Any Womens event

And yet the top guys are on £2000 free frames, with £2000 free wheels, £1000 free drive trains and £500 free tyres

Talking of old skool, Why did no one ride the faster inside (almost straight) line to the right over the rocks at the end of that weird disjointed longer rock garden (can you even call it that?) instead of going wide left for the berm?

Jamie Staff’s commentary was a great!

I posted a link to the full Quarterfinals action yesterday and between motos almost every question in this thread (except or Sailing queries :roll: )was answered in detail that anyone could understand by Jamie. A lot could have been learned by the users of this forum.

no wonder most middle aged mtbers on here can’t ride a bike for shit.

Serious question… Do you drink Diet Coke?

You sure it isn’t the big mac that it came with?

seriously, what in diet Coke causes spots?

“we’ve established” :lol:

a lot can happen during a final but I wouldn’t call it a lottery.

wouldn’t ever have Phillips down as holeshot material in the final or able to make a pass for first. Has he ever won a UCI final?

He did brilliantly tho and it’s a pity he went down coming in 8th in the end.

UCI supercross series is a worldwide series, like the UCI MTB series.
There are plenty other race series around from regional to National level.

The UK had fallen fairly far behind in terms of track design until very recently.

Did you honestly believe Liam had a chance at gold?

Good stuff!

just a pity it’s in London

TINAS – the olympic track was supercross style your local national/regional track is as you put it “normal”

How the **** did TJ and sailing get dragged in here?? :cry:

How do you think? :?

I wish it was best of three like the track sprinting!

there’s shit loads of BMX racing to watch online. go and watch some. it’s the same guys racing some amazing tracks (just not in national colours)

Can I be the first to say:

FLATS! if you’d said it over ten years ago I’d have agreed.
SPDs ruined BMX until supercross IMO. but now it’s progressed so much it’s imense and clips just add to that.

Wow!!

thought Sam was gonna do it through the rythm section
Really didn’t want Strombergs to win :(

Mens soon.

C’mon Willoughby !!

What gear do they use btw?

First gear ;)

8O

Get the ching in ;)

c’mon Pajon ;)

actually I want Buchannan to take it

You heading down after they finish to hit up the first straight? :lol:

So who does everyone want to win the Final?

Brilliant viewing and actually better than most all of the velodrome stuff to watch

and apparently we’re only allowed one thread about it on STW..

no offence to you either Mods ;)

*wonders how many more of my posts will be deleted today*

they’re switching them for 400mm Thomsons to ride to the corner shop for their slimfasts ;)

very nicely done Sam :D

THANKS FOR MOVING THIS TO THE BIKE FORUM ;)

Kye Forte ‘kin rules!!!

cheers crazy legs :D

can you spin up to 42mph at 180rpm too (username?)

got a link?

That’s better ;)

does she follow you? 8O

.Is my helmet doing it?

there’s a very simple way to find out

sounds like she’s simply not a very experienced rider.

Can’t see anyone suggesting anything very useful about her bike set-up with so little detail given.

The continuous development that took us from bog-standard skinny lycra, to the modern cycling skinsuit.

Seriously? 8O WTF are you on about?
the cycling skin suit was developed way before DH racing even existed.

and used from the beginning of the sport..

Tomac (almost 20 years ago) ^^

They don’t.
Other than Hill, almost all the top DH racers wear relatively tight fitting moto shorts and tops these days. (and even Hill’s aren’t all that baggy)

the race is won/lost on the start and first straight dude.

pretty sure they’ll all be using the perfect gear choice for acceleration there.
bear in mind their max cadence is something crazy like 170rpm and they only need to use a few pedal strokes at a time.

Anyone embarrassed to ride BMX in public, what’s that all about?

I do- but we weren’t talking specifically about mojo’s suits so it’s not relevant.

“when the suits were most developed and giving the most advantage. “
hmm… *is most confused as to what “development” you refer to then* :?

when the suits were most developed and giving the most advantage.

Which development were you talking about?

I also assumed you’d know about Chris Bs relationship with Mojo

the Mojo skinsuits were worn with armour underneath and they were actually baggy in places. The alternative lycra was not any old lycra but a roadriders skin suit. makes you wonder why is wiggo doesn’t wear a baggy Mojo skinsuit in his timetrials, eh?

Mr Porter made a big deal out of his skinsuits at the time (as he has about anything new he’s stumbled upon throughout his career in the mtb world). the use of a skinsuit did indeed give an advantage over mx style clothing at Ft Bill but unfortunately all the self generated “hype” surrounding them ultimately helped shoot him in the foot.

I take it you don’t remember any further back then Northwind?

and who told you that bollox? (I take it you are referring to the Chris Porter/Mojo skin suit year?)

No. I couldn’t :oops: but almost every elite DH racer in the world could and until a few years ago always did for world champs.

One of the problems with skinsuits/aero is that it’s incompatible with a lot of the protective kit available.

No it isn’t

And as soon as some people throw away the protective kit for competitive advantage, everyone ends up doing it, and that trickles down from the elite level to the knobber level.

What people are you talking about here? :?

Sure, it’s partly about the look but if you look at downhill, I reckon there’s an increase in people wearing protective kit at all levels, which has been partly led by the fact that pros are no longer racing in clingfilm.

since when? back in the 90s full body armour was pretty much the norm whether the rider wore lycra or not.