Racing bikes on the absolute edge of usually includes wild crashes and even wilder saves. UCI World Mountain Biking World Cup season 2019 was no exception. We've dug into the archives and compiled the wildest, most breathtaking moments from the past racing season.— Red Bull
I really am blown away by just another way that WC racers are so much better than all the rest of us. I would have crashed in every single one of those situations where the racers saved something insane. And Amaury's finish line endo is just insane every time I see it!
I really don't know what group of riders you’re looking at to make that statement. Maybe compared to some joeys getting sketchy, but to an average rider none of those saves are impressive. I know people who have saved themself from stuff that looks way worse than all of the minuscule number of saves in this video and I’ve seen way cooler/more impressive saves by non pros on Instagram. The only real impressive save I can think of from the whole season is Kade Edwards nearly crashing from roosting the shit out of a corner, and that’s over on vital in a practice day video.
What's a downhill race? I've spent 2 months pedalling past MAMILs on my permitted exercising close to home while wearing the shit out of new Minions on tarmac.
Out of the 50+ clips, only 15 are saves OR bails, and the rest of the video was normal riding or b roll. A crash compilation has only crashes, unlike this where it’s mostly b roll or normal riding. If this video was just crashes and saves ignore would be less than 1 minute long. This is video is hot garbage, it’s just a video with a clickbait title with half decent editing and clips.
@bikeskibikeski: bud you don’t get it do you. I wanted to see a real crash compilation, not this crap. If I wanted to watch World Cup riding I’d watch vital.
@seanryan: its a cash grab by redbull, they don't need my money to produce good comtent. Vital produces far better content for free and they're a significantly smaller company than redbull. All I'm saying is that I'm disappointed that a multi billion dollar company couldn't be bothered to actually put some effort into making decent content. Just because I know what quality content is and you don't doesn't give you the right to be salty about me voicing my opinion on the quality of the content.
@HLEKTRON: ita all the armchair engineers, the couch shredding pros and the dentists that dont know what real mountain biking is, or where this site came from. Make pinkbike great again!
@TheSlayer99: Complaining about free stuff, trying to insult me and saying people "that don't know what real mountain biking is" sure makes you sound a lot saltier than you accuse me of being.
Tbh the edit was kinda trash. There was a half decent save or bail followed by 2-3 clips of completely normal riding. Only really half the video was of saves and bails, otherwise it was just normal riding. Even then some of the saves weren’t good. Overall it’s really just a clickbait title with some half decent editing and clip selection. If I wanted to watch a real highlights reel of bails I’d watch a fail Friday, not this. This is not the kind of quality I expect from Red Bull.
@f00bar: vital mtb made a crash compilation of last season and it was 2 minutes 30 seconds of only quality crashes, and it was only crashes of fail Friday level. Yes, vital probably has more footage and more crashes, but Red Bull shouldn’t be producing this video if they can’t make a proper edit. This claims to be a fails and saves compilation but most of the video is completely normal riding or b roll. For example, they didn’t put in loics crash at fort bill, and Amauri Pierron at les gets was never out of control in his run, yet parts of that run are in this clip. There is almost no footage from Val di sole even though a lot of people crashed race day at the new section on the bottom. For what it intends to be, and being produced by Red Bull, a multi billion dollar company, this is hot garbage, and I would expect significantly better from them.
I've spent 2 months pedalling past MAMILs on my permitted exercising close to home while wearing the shit out of new Minions on tarmac.
Again, it's free, start paying and then your complaint will have some validity.