(car lock clunks) (hydraulic whizzes)
- Right, it's the weekend and it's time to ride bikes.
But, this weekend's different actually for me.
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(emblem smashes)
So what I'm doing is I am competing in an enduro race.
Never done it before in my life,
but I thought, ah you know what, I'm gonna have a go at this
and instead of throwing myself in the deep end
and going and doing a huge epic enduro,
I thought, let's start of small,
let's go to your local bike park
and go take part in one of these mash-up enduros.
Basically you got three tracks
and you've got to put down a fast time on each one.
Three of your times, throughout the day,
you can do as many as you want,
and three of your fastest times get added together
and then that goes to your final timing
at the end of the day.
So I'm gonna build up my bike, get into my race gear,
race board and stuff and then we're ready.
And it's raining.
Perfect British weather.
I'm riding a hardtail, super rough stuff,
plus I'm racing so I thought,
er better get clipped in and learn the hard way.
Now this bike, I've been everywhere on this bike.
It never ceases to amaze me this thing.
Frickin' cool, easy hardtail, done,
no faffing with suspension.
Let's go to race.
Look where I am, woo!
Wow, it's beautiful in the bush
and like in the bushes, the woods
when it's super misty, super majestic.
I'm coming up to my first lap,
my first race down, timed run.
Right, race run.
Excuse me.
(exciting music)
Right, that was my first lap,
pretty short and simple, a nice one to warm up on.
Now, I'm gonna go and do stage three,
so there's a climb to stage three,
but stage two's at the bottom.
I don't wanna do stage two yet.
You don't have to do stages by stage,
because stage two's the last one,
and you've got to climb all the way back up to the top
to do stage three so I'm gonna do stage three
then stage two, check my times, quick bite,
and then climb back to the top.
Right, let's go to stage three.
(powerful music)
Okay so apparently number three is down Vicious Valley,
half way down, Fire Road then it's somewhere else,
I don't know.
We're gonna figure it out.
What do you think?
We're both in the same boat,
we actually don't know where we're going.
- I don't know. (laughs)
- Both beginners at racing that's for sure (laughs)
Right Vicious Valley, go down,
find some signs.
Ah, so that was er, stage three, second run of all three
so like I've done, no, second run entirely,
so I've put in two race runs.
Now I'm going up to, I might go back up to stage one,
do stage three again, and then finish on stage two.
So we're gonna climb up all the way to the top,
where it's muddy, it's raining man.
POV I bet it looks just horrible I'm sorry,
but it is flippin' so much fun.
I can't wait to do stage three again,
it's frickin' sick.
I'd have said stage one again,
it's quite a big climb actually
'cause I'm on the other side of the bike park,
so, yeah I get to, go to stage one, do stage one,
or do I do stage three?
I don't know.
I'm just having too much fun.
I'm soaked through, my feet are wet.
Not cold though.
Bonus.
Let's keep, let's keep plugging on.
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Right, dropping in stage one.
Right, stage three, woo!
It's so open up here.
Windy, and riding up a river.
It's a nice tacky climb though,
especially one-handed holding a GoPro.
(gasping) Alright, so I've done stage one
then I did stage three, then I rode back up
and did stage one again but a bit of a faster time
which I think I did.
I was blowing out my valve, (gasping)
struggled to clip in.
I'm not even clipped in.
And all that jazz.
Now I'm going back up to stage three
and then really do that.
I don't know if I can put in a faster time
'cause now I'm way more tired.
But we'll see.
Now I know the trail it'll be easier.
Then we do stage two to finish.
Get a nice hot cup of tea.
Woo, right, dropping in, stage three.
(dramatic music)
(wind rushing)
Stage three done.
My third, third run done.
Er, no fourth run done.
I'm gonna climb up, I said I was gonna do stage two again
but, yeah let's do stage two
and if we've got more time I'll climb back up
and do stage two again so that means I've done
two runs on each stage.
That'll give me a good time 'cause first run is blind,
you don't know where you're going.
Second run, you know where you're going,
you can put in a faster time.
Stage two, dropping in.
Stage two.
(exciting music) (wind rushing)
That's bloody horrible.
Agh, my chain.
Bloody hell.
Bloody chain.
(wind rushing)
Oh, wow, ah, ha, ha, ha.
Okay, I'm done.
Stage two was flippin' wet and horrible.
Now, what I'm gonna do is go down to the bottom
and I'm gonna check the times, see where I stand.
It's so wet and muddy, I'm freezing through,
so I've done like five runs.
I'm gonna check the times, see where I get overall.
Then grab myself a cup of tea,
'cause I'm soaked through.
(people chattering)
Okay, so I checked the times,
and because my chain came off on number two,
stage two, only rode it once so I thought,
no give myself a chance, let's do it a second go,
my chain won't come off,
'cause I've gotta make up two seconds,
and then I'm in third place.
And let's see if I can make third place (laughs)
'cause it was quite horrible.
Well, I didn't know what to expect
so I'm gonna do it again.
Stage two, dropping in.
("I Know You Like It" by Ramin)
♪ I am no average Joe ♪
♪ Be with me ♪
♪ And you will see ♪
♪ I'm floating around ♪
♪ And feet on the ground ♪
♪ I'm floating around ♪
♪ And feet on the ground ♪
♪ I think you like it ♪
♪ I know I like it too ♪
- Stage two, and run number two, done.
My chain didn't come off
so hopefully I made up two seconds.
I'm gonna check the board,
see if I got third place.
So this behind me is live timing
so every time you go through one
of those check points it comes up here,
it gets added up and it gets to your final time.
So I'm gonna check out my time
and see if I got third
and if I've made up those two seconds.
Ooh. ♪ Shooting stars ♪
♪ Is you and I ♪ - Ah, racing done.
I've washed my bike.
I'm freezing but what a hell of a good time.
I had so much fun, a weekend, come out here,
one day, race, get muddy, have some fun.
I've put some good times in.
I got third place.
(laughs) So stoked with that.
So much fun.
Hopefully you enjoyed this.
This is my first weekend of racing on my own.
Never done it before.
I'm hooked, I'm gonna keep doing it,
I'm gonna find out some more hardtail enduro.
It doesn't matter, doesn't matter what bike you have,
just go and have some fun out there.
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Right, I'm freezing.
I'm freezing.