Brendan Fairclough's WILD top to bottom at Hardline 2025 (full story)
The Ride Companion
TRC Media House
4.9 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Brendan Fairclough had a crazy start to Red Bull Hardline 2025 and after missing two days of practice showed up and did a first run top to bottom towed by Kaos Seagrave.
This is the full story of one of the wildest and most impressive Red Bull Hardline runs of all time...
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| 0:00.0 | All right, we're back, back in the makeshift Red Bull Studio here at Red Bull Hardline 2025. And of course, we're joined by none other than the legend friend of the show, Mr. Brendan Feck. Oh, look at that. Thanks having me, guys. Thanks. Thanks for being here. You've just had a lunch. Haven't you? So that's just to set the scene. It's lunchtime, right? Lunchtime. Lunchtime. We're sat in the studio. |
| 0:23.8 | Nice studio. |
| 0:24.8 | Yeah. But you didn't wake up here, did you? No. My 2025 hardline experience has been somewhat disjjointed should we say this year yeah um it |
| 0:42.2 | started came up on tuesday because we've got a new bike so i wanted to put some hours on the |
| 0:47.8 | bike so he went to dovey um built up a new bike last week so i did a day on my new bike bike. Stoked. Felt pretty good straight away. Dovey's a really great spot to come to get your head in the game. There's a track called Slab Track. There's got some nice jumps there. Cool atmosphere. I love it there anyway. So I had a few runs on my new bike. That was good. Came here Wednesday and we walked the track. |
| 1:11.7 | So we walked the track and the tracks, |
| 1:13.8 | fortunately, or unfortunately, very similar to previous years. |
| 1:18.4 | We all know about the bigger Canyon Gap debacle. |
| 1:22.5 | I mean, they could have just literally copied my settings from Rampage 23, but they didn't do anyway. Anyway, that's not. They could have just like trace the lip out of our 73 foot gap. Yeah, come on, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever. Um, we all know about that. So the tracks are very similar to previous years, which, you know, that's not a downside. It's cool tracks. It's challenging. |
| 1:45.3 | There's enough stuff going on to keep your, keep my small head busy. Do you remember tracks a lot? |
| 1:54.3 | Yes and no. Like, I write a lot fewer tracks these days. And do you know what? |
| 2:01.6 | I'd say no. |
| 2:02.7 | I couldn't like do a Vastappan going through a track and then you finish the clock and I've done whatever time I've done. |
| 2:09.5 | But you do remember bits and bobs and you remember moments and you remember bits and bobs from it. |
| 2:15.2 | I suppose you don't forget the 90, do you? |
| 2:17.3 | No. No, but... It's etched in there. you don't forget the 90 do you no really no but |
| 2:18.4 | etched in there you don't and then also fortunate enough to earlier on the year went to sam wrenz dark |
| 2:24.3 | first and that's got a 90 footer in there so you know i mean worse thing you can do off a 90 foot |
| 2:30.6 | is that pull your front brake as you as you as you started going through the air you know like |
| 2:35.3 | you just taken off and then you decide to pull the front brake and the thing goes yeah sideways so |
| 2:40.0 | you know the rules you know the rules and regs yeah i've done it a few times so yeah yeah we walk the |
| 2:44.8 | track uh the guys have done an amazing job it looks great yeah we're we're lucky with the conditions as well |
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