Video: Bernard Kerr's Track Walk from Red Bull Hardline 2022

 Yeah, the in-run into the cannon sender out of the woods looks like fun! Not the actual jump but all the trail before that and the big, off camber rock slab. The landing after the road gap looks neat also!

 Yeeeeehaw! Can’t wait! Send it boys and girls. And stay safe!

 @taurausmountain: Stay safe! Haha! Good one!

 Hope gee stays safe

 Yea, more rain forecast today, but then its mainly dry until Sunday. Could be hero-clay/rock by then.

 @kubaner: Eliot is the best technical track/riding analyst besides Cathro and his stats breakdowns are amazing. Maybe you’re just someone who prefers tired catch-phrases. I wish uci DH would be commentated three ways between Claudio, Ben, and Eliot, as well as having Tracy and maybe Kintner or Beerten commentate the womens races. Rob is still the GOAT announcer so far - wish him the best.

 Yep, Jenna Hastings' comment in this video sums it up nicely.

 Saw ratboy and his boys with the same setup recently and it's been a life changer.

 It looks way faster and more direct this year. With more air and huge consequence. But they did fill dirt in some of the raw bits before and after the road gap... and chipped that shark up high as well... so is it scarier? gnarlier? It's certainly different.

Also, this is the most impressive rider lineup ever. Firstly, Bernard upped his own stature massively this season. The winner is a legend already. And I cannot wait to see Jackson Goldstone in his 1st post Junior career event.

Holy smokes there's more hype than a world cup!!

 Sometimes régression is the solution?

 e-DH bikes so we can pedal faster for bigger jumps

 It's a fair point, however last year a lot of the lads were taking the piss a little last year and flipping the jumps etc when really Hardline is designed to be a serious race. That's not a disrespect, just an observation.
Dan Atherton has obviously seen this and felt the need to up the risk/reward level even further.

 Maybe we're just not the ones to gauge that. Hardline was created by and for riders who felt the WC DH courses weren't technically challenging enough to showcase what they were truly capable of. This thing is big and technical, but there are no shady man-made features like bridges with rubber mats, fences that might snag your bars and then a straight angle, a drop with a weird landing. Whereas in UCI WC DH racing athletes may feel obliged to ride the track as presented, at Hardline motivation may be more intrinsic. They don't have to, but they want to compete and can pull out when they eventually don't want to go. I feel this is more true to what mountainbiking is all about. Of course this thing looks big, but these urban races look most scary to me.

 Riders have gone there in the past and chosen not to ride because they didn't want to hit the features, so it seems like riders are certainly aware of their limitations and whether they can step up to the course. Even just the way that Bernard was talking about how they'd made some bits "too easy" show what the expectation is of Hardline, and their relative comfort level with it.

Those new jumps look wild, but the difference with Hardline compared to something like the sketchy decisions made on WC tracks is that the riders have confidence in Dan Atherton and the dig crew building big stuff that will work. I'm pretty sure if they were given the chance of hitting a "Dan Atherton" 86ft double or a "Les Gets jumps builder" 86ft double they'd choose the former over the latter.

 damn, i thought i was clever thinking of 'redbull jumpline' - you beat me to it! Yeah i'd rather be watching the riders on some newfound gnarly lines than them hitting moto sized jumps, but hey, i'll still be happily watching

 That's just Dan's resting face

 The older you get, the more you get used to it( i.e. wetting yourself).

 Everyone was saying how dangerous VDS was and I kept wondering if they forgot about Hardline.

 I concur, the constant shakiness was a hard watch for sure. how much of our lives need to be documented through gopro? and everyone else in the video documenting him documenting it. I feel a little nauseous.

 Who’s the kiss for?

 @enduroNZ: my wife!

 Banter innit

 Both Gee and Dan are hard cases IMO (British definition- I think the meaning is different down under?)