- [Tom] Mouth breathing 101 here.
(chill techno music)
(person whooping)
(chill techno music)
Kia ora and welcome to Psychosis.
We're on the top of Mount 7,
standing above the Psychosis downhill track,
which goes 4,000 feet into the valley bottom.
Now, this is a special track.
Not only because of how gnarly it is
but because of how timeless it is.
So just buckle up for a quick history lesson
because it was this segment on this track in "Seasons"
with Stevie Smith, Sam Hill, and Tyler Morland
that made me want to move to Canada.
This race was first run in the late nineties
and for the next 10 years,
it saw legends of the sport like Sam Hill
and Stevie Smith try and tame it.
It last ran officially in '08,
when Chris Kovarik set the course record
of 12 minutes and 35 seconds.
In that same year,
Kevin Phelps won the hardtail category.
And that's why I'm here.
A joke that's gone terribly wrong with the boss
has ended up with me with an entry to the
2021 Crankworx Psychosis DH race
which I'll be doing on the trustee hardtail.
Now the goal for today is to make it down in one piece
but also to pay homage to those legends
who started the sport, who rode everything
including this course on whatever two wheel machine
they could find.
All right then, enough history chat.
Let's go see if we can make it down this first practice lap.
(upbeat techno music)
Let's see how we go.
This is terrifying. I can't see the bottom.
All right, it's been nice knowing you all.
(person whooping)
(laughing)
(upbeat techno music)
I have my breaks just fully on!
(hollering gleefully)
What a treat.
(laughing)
Oh, now it gets proper steep.
This is terrifying!
Okay, that is proper steep.
Oh shit, ah! The wheel just hit me in the ass
trying to kick me forward.
This is the slowest I've ever tried to go down a racetrack.
I think that's a quote from the "Seasons" segment is,
"The top downhill riders in the world,
racing as slow as they can".
Ah, and that's the bottom of Dead Dog.
Okay this is scary.
This is like a 30 foot or a gap maybe.
Come on, you've got this Tom. Yew!
(wind blowing)
(bike thumping)
Woo-hoo!
That was huge!
Well, there's practice lap one done.
(laughing)
I probably stopped a dozen times.
(laughing)
Got the road gap, which I'm stoked with.
So now I'm going up for another practice run,
which is going to be another roll the dice.
So, let's get back up there.
(laughing)
(chill techno beat)
(gleefully hollering)
(screaming)
(gleefully hollering)
(yelling with surprise)
(laughing)
The back wheel was just kicking off the ground.
I just couldn't shut her down.
I think the strategy for race run
is get down to here alive and then go.
(bike rattling)
Okay, here's the infamous Hike-a-Bike.
The goal for me is to ride everything
on this course up and down.
(panting breathlessly)
So steep.
Just finished, the death Hike-a-Bike climb.
Yew!
Now if my hands ever start feeling tired,
which they do already,
I've just got to think of Reg Mullett and Kram
on this track they set the Guinness World Record
for the most downhill descent in 24 hours.
They did 107,000 feet in 24 hours,
which is like 32,000 meters.
That's how high planes fly.
Oh the hammock's up for one of the marshals,
that's a great option.
Yew!
How you doing?
End of the finish line.
(wind blowing)
Yew!
(laughing)
Yo!
All right well, we successfully survived two practice runs.
This track is full on.
I've got this weird mindset going on right now
of dropping into a race run
but just trying to go as slow as I possibly, possibly can.
By the bottom, when we're headed in that 15 minute mark,
I've got no room for error for coming up short
or going too deep on that road gap.
So, here goes nothing.
(laughing)
(upbeat techno music)
(crowd cheering)
(upbeat techno music)
(laughing)
We're alive! Okay.
(heavy breathing)
Now we can start racing.
(bike rattling)
What's gonna go first?
Hands, arms, legs, mouth breathing?
Here we go.
This is when the hardtail comes into its own.
(breathing rapidly)
No! I blew it!
(heavy breathing)
I've blown the climb.
Oh so, I'm not angry,
just disappointed in myself for not making it.
(bike rattling)
(crowd cheering)
Excuse the cable rattle on the number plate.
(bike rattling)
Oops, forgot where the course went there.
(crowd cheering)
(hollering gleefully)
Foot unclipped on the landing of the step down.
(laughing)
Another bike behind me. Yeah bro!
Yeah boy! Go Keegs!
Keegan Wright just caught us.
Okay, he had a two and a half minute handicap.
There he goes.
I cannot freaking hold on to the bars.
Keegs is sitting down, which means I can sit down.
(crowd cheering)
Yew!
Okay, final straight coming up soon.
(bike rattling)
- [Commentator] Directly behind Keegan there is Tom Bradshaw
going top to bottom in only 2 and a half seconds.
- [Tom] What's the time?
14:51! Yes, I did it!
Sub 15.
(lady laughing)
(laughing)
Well there you have it, I'm so stoked.
Made it down in one piece.
The crowd was right where you needed it.
Just as all hope was waning.
All the fingers were going. The crowd was there to cheer on.
It was so good.
I think the final time was sub 15 minutes,
which I'm stoked on.
Well there you have it, what a day.
The event is just wrapping up now
and I have to thank the Golden Cycling community
for keeping this timeless track alive.
The hardtail made it, my body made it.
Just happy to be here.
(laughing)
And a huge shout out to the legends who started this sport.
Who just rode anything, on any bike.
We've got a bunch more videos coming this week
from Crankworx here in British Columbia.
So make sure you subscribe and keep your eyes peeled.
Thanks for watching.
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