- Have you ever wondered just how fast the top
Enduro riders are?
Well, whilst Blake was attending the Andes Pacifico
we got the chance to find out.
Day two stage two, this is the motor section
this is where the riders are going to be
going the fastest of all of the stages so far.
And its a straight down line down this mountain
pass, all the way into some nice single track.
So I got my trusty speed gun, I'm wanna see
how fast those riders come bombing down
this because this bit of terrain is so deep
so slippery, they call this the anti grip.
There's no grip, it does look like you're
gonna dig in but underneath there's rock solid,
and as soon as you hit that its just like riding
on marbles.
Its crazy with some of these riders that
are racing this event that they are racing blind.
So they don't even know this is here,
they don't even know that's there,
they don't even know what's around the next corner
and you have to put down a race run
if you wanna be in the top spot its ridiculous.
Media, media coming down, how fast is he going?
He's foot out, anti grip, he's doing
he's not going very fast, 24 kilometres an hour!
18.
I think the big guns are going to be going
twice the speed.
(rock music)
Maybe triple the speed,
but with both feet on, whoa!
37, 40, 43 kilometres an hour.
Quite fast.
But the thing is with this ground its so
unpredictable its crazy.
Lets see if anyone beats that,
I think we can get to like 60 kilometres,
maybe 50?
Oh he's bombing.
Holy (Bleep) Moses.
Awh he's going so fast, 67 kilometres an hour
Wow!
Next rider, lets see if we can beat 67.
Doubt it, he was bombing.
That was 61, that guy was absolutely pinned.
That chilian rider, 67 kilometres an hour.
If you crashed man, you're gonna hurt yourself.
63
Right this is Iago.
(laughs) 58, that other guy man,
it sounded insane going past me, if you
were here on the course listening to that.
Here comes another rider.
Pedro Burns.
Whoa, we have a new record, 68 kilometres
an hour!
Rebel rider, Mr Burns, bombing.
Awhh he's bombing!
(cheering) awwhh my, how's he holding on?
We have a new record, 69 kilometres an hour.
Here comes Loose dog.
Get 'em Lewis, go on!
Wow, 58 not as fast a freakin' Mr Burns!
For that, ah, this is Leigh Johnson.
Go on Leigh, go on!
73, Welsh boy holding the record, here
comes another one, this is Sam Dale.
Go on Sam!
Ohh my (bleep)
I'm scared for my life, that was only 69
here comes, that's a good number, here comes
another one.
Wyn Masters, go on boy!
Welsh boy holds the record that was 65,
Wyn Masters, surprised he didn't go on
a wheelie down there.
New record, 75, so they are the big guns coming.
Who's this?
Ahh, I was on the uplift with that guy.
(gasps)
He has no breaks this sounds like metal on
metal, 53, 54.
Another rider, I think the lower I get the
faster they go, he looks fast, he's 60!
He is (gasps) 13 off the highest!
Here comes our mate, Neil Donahue!
Oh my goodness me,
that's my team mate, Neil Donahue, GMBN
he's third fastest at 71!
(yelling) Go on Neil!
Alright lets do a quick round up
First place I have no idea who it was but
he was breaking the speed barrier it was insane
I didn't even know he was coming.
Second place, Welsh boy, Leigh Johnson
and then third is Neil, what the hell!
There goes another one, 58!
I'll have to come down here now, a bit
scared, here comes another one.
- Everything's so loose mate its all
one big loose thing (laugh)
but yeah I've seen you lot at the bottom
and I was like well they're there
there's nothing in between us so it must
be a good bit so I just went a bit quick and.
- [Host] Oh my (bleep)
- Yeah got loose (laughs)
- Right Jerome the question I'm gonna ask you is
how do you go fast in a race, racing blind?
- [Jerome] I try to go fast to look at the tape
and like first understand how long they tape
and then look at the tape and try to think
in advance the line, so its not always
easy but here with the yellow tape and red tape
it helps a lot, so when its yellow don't touch
the break and when its red, be careful a little bit.
- Yeah and touch the breaks, are you always telling
yourself subconsciously to keep looking ahead?
Do you find yourself looking quite close
in certain places?
- Nah, I try to keep looking ahead, especially when
its fast, it looks like you can maintain speed
and not break for nothing so, that does
seem key in this kind of race.
- Okay so you were the second fastest down that
speed trap, down that super fast section,
so now, what is it like to go super fast, racing,
blind, how do you do it?
- Well that's what I was kinda wondering myself
before coming to this race.
Yeah I've just kinda been learning along the way
and you learn to look really far ahead
so you know what's coming to a certain extent
but yeah and it is scary because you don't know
what's round the next corner and stuff but
its been alright so far and.
- So you judge your visions your looking super far
ahead, so you are judging to what's coming up
next but like when it comes to a track
where as blind all these switch backs now
how do you do that, do you take turn by turn?
- Yeah basically, obviously if you can't see
what's coming ahead you just gotta deal with it
but some of these trails are pretty fast and
there's not many like trees or anything around
so you can see quite far ahead.
I suppose like in the UK it would be a lot
harder with the tight wiggly tracks but
but I suppose you'll be going a lot faster.
- Yeah yeah yeah
- Yeah, like I've never done a blind race before
so I'm learning quite a lot like every
stage really.
And yeah like you do realise it you're looking
in front of you again and you hit something
you're like whoa so you start looking ahead
again and yeah I suppose hopefully you get
in the habit of it so, I think it will help with
the last races and stuff as well.
- Right we got the fastest man on stage two
on day two, this man set down the record
over the whole stage of speed, his name is Riquelme.
Now, mate how do you go so fast down a section
of trail like that?
Whoa, so he played a game with his dad to not
touch the brakes down a piece of straight down
a piece of mountain.
Now that's crazy that's like sending your son
I'm gonna do that with my son that is really good.
Now, when you're doing that, what's going through your
head are you like touch the brakes, touch the brakes,
or not touch the brakes, like what's it like to go
that fast?
Well I'm gonna take a leaf out of this mans book man.
'Cuz I do think like that, I wanna touch the brakes
and then I touch the brakes but now I got, like
you said, unleash that feature in your riding
and just lay off the brakes, that's
crazy man, 75 kilometres an hour, out of the whole
pack - he's the fastest.
Whoa.
Muchas gracias senor.
- [Host] 75 kilometres an hour on that dust
they call anti grip, that is incredible.
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