Aaron Gwin Fort William POV

 Gwin has one speed and one speed only

 his speed is too high to be measured in mph, its measured in what mach he is going

 no need to go and get all serious t'was jokes

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 I'm pretty sure he hit Mach ten at least twice in that run.... No surprise that the wind noise was similar to being inside an sr71

 I wonder if electrical tape over the mic would help cut down on wind noise?

 "Me pinned is like Aron Gwin cruising" -Mitch Ropelato, at the Sundance showdown in UT a couple weeks ago

 My head was still back at the starting line when he was crossing the finish line. That was so fast my brain hurts.

 wilkey - and mitch ropelato cruising is like your average local downhill racer pinned!

 He just floats over everything

 He`s so smooth.. And the lines he chooses. I`m shocked with every video I see. Go Aaron!

 I was kind of wondering how his brakes were so quiet... but then i realized he just doesn't use them.

 That was intense!

 +1

 Don't think he the right man to test prototype Shimano saint brakes, he never uses them haha. one rapid dude, good to see someone setting a new benchmark. so fast

 @dh-andy you want him to float into your rectum

 @HMBA106- true story. he was at our local race a couple weeks ago. he went a head and set a coarse record

 I heard that Gwin just takes his brakes off now.

 Agree! If Stewart can wear one for a 40 minute MX moto they should allow DH rider to wear them.

 They would make you pay £1,000,000 for some silly permit if they were allowed anyway. In classic uci style.

 Well apparently 3 seconds slower...

 u mean cmon UCI MAKE all racers where helmet cams! It would bring viewing to the next level and make it a live feed so we can watch in real time spliced with other camera angles. That's next level stuff that would bring DH racing to everyone!

 yeah cmon!! markeed totally agree with you! it will be crazy to see some live stuff with the riders' point of view in the world champs... and it's awesome how smooth aaron looks...!! nevertheless, really funny to see all the people crossing near aaron like "look, another rider" and not, "LOOK!! AARON GWIN!!"

 live feed helmet cams would be the best thing ever. that coverage was shocking looking back at it, the helmet cam shows the other 90% of the track we missed!!!

 I really dont want downhill to grow to much it would really take the community feel out of it and drive the big business like nike to it just make money off it. I ride to get away and chill with friends, i dont want to be it to become like football.

 Dont worry brah when MTB ruinned by rich kids and gear aholics their always something new and interesting too get in to haha

 amen!!

 really funny to see all the people crossing near aaron like "look, another rider" and not, "LOOK!! AARON GWIN!!"

 I would be shaking after that run and he's like cruising around looking for a snack.

 Big detail to see the present world champion having the nearest boxes. And yeah, looks like returning back to home after a quite simple work day... XD

 After every line he took you think to yourself "yes that was the best line to take its obvious now"

 Eh... He clearly doesn't take the shortest line every time. Watch it a few times. In many cases he takes lines that look rougher/longer, but would allow his bike to float over things but put him in a good position to carry momentum and speed better through turns.

Overall he has great line choice. Which is what helps him create the gaps he does. But if you look at splits, he certainly lags in areas compared to other riders. He's not invincible, but he's found the best overall strategy that works for him. I mean, if I had to say it, he probably has a great ability to look at the track and really see a way to carry consistent speed, whereas it seems other riders lag heavily in certain areas but excel in others. And that's very noticeable comparing splits amongst the other riders.

Then again, I'm no professional. I'm just a shmuck making assumptions based on what I see. I'm probably full of shit.

 Haha. Someone, it seems, was so offended by what I had said they decided to message me and inform me that my mother and sisters are all whores. Stay classy guys. Or rather I should say, stay classy brett.

