Video: The Wildest Moments from the 2019 DH World Cup Season

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NeilB1979 (May 18, 2020 at 11:39)

If you slow the speed down by 70%and add all those sketchy saves and crashes together....that's a normal run down a trail for me!

marseer (May 18, 2020 at 8:45)

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!

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TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 5:07) (Below Threshold)

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.

enduroNZ (May 20, 2020 at 3:53)

My hero @TheSlayer99:

rickybobby18 (May 18, 2020 at 16:53)

So many of those crashes were averted because the rider was loose enough to chill and let the bike work itself out.

4thflowkage (May 19, 2020 at 21:55)

And they are all in shape and are strong enough to not loose the bars or crumple.

krapyl (May 18, 2020 at 8:28)

3:59 Kiss me - I'm gorgeous!!

josh250 (May 18, 2020 at 10:53)

What a year!!!! When you see how many geezers had massive crashes And escapes it just highlights how tight it was!

Jimmy0 FL (May 18, 2020 at 8:44)

Dang I was hoping to see Brooks foot stomping save in his Maribor race run

vroomvroompartystarter (May 18, 2020 at 9:08)

This could be an Amaury Pierron highlight itself.

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 4:58)

But amaury was only in 3 clips in the whole video...

suspended-flesh FL (May 18, 2020 at 9:35)

The French have a word for it...

Clemounet FL (May 20, 2020 at 18:57)

Putain !

jomacba (May 18, 2020 at 10:03)

Ahhhhhhhhh!!!!! I'm so fkn PUMPED!!!!!

Shredtheduck (May 18, 2020 at 11:43)

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.

shedsidechuck (May 19, 2020 at 11:51)

thanks for the stoke pump! a good way to start the day!

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TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 4:57)

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.

seanryan (May 19, 2020 at 5:30)

Complaining about the free content being posted.

bikeskibikeski (May 19, 2020 at 7:33)

well, let us see your sick edit, off-roadie.

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 7:43) (Below Threshold)

@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 (May 19, 2020 at 7:53)

@TheSlayer99: Go watch a crash compo and stop complaining.

Again, it's free, start paying and then your complaint will have some validity.

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 8:05)

@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.

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 8:08)

@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!

seanryan (May 19, 2020 at 8:42)

@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.

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 9:24)

@seanryan: why are you booing me I’m right

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TheSlayer99 FL (May 18, 2020 at 17:57)

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.

Fullsend2-13 (May 18, 2020 at 18:04)

Agreed

f00bar (May 18, 2020 at 23:04)

if you want slapstick comedy, watch Friday fails instead - that kind of incompetence will never happen in a DH WC race

TheSlayer99 FL (May 19, 2020 at 4:43)

@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.