Bernard Kerr reveals the REAL Hardline canyon gap story and 2025 plans!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- Anybody else counting down the day till Red Bull Hardline 2025!?
Olly sits down with Bernard Kerr to recap his season so far and much more. Bernard shares insights from testing features at Red Bull Hardline in Tasmania and Wales, explains how Red Bull prioritizes athletes' best interests, and reveals the strategy behind Jim Monro's gap jump crash footage and its massive viewership. He also breaks down his season, including not qualifying in Val di Sole, the mudder in Les Gets, and offers secret training and bike setup tips. Bernard also shares some inside knowledge about Dakotah Norton’s bar height, discusses why Amaury Pierron is so fast, and loads more...
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Footage of the crash made it to my non-mtb colleagues and they all now think that the river gap is normal mtb and what I do every weekend 😂
DO NOT correct them. Live the glory! lol
The video Bernard, Matt and Jimbo made was the MTB moment of the year! Most awesome thing since Brendog's canyon gap
What’s really special about this chat is that it is two people who’re involved in building and riding at the absolute cutting edge of what’s possible. Unique I’d say. Thanks 🎉
BK segments never disappoint! Thanks guys!
Big up
07:20 you can hear BK's eye squish. Just in case you missed it.
thanks
DUDE, THANKS!
A lot of people grew up with either a father, or uncle, or other, that had either violent or alcoholic tendencies, and it's been proven it so many instances that it comes from poorly monitored head injuries in their youth. So many sports have taken the proper steps to remove players and athletes from the rotation of their schedule to let the brain properly heal. The fact that MTB in it's entirety seems to be 20 years behind in concussion protocols is ridiculous. You only get one, it shouldn't be up to the athlete that just had their entire nervous center compromised in an impact to make decisions as to whether or not they ride the next day. Helmets only do so much.
Can’t wait for next year’s hardline
Clean your socks, man.
Great to hear an insider's knowledge on this. Nice one.
Insta360 dub was hilarious!
Also nice that this lacks the other host imo
Agree. We’re trying to find a replacement. Any ideas?
Excellent stuff lads... 🙌
really interesting vid, explaining the agenda and testing of the river gap. It looked much much better when it was cammoed.
After a Head Trauma you Look Good but whats Happening to the brain is another huge story
Now thats good content... ;-)
Big up
Cool to hear it explained. That was an insane jump.
Damn mtb is behind on head injury awareness. Loss of memory after a head injury is FAR very very fucking far from totally fine. Completely unacceptable for event organisers not to try push more safety, not saying to make the tracks easier but look at rugbys HIA system and take some notes.
Nah man, you're far behind on how aware the MTB industry is on head injuries. But ya know, can't reason with the people who want to bubble wrap everything and don't understand the sport at all.
Great insight, I can't even imagine how big that jump is in person. BK is the man!
I remember matt said “ you cant stop!”
Redbull is my favorite for mtb racing. UCI destroyed their product
Naaaa... you guys are the best 🤟✨
Love the content, but…..AG-1, it’s a totally con and you surely don’t want to be associated with it.
plants are poison. carnivore is the best diet.
We’ve both been taking it religiously for a couple of years. Unsure where the con is?
Let the boys eat....
th-cam.com/video/wb1g-Cbcjwo/w-d-xo.htmlsi=yhZXUToYriiIYfpD Scott Carney's video on AG-1's creator and how it began is worth a watch to anyone who has time. Obviously look at both sides but there's definitely stuff here to make you think twice about it, even if it's just on moral grounds.
plants are poison. carnivore is the best diet.
They get their product more known by paying lots to set it up. My guess is they want to reward people for taking risks - social media boosts - first exclusives on the story of them messing up. For RB, more risky stunts (when they come off) clearly gets more views and their product in the limelight more. So they want to encourage that. They will not want to show the footage of injuries so much though.
Cecond!
Love it
Bernard what dude !!! xxxx
Big up
70ft but a massive drop
Crankworx could learn a thing or two about how RedBull handled that situation, and how they treat their riders in general.
BK needs a redbull lid
he declined it, They still work together though.
@@MrSupermugen thats interesting, i dont think many riders would.
@@MrSupermugenleatt are a key sponsor for him, likely had something to do with it.
@@JamesBarker-u2eRed bull helmets are the athletes normal helmet painted in the red bull colour scheme
Olly's head looks massive with this camera angle.
Some comment that 😂
If you develop something, don't show it online because most people nether did anything on their own so they don't know how to learn from failure and they judge such developments as a failure.
The fact he made it out of that crash RELATIVELY unharmed.. Ignore the fact of how big that jump was, as far as crashes go, he walked away literally unharmed really... NOW add the fact it was a bloody gap over a river with next to 0 room for error... My man was watched over that day. Mad feature to have. Glad it was removed. Far too big of a send that!
Agreed it was insane
Setting a bike up for hardline would be hard enough with out a man made kicker to take into consideration.
I still dont get what they were thinking about with the gap jump it was too dangerous zero safety...
Just do it for the views and money...........umm.........
cirst fomment
Don’t bring the river gap back, you’re just making it a step to far for the girls.
They can use that other route, the B line, so to speak.
pay gap or river gap? let's stop the progression so we can be woke. there's nothing stopping the girls from hitting the gap.
@@sultanabran1 nothing to do with being woke, your right there is nothing stopping the girls hitting the gap but they probably won’t yet. It would just be great to follow Tasmania and take the sport forward for everyone. Here in Australia there are far more girls ride than the uk and they rip hard, it’s just good to have a mix and the more riders the better for everyone.
@@scottstidston7850 should the aim be getting the girls better? or lowering the level?
The river gap is 20 foot shorter than the 90 footers further down that have featured for the last couple of years. Should they also be removed as the girls might struggle to hit them?