they should just have all riders and onlookers sign a waver notarized in the state, saying that they will not sue under any circumstance and in any way shape or form during that day! wala you have the sickest race ever! but yeah health and safety would have a field day with this.
At my mall, they shut down the stupid rock wall because some kid fell 4 feet from the ground, and the mom decided to sue. (no injuries, not even a scratch). I can't imagine what kind of chaos would erupt if they hosted a MTB race there...
Imagine the raw exposure this would bring to our sport if we could do this in us and canada? Man id love to have something like this going on maybe not regularly but like an annual thing even. I know biking is already getting fairly mainstream but for the people who dont see the sport the way we do,showing up to your local mall and seeing bikes racing down escalators and flying up to the second level upside down on a bike how could you look away?
I pretty much think about riding all day. Everything I see anymore I envision riding. And living in AZ we have mountains everywhere so now when I drive all I do is look for lines on them that might possibly be sweet sweet single track.
theres nuthin like jibbin your school railin the stairs, droppin off the stage and throwing down some wheelies on the gym floor! checked that off my bucket list in the 80s lol
It was a great event, what sucks is that the course is pretty much the same every year, as there isn't much room for redesigning the track in such a small mall. It was a pretty cool battle between Slavik and Prokop, and I am very surprised that Prokop didnt steal the title this year as I felt that he was a faster rider, but time showed something else. In any case, I think Czech is more relaxed about regulations and safety for anyone interested pictures can be found here www.flickr.com/photos/114796293@N07/12018957263/in/set-72157639909178074
hmmm...ever since the 1999 release of TH pro-skater I've dreamed of action sports blasting through a mall. But live music special built features and the friggin croud!
I love how this event spreads the passion of biking to anyone who is just at the mall shopping. People don't have to travel too far to see some awesome bike events like this.
This isn't the first DownMall race that has happened. They've done it before. I love the "Downhill" that isn't in a forest. Like the one they did in Brazil.
Didn't realise that it was not established by Redbull, actually i suppose it would have needed to be running for Redbull to get interested.... Still a great idea though, anything that can bring our sport closer to people has to be a good thing :-)
accepted. CZ wasn't easter europe. It was called eastern europe beause of Russian ocupation and communism, but it was always middle europe. Right besides Germany. just for an explanation.
Its called central Europe, not middle Europe, what are we like in middle earth or something. Yes, the best way to piss of a Czech is by saying hes from Eastern Europe, I'd rather be called Czech Slovakian than Eastern European...
oh, sure "central" is right word. But we're in middle earth. And did you ment to say: "by saying he's from Eastern....", because central is ok, isn't it?
je to kazdej rok v lednu, asi si travil moc casu v hospode "jeste jedno prosim" i work for an american company a to je nejznamejsi veta mezi lidma tady
Tomu verim . Ale nepiju, takze moc casu v hospode jsem netravil. Pry, mate nejlepsi pivo na svete, takze mozna i missed out. Za 4 lety, uz zapominam slovy... Cas se vratit na dovolene.
@milan diky! Umel jsem lepe, ale uz vubec nemluvim. @catfish byl jsem cirkevni dobrovolnik. Vis, ty mormoni chlapi kteri nosi obleky a obtezujou lidi na ulici? Nezil jsem jenom v Praze ale. Taky v Olomouci, hradce kralove, budjeovicich, Jihlave atd. Styska se mi po vsude.
May I see your risk assesment and method statement for the 360 downside tailwhip please?
Errrrm.....
short edit from last year
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sPOD0TF89c