Check out how Ratboy and 2017's Hardline winner Craig Evans tackled the insanely gnarly course side-by-side. It's interesting to see who was faster where!
@bizutch: Exactly my thoughts. Is f*ck one of the only words he knows do you reckon? My six year old son isn't going to grow up a ratboy fan, that's for sure. Gee is much more wholesome. Remember that time at the worlds when he hit that stump with a pedal and went down hard? He either did not swear, or edited it out. Both of which are preferable to this style of "No fooking waaaaay!" That kind of language use reminds me of myself when I was about twelve to be honest. Maybe that's who this video is aimed at, the 11-15 year olds that know swear words bug haven't managed to figure out the time and the place just yet.
Interesting to see how each gains and looses so much time so quick. You can look at one camera and a second later the other is suddenly ahead or behind again. Hard to understand how it changes so fast. I guess just confidence in a certain section.
Dont forget ratboy is 2014 world cup champion. People usually forget that apart from being generally relaxed Josh is insanely fast on the bike. The man beat Gwin in Windham he is a beast on the bike.
@petrospit: The Rat has him on pretty much all of the tech sections, the time he drags back on the section before the road gap is insane- but certainly looks like his fitness might not have been up to scratch against a guy who's been grinding hard on the WC circuit for the last few years. Really interesting, especially just how fast Ratty is through those tech sections, compared to a guy who is seriously fast through tech in his own regard.
@bluumax: Craig didn't racing any world cup since lenzerheide round 5 2016, Rat last world cup : vallnord round 7 2016. And rat fitness is not that bad, even if you have rat skills, you can't score a top 20 at EWS without fitness.. And craig have a job beside biking
I was impress by Craig's perfomance at hardline, every year. He didn't perform really well at world cup, any top 60 in his career .. lot of non qualy party ..But on this such gnarly track, it seem he can catch up every top wc rider, quite impressive. His win last year was crazy
It's great cause their both really good friends.. 2 really stylish guys
@bluumax: Ratboy puts a good second down on the rock chute right before the roadgap. He rode that far cleaner than Evans. That being said, Evans rode the rocks after the cannon and the second jump way quicker.
It's fantastic to see the difference in styles where one gains time on the other. Craig made up tons of time in the first tech section after the big step up but after the double hip step ups, Rat, made up time in the woods and the technical bit before the road gap. And on the last part, despite running on fumes, he carried so much speed in the final jumps he left Craig for good.
At this level, it's about squeezing every bit of speed.
(just for PB's non-English/Mancunian speakers)
My six year old son isn't going to grow up a ratboy fan, that's for sure. Gee is much more wholesome. Remember that time at the worlds when he hit that stump with a pedal and went down hard? He either did not swear, or edited it out. Both of which are preferable to this style of "No fooking waaaaay!"
That kind of language use reminds me of myself when I was about twelve to be honest. Maybe that's who this video is aimed at, the 11-15 year olds that know swear words bug haven't managed to figure out the time and the place just yet.
Really interesting, especially just how fast Ratty is through those tech sections, compared to a guy who is seriously fast through tech in his own regard.
I was impress by Craig's perfomance at hardline, every year. He didn't perform really well at world cup, any top 60 in his career .. lot of non qualy party ..But on this such gnarly track, it seem he can catch up every top wc rider, quite impressive. His win last year was crazy
It's great cause their both really good friends.. 2 really stylish guys
Really wish that Josh (always forget his real name lol) would return to the WCs.
I'd like to see videogameesk 'rider vs ghosts' footage....
At this level, it's about squeezing every bit of speed.
I miss Ratboy
(Ali G grammar nazi)
got the answer from @jack-cornelius in the post above.