Video: Aaron Gwin Takes a Flat Out Lap in Laguna Beach

 soooo can i get directions? GPS location maybe? lol

 Thx Rads

 @The-Banders: you can't find telonics? Seriously?

 @jrocksdh: Thats what I was going to say. If you have ridden ANY trail in Laguna it was built by the Rads.

 @The-Banders: Drive to Top of the World, park your car where the road ends. Face north.

 @Revkev151: I live in norcal so I don't know that area. Never been down there.

 @Sweatypants: Next trip south we take we are there!

 @The-Banders: while ez to shuttle, there are actually much better trails on offer; and much more technical trails too. Def worth bringing all mountain bike or E.

 @jrocksdh: we only have dh or dj rigs. I'm just chasing my kid around now.

 I've run into families taking a hike on it. It happens quite often on the weekend.

 @TimnberG: Can confirm, hikers even like to sit on the gnarliest parts of this trail, with their back to you and obscured by a blind corner. Pretty sketchy coming in to that situation at 25+ mph -_-

 @ms-dos: my friends like to call those picnics. So crazy and dangerous

 little hard to come by in southern california...

 Not sure if weather is your thing, but Morzine in the winter is not socal in the winter.

 i really wish that he could win a few more race

 Since it’s an embedded YouTube vid, Aaron gets the views.

 Good question, I'm worried he might go broke.

 @ctd07: or he's testing a whole new everything, down to his shoes.

 @ctd07: jump high for show, stay low for dough.

 Because it's Aaron Gwin!

 The fastest Strava time that I could find was 1:42 in 2013. The fastest result this year is 1:57. Anneke Beerten holds the QOM at 2:07.

The length of Aaron's video was 1:46, and it looks like he started 5 seconds in, so give him a 1:40 to 1:43 (in there somewhere).

I think he has probably ridden that trail quite a bit, as have others on the strava board, but the fact that he was doing that speed for testing makes that number seem impressive.

I would weight the yearly results (and perhaps 2021) higher than the 2013 results as the trail conditions would be more similar (it is very dry here now). Maybe they were the same in 2013, but without a prior distribution I would bias my result towards more recent results.

 @penguinni: does your math account for the sections of the video that are edited out? Not to say he's not incredibly fast, but this vid isn't an unedited run top to bottom

 @penguinni: I don’t think this is the same segment in the video as the one you’re talking about? I’m just poking around some of my times and I see the segment that’s 4 letters and another “non hazardous” that is pretty close(but not the exact same) to the numbers you’re saying, and the non hazardous segment is significantly shorter than what Gwin hits here. The 4 letter segment’s KOM and QOM are 2:33 and 3:00 flat respectively. Maybe my phone just hasn’t flagged that segment my last couple times riding, I usually just come straight in from a little higher up without stopping where Gwin starts here. All kind of moot since the video cuts though

 @penguinni: definitely wasn’t breaking any Strava records this day with how crazy the wind was. Just an average run doing suspension testing, did about 6 more just like it that day. Haha Would be cool to race it though.

 Your the GOAT bro. Not sure why people have to bring up Strava. I have a buddy who has a couple of Strava KOMs because of a glitch. Just keep riding. Love watching your videos and seeing you out at Greer every once in a while. You are a super cool guy who takes the time to talk to everyone and a great ambassador for DH.

 @Aeth: Ya not sure (the man spoke for himself below

I was doing the best I could with the data I had available; a bit of travel segment search and a little looking at the video with a few (as you pointed out) possibly erroneous assumptions -- like the video a dually being the entire segment. Either way, seemed viscerally fast to me!

 @AaronGwin1: Sounds good. Didn't want to speak for your times. Was trying to get a ballpark for us fans. Possibly a bad ballpark in the end.

Testing conditions in CA in a way that could generalize Europe sounds hard. It is bone dry up here in Oakland, CA. I imagine the set up must be constantly changing. One day someone will make an app for you to track that stuff -- or just an excel sheet

 You don't waste your weekends do you

 @penguinni: haha all good, didn’t mean it to put you on blast or anything, I just couldn’t find the segment and was like “damn are people dropping this in 1:45, I’m even slower than I thought”