With under a week to go until riders arrive at Hardline for its tenth anniversary, Red Bull has released the list of riders you can expect to find taking on the challenge. For anyone wanting to tune in live, Red Bull will broadcast the event on Sunday, June 2 at 2.30 pm GMT through Red Bull TV. There will also be more videos shared through the Red Bull Bike YouTube channel.
Men:Ronan Dunne
Bernard Kerr
Brook MacDonald
Charlie Hatton
Adam Brayton
Craig Evans
Theo Erlangsen
Matteo Iniguez
Juanfer Velez
Gaetan Vige
Jim Monro
Matt Jones
Edgar Briole
George Brannigan
Sam Gale
Jono Jones
David Perez Nanni
Sam Blenkinsop
Brendan Fairclough
Josh Bryceland
Dennis Luffman
Sam Hockenhull
Josh Lowe
Taylor Vernon
Thibault Laly
Thomas Genon
Szymon Godziek
Sebastian Holguin
Alex Storr
Vincent Tupin
Harry Molloy
Women:Tahnee Seagrave
Cami Nogueira
Hannah Bergmann
Vaea Verbeeck
Jenna Hastings
**While the press release states that Louise Ferguson will be going, she has posted on social media that she is focusing on World Cups and is skipping Hardline Wales.**
Full Press Release: | Red Bull Hardline, known as the most challenging downhill mountain bike race world wide, confirms the final rider list for this year’s Wales event.
Following its first event overseas, with a stop Down Under, Red Bull Hardline returns to its home in Wales’ Dyfi valley to celebrate its 10th anniversary. The brainchild of Dan Atherton a decade ago, 34 of the brightest and best talents in downhill mountain biking are set to descend on the north Wales course. With the 2023 event sadly curtailed by the Welsh weather, there’s old scores to settle and it’s all to play for in 2024.
Female riders will begin training on Monday, giving them ample time to familiarise themselves with the new course, with Tahnée Seagrave, Cami Nogueira and Hannah Bergmann all set to continue to push the boundaries of their sport once again. Louise-Anna Ferguson will be returning to Wales fresh from her success at Red Bull Hardline Tasmania, putting on a gutsy performance to finish a full finals race run despite an early crash. New to Red Bull Hardline, Vaea Verbeeck will make her first appearance, bringing fresh fire power to the women’s lineup
Following his stand-out success at Red Bull Hardline Tasmania, Ronan Dunne will be taking to the start line with aims of achieving the double. Nipping at his heels will be three-time winner Bernard Kerr, who placed second in Tasmania back in February. 2017 champion Craig Evans is back once again and eager to replicate his success of 7 years previous.
The breathtaking race will be broadcasted live globally on Red Bull TV on Sunday 2nd June at 2.30pm GMT. Ahead of the event, fans can enjoy the week’s best action from course walk and practice on the Red Bull Bike YouTube ahead of the main event.— Red Bull |
Dan Atherton and the build crew have been cooking up something special for the tenth year of Hardline. While we haven't seen all of the new changes coming to the course Gee Atherton has shared some shots of a massive new canyon gap.
No issue with having a jump as big as this but why make it over a river / ‘canyon’ so if you mess it up you have much more serious consequences to deal with?
Bullshit for causal mtb people to leer at, it diminishes the riders to a circus act.
still big but a lot less ridiculous than it looks at first glance
The flat, green section of woodwork before the take off ramp or the riders pants?
Only a matter of time before Gee jumps over a hawk jet from Valley whilst it is skimming round macho loop.. Oh I do hope @athertonbikes don't see this because that idea sounds like a really bad idea.
Seriously though, I hope that all the riders have a great weekend and have, It's going to be a fantastic event.
...the lip is ABOVE the treetops?!?
And you land WHERE...?!
C'mon guys...
You take all night to come up with that one, jeeze….
As I said below though, maybe the net will go up and this is all for hype, which is working pretty well if so.
This event is about hitting big jumps on a gnarly track. The race part is barely important, what's most important is everyone progressing and pushing themselves and the great video and photo content we see from it. The vlogs are so good watching people get tested to their limit, seeing the vulnerability.
This is more than just a race. This is Gee and Dans event from the beggining, the wanted to make a world class event out of the crazy shit they love doing on greasy hillsides in Wales and bring all their mates along to try it. This is not about you watching a regular old race.
Not sure what trying your best has to do with it.
Interesting you mention "Gee and Dans event from the beginning" because that's the track and direction I'm talking about being compelling to watch, but apparently your reading comprehension isn't very good and you've invented the idea that I want to watch a "regular race". No, I'm a huge fan of what they've built besides these straight smooth sections that everyone rides exactly the same.
Historically a lot of World Cup sharp end riders have turned up to race Hardline and I don’t recall many victories from anyone who had a World Cup overall in his sights that season. They turned up to have a look, have a go and get some exposure. They haven’t turned up to win and they haven’t put down their best runs. If they had, no freerider or regional racer would have ever won. That’s what I mean by trying their best.
Anyway me laddo, keep watching for a few years and you might learn something.
Turn up and ‘have a go’ at this jump and you could end up in hospital because they couldn’t be arsed to put a f*cking net up, hard to understand, need it ‘spelling out’?
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Ask Tom Walker about what can happen in this kind of situation and jump, not good.
Maybe they will install a crash net and this image is click bait.
If not, I suppose nobody is forcing the riders and they can vote with their feet.
It does look completely f*cking idiotic at this point though.
RED BULL
"risking life & limb for the mighty $)
f*cking ridiculous thing, hopefully nobody gets seriously hurt.
It looks massive, the original and existing road gap is plenty big but this looks next level.
It looks absolutely mental from the main road! Up close it must be ridiculous!
I reckon the top - up until the lily pad jump will be almost completely different. It looks crazy steep.
Lew B was a joke pinkbikers, but you are way too uptight these days to get that.
Bounced on my bike today before this weekends nationals and it didn't creek..