Neil: Well, Blake, we're in the woods.
Blake: [chuckles] Neil, hello.
Neil: Let's do a challenge.
Blake: Oh, I love challenges.
Neil: It's been a while.
Blake: It has been a while.
Neil: Cornering challenge.
Blake: Oh, no, Neil.
You're really good at cornering, though.
Neil: Sometimes, not always.
Blake: Not like this one.
Neil: That's challenge number one.
How far can you slide in your face?
Blake: [laughs] Okay.
Neil: Ready?
Blake: Ready.
This corner looks good, but you're going to have to go really hard to get into it.
There's a corner down there, Neil.
[music] Blake: Oh my goodness me.
Neil, this looks different to what it used to look like.
Neil: Oh, it's a freshie.
Blake: That is a freshie, indeed.
Neil: And steep.
Blake: What angle are we going to get on this?
Neil: Let's see who can get it leaned over the most while still staying somewhat upright
on the wheels.
Blake: Don't be this guy over here because this guy looked like he went down hard.
Neil: A loser lands on their face.
Blake: [unintelligible 00:00:56] no, Neil, no.
[music] Neil: That is a good berm, man.
It's virtually horizontal like 90 degrees.
Blake: You can go so low on that, the angle is unreal and way better than the old one.
Neil: Pretty amazing.
[music] Blake: Last chance, dude, to get as low as
possibly you can go.
Neil: I'm changing my tactics.
We're going higher in the berm over a hardpack and lean over.
Blake: Hardpack, Neil, go.
Oh, no.
That's sick.
My turn.
Neil: It looks like a rollercoaster from down here.
Blake: It feels like a rollercoaster, dude.
Neil: Wow, you won that one, Blake.
Nice one.
Blake: What's the next challenge, Neil.
Neil: Something that I can win.
Blake: Okay.
Right here, we're going to time each other going through a number of turns.
There's four turns, and we're going to stop it as soon as Neil takes off from the shark
fin.
I'm going to shout "Three, two, one, go" and I'm going to hit the timer and I'm going to
hit it off when he takes off.
Are you ready, Neil?
Three, two, one, go.
Neil is fast, man.
He is a racer by heart.
Look at him.
Quick, quick, quick.
One, three, two one.
Wow, that was actually really quick.
It's 11.5 seconds.
I won't say that's minutes, would you?
No.
If it was minutes, we'd be still here having a cup of tea, 11.37.
That's fast, I got something to beat.
Neil: Blake is going to beat an 11:37.
He might do.
I braked in that corner a bit too much.
I'll make some excuses now.
That'll do it, actually.
Three, two, one, go.
He's off.
He'll be a quick starter, I know that.
He's got the legs for it.
8, 9, 10, 11.
He beat me by three-tenths of a second.
I knew he was going to be close, 11:07.
Blake: What was that?
Neil: 11:07.
Blake: 11:07?
Neil: Three-tenths quicker.
Blake: Whoa, Neil.
Neil: That was good.
Nice one.
Blake: Taking the inside line is super fun, but it's not effective.
I think the most effective thing you get out of it is the exhilaration of how cool it sounds.
Neil: It's time I won,watch this.
Blake: Don't use the berm.
I'll stand here.
All right, my turn.
[laughs] I don't want to hit, Neil.
That was too close for comfort.
I'm skidding, I don't want to slide out and take your kneecaps out, Neil.
Oh, Neil, that was really good.
That's nearly two-foot in, where it is.
Look, that's where you got, Neil.
I'm going to see if I can come in a little bit more but still, use that berm.
Neil: He's got some good cornering skills and jumping skills, obviously, so he won't
pull past it.
Things are getting pushed on, big time.
Is that the new limit?
Blake: Yes.
Neil: You see your big tire mark where it was just on the edge of [unintelligible 00:05:10]
Blake: Oh my God.
That was me.
[laughs] That was me.
That there, look at that.
Drifting off, you hit this rock, and it just sent your wheels off like-
Neil: Drifty take-off.
Blake: -drifty McFerguson off the lip.
Neil: You see the mark.
Blake: I know.
It looks so good from behind.
That's where you got to, Neil, a foot.
Literally, a foot.
I haven't got 12 inches of feet.
Speaker 3: Let's see if you can go any more inside, Neil.
Neil: I don't think I can.
I reckon I'm on my limit now.
You see, this bit where it's sandy is the problem.
