Is Red Bull celebrating the tenth year of Hardline with a brand new MTB event?

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The world's best downhill MTB event could be about to expand into a series for 2024

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Rider sending it on the road gap jump at Red Bull Hardline 2022 (Image credit: Paul Brett)

After Red Bull Hardline 2023 was sadly canceled due to appalling weather conditions in the Dyfi Valley, Wales, for 2024, and the event's tenth anniversary, it looks as though Red Bull is planning an expansion of the gnarliest downhill MTB event. Red Bull Hardline could be about to turn into its own mini-series, with two events potentially planned for 2024. The most progressive and technically demanding downhill mountain bike race won by Santa Cruz Syndicate's teenage sensation Jackson Goldstone in 2022, is scheduled for a glorious return to Wales in June. Hardline takes place, as always on the course designed and built by Dan Atherton, hosted by Atherton Racing, but Red Bull has also teased us with a second yet-to-be-confirmed location and date.

Riders posing for photos at Red Bull Hardline

Riders including the defending champ Jackson Goldstone at the last running of Hardline in 2022 (Image credit: Paul Brett)

As yet its very slim pickings on the details on the possible expansion for a 2024 Red Bull Hardline series. However, on Red Bull's distribution catalog at its Screening Room site they appear to answer the long-standing rumor that Hardline is about to grow into its own series. The Hardline page reveals the June date for the Wales edition with a second stop left as TBC. Along with the race dates for Dyfi, the page includes the following statement that suggests only 20 invited riders will take part in the events:

"Twenty of the world’s best and bravest riders are put to the test in this one-of-a-kind race series. The iconic Wales edition will return for it's 10-year anniversary in June. And we are busy working on the expansion of our most established downhill event behind the scenes - stay tuned!..."

Charlie Hatton at Red Bull Hardline 2022

The Downhill World Champion Charlie Hatton at Red Bull Hardline 2022 (Image credit: Paul Brett)

Red Bull is also set to broadcast or organize a host of MTB events from around the globe including the Cerro Abajo series, the insane urban downhill MTB event, along with the Crankworx World Tour, and the potential Hardline series. So for fans of downhill mountain biking it could be the biggest year of racing coverage DH racing has ever seen, and we will keep you posted as soon as a potential second Red Bull Hardline venue is announced, but where will it be?....

Paul Brett
Paul Brett
Staff writer

Paul Brett joined BikePerfect as a staff writer in 2022. He has been an avid cyclist for as long as he can remember, initially catching the mountain biking bug in the 1990s, and he raced mountain bikes for over a decade before injury cut short a glittering career. An award-winning photographer, when not riding a bike, he can be found at the side of a cyclocross track or a downhill mountain bike world championship shooting the action. Paul was the founder, editor and writer of Proper Cycling magazine, and he's traveled the world interviewing some of the biggest names in mountain biking and writing about some of the biggest cycling brands.

Current rides: Canyon Inflite, Specialized Diverge, Marin Alpine Trail 2