The one and only Claudio Caluori is back and in full flow as he takes us down the glorious Pietermaritzburg course for Round 1 of the UCI DH World Cup in South Africa. Check out Claudio’s thoughts on the modified downhill course at Pietermaritzburg as we get sight of what the riders can come to expect when they take to the course over the next few days.
Tune into Redbull.com/bike from 14:15 CET this Saturday, April 12, to see how the riders fare for real on the Pietermaritzburg track for the first round of the UCI Downhill World Cup.
Arrives late... getting dark... riding the course blind... on a borrowed bike... and still having more fun and ripping harder than the vast majority of of ever could dream of! Awesome work Claudio!!!
He gave like five good reasons not to ride the course before he even got on his bike, then says "oh well, let's go..." Courage. His commentary is highly entertaining. 'Don't want to do a Mitch RopelatoOOOOOHHH, OK..well that wasn't as hard as I thought..."
That was freakin funny! Here you realise how good pro riders are hitting this track with trail bikes. I've been waiting sooo long and it's tomorrow damn can't wait!
Somehow this week I didn't feel the world cup fever yet with all the world cup news (new gear, who is racing going 650b, etc). I thought something was missing keeping me from being excited. Then I realized! Claudio's track preview wasn't here yet! Now here it is! Got me all excited again!
"I better not do this... I might kill myself!" hahaha epic Claudio!!!!
Gotta luv a bit of 'Claudio'.... some epic one liners in there, loved the admission of not even choosing a line 'cos i don't know one' hahahahaha classic... big day tomorrow.. is Warner still on the mic ?
Just because you have to pedal a bit doesn't mean it's not "full DH". If we start thinking like that, we could say that Leogang or even Fort Bill aren't "full DH". As Steve Smith said: "we can't really call ourselves athletes if we're not pedaling."
that's not what i meant. it's not pedalling that makes this track a bit less DH-ish. It's less steep and has less technical sections than, for example, Andorra or Val Di Sole, those of course are on the opposite side under the point of view of the features. That doesn't mean that PMB is not worth the DH World cup or whatever, just that here the focus is definitively on speed and air, and less on the rough stuff. I'm more than sure that i will enjoy the race (i will enjoy ALL the races) i love DH and i'm in withdrawal syndrome right now. But it's a fact that PMB is not as tachnical as some of the others / older tracks are
If worldcup riders are faster on none downhill bikes, its not a worthy downhill track for a worldcup. Its definitely a downhill track but worldcup worthy in my opinion no. Looks so fun though.
Hahahaha, this guy is HILARIOUS. How the hell he can talk through all that is beyond me.
we like your accent we like your comments
we like the course preview and we have
a lot of laugh too ... ha hah ah funny chap !
back to the future is f*ckin amazing this video is one of the best parts of WC!
At least one physics major on pinkbike appreciates the way he thinks.
Sounds like Fozzy bear dipped in sticky rad and sprinkled in sweet gnar
"I better not do this... I might kill myself!" hahaha epic Claudio!!!!
True story!
Technical sections, fast sections, pedaling and hit the cardio.
Don't leave it so long next year okay?
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