Mach Speed Video: Josh Bryceland's Finals Helmet Cam

 or fire roads

 or in my car

 That right-hander at 1:58... holy sh*t.

 I thought you were gonna say faster than ... The mayor down the way in Toronto

 This is just insane fast. Death defying. I almost puked my lunch at 2min30 when i saw him going ligntspeed in the tight woods !

 And to think, sams run was even faster :O

 Naah, the right-hander at 2:40 is just a warp-speed bounce and instant direction change. Bonkers fast.

At point does Ratboy become Ratman?

 i was squeezing my imaginary brakes and leaning way back at my desk watching this video! and I think i peed a little too. holy fast! make me realize the skill level these guys ride at.

 Hwulex- Hopefully never. It'll be a sad day when he loses his innocence and finds out Santa was really just Steve Peat with a fake beard. That was wild. Definitely went back and re-watched a few sections, especially that right hander... whoa.

 Thats fucking phenomenal! Ridiculous

 This is my other definition of FAST..next to sam of course

 2:35 - 2:45...wow....

 WHAT HAPPENED TO THE VIDEO?? I'M PISSED!

 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HIS VIDEO IS ON HIS FB PAGE HERE:

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 That's Ratman!

 that would be so good to see again!

 The last 200m is where Josh lost it.

 On the live feed it did look like Ratboy went a bit off line heading onto the wooden bridge over the XC course. Doubt it's worth the second he lost by, but it's hard to tell where could've gone any faster

 Yeah he was down at both splits. But over a 4min track, 1.2 seconds is 0.5% difference.... In the "on the hunt" vid, you can see Sam take a trademark inside line through the switch backs coming off the motorway, and it sets him up much straighter/higher for the next turn... I guess he has little tricks like that the whole way down

 Between 3:39 and 3:54 Sam also took some time out of Ratty. In one of the other vids you can see Sam keeping to the right, just along the tape and to the right side of a padded tree in the course. Josh Bryce followed the conventional line breaking away from Sam's at 3:39, more down the fall line, well to the left of the padded tree, but then had to come back across to the right, rejoining Sam's line at 3:54. Sam not only took the much straighter line through the section, but was lined up better (and straighter) for the turn that followed--an infamous left hander followed by a slab-drop. All together Sam probably gained close to a second right there.

 ^that's at 3:49, NOT 3:39!

 we are two... ahahah!

 used to think i was a handy rider with a bit of pace, how wrong was i haha

 Maybe you have a point there...who knows. A lot of wide open speeds and that camera,s profile doesn't help

 he's out of em before he's in em

 Are you saying he's going so fast that he has reversed time itself?!

 news.discovery.com/human/psychology/need-a-burst-of-energy-watch-a-rerun-120908.htm

 I saw a documentary a few years ago that said pretty much the same thing. They weren't speaking about DH riders specifically but the principles will be the same, they were talking about Rally drivers more, the said that the amount of info they process and the speed that they do it is actually not possible for normal people and that they are actually very similar to insane people! They even spoke about tennis players and the fact that they hit the ball so fast they can't possibly see where it's going to aim at it and that they are in fact almost like Jedi lol, they're are swinging at the air where they think the ball is giving to be.

 I would have to disagree. Elite athlete can do it because they practice so much they know what is coming up. In the army we used to scrape both sides of the APC on trees at speed driving through periscopes. We got good because we practiced. We didn't know the track we just judged distances and ran on instinct. If you dedicate your life to it, you train your brain to predict what to do next. Muscle memory takes control and away you go.

 they just read the play better, through practice

 That's cool, think its sometimes called the "zone" too, everybody's experienced it where things seem to slow down and going fast seems easy but the good guys can flip the switch whenever they need too

 They're plugged into the matrix more like

 Really, you are comparing driving an APC to riding a downhill bike at wicked fast speeds down a world cup course?

 The bikes nearly come undone every race run. It's Rat himself who's that smooth. His arms and legs are working overtime.

 Not to mention his extensions are long travel

 He's gone into ludicrous speed!

 He's gone to plaid.

 Only one person did. Sam F'in Hill!

 I'm kind of glad Sam's run isn't on helmetcam as our brains would have imploded trying to comprehend it...not that Josh's run didn't cause a medium-level implosion. Mental!!

 These are group B bikes! like those maxi turbos, stratos, s4 etc... Used to see those cars rallying behind my house. Wrc are boring now hahaha

 Nope, not sped up. He starts his run at :30 and ends it at roughly 4:43 on the video and his official time was 4:11

If my elementary math is correct, it looks like that is actually how fast WC riders go. And it also looks like my career path is not a DH racer...

 The only rider I saw do that...and he aced it at that.

 Tis' insane - you can hear him bottom out at 3:45 as he charges nose first down the rock garden.

 An Iron Horse!

 @octura
That was funny as hell!!!!!!

 Which is veeeerrrryyy surprising.

 Was thinking the same thing. Man did some folks miss out.

 Bwarrp speed!

 Yeah but Josh looked like he was cruising an A-Line lap!

 And the RAT is in second overall.....

 All makes sense now!

 Yeah I reckon I could shred that.... on my face! :-)

 The track is normally open for ''normal people'' after the WC.