_Swapping Lines_ Behind the Scenes with Bernard Kerr at Dyfi Bikepark! #mtb #downhill

Hey everyone, I'm Bernard Kerr, the rider and owner of Pivot Factory Racing. Today we're in Wales and we're going to show you everything that W Bike Park has to offer and rip some laps with our boy Stefan Garlicky. Whoa, holy s**t, that's soft. Oh, that one I landed ******* sideways. In this video, we're going to look at the behind the scenes from Swapping Lines Episode 4 with Bernard Kerr. I didn't know Bernard that well. We'd actually met, I think, in 2009 when we were racing Four Cross together. After that, we hadn't really spoken in more than a decade, just a few words here and there. I was really interested to see how it was going to be. When we arrived there, we went straight to the BK Sport Shop, as we want to call it, which is honestly, it's like a dream, every kid's dream. Like Brandon Samenuks, like what else has he got in his garden? He's got a skate park in Wales. I think for me, people don't realize that there's quite a lot of pressure on me, especially if I haven't been to a track, because I'm going to a place where it's his home training ground. So never mind the fact that he's one of the best guys in the world, but it's also his local track, so he's really fast there. For me, never having ridden there, it is quite a daunting challenge. You need to get some of the purple haze to match your shoes. You'll push up this bit a few times. That very first day, we'd actually planned to shoot the drone footage in the afternoon, because the drone pilot, who's Andrew Lawrence, he's one of the gods of drone flying, he couldn't do the following day. So we had to do the drone shots that afternoon. Clarence, nothing too bad really. What a spot. So yeah, no pressure. Yep. Yeah. The last time I've ridden this bike, once in the last month, or the last six weeks actually. Oh really? So you've been riding? Well in Munich, there's nothing for a big bike. Is that where you live now? Yeah. Why is it there? Ah, met a German girl. Whoa, holy ----, that's dark. Good lord, that was actually darker than I expected in some parts. That was light today. What? After the first day, we went back. We did the podcast, set it up in the BK Sports Shop, which is really cool. Probably the best podcast studio that I've had. It was really interesting to find out from Bernard how he's managed to do what he does. Run a team, have a clothing brand, do all the social media, and still perform at the highest level and get on World Cup podiums. Next day, we went up and then it was time to get the job done. Yeah, I got there, had breakfast, had a coffee. Davi's pretty sick. They've got a nice little setup at the bottom there. How many laps do you do normally? Normally like eight if you didn't race, but you'll go from the land rover. You know it drops you at half mountain. Yeah. So I'll sprint up the hill, do a full lap, and then pedal back up this. I won't sprint up this, but I won't stop on the run. I'll keep going until I get back to the pickup. Okay. It's quite like a long... But I'm assuming when you do... Would you do anything else on that day or just ride? Some days it depends what's on that week. Some days we've got a gym as well. But most times it'll just be the ride that day. Yeah. I haven't done my makeup yet. Dang. Yeah, he's the one next episode that bring a makeup artist. That would be super funny actually. On a mountain bike shoot to bring in a makeup artist. Dude, we got so... Like this is insane. Like this is like we couldn't have wished for anything better. Lucky you did nothing last week. Dude, we were like on the phone last week because we didn't know... Before I got sick, we didn't know what to do because it looked so bad. Yeah. And he was like, how am I gonna shoot like in rain like that? Yeah. How do you keep the camera dry? Yeah, impossible. And then we went up and we started on turns in the ferns. I felt like that was the best track. Honestly, it was so good. They're so cool. Brilliant practice. Turns in the ferns is about some sick turns down through the ferns. I mean, they're dying right now because we're in October. But it's probably one of the most ridden tracks by us and a lot of people here. It's just flowy, sick. It's got jumps at the bottom. All right. I'd love to go on it more. That turns pretty sick. Like breaking in there. It's a left-hander. Yeah. So if you stand like at the tree and then you can see the CS coming in and then... And I was thinking what's another cool shot. Remember the three jumps yesterday? Just flowy, sick. On the other side? The jump coming in. We both did like a little nose manual on that first table. Yeah. Like that could be quite cool. Like a slow-mo shot. Like close, like tight. You know, that would be quite a cool shot. All right. See, this is way steeper than it felt. It feels like flat. That next section is epic to film. Yeah. That like fadeaway thing. Sick. Oh, that was sick. I was... I could have been a touch closer, but yeah, it was pretty good. Catch my good side. Not what you expect when you think about Wales. Yeah, it's sick. Both front and high. I like that. That's a sick long clip. You use all that. I don't even remember that. Yeah. We should shoot this, I think, head-on. I was going to say, can you get speed from the start? Wide from on top and definitely