[i]Due to consistent heavy rain over the past few weeks and the nature of the event site terrain, there will be significant impact on the parking facilities at Red Bull Hardline. The public car park is on farm land, therefore we recommend that all ticket holders consider the suitability of the vehicle they are intending to travel in. [/i]
really? less than 2 days before the event? OK, bring suitable clothing, suitable foot wear etc but bring a suitable car? WTF
Please someone tell me that they weren't just hoping it wouldn't rain and that they have indeed prepared a suitable car park?
Worried about you A4 getting stuck?
Worried about you A4 getting stuck?
No my 5 series estate
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Please someone tell me that they weren't just hoping it wouldn't rain and that they have indeed prepared a suitable car park?
I'm not sure they'd get permission to insert a concrete car park in time... 🙂
Bogmats? hardcore? Geogrid?
there's plenty of more temporary options than concrete.
No, they just hoped it would be OK didnt they. I'm livid.
I'm sure they will have [i]some[/i] stuff to help out, much like ArdMoors, but they can't cover a field, and if its wet grass.....
hardcore? Geogrid?
Grindcore??
As above; it's a field. You now get the opportunity to avoid the swamp or the choice to flounder wildly.
I'm livid.
You are Gerald The Gorilla & I claim my 5 bananas.
Good job theres 4 passengers to dig and push 😀
I'm sure they'll be a local farmer and a tractor on hand!
So long as it's just a flat grassy field you can get out of a quagmire by dropping the tyre pressures. Bring a track pump or compressor in the car and you'll be fine.
I'm sure they'll be a local farmer and a tractor on hand!
Yeh, tenner a pop probably
This is an outrage
Be plenty of jeeps on hand to tow people out and show what they can do.... 😆 😆
You can actually. Trackway panels can be laid to create temporary roads and parking. Easy to install using a hiab and take back up again, it's a two man job. They can be hired for events to avoid these situations.I'm sure they will have some stuff to help out, much like ArdMoors, but they can't cover a field, and if its wet grass....
If you're coming past Cardigan you can leave your car at mine and borrow my 7 seater 4x4 Mitsubishi Delica for the event.
Be nice to see it do one last proper trip before I put it on eBay.
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Good Job Dan's handy with a shovel!
If we weren't leaving Europe there would be a suitable EU regulation about carpark provision for rural extreme sports events.
Wet field? RWD car? Sounds like an opportunity not to be missed
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Your 275/40/20's will be fine on your lowered T6 California.
Day van ftw
we recommend that all ticket holders consider the suitability of the vehicle they are intending to travel in.
Anyone would think they were sponsored by a 4x4 manufacturer.
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You are Gerald The Gorilla & I claim my 5 bananas.
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Bogmats? hardcore? Geogrid?there's plenty of more temporary options than concrete.
No, they just hoped it would be OK didnt they. I'm livid.
Welcome to the countryside (would tons of hardcore or geogrid count as temporary? It's a field, you know, where food comes from)
Your livid .then don,t go .
You city slickers even know where wales is .
You need a canoe on a good summers day as a commute vehicle .
There is a fair few other places on low harder land to park with a short walk so don,t worry .next youll be complaining uber couldn,t get you to the start of the event from where you parked the car.
Ill have my headphones on so i don,t have to listen to you lot whinging about it been wet or too cold or too hot or that theres no earl grey or skinny moch latta with cinamon swirls .
Mexico have shit to worry about dude you have an ectra adventure of a 10 minute walk.
Deal with it and shut the f up whinging
You do raise a good point there Buddy-boy; the coffee on offer is pretty awful.
Be plenty of jeeps on hand to tow people out and show what they can do
Aside from the sponsors' cars they'll be a 4x4 within sniffing distance. Park near it.
As the owner of an overblown kids toy -compensating for something 4x4 this sort of statement is like a dream come true. We've spent a fortune building our macho wagons, showing all you norms how our rigs can pull is just the opportunity we look for.
I jest.
My advice, put your front hook in place before you leave, makes it easier...
It's 'latte', you abominable heathen.
Aside from the sponsors' cars they'll be a 4x4 within sniffing distance. Park near it.
Just don't count on them knowing how to drive it off road!
Joking aside, can you actually park somewhere else close by and walk ?
The vehicle I was intending to use won't really work on wet grass and isnt suitable for a tractor tow.
I've been before, in previous years the parking was on a sloping grassy field, no reason to think otherwise for this year. 1st time i went my mates transit van sunk and had to be towed out. My fiesta was ok.
