kwalsh96

DH in the Olympic means a lot more kids will get funding and support, they can race to live, not vice versa. Series will get bigger with further investment and exposure (10 rounds a year + Crankworx + Worlds would be decent I think) More investment means more potential sponsors, and more riders and more trail building, more bike parks, less cunty forestry commissions.. It's only a good thing. And those moaning about the location and lack of hills in a city, London had events in Glasgow, Vancouver had events in Whistler. Location isn't a problem.

A lot of the Ski events for Vancouver 2010 were held in Whistler, 2 hours+ away, for London 2012 had football in Glasgow, 7 hours away, XC was an hour and a half from the Olympic Park, and sailing was over three hours away. Just because the city isn't on a mountain doesn't mean that Downhill or Enduro could be at the Olympics.

Bit late for that but hey maybe 2015!

Nevermind that in Ireland it's worse, it's an hour drive to any half decent trails for me. Even worse when you can't drive. All trails are either illegal or thanks to kind farmers. Government/Coillte (forestry commission) couldn't care less. They ask hikers through Facebook to report any illegal trail building and then spend thousands destroying voluntary work done away from the paths. They even stopped the biggest race the country had in the EPIC Blast. The only uplift in the country is on a pedally track that wouldn't know a descent if it slapped it in the face. Granted, there is a new trail centre in Rostrevor in N.I but that's a 2 hour drive each way from Dublin and a change of currency. Even those in mainland UK complaining, you still have the likes of Fort William, and a good few bike parks. Nothing like that exists in Republic and never will because hikers and amateur sports deserve millions of euro of funding and support yet MTB desrves nothing. How we have a national DH series I can only admire the work that goes into it, I do not envy them. The volunteers make the best of what we have, which is practically nothing.

Danny has taken up bar tending as a new approach to cross-training, here's him whipping up his first cocktail. Mud, Nic & Beers.