Red Bull Hardline Returns

Red Bull Hardline, dubbed one of the world’s toughest mountain bike race, returns for its fourth edition this Sunday, September 24^th, 2017.

What’s reputed to be the trickiest course yet has been built by Dan Atherton on a remote Welsh mountainside, combining huge gap jumps, giant slab rolls and tight wood sections.

Taking place in the hills of Dinas Mawddwy, North Wales the course has been designed to challenge even the best of downhill racers in the fourth staging of the event.

British mountain bike rider Bernard Kerr was the winner in 2016.  Dan’s brother Gee had been first down the course with an impressive time of 3:35.97 but then 25-year-old Kerr, the last rider down the hill, somehow managed to pull out a course record effort that bested Cunningham’s time by over two seconds.

Kerr said, “I was pretty confident, but I also knew that I could throw it away in a blink of an eye.  It’s such a good course, with awesome features. You can’t see it down here, but the fog came in right at the last minute at the top, so it was really dark up there.”

“It was tricky, but good. My favourite feature was probably the Renegade Step Up. It’s probably the hardest jump, but if it’s the hardest you get the best reward.”

Last year 2,500 spectators lined the picturesque course and this year similar number or more are expected to see some of the world’s top talent on one of the toughest courses there is.