This isn’t your dad’s pumptrack... the Ultimate Pumptrack Challenge presented by RockShox is more like your local drag strip than your backyard track.
We’ve moved it from Olympic Plaza, up the hill to Blackcomb Base 2 where we were able to blow up all restrictions and build the biggest, fastest track you’ve ever seen.
You have two options to get to the Ultimate Pumptrack: drive to Base 2 parking, or take a free ride up the Blackcomb Gondola from just behind the SRAM Truck in Whistler Village. Gondola uploads begin at 5:00 PM and racing starts at 6:30 PM.
If you can't make the live show tune in to crankworx.com for the Ultimate Pump Track Challenge presented by RockShox LIVE from Crankworx Whistler Thursday, August 18, 7:30-9:30 p.m. PST., and watch some of the best mountain bike athletes in the world race head-to-head in the battle for pump track supremacy.
@WolfStoneD: that's not a pumptrack. Its a downhill rhythm section. Pump tracks are actual tracks, not a drag strip. I love the idea, but it's still not a pumptrack
@hampsteadbandit: is there a technical definition of a pump track? I doubt it. Thus, any track you pump on would qualify, no? @therealtylerdurden knows what's up.
well, @VwHarman accord to Wikipedia, a pumptrack is a /looping/ trail of berms and rollers for bicycling without the rider pedaling. So I guess, this isn't a pumptrack. It's a downhill rhythm section.
Oh DAYUM. That is definitely going to be fun to watch. Maybe not a traditional pump track, call it what you will... It's a fing track you pump on. This is going to be AWESOME to watch and I imagine everyone riding it it's going out have fun out there.
I would say straight is best for letting more people see the action. Yes having the inverted loop from other venues allows you to stand in one place and watch the whole thing but it reduces the amount of trackside to stand and watch.
Swings and roundabouts I guess
Boo Frown Festive as f*ck in the village, they should never move it out. Fun way to end the night, shotgun some beers and go watch the pumptrack racers under the night lights while the redbull girls hand out redbulls at 8pm because redbull is secretly trying to make everyone sleep deprived so they take more redbull in the morning and by the end of crankworx there are redbull syringes in our veins. It's good marketing. Bring it back to to village next year Sram, you weirdos.
Fuuuuuuck I have to get my ass all the way over to blackcomb base.... shit was way more festive in the village. Bring back the old track Sram, god damnit. Keep the party centralized so us fat americans dont have to walk so far to have a good time
Its 11 seconds long.... c'mon!
yes, pump tracks should recirculate to allow continuous riding
www.pinkbike.com/photo/5025412
The Whistler race track still looks great but not technically a pump track
I concur
#Braaaaaop