world champs xc a line drop gap jump…

Nice 😀

Makes no difference, he is still wearing lycra and looks like a power ranger 😛

That was in the World Cup course last year too, not even got a nice line into it.

That’s a 29er too, certainly a proper drop! Sure the armchair experts can all ride it no handed though!

he is walking down it though 😉

No chicken line?

Yeah there is a chicken line to the right of the photo IIRC

Caught a few out if IIRC… the XC guys and girls definitely fall more spectacularly.

Oh yeah, I remember it from last year. Wouldn’t really fancy doing it on one of those bikes..

Any footage of it being ridden?

Now that looks like something I’d have a go at riding, but not with my seatpost at full height and XCers don’t really do uppydowny posts do they?

Or stop before and after an obstacle to fanny about with their qr 😳

I’d be riding that no problems……

……..on my face with my arms sprawled out in front of me & my bike disappearing down the hillside. 😕

Must try harder.

respect!

respect for any person fit enough or skillful enough to compete!

hate to the armchair guys with big guts, little skill/fitness and shiny expensive all-mountain bikes!

you wouldn’t even make the drop off because you’d probably be propped up against a tree spewing your guts up!

Hmm – don’t fancy that on my HT TBH!

Mmmmmm… chicken lines. I just luv ’em 8)

You wouldn’t catch my jey-tastic self going anywhere near that. Even on an Orange 5.

yeah it’s the seatpost that gets me! tbh i can’t imagine how that works.. (other than painfully)

people always mock xc jeyboys….

Generally only the ones that take themselves too seriously, or the ATGNI types…

Then there’s guys like Absalon, who cleaned up at the Olympic test event (and a couple of the drops there make that one look small!) in style, repeatedly clearing all the trail obstacles. But then again, even though he may be fully lycra’d up, and on an 18lb Carbon hardtail, “jey” is hardly a fitting description of his riding style/ability!

Lean back, lots! Keep your knees apart, and wait for the saddle to clout you in the thigh when you land!

Lean back, lots! Keep your knees apart, and wait for the saddle to clout you in the head when you crash!

FTFY.

Now that takes some proper skillz on a skinny carbon HT

KINGTUT 😆

Where is it?

anybody who wears lycra or rides a hardtail is totally jey.

its embarrassing when people use ‘core’ when describing XC riding, get over yourself you tubby middlemanagers… stick to the canals where you belong. the woods are for us sik riderz who know how to turn the awesome up to 11. if you can’t send it, go home.

What is it with the jeyboy label, as said above re Absalon and I’ve watched Hermida come down some serious descents without all the stormtrooper protection?
Jeyboys and girls are ace.

Where is it?

Champery, Switzerland.

LOL @ Kingtut!

go large or go home, or go large on the way home with coke to drink.

@5:45… Doesn’t look so bad…

[VIDEO]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9UOoNowcVI[/VIDEO]

Well its one of those more balls than skills ones – but – when your already blowing out your @rse it aint so easy on a race! with skinny tyres and 100mm travel not so easy I reckon!

There was a picture online somewhere of a rider practising one of the lines at a World Cup XC in Australia, it had a guy standing next to it watching as well. so you could see the angles of the terrain.

Proper mental nearly vertical drop, limited run out and the guy was riding it on the usual 18lb XC HT, saddle fully extended. It looked like a smaller steeper version of The Slab at Dalbeattie except with bigger rocks in the run out zone…

Watching pro XCers is incredible – Absalon at the Olympic Test Event was SO smooth (and that course is really tough, much harder than it looks in pictures).

Grrrrrrrrr!

Proper national level (or above) xc riders are all nails and better technically than most of us.

I remember riding the first version of the Witches Trail at FW (not the shorter easier one they use now) its bonkers to think they did multiple laps on skinny hardtails with 80mm forks. I’ve still never managed to clean Nessie!

I bumped into two whippet types wearing what looked like Irish team kit at Dalbeattie one day. Me and my mate were mincing around at the top of the Qualifier and Slab trying to pluck up the courage to do it. These guys gave us a cheery hello did a little trackstand at the top and then just shot down it. Saddles fully extendened.

So I think the “jeyboy” tag is pretty often underserved

The bloke in that video at 24sec – that might as well be me, that might. 🙁

would i be wrong in thinking that ‘jey’ is just an almost swearfilter avoidance style way of getting away with calling XC riders ‘gay’ and if so how come STW hasnt clamped down on it…?

its not a swear word i know… but if thats the understood implication of ‘jey’ then it’s kinda the equivalent of calling people ‘slowmosexuals’

TSY – assume that’s the chicken run at 6:14?

“I’ve still never managed to clean Nessie!”

I remember that feature, a right-curving staircase. I tried it twice on a rental HT and ended up in the orange netting twice.

Is it gone now? That’s a pity.

“Jey” is a badge to be worn with pride.

Last year more people picked to their bikes and leapt across it (during practise at least) than actually launched it on the bike! Made for some very funny footage though 🙂

Meaning of Jeyboy please?????????????

Jeypride is awesome, you baggy short wearing tubby boys should stick to biffling around with your slow heavy skill compensating tractors and leave the properly skilled riders alone.