VITAL RAW - World Champs Downhill Day 1 27

Where’s my day 2 Vital RAW? I’ve already watched day 1 five times.

Danny's drop to hyperspeed cornering at 3.00 was absolutely beautiful.

I would love to see Danny take it again, but what I'd love to see even more is Brook pull out all the stops and have the most savage run of all time.

This!

Totally crazy. I watch this and am glad I write code for a living instead of trying to beat these dudes down the hill at MSA

Also, any future VitalMTB wheel testing should be held exclusively at MSA. So brutal!

for realz, eh? it's as gross as moab but with dirt, roots and trees. also, if greg is nearly headslapping, that drop out of the woods has to be harsh.

I'd say its worse than Moab only because so many of those rocks...err boulders are harder to see. These dudes are smashing into square edges left and right that are hard to see on camera, let alone when going 30mph+

true. the sniper factor is high at MSA.

edit...holy cow, just watche Luca's POV and there are so many rocks that don't look visible in RAW. F THAT PLACE lol

Anyone else notice how Finn/Loic is using a lot more of their fork's stroke especially in higher speed type stuff? Obviously just internet speculation here, but it seems like their fork's ending spring rate is a lot lower, using damping to keep the fork from bottoming?

Could very well be. Using damping for bottom out control can be speed sensitive rather than using the spring which is only position sensitive.

that footage of Brook on that fast straight is mental

that's first day track speed.!!?? jeebus.. sven doesn't even look bad without eyebrows.. i bet they grow back in like a week..

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gotta say it was a bit of a let down b/c he hardly looks different HAHA!

In all fairness, the silver backs hair is so grey now, it's almost transparent. I wish I had sent Brendog a "stalker fan" link to Nair hair waxing strips. He could have snuck one on and just tugged for the best comedy

Danny Hart manual at 5:40...that was the single most aggressive move in the whole clip. Just a vertical wheelie at full speed slamming a rock water bar & sucking it up like a sponge!!!

Would love to see a slo mo of that move

Agree. Second place goes to the artfully executed pre-jump at 4:40.

Thank you

damn, is Troy going to be able to ride?

my god....not gonna sleep tonight after watching these maniacs send it...wow!!!!!

You speak truth.

While watching this I was reminded of the jeans thread in a forum section and rather than go track that down I'll just say this... The UCI said No More Skin Suits! So pants got slimmer and slimmer and now they might as well be skinny jeans. Certainly not tights though. Color is just a color. So the Denim Destroyer kind of has a point.

The ban at least allowed companies like TLD to develop out own signature gear & style design wise. The irony of DH having copied moto is that now moto kit looks to have moved more toward DH style material & slim, stretch fit than is to the materials advancements. When you see a DH rider now, you readily identify them & the look isn't disturbingly roadie-centric

How are you going to dial it up?

Danny you animal

that whole video was amazing, but Danny definitely won it