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What a fucking treat! Getting to watch some of the bleeding edge of our sport mix it up with some all time legends was rad as hell. Getting to see a full Sam Hill, Connor Fearon run these days is few and far between. What a fuckin rad event.
Also those belt drive bikes so soooooo nice. Really everyone’s bike just sounds so dialed. It was nice that the top of the track was just rides so you could hear everything working.
@brash i agree. It started at 7pm for me. That was a fuckin party
Yessssss GOLDYYYY!🥳🏅🏅🏅
I'm pretty happy about that result
Local knowledge took that one. HA! That was sick, Goldstone was floating.
Man that was just GOOD in every sense of the word.
Hill just doing Hill lines
The young colombian dude riding like his life depended on it
TROYYYY
Fearon the fastest electrician in the world, back to work Monday Champ, no RDO's!
Asa and Goldstone are the future - I'm all for it.
And to top it off, the sweet sounds of Rob Warner through my soundbar at volume 69!
What a day to be alive.
Can you imagine what the winning margin would have been like if Asa had also taken that inside line that Jackson spotted Troy doing!
Asa stalled quite hard in the right hand corner before the road gap, if he took the double inside surely he would have won. Crazy how much time he made up in the open
Absolutely brilliant race, 2025 starts with a bang! Sam Hill inside lines, sick scrubs, and gnarly pulls. What more can we ask for.
So happy for Jackson, he laid down a PERFECT run. And props to all the riders that took a shot on that track. Legends.
What a way to kick off the season! So rad to see so many pinned runs, with hardly any run crashes as well. Here are the results and a couple of observations:
-22 racers lined up for finals (down from 34 on the full start list, proof that this event is no push-over).
-How cool was it to see Sam Hill and Josh Bryceland just cruising such an intimidating course like it wasn't a big deal? Let's not say they came off the couch to race here, but almost.
-Gracey Hemstreet looked like a sure thing the whole way, smooth and clean. We were slightly disappointed not to see more women make the final, but that means we have that to look forward to in the future!
-Connor Fearon bouncing off his flat pedals in the rough stuff on his way to 5th was SICK.
-Troy Brosnan with a podium for his first ever Hardline is so impressive.
-BK looking to add to his Hardline win tally definitely has his hands full with the kids now.
-Jackson and Asa...watch out, racers of the world, the future is now!
-so good to have Rob and Elliot calling the race, Vali did really well too!
There's an opportunity for a pretty funny joke thrown in there.
If you know you know
That was incredible racing! Great way to start the '25 season. Was up past 10pm watching with my 11yo daughter, glued to the a screen, whooping it up. Coverage was awesome. Commentary, well, as good as it gets! Unreal riding by everyone. That course was really cool.
Onboard with the winner 😵
He over cooked the top of the track, too. I have to imagine he could have won without that inside had he had a clean top section. I’m excited for the magic those two are going to display for years to come.
Gracey is just shockingly cool as a cucumber on the most insane stuff. I think she’s in that same boat of providing magical riding for years to come.
If Asa didnt make the mistake and took the troy line, he wouldve smashed them - hes young with less help and he will learn alot from that experience.
That just makes him even more dangerous knowing it was only .2 after all that.
Asa's Riding is very Bruni like, Smooth & controlled but its freakishly fast.
^^ post race interviews
I thought Asa was more Bernard like, kinda out of control speed style. He was mega charging at the top.
I'd say Jackson is the smooth and controlled style, he squashed the top drops so hard he landed so far up on the landings, made it look like he was barely moving.
Asa - what a frikking talent. He will be unstoppable once he matures a bit.
I've rewatched the runs, Other than the drop, Asa is a smoooooth criminal, I watched a bruni run from last year and they are very similar.
Jackson is quite active trying to generate speed due to him being a lil guy 🤣
We Gotta talk about how good Matt jones did and how much hes progressed, what about theo and his Stoke attitude...
matt Has really generated a good following lately and watching him progress in Queenstown has been amazing to watch
Bumping this as it's the first I've heard (and total BS if it's true). Does anyone else have any info?
HEALING VIBES to Erice! Consequences are heavy out there for sure.
This is a brutal sport. At least she is already on the way to recovery. All the best wishes with the rehab to her, to Elise and to Edgar Briole
I didn't have a lot of time for Matt Jones before he started pumping out pre-hardline vids. Not that I had anything against him, he was just another in a sea of YouTube riders and I started to burn out from them a few years ago. But this event he really separated himself from the pack and it seemed like he massively improved the last month riding with everyone. Big fan of the vibe.
Erice... Damn. Glad she's relatively ok but that's some scary shit. I hope she heals up well.
Matt also said his goal was to beat his time from last year, and he did it. In 2024 he got 3:54.107, and in 2025 he got 3:52.636. He cut 1.471 seconds off his time, and rode 300m further in that time. Serious progression over the past couple weeks in Queenstown.
I've backchecked this and can't find it. I've even tried Wayback machine as well as to see if there's an old cached version of a website that might have been updated/corrected, but nothing. Google aint no help either. In retrospect i'm wondering if the fourth paragraph in the introduction linked here has been changed?
It would be interesting to get a damage/injury report for everyone. 38 on the list and 22 competed.
Tahnee and Loic - no shows, anyone else??
Ronnin crashed out in practice No finial race.
Erice crashed ?? on the last jump on race day practice?
Kaos - Bike and Body report?
BK - snapped a seat stay
Vali - did ?? Most of the features
Edgar - ?
Elise - crashed on the container drop - bumps and bruises only (amazingly lucky) decided to call it.
Who else??
Dan Booker flatted
Lou Ferguson - ?
Vaea Verbeeck - ?
Loic wasn’t on the invite list so you can’t call him a no show.
Vaea posted she wasn’t doing natural selection to rest from a concussion
Lou didn’t do a full run is why she wasn’t in the finals.
Judging by the video of Will Hynes crash on the wombat gap in seeding I’d say he got a concussion. Looked out cold for a bit but haven’t heard anything official.
Will Hynes did get a concussion, but is walking around.
Ollie Davis absolutely destroyed his collar bone on the final jump, so he also didn't make it to race run.
Damn, this was a hard one to watch
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