[laughs] I was further inside.
It's the last bit.
You can see where your tire is.
You came up here, and it's pushed the sand to the side on there.
Blake: That's getting sketchy now, Neil.
Yes, look.
It's starting to-- Oh, Neil.
It might be a new tactic.
Neil.
Sneaky, sneaky.
That's sneaky.
That's like a Sam Hill line, Neil.
Straight lined it pretty much.
Because that, you went inside on the first one, and then fully-- Wow, look how much you
took off on it.
You're nearly two-foot, Neil.
That's sketchy.
Big old drift.
Neil: How much did the sand move here?
Blake: You got to use the berm, hop over, use it like a little, spiny roller.
There's a lot of grip there, Neil.
It's quite wet.
Like it's moist, so it's not going to feel as greasy.
That makes sense?
Speaker 3: Do you like it moist?
Blake: Love it [censored] Neil has to go there to beat me.
Oh, he's actually fucking got-- You didn't clear it, but you actually did-- You went
way more in, Neil.
Wow.
I don't think I can do that.
Neil: I don't think you can go anymore inside because there's no take-off line.
Blake: Inside of you, no.
I'm going to try.
Neil: You can see where we're slightly different here, and then the tracks join up and go through
this rut, and then boom.
Blake: Do you reckon it was me at the peak?
Neil: I'm not sure you'll get further inside.
Blake: No.
I struggle clearing that one.
That's fun.
I reckon the further you are in the middle of all that, that's the fun spot.
Against the berm's the best bit.
That was quite challenging, Neil.
Neil: Let's move on to another challenge.
Blake: Yes, that was a quick, easy one.
[music] Neil: Another cornering before a jump challenge.
We've got a triple down there.
It's quite long and low, but you've got like four berms.
You've got to link pretty good to get the speed to clear up.
Blake: You're going to have to get a lot of speed, Neil.
Neil: We're going to start dropping it down, making the run-up smaller, so bringing out
one berm a time until someone cases that triple.
I think I know who it's going to be.
Blake: [laughs] Right, Neil.
Let's do it.
Yes.
Yes, Neil.
Neil: There's one big pull on takeoff, though.
Blake: Actually, the last turn really pushes you away from the--
Neil: Yes, it feels like I'm squashing into the berm, and then I've got to pump really
hard to clear the jump.
Blake: Should we minus a turn?
Neil: Yes.
Blake: Oh my Gosh.
Neil: Watch this.
The run-up has not even shortened by a berm.
It doesn't move very far.
I think Blake's probably got it although that's quite slow.
Yes.
That was close.
Blake: No, that was a pull of my life.
Like when you're in the club, you're trying to [censored] Anyway, that I had to pull so
hard to get.
I think I cased it a little bit.
I reckon if I do it again, I messed up the second one, which put me off in the third.
Oh, come on, Neil, come on, Neil, come on, Neil, come on, Neil.
Oh, that is hard.
I reckon you got it, Neil.
Neil: I don't think it would be the worst case, even if I had a go.
Blake: Tell you what's the worst case Neil has done.
Take a look at this, and it's back up at the top.
Neil: Wow, just watch this.
Blake: That's one way of using your chainring, Neil.
Oh, Neil, yes, you landed on top, which I say that has to clear when you--
Neil: Yes, I landed on top.
Blake: That's really good, Neil.
Neil: Thanks.
Blake: That is really good.
The next step is we've cleared then, we take out a berm.
I don't think we've got the speed.
Should we try?
Watch this.
Neil: Remember there's three there.
[laughs] Blake: Neil, that was the best case I've ever
seen.
I really had my foot down.
I didn't think I even got far, did I?
Did I land on that one?
Neil: Watch the replay.
[replay] Watch the replay.
Blake: Hell, no, I didn't even make it near there, not one bit, Neil.
I don't think you got a hell of a chance doing that.
Neil: I think we've reached the moment.
Blake: I think we've peaked, Neil.
That was amazing fun, Neil, like learning cornering skills when I first joined GMBN,
from you, this afternoon.
Neil: You know that's the case as well, that was a good one.
Yes, it was good fun, good skills.
Blake: Good skills.
Neil: If you want to follow us over on Instagram, we post a load of stuff over there.
What we've been up to, cool stories, what we're doing, answering POV, stuff like that.
Blake: Real, cool stories.
The coolest stories you'll ever see in your life.