Is this the HARDEST cross-country race ever?! -- Downieville Classic Cross-Country

The Downieville cross-country isn't your typical XC race. Not only is it a point-to-point race, but the course includes 4,000 feet of climbing and more than 5,000 feet of descending over 25 miles, making it one of the most difficult XC races we've ever done.
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[@michaelcariaga9646]

Oh my....this video is made because of me....Mr. Patron!!! Your welcome all you Tubers that watch for free...you can afford $5 a month...it’s like going to church but never giving any money...that’s just wrong...

[@jamesbenish-kingsbury3158]

Thanks for donating but u dont gotta be a dick about it

[@gearbox1858]

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It's a free life

[@jonathandefoy6376]

really when I am college student with a budget?

[@neroangelo1409]

simp

[@TrailPOV]

One of the most entertaining videos I've seen in several days. You're an absolute animal when it comes to passing people on the uphill ANd downhill!! That along with the music....awesome!

[@XCBen]

The being nervous before a race is one of my favorite parts. It's a exciting nervous. Ha! Great job you two!

[@manuelguachiacguachiac621]

Freaking stoked to finally meet you guys. Finally got my sticker!! One of the greatest weekend.

[@sydandmacky]

Great to meet you as well!!

[@airzillarocks]

Loved the "hillbilly's" at the top of Cramp Hill talking smack, awesome! \m/

[@windmillcancersurvivor2568]

Super results, top competition. You're both Awesome!!

[@JimCockerham]

Happy birthday Macky! Incredible riding from both of you! Love the dirt faces.

[@getoutsidemore]

Thank you guys for shariing. You are so awesome and honest.... Yayah!

[@GokkunGuru]

Macky is a nice guy. I enjoy watching him explain things especially when Syd fixes bikes.

[@FlyEaglesFly333]

Congrats Syd & Macky!! And great video!

[@taffycymroukmtb9073]

Great stuff Syd& Macky 🤘 beautiful Trails 👌👍

[@marysullivan1588]

Happy Birthday 🎂🎂🎂🎂🎂 great job guys , another great one !

[@chaseadventure]

Happy Birthday Macky!!! Great job on the race you guys!

[@mhe8545]

Great finish!! You two are amazing and young! Happy Birthday!

[@RickHarding]

So much awesome. Can't be contained!

[@8luxxlu8]

This video was awesome!! Really enjoyed it

[@matthewkristenglenn]

Love this content. Great vid!

[@crankbait6264]

Awesome job both of y’all great fitness demanding ride and endurance excellent

[@BruceChastain]

that was a great video! thanks for sharing

[@Critical_mtb]

Happy birthday macky!!!! Great video as always!

[@TheBikeRoom]

well done to all, great episode

[@nwbudro9210]

Congrats on your placing and congrats on a very well put together video.

[@BruceChastain]

that looks like an amazing event. I'd for sure just do the XC part. who knows maybe some day I can.

[@ruvrandomusefulvideos]

I love the unibrow 😃, I am glad I watch the video from beginning to end, very entertaining.

[@tunesoulsata9251]

Awesome video as usual! Love the dirt faces! California has the BEST trails!!! 👍🏼

[@sarahdell4042]

You’re a machine!

[@robsendall9847]

He'll that was hard,love the dirt faces, and Mackys' Buddhist monk impression at the end.Great vid as always 😆👍

[@dksocal]

You chewed through that field. Chapeau.

[@richardsmith4625]

Amazing video guys ,and Happy Birthday to king uni-brow !

[@brettgrossmann9736]

All I can say is WOW! and congrats to both way cool trail

[@kenmueller4788]

Great race for both of you! Fun video too.

[@davidashworth1910]

Fantastic effort - Macky that dirt face was amazing - you looked like a cross between Liam Gallagher and R2D2!!

[@TwitchyNick]

The dirt faces were classic. Looking forward to the downhill. Nice day one!

[@killianredcastle]

Nice work, again.

[@nicholasschultz951]

Just found this channel, Love it. I love the comment of the pre race jitters. It is such a great feeling, & sitting at my desk at work watching this, I felt those jitters again. Oh, & the groups of people mingling with no Covid worries is a great memory of the past. (stupid covid)

[@prioritywarrior]

My favorite race of all time.

[@Dustydayzz]

i love you guys coz you're not trying to create a KZbin persona it's just a couple/friends riding and everytime ya'll apologize for the noise I'm like "for what" the noise is actually making your video alot more natural which I think gives it a less "set up" feel. I personally like it. most people don't pay attention till u mention it lol ❤

[@jackiegammon2065]

Awesome job... love the unibrow and the helmet head! Keep up the good work!

[@northvalleygroup8207]

Great Video!

