@hutchjr...I'd add "any new mtb". Besides Santa cruz, and intense, majority come out with a new bike and have a release date; maybe u can get one 3-6months later.
Looks nice and rough, but a bit meandering towards the end. Definitely not "bike-park", that's for sure. Others have mentioned that the course may change as things progress. Could be a nice old school track.
It is a bit meandering near the end, but I think the rider made it look worse since it looks like he got lost and took a few wrong turns if I compare it to the Coupe de France course. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kok8xdcQ9o0
its dh racing, not a dirt jump competition. Natural gaps yes, but in my opinion a long straight with a load of man made kickers in a line has nothing to do with dh
i am not a fan of bikepark type tables in a row, but it looks like tracks these days are bit too natural (i love natural stuff). i would love to see more double or tripple jumps or anything that would differ riders by style aproach to jumping, also i guess it wouldn't be a bad idea to chalange riders with 40-50ft jumps. i believe that whole jumping thing is a big part of mountain biking and especialy gravity racing
I can see where you are coming from I guess. I agree all skills should be tested, and being able to produce speed from pumping a landing cleanly is definitely a worthy skill in a dh riders bank, but I don't really see how a 50ft man made double is any more challenging than a 20 ft man made double. The price is higher if you screw it up yeah, but I don't think that there are any riders in the top 20 that let fear of crashing even enter their heads on a race run. I disagree completely when you say tracks these days are "too natural". Over half of the tracks raced this year looked like motorways to me. I'd even go as far as saying some were boring to watch with riders just hammering along wide tracks jumping jumps that stuck them right over the landing every time. Id much prefer to see a rider fighting to maintain speed through a gnarly bastard of a section, only to be faced with a rock kicker at the end of it into a hipped landing. If you don't carry speed into the takeoff, you're not hitting the downslope of the landing. If you don't hit the downslope, you lose precious speed. Then jumping skill would really come into it as being able to manipulate the bike in the air could counteract a screwed up takeoff.
I guess its a bit like outdoor motorcross vs indoor supercross. Supercross is more about the airtime, and seems like more of a spectacle at first, but it gets samey and boring quickly. Outdoor motorcross stays interesting for longer cos its more about working the track, rather than just jackknifing the corners then pinning it at the next takeoff.
This track looks sick!!! A million miles from the shitty wide open bikepark trails I've grown used to seeing at the WC. I hope they don't remove too many trees for the cameras. Please keep it natural.
Personally I'd prefer they didn't remove any trees and just got the best footage they could, but thats just me. I know it won't happen that way and I can deal with that.
Need to split the clip and adjust the gamma in the overexposed bits. Won't be perfect, but can be improved greatly. I have to do this to most of my GoatPro shots on sunny days in the woods.
I use Adobe Premiere, but imagine others can do the same. I'm usually adjusting and splicing short clips vs adjusting parts of them, but it should work just the same.
Man, those rocks at the top look terrifying. Can't wait to see the boys tearing up that hill! This will make for one promising start of the season, no?
That looks like the worlcup in trail poaching!? seems there is plenty of line son this one to choose from lol. but i guess its going to be an interesting race to watch...
It somehow doesn´t look like a world cup track to me... more like some track builded by unprofessionals.. though it really looks gnarly.. but not as much fun as meribel for example... But maby it´s just the light that blinds me seeing the beauty of that track...
disapointing ..... do they know the definition of the word "jump" ?? that last wood with big trees is nice and kinda new for a WC track... but for the rest, just not convinced
@HutchJR, yeah of course! @bigburd, it says that they will came across the road in the end full speed, and i'm pretty sure they will put a nice feature at this point
lol .. go play with xbox or barbie and stop talking bullshit .. it's one of the hardest track (for not say the hardest) in France .. It's really more difficult to down this track than other like meribel ..
jdotr, Maxxd was bloody minded , and he judge a dh track with a gopro ..
I know som guys who ride EWS La thuile and Finale ligure, and Lourdes French cup 2013. I'm not worried, next year i know rider will like the track. Already, Rémi thirion say last year track was super good, and this guys only like the real dh track.
I checked the website every day... maybe it comes a week earlier... nope
is it like a hybrid version of red light green light? this trail looks incredible. cannot wait either. CHAINSAW RETURNS!
dirtmountainbike.com/videos/lourdes-2015-uci-dh-world-cup-track-laurie-greenland.html
It'll allow you to make more sense of the video rather than just watching it here with no explanation
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kok8xdcQ9o0
i believe that whole jumping thing is a big part of mountain biking and especialy gravity racing
I guess its a bit like outdoor motorcross vs indoor supercross. Supercross is more about the airtime, and seems like more of a spectacle at first, but it gets samey and boring quickly. Outdoor motorcross stays interesting for longer cos its more about working the track, rather than just jackknifing the corners then pinning it at the next takeoff.
but i guess its going to be an interesting race to watch...
But maby it´s just the light that blinds me seeing the beauty of that track...
@bigburd, it says that they will came across the road in the end full speed, and i'm pretty sure they will put a nice feature at this point
2015 - season of 29rs?
jdotr, Maxxd was bloody minded , and he judge a dh track with a gopro ..
I know som guys who ride EWS La thuile and Finale ligure, and Lourdes French cup 2013. I'm not worried, next year i know rider will like the track. Already, Rémi thirion say last year track was super good, and this guys only like the real dh track.