Wild in the Streets - Taxco Urban Downhill Finals

 The Sounthern hemisphere urban events series is what helps me survive winter.

 awesome event and great photoset

please can we have one of these events in London, England? I have just the right track already earmarked with some steep elevation coming off the NW into Central London

 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWhI4gi9nNk

 Are there any hills/descents in London? I never spotted any (Apart from those that led to the underground)

 I wanna see this run!

 War-torn? Unless you mean the Federales fighting the drug cartels.

 the photos were great and all but no video?!

 There must surely be a better place in the UK to host one of these kind of townhill races rather than London mate, if they want to make it a spectacle then they need real nasty steep staircases and a good length of decent. I couldnt imagine London being that suitable. That said, I hope they hold one somewhere in te UK soon with all these top riders showing up like this......

 Edinburgh springs to mind - off the castle through the old town? Bristol has some vertical too and probably a gnarly path down to the river.

 It's cool to see racers and free riders together in the same event throwing down

 ALL SPONSERS: Give these guys a raise$ You can take it out of your enduro budget.

 Well, War-torn?????
I just feel sorry for the red neck that wrote that. There are more killings in US schools every day than in Mexico with the drug problem.

War??? you are so dumb my texan friend, you are at war, we are not.

 345 people have been shot in US schools since 1980. In 2013 there were 940 murders in Acapulco alone (making it a city with the 3rd highest murder rate in the world).
In the list of 50 cities with the highest murder rate in the world 43 are in Latin America. First non Latin American city is Cape Town in 20th place, first US city is Detroit in 24th place.

 @RLEnglish , high 5 for that one

 lol war torn

 Lausunne Switzerland is one if the only european cities i can think of that has a similae elevetion drop within a well populated city, maybe Koblenz in germany too. But nothjng i can think of in the UK

 Texan? Yes... Redneck? Yeah a college educated one.... Friend? Probably not. I have Mexican bros from down there that call some places there just that, war-torn.

 guys... stop it with the Stereotype stuff...this is not the place for this type of discussion, dont make a fool of yourselves cheers

 I don't understand what can be such a big problem to call the magistrat of any town, you guys are living in, and ask for permission to have like a half of the width of some urban stairs taped out for half of a Sunday. An event like this does not need as much organisation as it may seem. Just some will. A mayor won't call you to ask if you want to ride some stairs, because he has probably no idea of, among other, how it should look like. A mayor is usually a very busy person, who sticks to his wife / her husband, family after work, so there is no a tiniest chance to count on his initiative. This seems obvious to me. An event like this can only happen in some free time of a weekend, or even an evening, because other citizens surely do have some life and duties to perform. You should try. "How hard can it be?" Afterall medieval customs belong to the past. It's democracy and everybody is equal, right? It is so easy to ostracise, or criticize an event of others initiative, and when it comes to some devotion, there are only whining puppies left, helplessly looking at each other.

 @skyguy504 I have no idea whose comment you are replying to, but USA is one enormous country. Its size is comparable with Europe, so the only major reason for all generalisations and sterotypes is its collective name. This way people address some specific type of personality they think of, describing it American, but it is way to wide term (like European). In my opinion there are people in USA worth every bit of worlds existing respect and people who don't deserve it at all. There are not many countries and nations as big as the USA, so the generalisations should more be labeled with the names of particular States, if ever. However this is known only to Americans or possibly tourists. So please calm down. There are opinions in the world about Americans who are fat, rude, stupid and arrogant, but there are also people who are extremely intelligent, of majestic talents and deserving loads of appreciation and respect. In fact there are all types of people in every country and the only blame the USA bears is the number of the citizens named all Americans and types of personalities concentriated around places, so it is all very visiblle and considerable. This is like saying all Europeans steal cars. It is not true. Some Germans perceive Poles to be car thieves, but I don't know any and I would not steal a car even if had nothing to eat. Generalisations and stereotypes are just the wrong tools to use in life at all, especially among worldwide internet societies like on Pinkbike.

 @Narro2 while I agree that if 43 of 50 cities with the highest murder rate in the world are in Latin America, it looks like a stereotype, I doubt that it's something we can stop because it's not us who started it.
You can't change the truth by not talking about it.