Last year conditions were bit better, but exit was getting cut up. This year there has been some VERY heavy rain (flash floods last week - thought I'd loose my car near new quay in the floods) so bit concerned about parking there. I'm packing a tow rope just in case.
Trimix - there's a large layby to the east, about a mile away from the turning off the a470 (there's about a half mile to the car park after the turning) but previous years that layby was closed and used by media. Then another a few 100 metres from the turning. Can't vouch for the safeness of it though.
Cheers trackandtrails - I may take alternative transport then.
*phones local Landrover dealer for a test drive*
Lolz. Field in 'might be muddy following rain' shocker.
Perhaps the event should have been held closer to your local Waitrose's car park?
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Your Five Series might be ok. The fancy traction control is pretty good as once you get a bit of forward motion. Just park pointing downhill.
It's dry today,same forecast for tomorrow.Might not be so bad in the field then.
Please please OP don't head for Rampage, you have to walk and everything 🙂
Or a Shropshire race, or anywhere you need to park in a field
This wouldn't have happened in Slough.
Could there possibly be a mode of transport specially designed for such conditons? Maybe human powered with 2 wheels and knobbly tyres. Bet no one has thought of that as an alternative.
Is there an alternative for folk without a suitable vehicle. Happy to park and ride.
Livid about parking.
We've reached a new low.
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This is a wind-up - right? OP just trolling?
Real or Wind Up it's all still a very funny read.
Put your bike in the back of your vast estate car boot. park a few miles away on whatever surface your 6 inches of clearance can cope with and pedal in. I would suggest putting off road tyres on your mountain bike.
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Jeep Fail 😉
That 5 series will never be seen again
might be a short day for those guys
http://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/And-Then-There-Were-Ten-Red-Bull-Hardline-Qualifying-Results,1114
maybe red bull paid them off so they had time to get the cars out 😉
Nice to see Dan A has made it on his own track. Forgot this was on this year. I love spectating hardline - superb track! Real balls-out stuff.
No one has complained about the lack of 4G yet then?
No one has complained about the lack of 4G yet then?
It'll happen, once they unplug the ebike and charge their phone
Mountain biking has gone full Swinley of late
It was a shame so many didnt make the finals, it meant there was far too much of a gap between competitors for the spectators.
On the plus side, the car park had an exit road of plastic temporarily laid down, so that was fine.
Hell of a race, poor bloody tree!
Car park wasn't that bad, not as bad as the email suggested it might.
Dull day though,
10 riders racing! 2 and 3/4 hour lunch break?
I'll stay in suburbia next year, watch it on tele.
Did you not even get to chat to
He was meant to be doing some Pink Bike life stuff - his reasons for pulling out seem fine, I guess the others didn't manage enough in practice to be allowed to compete safely.
Conditions are conditions and it makes or breaks a race with not much organisers can do about it.
Racing is always interesting with long breaks in the middle, found it best to watch practice on track and the race from the finish by the bar and a big screen
Dull day though,
Pretty certain that's how last years report went too
Glad I watched it online, no parking issues aside from squeezing my foreign car past a caravan...
Watched it on RBTV Looked pretty hardcore, when you see riders like that tip toeing down the course, you know it's pretty full on...
That tree collision 😯
so how much were people paying all in for turning up/parking/food on the day? It's the second year I regret not going - despite the reports of boredom!
Glad I watched it online, no parking issues aside from squeezing my foreign car past a caravan...
lol i remember that from the other thread. was it ever established what constituted a 'foreign' car in your neighbour's eyes..?
RBTV in HD on the chromecast is really good. Got dezbjr round and he actually put the iPad down and watched this. Adam Brayton is my new MTB hero. What a ballsy rider.
i remember that from the other thread. was it ever established what constituted a 'foreign' car in your neighbour's eyes..?
That wasn't actually me, just trying to be funny, for the bants.
No problems parking round my way
Claudio was sorely missed on the commentary!
"Greenland is nine seconds back from Seagrave!"
No Rob, he's nine seconds up on him. GREEN not red.
Adam Brayton is my new MTB hero. What a ballsy rider.
and a damm good lad too, did he bring his paddling pool with him?
Claudio was sorely missed on the commentary!"Greenland is nine seconds back from Seagrave!"
No Rob, he's nine seconds up on him. GREEN not red.
