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Champery World Champs - Let the Steepness Begin
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Posted 9 months ago #
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steep tracks just take a bit of getting used too. with the right bike and the right head on, i reckon could get down it.
but it wouldn't be fast and it wouldn't be pretty.
Posted 9 months ago # -
Northwind - it's nothing like innerleithen no matter what axis you **** with.
it's not that difficult to get down, racing down it is an entirely different prospect tho.A few people I've spoken to who have tried to ride it say there are sections they just can't get down clean. And these people can ride pretty well.
I rode it back in 2008, I only rode it once due to the lift access so rode it blind and there was only one section I had problems with, it was a section where you had to get high on a steep l/h bank to make a 90deg(ish) right turn and imediately drop into the next off camber section which had a big compression (the one in vids from 2007 where lots of WC racers got panned out the front door). most of the difficulty came from trying to make the turn on a washed away bank. it was nothing any decent DH rider wouldn't get right with a bit of sectioning (but being so steep it's not exactly an easy track to section ;). 44secs in on this vid (before it was as washed away)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu6NZaIqkv4Posted 9 months ago # -
I'm gunning for our Mr Hart. He's kicked some butts this year & I see him as THE next big star... Bloody great to watch & never scared of having fun on his bike. What a young legend he is...
Go on Danny :wink:!
Posted 9 months ago # -
GW - Member
Northwind - it's nothing like innerleithen no matter what axis you **** with.
No? Fair enough then- just seems that way to look at them, same basic ingredients but with the huge difference in gradient to turn it upside down.
Posted 9 months ago # -
http://dirt.mpora.com/news/champery-worlds-helmet-cam-rob-warner.html
i think this gives a more accurate impression of what it might be like to ride champery...
Posted 8 months ago # -
i've ridden the course a few years ago, that corner is super steep, I dropped into it at walking pace and it was nearly too quick to make it. Probably one of the most difficult courses i've ridden
Posted 8 months ago # -
That vid of warner is absolute genius
Posted 8 months ago # -
^ am I doin it wrong or something, can't hear a word warner says on that vid due to annoying backing music drowning the great man's voice out- anyone else?
Posted 8 months ago # -
Can't hear it on the works PC, but I can imagine Warner's comments by the fact he approaches bits at walking pace/trackstands!
Posted 8 months ago # -
I like that "right that's it, that's the last time I'm going fast on this bastard thing". Sort of like my inner monologue pretty much anywhere I find tricky.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Damn! I'll be on a Megabus to Aberdeen on Sunday - It's going to be well worth the pay per view! Watching Warner going down is probably the most entertaining course ride ever! He must have been concentrating very hard - just swearing, no witticisms. He misses an open goal 'pulling me off' reference at the road crossing!
Posted 8 months ago # -
That's fantastic, cheers for that!
Posted 8 months ago # -
I attempted to ride it once in the wet and had a nightmare. On my arse repeatedly, unable to even climb back up to retrieve bike lodged in trees etc. it is bloody steep and unbelievably slippy in the wet. I'm no great rider but have no real problem getting down welsh/scottish DH tracks. It's certainly nothing like innerleithen!
When I eventually escaped it was straight back to the van to get the swamp things on, and then I couldn't face it again, so it was off to the swiss national for a bit of R&R. This vid makes me feel better about my ineptitude though:
Posted 8 months ago # -
ianpv - Member
It's certainly nothing like innerleithen!
If that was for me, I never said it was! What I said was, it reminds me of innerleithen, if innerleithen was steep- the little steps become proper drops, flat corners become plummetty hairpins. But GW's said otherwise so fair enough, appearances can be deceptive.
Posted 8 months ago # -
If innerleithen was steep it still wouldn't be made of the weird slime that champery is made of, that's all I was saying. Innerlieithen is fine in the wet.
Posted 8 months ago # -
Awesome clips
Posted 8 months ago # -
look forward to watching this i stumped up the 15euros.
it's a ba****D of a course,did it in the wet once and was sliding the back wheel all the way down like warner said. a few off moments too
Posted 8 months ago # -
Timed practice was today. They all treat it like qualifying so it's a good gauge. Gwin was more than 5 seconds faster than Hart who was 2.6 seconds faster than Thirion. Gee never finished or even set a time at the first split, so after his bad crash yesterday maybe he just rolled out to make sure he was included for Sunday and then parked it.
Posted 8 months ago # -
4X on live right now if you've paid up on freecaster
Posted 8 months ago # -
Robs ride is brilliant, but just too sweary for freecaster I reckon
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