?si=gQKuSWwi_Spo8iqz
Another what happened to the hard-line natural Welsh gnarlyness comment.
It looks like something where you'd see Evel Knievel thumbs up getting loaded into an ambulance.
Well to be fair Goldstone is on med leave from racing right now after his knee injury.
Same with Rampage. Both used to be about raw, rugged lines. Now it’s mega hucks.
bring back raw, rough, natural riding.
Dan is very chill with only slight serial killer vibes.
I once threw Rach out of the workshop because she was being too irritatingly hyper active.......she's forgiven me now.
Interested in how they're going to piece things together, looking at the fourth photo I'm struggling to see how they'll get on to the lily pad or the 90 footers.
They've also groomed the original line from the cliff drop. I'm confused. Alternate lines?
Does'nt appear that the chasm is actually part of the race track. Can't make out any line into it and as has been said how would you have enough speed for the lily pad/90ft/90ft combo.
Looks like they have calmed down the drop after the big metal ramp where Jess broke her ankle.
If you look at the first clip you can just make out a rider dropping down towards the ramp and it looks to me like there's a line to the left above him, but I think it would need an entire new line almost from the start to get on it, then who knows after the gap?
Edit; I've just gone back and looked at some of last year's footage and I don't think that is the cliff drop where Jess got injured.
so there's a video that's not mine to post, but it has been guinea-pigged. not sure when that stuff will hit the airwaves (has it already? i haven't looked at insta in a while). the rider OJ'd a tiny bit and rode out easily, but the jump seems to work fine. as most here have said however, it's probably not about the jump not working...it's the what-ifs of something going wrong on the way to the jump.
a bernard headtube dismemberment on the g-out at the bottom of the ramp? tire going flat? pedal slip? random shit happens and nothing good could come out of a freak accident that results in coming up short. you could say the same for any 90 ft (or 10 ft) double. there's always risk, but at least brendan's canyon gap at rampage was natural and "soft" enough that if something happened, it was likely survivable. metal, wires and scaffolding protruding everywhere? gross.
i'm bummed this kind of spectacle is necessary to draw attention to DH racing. for the riders in attendance, the jump itself isn't really that "hard," and the jump probably won't be a significant piece in deciding the race results. but, just like at rampage (which feels different b/c the competitors are building in their own risk), every rider at hardline has the ability to make their own decision and not race if they think it's morbidly absurd to risk chucking that thing.
i just hope everyone comes out of this event in one piece and that no one feels "group thunk" into dropping in if they don't want to.
The road gap on the old course (maybe it's still there on this new course?) had similar consequences if you had a freak incident on the man-made wood portion of it. Worth mentioning that so far that's never happened.
I admit to having a bad reaction when first seeing this thing as well. Is it just the scaffolding that is rubbing everyone the wrong way?
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