(dramatic music) - Oh (beep)
- Aw man!
Ah man!
Agh! (Nervous laugh)
Ah (beep). (Yelling)
(Beep) - Hey everyone. I'm Matt.
And we've got Tom with me today.
We're here in Whistler
and I've got a new challenge presented to him.
We're gonna try and ride A-Line without using our brakes.
- Yeah. Thanks for signing us up to this one, Mattie.
As you know, A-Line,
arguably one of the most famous trails in the world.
I know I've watched countless videos of it
before I moved here.
Think it's about 2.8k's long,
something like 350 meters descent
with like 40 something jumps.
Is riding it without breaks actually possible.
- (Matt) I don't know. We're here to find out today.
- So, fortunately,
your original idea was to take the brakes off
and fortunately to ride Whistler bike park
you have to have two brakes.
So I'm glad for that.
That we've got the handbrake there if we need it.
What are the other rules for the challenge?
- (Matt) Obviously we can't use her brakes,
but A-Line's a jump trail.
So we've got to clear all the jumps
and we can't stick our feet down on the ground
to slow down.
And also no purpose cutties.
So no skidding around.
- No purpose caddies. Okay. Okay.
I think we'll go do a practice lap, suss it out,
but then let's put something on the line.
Who can use the brakes the least.
- Okay. Okay.
Uh...How far is it back to the office?
- Yeah, I think that sounds like a sensible punishment.
Whoever uses the brakes the most
can ride back to the office in Squamish.
Which is what?
- 50 odd K?
Yeah.
- Sounds good to me.
(Tom laughs)
Let's go check it out.
(machinery churning)
- All right Matt. Don't go first.
(chill music) (Tom chuckles)
I'm really at a disadvantage here
because if you haven't seen Matt ride, oh my God.
I've already touched the brake! Agh!
You can't case jumps either.
Woo ho ho!
- Did you touch 'em?
- I touched 'em on the first hit.
(both laugh)
Oh man that's fast!
- All right. This is the tough part.
This is where it gets really fast.
Ohhhh woo hoo!
- Agh no!
I touched them.
- The fingers are covering but
I haven't touched them yet.
- Oh I'm using mine.
I touched them in a left-hander before the corner,
but I would have been fine if I didn't even touch them.
It's just this mind thing.
This is going to be the hardest part
across this gravel here flying into there.
Oh man.
(Tom laughs)
Now this is where the track is super fast
and I think when you're riding it normally,
you just think you're not using your brakes
because you're going so fast.
- Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Ohhh oh!
Aw this is gonna be tough.
Hit all the holes.
That's all okay.
Now this is the bottom section two jumps
before the Moon Booter.
There's these big cities they're okay.
Matt's jumping left. It's like, it's done this before.
- Aw!
- Agh cigar!
I didn't think you had to break there!
Woo! There's the Moon Booter.
Okay. Here we go.
Now we're into the top of this tech session,
which is just gonna be stupid.
I'm- Ah!
I'm catching him, oh (beep) I'm catching him.
Moving on from the tech section,
goes back to the old classics.
So some jumpy fellas.
Yeow! (Tom chuckles)
Gonna kill me out there.
Well, Mattie.
Let's let one done.
We prayed a couple of times.
- Yeah just to agree to that.
I have to admit we've picked a good day for it,
but it's still going to be terrifying.
Anyway so now we gotta go up.
We've done one whole warm up lap.
And I guess we're doing top to bottom.
There's no stopping without any brakes.
- We'll give it another good shot.
- Perfect. Right.
Let's get up there.
(heavy electronic music)
The actual lap, I guess we're not gonna stop.
I'll see at the bottom.
And remember, a pedal home is on the line.
We do have to shout out Remy Govan and Miranda Miller
for inspiring that. They were first to do it.
Yeah Mattie! Yeow!
- Don't case anything.
- Let's go pump.
Killer cross.
Yes! Phew, that was close that one.
- Oooh!
Oh (beep)!
- Uh oh.
There's a reason there's braking bumps.
Big burner.
Thanks Matt.
Another biggie, thanks Mattie!
Okay here we go bit of a tuck coming through here.
It's a biggie, jump across to it.
- Oh (beep)
- I'm catching Mattie.
I reckon it's cause I'm the heavier carcass.
- Agh!
- Aw man! Ah man!
My fingers are on them.
I'm catching him. Agh!
(buzzer)
- Oh I didn't touch!
- Aw man I've gotten deep.
I just... I've got...
Rimmed so deep there and burned the tire.
- Haven't touched them yet.
Get off them. Ah no I squeezed them! (mumbles)
He's still good.
Man. He is such a good operator.
- Nearly there. Nearly there.
Gotta clear the jump.
- This is the hardest part here.
Man.
Ahh Mattie well done!
Aw man!
The Moon Booter through.
That was...
easy compared to that other stuff. Man!
Haha! Straightaway now.
Okay here's the tech section coming up.
Gotta come in sideways.
Gonna crawl here, hit everything I possibly can.
Hit everything. Mattie's done that well.
Oh! Okay no brakes yet, no brakes yet.
- I haven't touched them yet!
No brakes, no brakes, no brakes, no brakes, no brakes.
Brake, brake. (buzzer)
(Tom screams)
- Okay brakes! (buzzer)
Aw damn, how's it going? Excuse the screams.
- Okay maybe I used it a couple times.
- Three solid grabs of brake.
Aw that was terrifying.
YEOW!
- Oh (beep), oh (beep), oh (beep).
That was slick coming in.
- Oh man.
- Oh boy.
- Aw yep no brakes. Oh we squeeze breaks. It was last right.
(heavy breathing)
Mate. That was so well done.
Apart from, when I had to squeeze brakes
cause otherwise we were gonna jump into other,
but that was my user error.
Well, Mattie, I'm glad we made it back here in one piece.
Well done on doing that whole thing without any brakes,
except for that tech section,
which we're calling impossible.
- Yeah impossible.
We thought there was maybe a way to do it,
but not jets, way too fast. No brakes is scary.
- Mate well,
I definitely had a few coward breaks that's for sure.
And one to save our lives on that jump about halfway down.
- Thanks for that.
- It's all good. We're lucky with the weather.
- Rolled a little bit slower,
but we cleared all the jumps and then yeah. Made her down.
- Well I guess now...
- What happens next?
I'll be able to give you these and I guess I'll see you...
- See back at the office
- Back at the office. Yeah.
That's the last time I make a bet for you.
I think I'm gonna have to come up
with my own little challenge for you next time.
- Sounds good bud. - See you soon.
- Have a good one. - Thanks mate.
(chill music)
About to summit. The (mumbles) on the way home.
I've had an hour and a half to think about
how I'm gonna get Mattie back.
So make sure you subscribe. I'm got a challenge in mind.
Gonna have to rope in Christina too.
(labored breathing)
Until then thanks for watching.
I seem busy. I'll let myself go.