 London as a venue?

we certainly have some long, steep sustained road hills coming off the NW towards Central London

a number of years ago some buddies and I seriously looked at holding an event we called "City Super Cross" in the NW location. Some stairs in tight streets, but then leading into the construction on the road of huge dirt jump and timber booters / stunts (wallrides, north shore ladders, etc.) coming down the steeps

Got as far as talking to insurers, local authorities, etc. we quickly found that the costs of operating the event were way beyond our meagre means, but certainly within the realms of Red Bull or a similar sponsor

 A lot of people recommending London. I think that would be a great venue. A big international city like London would put urban DH on the map.

 If london really has the steeps that you talk of then they should def make it happen next year. the crowds would be unreal

 What does 'coming off the NW into Central London' mean? Any urban DH track in Highgate/Hampstead & GG/Swiss Cottage is gonna be NW but hardly going to make it into town

 @extremmist, get yourself a couple of plane tickets and travel around the world,outside your continent...talk to real people.
That will change that mindset of yours you got going on right now.

 I don't need to fly anywhere to read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_murder_rate
Btw I'm not native Irish, I've only been living here for 5 years, apparently not long enough to witness scenes like this: www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/12/two-men-brutally-dismembered-in.html

 @lalodh tu estas igual wey

 Igual a que te refieres? amo a mi pais y me caga que estos pendejos que nunca han salido de sus pueblitos generalicen una situación que si es mala pero que está sucediendo en todo el mundo. He representado a mi país corriendo bmx en centro américa siendo campeón panamericano 3 veces y una vez campeón continental ganadole a los mejores de sudamerica como Colombia. He sido noveno lugar mundial corriendo DH y representando a México con eduación y no con sombreros de charro y pedotas. Así que no creo estar wey

 Right you are Norski, but in this case it is probably more like "somebody's front door is wearing you"!

 ops meant to reply the comment below

 Instagram #taxco it's there

 instagram.com/p/umn6novh39

 fuck yeah urban assault!

 That's CVD.

 Sorry if i seem like an idiot but whats CVD

 I belive it is chris van dine

 Who is Chris Van Dine? And how did he get on an 'initials only' deal so quickly? Took bloody CG 25 years.

 CVD has been a pro downhiller and freerider for many years. No international rules for nicknames the last time i checked.....

 Ahhh, sorry about that. No LOL and a ton of smiley faces. My apologies.

 That guy is a wizard

 Yeah honestly, the kid boosts harder then any one I've ever seen. I watched him over the lower candian open section in whistler a few times this year, where he pulls those bikes skills from ill never know.

 Wall ride to front tire tap on a balcony...creepy!

 Holy crap he's nuts ! Landed so clean too

 www.pinkbike.com/news/steps-to-the-top-finn-iles.html

 lol im talking about the typo

 Werd! That kid is gonna win rampage soon...

 Might be due to the top part being a normal dirt track , and a lot of the paved areas are pretty worse for wear with uneven surfaces and broken areas

 Golman was on a hookworm. It was not a good choice. You need knobs to brake on stairs and cobblestones effectively.

 ah yeah, ok. stairs i understand. i do tend to just slip down them now i think about it. cobblestones i don't have much experience riding on them but i guess it is the same principle.

 I call BULLSH#T with your thoughts gclarida... He'll be in the mix with the steeze he's got like it or not!

 didn't say he couldn't ride, just said he is whiny. I'm sure when no one picks him up for the next few years because he is sore loser, and he doesn't win rampage again, he will fall off.

 Fall off of what? One of the highest drops of the event..... Sore looser? There's only one winner of Rampage and I'm sure everyone is sore after an event like that.

 But not everyone has a full article on pink bike of crying.

 And that is his fault? All bull,the kid can shred and he is fighting to get his name out. He should have been more mainstream years ago.

 You do realize he's the only Rider at rampage that can and will expose the politics though right? He has nothing to lose if a big name said what was really going on he would have some voicemails to answer to executives who want to protect image at all costs including politics

 Curious to know what you guys are talking about - can you link me to a page/article? Cheers

 Search rampage in articles and there's one about wil white after rampage