True, timing was all over the shop for the first 5 televised riders. I have to say though, I didn't miss Claudio one bit. Getting a little tired of him- his insight is really lacking imo. He seems to phone in his commentary these days on the WC. The 'course previews' of course have their merit but... his commentary is a little meh these days I've found, and the clowning is a bit tiresome. Ed Leigh (i think thats who the commentator was at Hardline) by comparison was a breath of fresh air- kept the pace up- and was on the money and paying close attention. I'm not sure you can say the same of Claudio most of the time.
I went and while I agree seeing the features in real life puts it into a perspective you don't get on telly; watching the whole thing on telly is better.
As quite a few riders bailed out and crashed out in practice, there were too few riding on race day. That meant a wait of around 20 mins or more between riders, which for most spectators was not good. I was probably able to see 7 riders in total do various stages, but that took me all day. Most of the day consists of standing on a Welsh hillside with no idea of what or when anything is going to happen, then in a 5 second flash, some bloke fly's past.
Spectating in real life doesn't allow you to fast forward the boring bits 🙂
Next year I will watch it on TV and spend the day riding CyB with my mates instead. That way I get to have real fun in Wales, taste the trails and feel the weather, but watch the pros from the comfort of a sofa with a well earned Beer.
I sort of wondered why it was "live" on RBTV at 6pm - I fancied they'd run out of daylight before riders.
Anyway, if you were stuck on a hillside it was short and sweet on TV, just under an hour if you just watched the race.
I like Ed Leigh he worked well with Rob when they did X-Fighters (whatever happened to that?) agree that Claudio isn't what he was - the course preview is one of the highlights of a WC weekend for me, but he seems to have lost his shine of late - he seems a bit of a broken man since he dared mention that Rachel Atherton might benefit from riding and training with other much faster riders, who are male and her brothers.
I missed the explaination as to why the start was next to a tree and not off the start ramp. Which parts of the course did they miss out?
Guess would have to be weather
yep wind
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/red-bull-hardline-finals-photo-epic-2017.html
If in doubt read pink bike 🙂
I guessed that! I just wondered what features could've been mad enough to avoid, considering some of the stuff they did do!
Lovely photos on PB 🙂
Trimix - MemberSpectating in real life doesn't allow you to fast forward the boring bits
Never watch american football live!
Spectating in real life doesn't allow you to fast forward the boring bits
Yep hence why I got the last seat in the shade by the bar for the Worlds in front of the massive TV screen 🙂
The PB pic of Graeme Mudd doing the road gap - you really don't get an appreciation of how huge that is on the telly. They make it look so damn easy!
Yeah ed Leigh's a good commentator and mouthpiece, he did most of the talking on x fighters and Warner seemed quiet in comparison. I thinks he's an ex pro snowboarder but seems to know his MTB. And yeah what happened to x fighters? No idea what's going on in FMX anymore
I stood next to the road gap and tried to put it into perspective, but there is little to gauge it by. I reckoned it would be like jumping off the top of my two story house.
But they land on a downslope that's about 45 degrees into a 90 degree RH berm.
Scared me looking at it. God knows what they think as they ride up to the lip - the view they would have is of Welsh mountains, not the landing spot. Not sure just how they judge the speed.
One chaps rear wheel only just made it to lip.
I watched the live stream on youtube, it was decent towards the end, waiting to see if the last few riders could take the win, but coverage was a bit of a shambles wasn't it, timing was way out, and commentators didn't understand that green means faster until quite late in the day.
Track looked incredible and the riders insane for even attempting it, really impressive, but overall the whole thing was a bit meh really.
[i]I stood next to the road gap and tried to put it into perspective, but there is little to gauge it by. I reckoned it would be like jumping off the top of my two story house.[/i]
And the pics just show so clearly - they're on a bloody bicycle!
I did suspect something was a bit off with the event as everyone seemed quiet and a bit bored looking in the finish arena on the RB feed. There was no noise or excitement. Even the riders looked a bit bored!
I guess standing around in the cold waiting for stuff to happens I'll do that to you.
To spice it up they should open the track to spectators with bikes, they can fill in the gaps between the pro runs.
I'm sure there would be a couple of hero's that think they could have a go 🙂 Spectators would be baying for blood like a Roman amphitheatre audience.
Only downside would be the number of ambulances needed.
Watched the replay and apart from the timing cockup, thought it was brilliant!
Loved that long tracking shot of them on the moor - we don't really get to see that normally.
Not hard to see why the British riders do well - most of the videos you see of them in the off-season is on exactly that kind of stuff (big jumps aside) - slippery, rooty clag.
On to Rampage!