STUNNING & Stylish Bike Riding In Andorra | Course Preview – Pal Arinsal

Jonty Williamson flows down the dry and fast track in Andorra with some creative gaps, nice lines and a few stylish moves thrown in. It’s going to be a wild world cup race here in Pal Arinsal.

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Yeah, boys. Big scrub. Big scrub. [Music] Um, I’m Williamson. I’m running Fair Yeti Fox Factory. We’re in Andor and this is the pink bike POV preview. First of all, big shout out to Jonty. We had some uh camera issues this morning. We’re a bit late and he was waiting for us. He was desperate to do some runs, but he waited for us. We got him hooked up with the mic and the GoPro for setting up the hill. But who’s Jonty? Jonty’s first year junior. He’s from New Zealand. He’s won a lot of New Zealand nationals back home. And this year, he’s actually finished fourth so far as his best result in the World Cups. He’s super stylish. We always notice him on track along with his teammate Tyler Wait. So, let’s join him for a run of this Andura track. So, new jump, new start hut up the top. Super scenic as always. Lots of loose dry dirt, but we are forecast for some rain later on in the week. This is the photographers jump. So, jump right at the top. You can get a bit of ste on just like that. This top section is really fun to watch. It’s really fun to ride. And right now, it’s super smooth. They uh kind of tuned up the track. You can see the brake bumps are already starting to come out and it is going to get pretty loose and pretty gnarly up there. Now into here. First bit of line choice. They’ve uh pegged things so it’s a little bit tighter, a little bit more awkward. There’s some gaps. Nice gap there from Jonty. And uh these sections are going to kind of rut in. There’s going to there’ll be support developing and it’s going to get faster and then it’s going to get blown out as uh Jonty goes a little bit wide in that turn. This is the big jump that uh when it was windy a few years ago. Oh, come on, T-Bog. H, that was the one that Camille got blown off. They’ve made the landing a lot bigger, so it’s not as bad. This section’s so fun. You like drop into these corners and you just drive the bike through them. I love riding this bit. And this the crest on that has been mellowed cuz some riders were landing super deep. Nice big BMS there. Because they built them up so much, I don’t think there’ll be too many shrups going on. They banked up that corner there. And now we go straight into this fresh section. It used to go super fast down the hill and it was a little bit sketchy. Little fresh turn, slow things up. It’s kind of what the riders are asking for. Give us a bit of tech. Don’t have anything too absolutely insane scary fast, but this bit is super fast still. Nothing too wild on it, but once you get up to speed, you do come in through here really fast. So, few little line choices inside outside. So, now they peg things. So, it is tighter coming into start of this rock garden. Sick gap there from Jonty. So, there’s a middle inside. Johnny does here. Shave past this rock. Don’t flip your pedal. Yeah. A few lines in there. We might ghost that bit. We’ll see how we go. Coming down here. Johnny goes for the low line to high. Then down here, you just got to try and stay off the brakes. Don’t hit anything too harsh. Carry the speed down into here. There’s a gap into here, but it looks like it’s mellowed out. This is the corner that Brun had his big crash on at World Champs last year into the open. Now, check this out. Big BM into this new feature. He pulls and then triples. That’s a really tricky feature to do as good as Jonty just did it there. Nice straight line through the woods here. rail that turn. Pop out, traverse across. Few pedal strokes, have a breather. And now we’re going into the last section of woods. Lots of rocks have really come out in here. It’s gotten rougher from last year. So the top section super groomed, but this is still rough as. Now there’s a high line there, but you don’t need to do it cuz they got a nice scoop at the end that you can just slap into. Weird drop into the big wooden gap. And now there’s some high lines here. We saw a lot of riders crashing. A lot of riders having issues. Dakota Nor went straight on in this corner down here. Johnny’s got it good and he got a landing now as you jump out into the woods. Super big cruisy BM last jump into the finish. That was a sick run from Jonty. So, thank you very much Jonty. Thanks for waiting around for us and thank you very much for doing a run. Tune in to the race. See how Jonty gets on and we’ll see you inside the tape.