[@streddaz]

Happy birthday Macky! Those dirt faces cracked me up😂

[@Indeed007]

Strong, strong solid monster riding bro, for sure. Just simply 'looking' alone at what you ultra-fit XC'ers do gives me a freakin' heart-attack lol. Mad props \m/

[@tamserenity]

Happy belated! Great race!

[@01FozzyS]

Belated Happy Birthday,Macky!

[@matthewhenson7005]

When I heard Mackey was 25th and counting down I got super excited for you! Great job! I also lost it hearing the hillbillies telling you to git on loll. Also great job Syd 9th place!

[@ADVENTUREAROUNDTHEBEND]

Happy 35th Birthday and my bike is also like the 25.8 #'s!

[@805mctrailrider8]

Wow awesome trails and very dirty. Great editing too

[@rostonnordell3218]

wow Syd. 9th that is really good. awesome job! 13th is super good Macky. awesome job! and Macky looks like he in 29

[@jaymorgan9331]

Racing is back!

[@Guineson]

loved the music choice, great job racing 👍

[@thebikemage7898]

Music is on point again! Nice racing no way I could do that! Though I would like to try. + happy birthday!!

[@markmorenousa]

so fun!

[@rufduf2711]

Epic job x

[@tedadnan]

Hey happy Birthday man!

[@workhorsemtb7075]

Awesome!

[@FS71999]

If the tortilla is open, that’s a taco bro. 😂 Thanks for the vid, it was awesome

[@shanewilkinson9479]

Macky has, hands down, the best Helmet Head EVER. And Syd's dirtface rules.

[@MazliAlias]

Happpy Birthday Bro..!

[@jimratzlaff3112]

I could listen to the creek all day; especially in the Sierras. 30 lb bike.

[@stuartpilling6190]

Happy birthday mate! 🎉🎁🎊🚴‍♂️

[@sydandmacky]

Thanks!

[@cayennepeppa707]

Hey!!! Are you guys doing Downieville this year??????? 2023? I've always loved those videos Beautiful chunk of country.

[@ShutUpandRideMTB]

Missed a spot at 6:09. Great job! (27 lbs.)

[@area51xi]

It was good to see those people walking their bikes. I just started mountain biking and I can barely make it up the 500 foot asphalt ascent in my neighborhood.

[@sydandmacky]

Keep riding and it'll get easier!

[@cesarflaminio3645]

Really nice bikes

[@AlexTampa-zn9xo]

They weight the bike! Ha ! That’s awesome !

[@booni7740]

The brow and the helmet means you were really going fast. Nice one.

[@jtschump]

Did that races back in late 90’s and couldn’t agree more... did it in a hard tail btw!

[@sydandmacky]

Ouch! Sounds rough!

[@WaechterDerNacht]

Sick video! Was probably a bad idea to watch it before going to bed when you guys choose such earworms for the music...

[@n.s.3410]

Happy 32 burritos Macky

[@alexlamy1271]

Mero mexican comiendo tacos y burritos i like that .. happy burritos amigos ✌🏻

[@keirfarnum6811]

The hardest race I ever did was the Paxson to Cantwell 2 day, 189 mile stage race across the center of Alaska. The spaghetti after the first day gave me digestive issues and the washboard on the road was so brutal that I had blood on my chamois when I got to the finish (if you haven’t dealt with washboard on a road, it’s like riding into quicksand; your speed drops by over 50% instantly. It’s BRUTAL!). It included several mountain passes to climb each day too. Two years after I did it, they made it a single day race and the three guys who finished/won agreed to cross the line together and share the win. It was so brutal they decided that just finishing was winning. I miss those days! Racing in Alaska during the 90s was awesome!

[@robertmisiuk7137]

Great riding! Need to make that unibrow permanent!

[@sydandmacky]

😂😂

[@polishguywithhardtospellna8227]

13:00 Macky's tried KZbin makeup tutorial, got it completely wrong, Syd saw it and said: "I'll show you how it supposed to look like" @ 13:59

[@stevenkilleen8149]

I ride a hardtail but I am eastcoast former bmx moto racer but I find it fun but no way out there people think its all bike but its rider and bike awesome video being light and smooth

[@mountaingoat8788]

lol go on get!! that caught me off guard lmao! wtf? also Nice brow ;)

[@trickelfamily]

Yay for Cole! Thanks for helping the kid out and sharing your campground

[@joestenger4350]

1:34 did anybody else notice that guys gear ratio

[@llullwllallkll]

happy bday!!! btw, you look like chris martin ✌️✌️✌️

[@Epluribusunom6166]

Congrats on the great job in the trail 👍👏👏👏👍🙏🔝🚴🚴🔝🎥💯☑️❤️ I'm guessing 27 pounds on that bike of yours...and your age don't matter you still kicking butt 👏👏👏... Best wishes 🙏

[@ciliatus]

Damn the small thumbnail shocked me at first. Thought you broke your nose, the dirt looked like dried blood at first. 😱 Great video as always. Glad you are ok.

