Looks great to me and as someone else said, there are some riders in there this year perhaps more suited to the hucking and styling-it-up kind of riding the Hardline course seems to be designed for.
None of them are slow but the inclusion of Forte, Kerr, Lacondegeuy would seem to me that the organisers are hoping for some spectacular riding not just fast DH riding….someone like Lacondegeuy for example has no chance of winning this thing but he’ll put on a hell of a show, shame the other Lacondegeuy isn’t there too….some sibling rivalry always spices things up nicely!….maybe this is Luis’s chance to step out of the shadow created by his Rampage winning brother?
….and yeah, as others said Rampage is on soon and the top freeriders don’t want to break themselves before that one!
Dan Atherton said last year the whole point was to invite riders from different backgrounds and put them on the same course, Forte is from BMX, Luis Lacondegeuy is BMX, DH and freeride, Maes is an alien at just 17 years old rocks up and takes silver at the World Championships having spent a season racing Enduro…he’d be world class in whatever discipline he chose….then you have a solid BDS rider in Brayton who can turn it on for the cameras, ditto Al Bond….then the seriously fast WC downhill guys like Gee..looks bloody brilliant to me!…i’m going too on Sunday, best clear my phone’s memory as I reckon I might be capturing a fair bit of footage.