Mountain Bikes x Motorbikes in EPIC Red Bull Hardline Relay

We're about to go head-to-head in an epic relay race at Red Bull Hardline, the toughest mountain bike race on earth. Each team has one mountain bike rider and one motorbike rider. The mountain bikes will start the race and the motorbikes will finish it. Oh, he goes wide and he goes down! The team with the fastest time down the mountain will be the winners. Who's gonna win? Let's find out. On the motorbikes, we've got Billy Bolt, five-time Super Enduro World Champion. This is my very first time seeing the mountain, seeing the track, seeing any of it. And from the start to whatever point this is, it's savage. We've also got Johnny Walker, the only man to ever complete the Red Bull Hardline track on a motorbike. I've got experience from being here, so yeah, I do have a little bit of an advantage. But this race has a strategy twist. Each team gets to decide at which point on the course they want to hand over to their teammate. Wow, this place is mental. Is he gonna go high on the rocks? He does! Whoa! Mate, the same happened to me. That's where our tyre came off last year. It kicked me out. Red Bull Hardline is the gnarliest course ever. First time Billy's seen the course, Johnny's checking it out again and it's all coming flooding back. It's such a scary track. You look at it on the photos and it looks big, but when you actually come here, it's so much gnarlier. I think Billy's a little bit intimidated, but also like he's putting on a brave face. He's not going to want to show any weakness. Yeah, they're 90s. They're not small. Do you know what? I'm actually pretty nervous for the second one. I feel like you get a lot of speed off that. You do, yeah. I was really braking, I remember. Ah, that's chill. That's chill. Let's go, baby! This is what's next! I don't like this one. This one's quite a big drop down, isn't it? Obviously, it's massive. The videos make it look so easy, but in real life, it's definitely not. The first time hitting this, I was so scared. I think I had about 10 to 15 run-ins. I'm just going to have to watch a video and then just pull the pin and go and then drag Billy off, or he can drag me off one of the other guys. Did you pull up off this? Like... No. Just off? Just off. Off the second last one, in the bumps, and my front end just went like this all the way off the take-off. These ones? Yeah. This has been a savage day. What the ****? Right, in this relay race, we are allowed to exchange the baton or swap from pushbike to motorbike wherever we want on the course, within reason. So I think now we're starting to figure out who's fast, who's slow. It's time to go and talk to our teammates, because I'm not telling you my plan. We're going to figure out where we swap. I think this is where we should hand over. Right above the lily pad and the 90s. You're so fast down there, mountain bikes won't touch you. So if we do it somewhere around here. I think literally before the take-off, because as you said, the berm's not too good for you to carry speed. Yeah. I'll set off third gear, fourth gear, fifth gear. Away. Right down the bottom. You might not like my plan, but do you know like the big step-down cliff drop thing? From there down, you'll actually be faster than me. Because it's a bit flat, you've got an engine. So if you... Flat. To be honest, you'll end up doing two thirds of the entire track. So we're swapping above the step-down. So if I come, I'll do the whole top section, which is more than you think. And you're pedaling up there or you're just cruising down? If you'd like the opportunity to ride more of the track, I'm giving it to you. Right. How generous of you, Matthew. Well, Matt Jones, all heart there. It's his brother, twin brother, Jono Jones, that will drop in first. Though three times a racer here at Red Bull Hardline Wales. Plenty of experience on this track. And his teammate, Johnny Walker, the only man ever to ride a motorcycle from the top to the bottom of this thing. So here's the benchmark then. Jono Jones on track. His twin brother there sent him off. And he's fast across this open rock section. The bedrock coming through. Horrible shapes there. Snatching your wheel left and right from you. Jono Jones, though, loving these dry conditions through that compression. They're going to set up to the right here. Just to get out of the V for this big drop. There he goes. And now a gap across. Oh, comes up short on that. You can hear it from Jono. On the brakes now. Things get technical. A few different lines in here. Goes low. Catches that Berman now. He's going to be on the brakes. Super, super steep now. This new section for last year's hard line. Oh, across the gap there. Nicely into this big catch berm. And off the brakes across this camber. Sets up again. Another big drop. Pulls for that. Gets it well. And nicely into that berm. And now Jono going to enter parts of the track that will feel more familiar to him. 40 feet down. Massive impact on the landing of that step down. And hard on