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Dodgy haircuts of which you got the best one so you’ve won the award for dodging The Bu well I had the pull one of the worst ones last year yeah so I was like I’m going to go a lot Karma this year yeah you look ready for an interview
Honestly it’d have to be quite like an edgy sort of place to work in I feel like but you could still go for an interview get a suit on you go for an interview definitely it’s nice whereas some people not no definely not Vero was Brave I like ver that was
Very brave yeah that was good that was good good commitment yeah never seen a nutty P before no it’s nutty V now for Vero is it nuty V yeah that’s good that’s good what yeah what else happened then the russos went pretty mad for a couple hours the russos are pretty mad
Aren’t they yeah yeah did some pretty I want to tell you what happened but I don’t want to spoil the highlight video okay I think when is the highlight video out and they want to do the end of the month end of the month but I think
They’re trying to get some pretty cool music so it might be postponed a bit [ __ ] so we actually can’t talk about everything El so we can only really talk about things that I know about through social media okay right right let me have a let me have a think okay well a
Lot of the things that I’ve seen through social media have been some of the crashes some one of the crashes I wanted to talk to you about was the slow-mo with you with Carson behind you I assume it was wind related or something but
That’s a big crash to have on a big jump it wasn’t wind it was air density right talk to me about air density sounds like something I need to know about so stupidly the day before the first jump of the 10 I flipped it and in my brain the last time I flipped
It last time I jumped it I flipped it so I just carried on with that yeah movement probably basly came up a little bit short got away with it then the next morning I was like I know the speed it’s going to be fine I’m just going to go as
Fast as I can but in the morning the Air’s that much thicker you just go that much slower and when I took off I actually think I watched it back so many times I think if Carson didn’t jump off he would have landed on the knuckle and
Bounced and probably been fine I would have come into the back of it and landed like 50/50 so I had to jump off I think because Carson saw me jumping off he instantly just like n I’m coming off as well yeah you made a nicer you made a
Nicer down slope because it was my choice to jump off I wasn’t reacting to anyone yeah it’s going to be he’s reacting to me and then trying to get off so he is going to be way quicker like just rushed yeah totally yeah and
He missed he just had more of a yeah he just fell Arc into and he’s he is a bigger guy than mean so he’s going to carry more speed into it so he’s going to go that little further there’s so many variable so you’re crashing at is that the
Highest speed on course oh we don’t know there was a rated gun there but I don’t think we got it out for the 110 cuz it didn’t get hit it literally got hit like four or five times this year didn’t so we’re essentially talking about like
It’s got to be it what would you guess at I’m going to say it’s like 80k it feels it feels faster than the step up which is pretty fast yeah 80 it’s going to it’s going to be in that in that ballpark right so let’s talk let’s have
Let’s have a think about what’s 80k miles per hour because I drive with with the mph here um what do I have I doing everyone had the came out for over there yeah I just don’t I can’t like think in um yeah in okay that’s 50 miles
An hour you’re going in at that yeah might not be that much and that seems quite a lot probably around 40 miles I would have said it’s funny because we we um there’s loads of like chat about like how do you know what’s when uh at Rampage everyone talks about like these
Features like how you guys are crazy how do you know what speed to the Riders and it’s like they ask the question as if you really know what like as if the number really matters yeah it doesn’t matter at all it’s all no and it’s different for each Rider yeah it’s like
I’ll have to go i’ have to go faster than like Sea Dog and Sam right cuz they’re bigger and heavier than me they I get affected by the wind more cuz I’m lighter I’m going to slow down in the air more than they are yeah yeah yeah so
Air density how do you even measure that though how do you know that the air is too dense it was really cold and you lit if like you felt like like you could bite it that morning like really foggy sort of feeling it was thick right okay
We talked about one crash I’ve seen I’m very glad that we’re both I don’t know how I’m I literally was unscathed like not a scratch yeah you just slid out nice didn’t you scch I’m amazed that Carson’s not worse off cuz I thought he wasn’t a knockout was he he wasn’t
Knocked out he definitely hit his head yeah definitely rung his head but he was all good surprisingly just very very sore ankle the next one I saw was uh adolfs crash the Swan Dive that’s unbelievable yeah thing that’s quite funny is he did it three times not the
Crash did the superman but wanted it bigger but from when I’ve watched it and I was spoken to him I think he went back to trying to do it like he’s on his motor cross bike and there’s the weight that you can pull yourself back to and
He’s tried to pull back a carbon fiber basically a trail bike that he’s on and it’s just that comes to you not you going to it so then you can’t bring your legs back down so he’s just stayed in this angle and had to jump it’s horrible
Because like it just looks like like when you’re watching any footage um I know what numbers you’re doing but when I’m watching it it doesn’t look like the crash is going to be bad until you hit the ground and then you realize how quick people are going like same for
Hodges hodies over the 90 that was what was that a Super Seat Super Seat yeah flip yeah and and he he crashes you think the crash is sort of like okay and then you see how far he’s sliding and speed the one that’s amazing is M and
Carson’s one like I stop I’m stood up and he’s still sliding going yeah yeah I mean that sort of speed you don’t really everyone’s everyone there is really good at crashing I assume but like that speed is quite a weird one isn’t it yeah it it’s just trying to
Mitigate injury at that point yeah yeah there you go there definitely like areas on that course that you can crash and get away with it more like the Step Up is semi slow like on impact it’s semi slow it’s just Landing awkward like DED he’s landed awkwardly and it just still
Still if you jumped off a six foot high wall landed awkward you could hurt yourself you could yeah there that’s that’s frustrating for him though isn’t it you’d almost want to do it in like a 180k an hour slide if you were going to crash it’s like yeah poor guy so now
He’s he’s still out there he’s still out there yeah got he had sergery on his leg luckily it was quite a clean break so just he’s got a big cage around it at the minute yeah yeah but he’ll be on his way home soon I feel really bad now
Because I’ve talked about like the crashes but like ultimately I don’t get to see a great deal until this out so obviously I saw your flip we’ve talked about that um there was the first female top to bottom well that happened last year oh Robin did it last robin did
It last year as well but this year they had the first ever women’s flip train on the stepup Robin and has both flip the stepup together Ah that’s what it was sorry my my apology I’m getting mixed up I did VI was doing top to Bottoms yeah
And did I think Chelsea did a cple couple potentially I’m not sure it’s quite hard cuz the course is so long and there’s like three shuttles you do miss things yeah cuz you could be on the other side the hill con round like you don’t know what’s if someone’s dropped
In and done something cool you can sometimes hear a good shout and a holler but that’s probably about it it’s it’s so mad to think it’s like a mini bike park for that period of time like people just shuttling up and doing laps and Laps and Laps it’s almost a colomer long
The dark Fest course kilometer is it yeah the weirdest kilometer you can Rog your bik down like the the weirdest kilometer you can ride how many KS you reckon you did how many runs hey let’s find out after the break hey man what an episode that was you did amazing in it
And so did you you Shawn like a star you Shawn like a moon I Shawn like a focus spring deal oh beautiful transition I got a question for you David to kick this final advert off yeah what would you do with up to 400 yeah if you got it back when buying
A bike oo I could stay in the bike shop and spend my €400 on accessories good point support your local bike shop great point I could take the €400 and go to another shop close by maybe buy €400 of pasta maybe go to the euro store get 400
And just that’s Christmas done for the eternity just keep handing them out tickets yeah beans tires um Shamy cream a new pet a new betet perhaps a water dragon or an iguana lovely idea well Focus are actually making that question a reality nice because with the focus spring deals
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