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a month or so back i hiked my bike up onto Risserkogel, the highest mountainin the Tegernseer area (but still only a mere 1800m-ish). the hills around there are very rocky/stony.
one guy took a photo as he said people wouldn't believe him if he said there was a guy with a bike up there. several people told me i was Beschuert, or ****ing stupid, to be carrying my bike up there. some sections were climbing sections where you had to throw the bike up onto a ledge and scramble up after it.
i signed the book at the top with cartoon of me and the Gipfel-cross.
about 50% of what i climbed up was rideable without risking life and limb. maybe those guys in the vid could have ridden more.
it certainly wasn't a place for all out, fast 'n loose riding....
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interesting stuff
Love that kind of stuff. I'd sort of agree that maybe thay didn't need to do as much hopping as they did, but from practical experience, once you're in that slow/trialsy mindset, you do it pretty instictively. (I'm not suggesting that I'm as good as those guys btw).Its also means you get a chance to look at/think about what's coming if you're riding the trail blind.
Comparing it to the Rampage is not really apples to apples. One is a "groomed" course with on site medical facilities, and ridden by pro riders the other is 3 guys on an isolated mountain goat track with no back up who I presume don't get paid if they're too hurt to work. Both sets of riders worthy of huge respect, but for different reasons.
Me? Given the choice of going to Utah to ride the rampage course/area or going to the Alps to ride those trails, I'd take the Alps every time (and I'm not afraid of a bit of airtime). That's exactly what I love about biking. Hard technical trails in a location where you desperately want to look at the view, but know that if you do, it's gonna hurt. Bring it on. 🙂 Each to their own though!
Beautifully filmed video and well edited.
Makes me want to go back to the Alps.
Cool videos but as said massively tilted. Some of the stuff clearly can't be [i]that[/i] steep because they are managing to stop on it and edge down it slowly.
The wheel hopping is pretty annoying - and someone calling themselves Fabi-Dude is quite an amazing Euro dude cliche.
Still cool videos though.
Yawn!
Ok Its a pretty vid and there is skillful riding but give me fast flowing singletrack any day. Swoops, jumps, g outs and speed. Using your body to the max.
Not holding on to your brakes as you thump down a slope... bam, bam, bam. Any trail where you have to hold on to the brakes for extended periods gets thumbs down in my books.
Think Fruita, glentress, crested butte, downieville NOT the alps.