This vid appeared on Vital MTB last week, and it is a great reminder of a few things: first, that while we are lucky to be able to watch World Cup DH races live, there is a ton of spectacular riding, thrilling crashes, and other tomfoolery in the days of practice and qualifying that we don’t get to see. Second, that accompanying music is sometimes not nearly as effective as the sounds of the bike and rider as a backdrop to great filming – in this case by the very talented Joe Bowman.

Riders include Loic Bruni, Mick Hannah, Josh Bryceland, Sam Blenkinsop, Danny Hart, Gee Atherton, Greg Minnaar, Bryn Atkinson, Brook MacDonald, Connor Fearon, Craig Evans, Ruaridh Cunningham, Aaron Gwin, Francisco Pardal, Remi Thirion, Sam Hill, Brendan Fairclough, Harry Heath, Adam Brayton, Sam Dale, Wyn Masters, Eddie Masters and many more.

This just makes us that much more stoked for the 2015 race season…