Course Preview: Claudio Does the World Champs Course with Brendog

 genius.

 YES! Do it kickstarter style...a bunch of trails get nominated...any trail that gets enough donations to pay Claudio's expenses...he fits it into his schedule when he can....WIN!

 them whips from brendog

 Signed. Donation on its way.

 Fantastic idea.

 UCI is a synonym for Fun Police

 Clearly the difference between an organization wanting to come across as 'professional' (no shouting, 'clean' language, dispassionate commentary etc.) and a brilliant individual able to ride the tires of a bike while commenting in a manner that draws us in, holds our attention fixed to the screen for the entire run while putting a smile on our faces as we sit in stunned silence or guffaw at his mid-run epiphanies. We pull for him to rail, and to react. I'm sure UCI execs would prefer a sagacious rendering of the elements of the track, challenges etc. but, UCI, Claudio's course previews do more for the image of WC DH than you could imagine. Do yourself a favor, give him carte blanche for course commentary, it'll do your image wonders.

 Meanwhile full frontal nudity...

 IMO this is partly why road biking has taken so long to get even remotely popular in terms of general spectatorship. The commentary is so, so boring and they are just trying to be over professional about it. DH is super exciting, and balls out scary, both to do and to watch, so why not have commentators reflect that feeling in the crowd?!

 Don't you know what UCI stands for ? Ultimately Crap Institute...

 In all fairness last preview in Meribel it was kind of out there, not that I am complaining. These previews are the best since warner started commentating but I can see that after Meribel the UCI wanted him to get back to commentating a bit more on the actual track. However talking about track while riding it, especially when it is balls out I rather have the raw feelings of that come through than any sort analysis of the shape of rocks etc. We can see the track and all its rocks etc alright so its the stokeage we want to come across, of which Claudio is friggin best. So yeah let the man just ride and do what he does best, put some stoke in us!

 I wish they had someone with his level of personality doing the XC course previews (not the dumb XCE thing from the other day, the XCO courses). It's 2 different racers every time and they often struggle with English while trying to describe the track. Even if they were super charismatic you'd never know it. I would be awesome to get a more detailed/lengthy preview of the XCO courses with some lively commentary.

 I'm fairly he sure he said "if they want serious, they should get a frenchy." I hope that's what he said haha.

 @bentown when I started reading your comment I thought you were referring to full frontal nudity being the reason for road biking taking so long to get popular hahaha

 @SethMTB hahaha "I am so sick of all this full frontal nudity in road cycling, when will they knock it off"

 I was no seriously? Replay gain, pause, peat, ratboy and minaar, all naked. Ok, I love these guys. (not "love" because "naked")

 Look at the blond woman on the other side of the track, just in front of them.... She seems to be really focused on her shot ! Strange photo by the way...

 She's probably team manager Kathy witnessing the crazyness of the Syndicate family ....

 Gwin....Gwin...Gwin...Gwin............

 The Rat will beat him manually the course.

 G(WIN)

 *one

 Yeah my autocorrect is awesome

 what was that he said about brains, blood and feet?

 Great crowd turnout for Claudio's preview! Fuck that was fast.

 drewstinky He said that he had more blood in his feet than in his brain

 I cant believe the bikes get to the finish line in one piece.....course is brutal Cheers

 I hope the UCI didn't really tell him to be more serious. I don't think I have heard any rider who isn't loving these previews and his personality. His doing the best job really hope his back next season.

 I hope so too, but not a good sam track. too machined haha. wish him luck tho

 not a good sam track? rough, tight and tech,, that has sam written all over it.

 this is a fucking sam track

 and so true

 now that is actually a damn good idea.

 there'ld be more naked people then

 He has done some course preview at the RB Chrashed Ice events in previous years. Not the same but he's pretty funny there as well...

 Crazy that Brendan rode it without a track walk and in many spots (including the speed trap) one handed haha. So rad.

 Its a one off race where riders ride for their country and not specifically for their sponsor team, entrants per country are limited. National pride is at stake!

 because you get to be called "WORLD CHAMPION". It's kind of a big deal.

 Look at any cycling 'world champs' event. Its a one day, ride for your country, best in the world 1 chance matters event!

 seriously which d'bag neg propped the guy 'alexander'? He was asking a legit question, not everyone is an mtb expert - way to put off any new people interested in the sport who might visit this website! I think Pinkbike may be the reason mountain biking will never go mainstream, any interested people visit this site after a google search and end up totally put off by all the trolls on here.

 Rainbow stripes for life!

 I am with you ctd07, some people are pretty quick to shoot people down on here. Hopefully Sam Hill brings home the rainbow jersey :-)

 He did decent on points, but he didn't have any top-10's this season. I believe that's a big criteria for the UK team.

 Indeed it is, he's been nowhere near good enough.....hate to say it but he's not in our top guys anymore, not even close.

 hes still a sick rider though

 There's just so much talent at the top currently in the UK. He's worthy enough to represent almost any other nation.

 ^This. Britain is ridiculously talented at this point, with all the peaty stoke of the last 20 years coming together with the great BDS series acting as a farm team. By far the hardest worlds team to get on.

 Claudio, Claudio, there's no such thing as too sideways for Brendan!!

 Brendan has problems with the gravity.......he spends more time flying than on the ground. Soooo nice.

 No the Masters in hafjell took Place 2 weeks ago when there was the wc Race in meribel.

 You're not wrong

 Amazing depth of UK talent. He didn't get a top-10 result this year...one of the main criteria for the UK worlds team.

 Pretty insane that he's 17th overall and didn't make the UK Worlds team! But as Pininator said, the UK field is just that stacked and full of amazing riders.

 He should be on the team. Period.

 he might be a personality, but he doesn't deserve to be on the worlds team IMO.

 For any other country in the world, being in the overall Top 20 would secure you a spot on a Worlds team. True, there are better riders than him competing for a spot on the team but he is much more than simply a "personality".

 Yeah, the UK team is nuts, total ringer team!

 How so? Most of the other top UK riders seem to work harder than him, get better results than him, so why should he be on the worlds team? Other than the fact that people like him.

 I guess you guys are right - just feel bad - he is never accepted on the team. Too much talent on that tiny island! How many riders get to go?

 At least we have Rampage at the end of the month to get a Brendog fix.

 Yeah, we do pretty well over here

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