Is anyone else watching the new eliminator format as well? Course isn’t quite as good as last time, but still some great fast and close racing

Course isn’t quite as good as last time

The course is utter rubbish! a small drainage ditch and a few logs.

can’t belive they ditched 4x for this crap

blimey, that is tame 🙁

Gee Atherton comentaiting sounds bored as. he’s wishing he didnt break his leg and was racing Fort Bill rather than watching this drivel

Thought it was Cunny commentating?

Gotta wonder if it would’ve been faster on something like a *shudders* CX bike?

ofcourse it would have been

wasn’t sure if the “technical section” would’ve been too much for one 😉

*what happens when roadies design MTB courses*

A shame, because the Houfallize course seemed bang on!

you could have gotten off the bike carried it over the teach section with time to spare.

bugger, I’ve missed Houfallize again 🙁

Lopes didn’t do very well.

really dull course = really dull racing.

I get why they wouldn’t want to race it on single track, but even just some fire road would have been better than that.

Lordy that’s dull. That’s the replacement for the 4x?

Won’t be watching that again. Dire.

To Quote my 6 year old
” i dont call that a professional race do you?
I could do all the things they just did”

Could you (/your 6 year old) do them as quick though? I could ride every road the Tour covers, doesn’t make me Alberto Contador!

Didn’t see it, don’t doubt it was crap, but the point isn’t solely to have a track that’ll make all the riders fall off! Bit of a shame though, the early season courses (XC at least) have been tending towards more ‘interesting’!

here you go nj

http://uk.extreme.com/mountainbike/1021195/uci-xc-eliminator-news-houffalize-mtb-wc-2012

Just watching it now.
lol @ the last corner move in the womens, eliminated her opponent alright!! 😀

<EDIT> oops, that’s last months race, from your comments above can this months track possibly be less challenging?

My god that’s ****. The commentary team sounded like they might just wander off before it was finished…

<EDIT> oops, that’s last months race, from your comments above can this months track possibly be less challenging?

picture a race from the bottom GT car park, up to the Peel centre one, then back again – but without the elevation 😉

Could you (/your 6 year old) do them as quick though? I could ride every road the Tour covers, doesn’t make me Alberto Contador

I asked him and he said they were faster but they had more gears , bigger bikes and were grown ups

HTH

picture a race from the bottom GT car park, up to the Peel centre one, then back again – but without the elevation

Lopes would have a pretty unfair advantage 😉

Ps. OMG, WTF? really? 😯

I wonder if the format is inherently uninteresting to watch – it’s all about short frantic races on XC bikes. It basically is 4x without the jumps and that. Sure it’s full on to compete, can’t see it being a particularly good spectator sport though!

bump for today’s race
Live racing
Looks like a better course than last week.

Had forgotten this was on – just watched a bit of the last round, my word that course was awful, commentators sounded like they were apologising for it, La bresse looks better

That was moderately fun to watch and looked knackering too.

Those steps weren’t taking many prisoners 😯

Really enjoyed that but what a nasty crash Tracy Moseley had! I hope she’s ok, she looked pretty dazed 🙁

The opening VT shows riders managing to fall off going uphill. I don’t understand.

Concrete and metal barriers, no thanks. I preferred the Houffalize course, but I suppose that they have to change the type of course from time to time, reckon there’s a few sore people tonight. Comments like ‘sweating like a whore in a church’ and something like ‘looking like a 70’s porn star with that moustache’. Where does he get them from . lol

By the way, anyone know what the background music was, when they were showing the replay?

Sail by AWOLNATION

I first heard it on the insane “grinding the crack” wingsuit video and I think you’re going to get sick of hearing it on sports replays this summer.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWfph3iNC-k[/video]

It’s by Red Bull music so they like to use it. A lot. Less serious take on it:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaAWdljhD5o[/video]

Junkyard – Member

I asked him and he said they were faster but they had more gears , bigger bikes and were grown ups
HTH

lolling at this. 😆

That T-Mo crash was nasty. Though I did think the other girl went down harder.