ahead of... Yeah, we get speed from... Probably the second... Do I do wide on the tele again? Wide here? Yeah. And you can get head-on, I think. It's like... Yeah. Could you get head-on from behind the berm? Because normally I'll scrub this and manual the whole way to the next berm. All right, let's see. The reality is of mountain bike filming. Spend most of the day pushing. Very little time riding. Oh my god, dude. Dude, I hate watching at a bike park. Want to see it? Yeah. That was good. ------- cliche, isn't it? Racking up so nice, the colours. Yeah, yeah, that's what it's... Oh, that is rad. Nice framed one and then... Bro, that is sick. Feeling that it's like, yeah, definitely not my best. Yes, if that was me, I would go and redo that shot 100%. Stefan makes the calls. I'm stoked with mine, so I'm like... If Bernard wants to do another one... No, I want to if it's my video. If you want to do another one, we can do another one. But I'm happy with that. I think it's cool, anyway. Yeah. How far should we go after the corner? Yeah, so you just need to hit the turn, like, exit it and then you're done. I just haven't had time to do an edit for ages. I really want to do one this off-season. Along with your other 500 million tasks. Dude, I know they've asked... Don't tell me they've asked me to go to Tasmania now. Oh, to do... To testing again. On the 9th and 10th of December. And then we went into the trees and we got some... Probably, in my opinion, the best turn in Davi. There's like a left-hand corner. That was sick. You hit the turn good. That was sick. I hit the turn pretty ----, but... You did it like a race run. Yeah. Like, carrying speed. I carry exit. And I think that was maybe my favourite shot of the whole edit. And then it moves into this, like, tight section in the trees. And then into another open, fast section, where there's quite a big quad. Yeah. There's a gap down here. When you roll down, there's a big left berm gap between the trees. You know what I mean? Yeah, I can still see it. That tunnel into quad will be sick. All right. Yep. Good. That was good. Hit thing, then you're on about the table. This thing is quite a big jump. Yeah, it's so big. It's a long way, eh? Yeah. You go high as well to get over it. That was the first time I got it, like, good. You guys good? Ready? Good? Nice. That's what I like. I was really happy with the shots we got. Because for me to be able to whip a jump, I need to feel comfortable on it. And honestly, like the last jump on that line, on turns in the ferns, I had felt so horrible. And the shot we got for the video was actually pretty cool. So that was the best I'd hit the jump. So I was stoked on that. The little manuals and stuff looks so cool. I think that'd be good just to cut in here and there as well. Like, if you do like little trailers and stuff, like. And then that turn up there was sick. Got some cool stuff. And there's so much to shoot here, actually. I know. There's like every, like, there were a lot of sections which I'd even forgotten about as we were going down. He's like, oh, we can shoot this, we can shoot that, we can shoot this. Yeah, yeah. We ended up with more than we thought we were going to do, eh? After lunch, we went back out and went back to the top. And then we did Insta 360. Grafting. Grafting hard. You want to get us from, like, starting like you did in Whistler? I am. You can also do that. Yeah. Yeah, why not? You might be in the way there, mate. You're just in the middle of the track. First time at a bike park. I think you will see him and then stop after him. Then we can get one other shot. And then we go down to the next. Yeah. This looks pretty cool up here, yeah. Okay. You ready? Yeah. Let's go. This dirt, like, how is this dirt compared to hard line dirt? Similar. Hard line's more muddy. It's more clay and slippery there. Ah, okay. More orange. Hard line dirt's way shittier. How do you compare the UK one to the Tasmanian one? Super different. Both epic. Both are hard lines, dude. Yeah. They're super different. It did, like, the jumps look, obviously, because of sick big jumps in Tasmania. But it looked, at least visually, it looked more fun to ride than the Wales one. All the flowy bits was epic, dude. Yeah, it was so fun to ride that. It was such a fun track. Yeah. That middle section looked insane. It was so high speed, like, that was hard that we don't have ---- like that. Well, actually, it was epic. Yeah. Jungle. Yeah, boy! Ready? Yeah. Oh, god. You hit the water and I was blind. It was just like... It was like, how did that look? Guys, I panned on you. It was so sick. The whole bench was bent in around there. They must have done that with a machine, though, eh? No, like, by hand. Yeah, on NC360, it's quite a different track. There's a, you know, it's a lot more open. And at the top, there's a lot of tree stumps they've cut down. Not that the gap was that far, but the takeoff was like... It wasn't as bad as you even think. It was just because the running was so high, it looked kicky. Okay. It was too kicky for the speed, but in real life, it was nowhere as bad as everyone online thinks. Yeah. And we're not that dumb to hit it. It doesn't look so bad. I was impressed with Matt. He freaking... Well, I caught up. It's been 20 minutes, and that dude just braked way more than me. It was so deep