Iamwarthog

That aint Las Vegas at about 1:30 during the opening "Vegas" montage, that is the Fremont movie theater in San Luis Obispo Ca. There's quite a bit of San Luis riding in the segment starting at 22:18 with SLO local Travis Collins as well.

asteezc1, It has 180mm travel front and rear. Where it says 165mm/170mm is just poor proof reading by whomever is responsible for the website. Read a little further down where it shows the actual specs as opposed to the description and you'll see. Confusing for sure.

Jammin' salmon!

sinki, Oh no, I never thought you were "hating". I actually felt you came across as very respectful and that you were just making an observation. I just didn't want all of Italy thinking California riders are a bunch of wimps is all. ;-) I actually live in San Luis Obispo, about an hour north of Los Olivos where the race was held which is about another 1/2 hour from Santa Barbara where"Tunnel", the trail in the video is. If you ever get the chance to visit over here look me up, I'd be more than happy to ride our local trails with you. Mammoth and Downieville aren't all that far away either. :-)

sinki, The races you have in Italy look amazing but, the differences between those and the race shown in this video really has nothing to do with anyone's conception of "enduro", it has to do with access. As maituk points out, there are appropriate trails in that area however, due to user conflict there is zero chance of the race organizers ever getting permission to run their event on them. They went with what they had to work with, and did a great job putting on a fun event. The only other option they had was to simply not put on a race at all. For what it's worth, here is a bit of video of one of the trails this race could be held on if it were possible. http://youtu.be/oSspAYma2pg In case you were wondering about the bell, you need to have one on your bike because of ongoing conflict with local hikers (that have been trying to get mtbs banned from these trail for years) can hear you coming. Incidentally, the camera is being carried by a friend of mine, who was 5th place in pro men at this very race.

Vander always was smooth as hell. R.I.P. old buddy.

A few of these comments remind me of something. I remember while at the 2006 Downieville Classic (the last year you could race the downhill only), there was some smack talk about how Remy Absalon was going to smoke all the US racers like it was nothing. He got 7th, a full 4 minutes slower than Mark Weir's winning time. This was behind quite a few US racers none of these haters have ever even heard of I might add.

Yes, A.C.C. did win the 1995 Jr. Worlds with a time faster than the the Senior Womens, however it was Leigh Donovan not Missy Giove who was Senior World champion in 1995. Also, while A.C.C. won the Senior Championship 9 times in total, it was 8 consecutive times between 1996 and 2004. I'm not intending to be argumentative here, I just think if the history of the sport is being mentioned it needs to be as accurate as possible.

Slight error in the video. Glen Helen Raceway is in San Bernardino County, not Riverside County.

E.C., I love that there is a race at Glen Helen. That's directly on the other side of the freeway from where I did my first BMX race, 33 years ago in 1980, at the Mark Cook Memorial BMX track. Although I no longer live in So-Cal, if things work out I'm going to try to make it down there for that race.