 Thing is your right. In a video on here it was asking 'How is Aron Gwin so fast'. He says that he finds little bit of times in certain areas. This looks like how he does it.

 cyrix says some wise things. Here's how another non-professional (me) sees it. Gwin sees lines differently, more like a chess player. A line that seems shortest, quickest or smoothest through a given section or turn might be a bad setup for something below that section or turn, which would be a bad setup for something below that. Connecting things for a smoother overall line, rather than imagining it's about tricky spots and focusing on tricky spots. The whole track is a tricky spot, in other words. Might not be as thrilling to watch, if you're watching to see people super-loose and just this side of exploding. I find it exciting watching someone make a track look simple when it's not simple at all.

 This is a sign of his moto background. In motocross they always look for fastest line, on every corner. Also Aaron said in an interview that he was best at sections of motocross that weren't filled with riders, and he always felt that he would do well in a timed version of moto (which would be very similar to DH).
Correct me if I'm wrong, because I really don't know much about dh.

 Beardless you must also remember that the camera is mounted on his head so when he leans into the corner, the view of he camera will always be near the most inside line. It does not mean he is riding over the dirt just below his helmet through every turn though.

 Chuck Norris wished he was that fast

 haha, what kind of a product tester is he anyway...

 not brakes evidently

 Hang on a minute.... this video shows Gwin travelling down the track in 4:46 seconds in practice?!?! his winning time was 4:48............. Have we just seen someone ride faster in practice than in their actual race run and take the lead??

 It was raining on the day. Everyone was slower. Sticky mud... Slippy roots... Low visability... All that good fort bill wet-weather shit.

 No there's a cut in it

 Yep happen a lot when conditions change, marcs qualifying run was faster then gwins winning one.

 Track was dry and fast in practice and foggy and wet on race day.

 Not really, Danny was less than a second behind the ginger tornado and took over a second out of him on the motorway...

 and yet has yet to win again this year...

 Gwin>Danny

 Gwins defiantly a better racer as he is loads more consistant. danny has what i takes he just cant do it all the time like gwin.

 here we are again. I think it's cuz he's Gwin.

 Ginger Tornado

 ginger tornado........??????? just......... no.............

 If Hart didn't do such huge whips on his run he probably would have had the fastest time.

 Hart didn't whip in his race run. He straight aired the motor way jumps....

 ahhhhhhh..... wrong website buddy.

 there's something wrong with this guy

 Tee hee

 world champs in champery he crashed, probs would have won if he stayed on. maybe. and he crashed in fort bill quali but won in finals. he has mad skilzz.

 @jumpingman:
He crashed in val di sole in 2010 just after the road gap when he used to ride for Yeti, and at Fort Bill in 2011, but wasn't on camera. He is still human, just a human that is also scary fast at riding a bike. Gwin makes mistakes like everyone else, he's just better at finding lines that keep him going the quickest.

 Danny was up on his time before he crashed at world champs. I dont really think the crash made that much of a difference really.

 Thats what i was thinkin. His line choice is nothing short of perfect.. The speed he takes some of those corners at blows my mind.

 "in the zone" that is a good call. For the briefest moment I almost knew what it felt like to go that fast. Then I realized I was sitting in front of a computer. Some of those segments really draw you in.

 no kidding. like he's tiptoeing over the tops of the rocks only at incredible speeds

 Remember that race day was super wet and foggy... very different conditions.

 He is clearly talking about qualifying, not race day.

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 Yeah, I was talking about Marc Beaumonts qualifying run, that was around 6 sec faster on the same dry conditions.

 But would you push more on a head cam run in practice, or you actual qualy run? I would say your qualifying run, especially if your an adopted atherton.

 I'm not saying that this helmet cam was Gwin pushing it to the max, I'm just saying that everyone is impressed with the helmet cam run and that same run was still 6 sec slower than Marcs quali run..
Now imagine if we had a helmet cam of Marcs run .

 6 seconds on a 5ish minute track wouldnt look any faster than this to the eye. It would have to be 20-30 seconds to be visibly different.

 Your not, search David knight vs gee atherton on YouTube!

 2:05/2:06

 He stopped during the practice run and spent a few minutes checking out the line approaching the drop at this corner.

 that was lmfao mashed with blur - song 2, probably a dj spinning it

 This was taken during Saturday morning practice

 I think that he is brah