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World first! Dawid Godziek nails a bike flip on a moving train

Get ready for an adrenaline-fuelled ride as the legendary Polish BMX and MTB freestyler Dawid Godziek takes on his wildest challenge yet – building a slopestyle bike course on a moving train.

Imagine riding a bike on a moving train. It sounds like a wild idea, but for Dawid Godziek, it’s just another day pushing the limits of what’s possible. In an exclusive interview, the Polish BMX and MTB freestyler takes us behind the scenes of the Red Bull Bike Express project, revealing how the idea came to life and sharing the most challenging part of pulling off this daring stunt. Want to know what made this ride his toughest yet? Read on to find out!

An MTB track on a moving train? I thought it had no right to succeed. Yet we managed it, and it was epic!

Is what we saw in the video an extract from a video game, or is it really possible to ride a bike on a track built on a moving train?
Dawid Godziek: It turns out that it’s possible. Interestingly, it works quite well, but as you might guess, it’s a lot riskier than riding a classic slopestyle track. Even if you have your own train, your own driver and your own hops, as they say: ‘don’t try it at home!’

How does it feel to be the only person in the world to have experienced something like that?

It was quite a peculiar feeling because, in fact, everything around me was standing still. The only thing that was moving was the track, which was just passing underneath me. My head didn’t quite grasp it. I had to get used to it because it’s completely unnatural and takes you by surprise a lot. For the first couple of rides, I felt slight turbulence in my head – it was something unreal. In addition, the train itself, travelling on tracks that were not perfectly level, was moving a bit. All these little elements made the final feeling of riding on such a set difficult to describe. I think at the beginning I was experiencing something like a combination of sea sickness, air sickness and altitude sickness.

What did you think when this idea came into your life?

To be honest, I wasn’t particularly excited about the idea at first. I couldn’t imagine it. For a long time, Szymon and I thought it was probably impossible. And even if it was, we couldn’t do tricks on such a track that would be satisfying to us. Then, when it became clear that the whole thing was indeed possible, there were concerns about whether it would look as good as we thought. In the end, the whole project exceeded our wildest expectations. The execution of the track, my run-through, the whole process – everything came out much better than we expected!

The execution of the track, my ride, the whole process – everything came out much better than we expected

In a sense, you were ‘hanging in the air’, and the train was passing underneath you. It’s the exact opposite of what you normally do on a bike…

Yes, this phrase perfectly describes what happened during the project. Interestingly, it was my first time moving backwards on the hops. There were some jumps where I was jumping higher than we anticipated. A moving train influenced me to somehow land on a landing that, from the perspective of someone standing next to the track, was behind the ramp. It’s all confusing, but I think the video shows exactly what I mean.

Did you enjoy studying physics at school? Do you know which of its principles and laws meant you were able to sort of hover in the air?

I didn’t go into these physics and mathematics issues, but the people I was working with on this project definitely knew what they were doing. It was quite a crazy experience, the opposite of what I usually do; it was me ‘hanging in place’ and the route going underneath me. We observed something interesting – the lack of air resistance. In theory, this could have made it easier, but the opposite was true. The air resistance creates a tunnel that somehow keeps me in a straight line and doesn’t allow me to shift right or left. Luckily on the recordings we had, the headwind gave me artificial air resistance, which helped me to get a feel for the flight on classic hops. On the tests, the wind was blowing weaker or in a different direction, making shooting tricks difficult. Not bad, right? We’re always complaining about air resistance, and when it wasn’t there, we found that it was impossible to fly without it.

What was the most difficult part of it all?

The hardest part was getting all the tricks to come out perfectly in one run. The idea was to film without cuts, in one continuous take. There was no room for mistakes. The track was narrow and even a minimally shaky landing could end in a fall from the train, which could have ended very differently…

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