[@sydandmacky]

Haha didn't think of that! Nope just dust!

[@NURSEBOBBY]

Bike WEIGHT: 34lbs? That UINIBROW @ 13:00 ... I couldnt stop laughing. Had to pause the video I was laughing so hard! Good stuff! =)

[@sydandmacky]

😂😂

[@CodyWBrown]

My 160mm bike with sticky tires weighs 34#. I'm guessing 30# for Macky's bike

[@cesarflaminio3645]

Burritooooooooosssss, are the best

[@TheCrashingDad]

damn..that was awesome! i would argue that both those numbers at the end don't matter so much ;)

[@sydandmacky]

Weight is just a number!!!!!!! 😂

[@raivkka4313]

Bike 26.9lbs. The other #, it's unimportant. 13 in the pro xc on a trail bike, that was beyond pretty damm good. Grats to both on the XC results.

[@jimwing.2178]

"The other #, it's unimportant." Ha! I wonder if you'll be saying that when your other number is 62.

[@billhackley3540]

@@jimwing.2178 coming up on 64, ride everyday (less the weekend). about to ride with on occasion (per his request) a 71 year old daily rider. age unimportant! staying healthy and passionate important.

[@jimwing.2178]

@@billhackley3540 Right on, Bill. I agree that a healthy 62-year-old can participate in strenuous activities. I am living proof, and I'm not unique or even rare. That said, if at age 63 you are riding daily at the level that you could've at age 32, then I would be EXTREMELY interested in learning more about how you maintain that level of fitness. All running and biking local races around here have Over 50 classes.The Over 50 winners are almost always in the lower 50s, never in the 60s, and typically would finish in the third quartile if competing against the younger adults. Compared to me 30 years ago, my 62-year-old self reacts slower, recovers slower, and heals from injury slower. Is it not the same for you?

[@polishguywithhardtospellna8227]

6:39 send them burritos down the muncher trail ;-p

[@Puggy124]

Syd is rocken the mountain bike makeup. And Macky, well ur face was just dirty...lol Great video. Cool when you pass people..training is paying off..

[@jamiemk5234]

Great results both of you, kicked butt, fantastic music for the video, what song is that.. really catchy

[@sydandmacky]

Oops, forgot to put it in the description. Will add shortly!

[@warner6495]

11:45 lmao!!! Did that help? haha

[@stinkynathan]

Would love to see your reaction to the Marji Gesick!

[@74te27]

Congrats to Syd 9th Pro Women’s!

[@mattchappell8086]

That looks like an awesome and challenging place to ride. Have you guys ever considered the 10to4 MTB race in Kenya? Its simply outstanding!

[@sydandmacky]

Have never been to Kenya, but it sounds awesome! Definitely planning a trip to Africa at some point when things calm down a bit.

[@Azazel518]

not sure if your using the hero 7 black but it so it would have been nice to see the speeds you get up to on the descents🤘

[@therianstrauss]

Awesome video thanks for sharing, would love to know what kind of power you put out in the race?

[@sydandmacky]

Sadly we don't have power meters on these bikes right now (stages meters don't fit with the new xtr) because we would also really like to know!!! 😬

[@therianstrauss]

SYD and MACKY ah then we can make it up! Let’s say you had a magic day, and you normalised 1,000watts 😁

[@stevenkilleen8149]

The nerves are why we come back adrenaline

[@georgeb9189]

Marji Gesick is also VERY tough, even by Tinker Juarez standards

[@cliffclermont]

Pound for pound a hard one to consider Vision Quest. 50 mi 11k vert. In Orange County SoCal.

[@ifonly2675]

Happy 32nd birthday sir

[@rylanbirch6283]

Awesome job!!💪🏼⚡️ what pedals are you running on this bike?

[@sydandmacky]

Xpedo CXR!

[@Magromancer]

I knew I should’ve guessed the weight of your bike 😂 I’m being completely truthful that that was the number I was going to guess.

[@willbros1499]

Dang dude...while 29 lbs is great for an all mountain bike, if you had lined up on a pure XC bike, like the Orbea Oiz for example, you could have gotten that down to 23-24 lbs with reasonable tires! For Syd, that could have meant a really low finish! VERY impressive to end up where you both did when that's not your primary focus. Now I'm sucked in to see how it goes on day two with those tires. Without seeing anything yet...I'm thinking there's no way you're going to be able to "hold back." You're not wired that way. I'm predicting full send, and I hope it works out!

[@baillie987]

26 pounds? this race looks so fun !