and high, like, way more than that tree. At one and a half of those trees, it was so, so far down. Well, it looked on the camera. Higher than the ending of Rampage, you know? They just built this new wall ride, which was pretty cool. We got to film that. It's crazy how the sports change now with bike parks and stuff. And that's why all the juniors are coming up now and just killing it, because... They just had this to grow up on, dude. We didn't have anything like this. Dude, I mean, okay, I only started late, but even when we started, if you wanted to ride something, you had to build it with what you were riding. You reckon starting from the landing there's too close? No, we can do. Maybe they'll hear us better from there. Watch this, boy. It's the best cage you've ever seen. You ready? There we go. Let's go. You ready? Then we moved into the woods and there were these tables with a high lip and a low lip, which was pretty cool. Dude, they can't be ready. Yeah, we're coming. Drop back. Holy ----. We didn't know if you guys were ready. Yeah, we're good. I thought it was cool having a split, like him going right and me going left. Yeah, I did. I was like, oh, oh. What I said is quite cool, because in this one, you went high, I went low. It was quite sick, like having a... Same again on this side. That's cool. I try to do that in the episode, to take different lines, because it is called swapping lines after all. Oh, my God. I was like, we're fine. I saw you, I was like, we're fine. No, that was close. The other one before, I focused on more you, so... Oh, my God. That was close on landing. We got actually a similar shot on the swapping line shoot with Van Niles. And then we moved into probably the sickest couple of jumps, at least in my opinion, that I rode in the bike park. Good? Yeah. Oh, ****. That one, I landed ******* sideways. This bike's real light compared to what I've been riding for like a year and a half. These are the only three good bits here. It's so dark in the woods. That's fun, isn't it? It's like, you said, it's like night. Is it? That was sick, though. This, these jumps are rad. There's like three tables. And the second one is so good for whips and scrubs. Like, it's just the flow is so good. Yeah, boys! Sick. You gotta be slower than I without following. Yeah. Crazy how much the split screen helps. You want the top? Yeah, because I felt like I went the same. What a crash you had. Was it this year or last year? Oh, ----. Oh! You all right, mate? Holy ----. Jumped a bit right, did you? What? Jumped a bit right? Yeah, just a little bit. Holy ****. Fair play, mate. Sorry, crap. Oh, dude. You did that. Some guy had the hugest crash. Just jumped off the jump and over the bars. Just killed himself, and he's fine. Ain't it mad how they just get up and like, yeah, like, yeah. It's like another lap. He's just so mad. I reckon this is my favourite jump that I've hit in the bike box so far. Yeah, I think it's my favourite one here. Yeah! Mate, it was ----. I know. Oh, that's so ----. Like, that is so ----. I'd be so embarrassed, like. Like, how do you even call yourself a downrider? This is the first one. Young, tiny one. This one's a bit weird as well. That nose is way too high. I should have done that again, if I'm honest. Nose is way too high. I would literally not use that for Instagram. But... Go on then, back up, you go. Nah, because I was going to do a gnarly one before you crashed, because the one before was kind of sketchy, and that's why you can always come back with a sketchy one. Now I've probably got to do two more to get a good one. I probably would not use that for Instagram. I'm not on top of my bike with it. I wouldn't use it either. I know I'm a critic, dude, but I feel like that's why I've got to where I have in my career, because I'm serious about it. I go until I get a good shot. Yeah. But that's good enough for this, all right? So you need to get back up. He's happy with it. The boss is happy. Yeah, good. I'm happy with your shot. I could have... My shot could have been a bit better, but... Do you want one for you? Nah, he's good. Now we've got to step up. Step up. It's like a step up off the road here. It's not super cool. It's really hard to shoot that. Yeah, I feel like we'd be better off going on the swooper and just working down swooper to the death road. Yeah. It's just there. This is cool out the tunnel and around the next bit. It's really high speed and kind of downhilly. Almost knocked the cameraman over. Yo! I like almost fell over because I like felt the breeze. Yeah. Will you film me from the back? That's crazy with just having a second filmer, how much more you can get. End part of the shoot was, everyone will know at Dovey, there's this high speed straight section. I can't remember on what the track's called, but towards the bottom, and there's a bit of a hip. So when you're going, honestly, you're going like 70, 80 k's an hour. I don't know. It's really, really fast. So slow. Dude, when it goes like below 10, it's like deadly slow. Crazy. Dude, thanks a lot, man. No worries. Honestly, the shoot couldn't have gone better. We had amazing weather. I want to say a huge thanks again to Bernard for making the time. Honestly, so sick to have that experience. Thanks again, guys, for the support. And yeah, I'm going to keep this train rolling.