weird how we were doing the big wheels bit on here nearly ten years ago, before the pinnacle of the sport start it...
hart proving that the wagon wheels are no good when it gets technical. 🙂
Everyone trying to loose this one...
#g-winning
Gwin doing alright without wagon wheels there.
Wind and rain looks to be really picking up now.. hope it's not going to mess up the last 3..
^ did he stop for a selfie on the way out of the woods?
lol, pretty much
Awesome
Well the 29r age has arrived in downhill, not bad for something welded up in a shed 😉
Another Aussie owning the mud section.
😀
All down to Minnaar now..
The machine is getting ready...
Come on the goat!
Smashing it...
😯
Showing his skill with those lines.
😯 indeed
Holy crap!
I think he owns the track now...
So 29ers.
Cool right?
Yes!!!!!!
Synidicate seem to be quite pleased.!!! 😀
Yep
And THAT is why he is the only man I would leave my husband for.
insane! great run by Moir!
Lekker!
😀
Lekker indeed!
Seems like the 650b vs 29er thing might not be so clear cut, and still comes down to the rider and a bit of luck more than anything else bar having good suspension setup.
Aye, all things are very rarely equal in dh, so much that can go wrong.
Probably a good time to sell my 29er.
well worth a morning review
http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/Fort-William-World-Cup-Downhill-Race-Show,11081/Slideshow,0/sspomer,2
Rachel certainly not happy about how the woods ended up, and personally I agree with her. The bonus of being as good as she is, she can speak her mind and tell it how it is.
Stoked for Minaaaaar, showing his class all through that ride. I thought he was going to be the only rider to ever be injured after his race run though with that pile on at the end!
Well that was interesting.
Torn between thinking the claggy woods was an embarrassment or that at least it mixed things up a bit.
Any news on what happened to Gwin when he ballsed up and stopped?
He talks about it in the slideshow, slid out or something after the wallride coming into the creek gap.
He talks about it in the slideshow, slid out or something after the wallride coming into the [s]creek[/s] burn gap.
FTFY 🙂
The course is the course. Everyone rides it. End.
These are the same folk who moan about some races being too Park...
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Torn between thinking the claggy woods was an embarrassment or that at least it mixed things up a bit.
thing is it's Ft Bill it's big enough, long enough and has enough bits to mess up on that gaps appear all by themselves!!
edit @nickc have a listen to the racers and their reasons about why it made it crap and a bit dangerous in some ways.
These are the same folk who moan about some races being too Park...
Have you got a list of names there?
I'm kind of with Cha****ng.
To be honest, I didn't enjoy watching people go through that slop. Thought it spoiled the runs - especially in the women's race as it looked to have improved a bit for the men's (maybe their greater strength helped though, I have no idea).
But it's not like Lourdes where the conditions changed so drastically that the top men didn't stand a chance, so I guess it's just racing!
nickc - MemberThe course is the course. Everyone rides it. End.
Yeah, thing is, with a section like this not everyone rides the same track- it'll cut up, can dry up, all that. It's more apparent in enduro where 800 bikes can totally transform a section between first practice and the last race run but it's still an issue for dh. (it's inevitable; the only alternative is bombproof unchanging tracks but sometimes it's worse than others)
OTOH if it'd been a bit drier it'd have been an interesting addition to the course- and if they'd run it straight down the classic track people would say "Oh same old". At fort william you have to plan for bad weather but the switch from a long dryish spell to wet is hard for tracks anyway so this was probably right out on the end of the probability curve. Some you lose.
I'm more worried to hear about them making people pour away drink!
Tahnee's not happy...
https://dirtmountainbike.com/news/tahnee-seagrave-racing-not-entertainment-joke-viewers.html
Understandable as it was her best chance ever to get a win.
I thought it looked embarrassing that bog section. It doesn't paint Fort William in a good light when the worlds best are getting off and running, or tripoding down.
Anyone else massively disappointed with the Red Bull coverage? Most riders we only saw at the gates and then come into view 3 minutes or so in. Missed the entry into the wood section which was catching everyone out. Found it really frustrating.
