Tickets have just gone on sale, who’s coming g to watch some delightful riding and some mental jumps? I wonder what Dan Atherton will have cooked up over the last couple of years.
This could also be a good opportunity to make sure every seat in a car ticket gets filled. Might have a couple of spare seats leaving from Dudley area on the Sunday.
Yes, it seems daft money but with 5 up, not so bad per person.
But, is it a good one to watch live? From the tv coverage, is it intermittent action and crowds around the big sends?
I’d probably book the Sunday (final?) but go the coed-y-Brenin on the Saturday and find accommodation somewhere between. Having typed that, sounds like the perfect lads n dads weekend!
I went once a few years ago, it’s good to see the scale of the features in person but I definitely wouldn’t go again. There are maybe 20 riders, probably 3 runs each that day, that’s very little riding in a long day…… There was lots of waiting and nothing happening.
That’s my worry, compresses on’t telly it looks like relentless action but three for each rider on the Sunday isn’t too bad I suppose.
Definitely bike park is showing as open all that weekend, presumably the aether ton family will be at hardline and those won’t affect the park opening.
Bernard was saying they have sanitised the course, but at the same time put some massive gap jumps in.
Hopefully there will be no wind at the weekend, because if the wind is in the wrong direction those gaps look like they would be impossible to clear, and like yesterday they will have to cancel.
They have got savvy now and said a max of 5 people per car.
Watching the Jono Youtube it looks like his front wheel just collapsed on landing. I’ve seen it happen on a road bike where a slight sideways force causes a spoke to snap and then the wheel just flops apart.
Interesting that no one is showing the damaged wheel, I doubt Reynolds will be keen on that !
Will it be cancelled ? Looking at the wind forecast for Sunday its blowing straight up at the jumps. They are only just making them as it is
It was a very back wheel first landing, overshooting a massive jump, at a crazy speed, which also blew the tyre front off. There was no way that was being ridden out intact wheel or not
I think they’ve spoilt the course by adding in those huge jumps after the on off. Seems to now be a wide motorway whereas before the jumps and hips in that section fitted in with the topography and old walls.
I think they’ve spoilt the course by adding in those huge jumps after the on off. Seems to now be a wide motorway whereas before the jumps and hips in that section fitted in with the topography and old walls.
Yeah I have to agree really. The original track seemed more about finding a line down gnarly terrain with the odd feature built in to clear obstacles or make sense of it.
This seems more like Darkfest style hits.
I mean, absolutely incredible jumps and riding obviously but yeah, seems like a departure from the original feel of the event.
But yeah, it’s so cool to watch all the vlogs and stuff coming out from it. Really hope Bernard can ride and the wind stays away.
Yeah I watched 2021 highlights to reacquaint myself with the course and it had plenty big jumps already and a great blend of scary natural and structures on obstacles. I think you’re right about the motorway.
The injuries seem to have an air of inevitability. Bigger is not always better. I’d rather see the best riders excel at something than simply be scared by it.
Shame for Jess.
It does seem a bit OTT really.
Watching some of the landings the riders unsurprisingly look like they’re barely hanging on. At some point that becomes a lottery.
It’s a spectacle alright, but I’m not surprised most of the WC riders give it a swerve. Wasn’t it the GOAT a few years back that refused to ride the road gap for a preview because he didn’t think it worth the risk?