the brakes now. Fighting to get it stopped for this left-hander. And of course, Matt, his brother, will have already handed over to Billy here. And it's hard to believe a motorcycle will be able to deal with this tight single track as quick as we're seeing this. Threading the needle. Jono Jones picking his way through these tiny gaps. Look at this. And now he hands over to the three-time Red Bull Erzberg winner, Johnny Walker. Onto the lily pad. Step on. Step off. Squashing on the way off. On the brakes for the first 90. Hard accelerate again. No problem scrubbing that second one. Coming into these berms now. Again, a little tight, I would say, for the motorcycle. But flip-flopping that extra weight left and right. Beautifully through here. And now approaching this ultra-technical tight section. Loads of rocks there. Super, super tight. And a mistake from Walker. Then he stalls as he gets pushed over to that rock on the right. And now, well, this, the most terrifying feature, the road gap. Walker safely across there. And now entering into another section where that motorcycle is going to feel massive. Super tight turn. Super steep. Rocks everywhere. Taking his time. But now he's going to have to get on the gas as he approaches this drop now. Walker sends it. No problem there. And he should be able to get on the power a little bit now. As he goes across the mountain in this direction for the last time. The kind of going he's more used to in the world of enduro. Get on the power wherever he can. Holds a tight line around this left-hander. And onto the last straight he comes now. And he's on the power. So just this 70-foot finish line jump to go. Johnny Walker crosses the line. 2.57.79. The time to beat. Oh, my God. What a run. That was mad. Jono came in and he's like shouting at me. He's like, go, go, go. And I like set off as fast as I could. And I did a pretty good run. A few little mistakes. But I think we're going to be close for a win there. Well, Johnny sounding quietly confident. But there's the small matter of this dynamic duo about to drop in. Matt Jones, there he is. He's going to hand over to the five-time Super Enduro World Champion. Billy Bo a little further up the track, actually. But his brother, Jono Jones, just handed over to Johnny Walker. So let's enjoy this. Matt Jones attacking this top section and showing us just how rough this Red Bull Hardline track is. Nowhere to hide up here. Trying to resist reaching for those brake levers. Gets out on the grass there a little bit. Coming up now towards this first drop. Jono super quick off here. Matt, I'm going to say, a little bit more cautious. Gets a better kick out of there, though. Makes the landing split. One coming up. What's it going to be then for Matt Jones? Oh, and he's back. Nearly two seconds back then. So work to do here. Heading now into this really steep drop. Trying to stay off those brakes as much as he can. Safely across there and into this long catch berm now. He's going to turn left here. Another drop. And he's going to hand over to Billy Bo. Remember, this is way above where the previous team handed over. Massive risk then. Can Billy Bo match Jono Jones down through this huge single track section? Two seconds in arrears. Fast down there, though. Perhaps the motorcycle able to stop or offering more traction. But surely it's going to lose time here. The front pushing there for Billy Bo. And spectacular stuff. I didn't believe you'd see a motorcycle ridden through here this quick. Sniper rocks everywhere. Next split coming up. Then what's Billy Bo done? Ah, he pulls back. 1.8 seconds. 0.2 only now to find, to take the lead here. Incredible stuff. And Bo really aggressive then through these big 90 footers. Landing hard on the power, then hard on the brakes there. Look at this. So Billy Bo, one of the loosest units. One of the wildest riders. And one of the most brilliant rides on his emotion. And it's a man who does not like to get beaten. Now this technical section. Johnny Walker made a mistake in here. Right there. Billy Bo cleanly through there. So surely now the clock will be green. Next split coming up then. Here it is. What's it going to be? Oh, it's green by 1.32 then. So Billy Bo doing the impossible here. So quick down through those two big jumps. That mistake of Johnny Walker really proven costly. But look at the pace of Billy Bo down here. He is just eating this track up. Off this drop he comes. No mistakes for Bo. He goes wide and he goes down. Billy Bo crashes out of Red Bull Hardline here. Oh my goodness me. Well, he was risking it all. He rolled the dice. He paid the price. Riding so brilliantly. Taking massive chances. But a catastrophic error there. Well, it wouldn't be Billy Bo if it went down to any other way. That's how he rides. Last straight for him. Johnny Walker looks on. His prediction was right. Amazing stuff. But it's Johnny Walker and Jono Jones who take the win. It crashed. No! I'm gutted. Our strategy was better. And our riding was better. And that's the race. Oh, fair play.