The big road gap is just to the left of Upper Hairball, is prettttty big.
That Lower Hairball is so much worse then that Gopro shows, it kicks your hands arse!!!
He's talking about the new road gap that is not in this video. It's big. Yeah, not the biggest but certainly big.
Nice run Trey! You made it look smooth and easy. I'm still working on successfully rolling through the first super gnar garden of lower hareball. I can roll all the tech in whistler, including goats gulley. But lower hareball has stopped me every time. So many holes and tombstones.
I've never understood why they don't clean Lower Hareball up some. You could pull some of those dumb scree rocks around and it would still be super burly, but at least it wouldn't bring you to a dead stop on a steep pitch.
It's sort of a senseless trail to race on. Sure, to say you cleaned it one time is cool, but to run it at the bottom of a race is just odd.
I never did a race on Lower Hareball that I can remember, except maybe it had dirt on it at some point and don't remember.
But one year, I got to go race there and just felt like riding all day every day, so I hammered out runs on anything I could find for 2 days straight. Wanted to get in a warm up run before my race, so I ducked under the tape and accidentally wound up on Lower Hareball.
Before I could get to the bottom, I just got off and walked the last bit of it, I was so exhausted by that point. Don't think it's much easier when your body is fresh.
Snowshoe has proper DH track. It's freaking fantastic. Quite technical and long and sustained. But I'm guessing it's not quite like Val di Sole or Valnord. Which is fine. There's a reason pros are pros, and it's not just because they do normal tracks faster than the rest of us.
Seeing this veritable benchmark for difficult techie downhill trails in the Southeast looks pretty tame on video, it really gives perspective as to what a UCI WC course rides like.
Delusional* says the guy from Long Beach, CA. Anyways, the top Pro GRT competitors that ran a similar course with some variations earlier this year raved that this was the best stop all year. Does this course have sustained steeps like Windham? No quite, but it's longer with a lot more tech rock sections and fast enough for big consequences if you get it wrong.
What does being from long beach have to do with it? Besides the few world renowned spots we have locally (e.g. telonics, PGs, skid marks....the list goes on) where pros go to film...I was not just comparing to local tracks.
If this is all you have, great, but it doesn't make it a proper DH race track.
Dude, you're in Long Beach looking at a computer screen. It is far from flat. Talk out of your other arse. One 10 second fire road sprint. The rest, you could roll top to bottom chainless.
No, it's not an argument @nvranka . You're shitting on a course and mountain you've never set foot on. That's like trying to tell me there's still shit on my ass after I'm the only one who wiped it.
Not quite bud- after riding seriously for about 10years and watching thousands of hours of course/riding footage (POV and non), coupled with racing all over, i can confidently critique footage of any course. We have all seen what pov footage looks like of our own trails, and understand how to extrapolate what it is actually like in real life.....this isn't rocket science.
Is this your home course or something? Seem super butthurt
@nvranka No it's not my home course, but I've ridden it plenty. But I've ridden DH on both coasts and know that POV tells you nothing about a course. You're talking out of your arse!
Out of your arse....out your arse. Your breath smells like pooh, cause your arse is talking for youuuuuu.
Snowshoe was my home course for a decade - I'm happy to be part of the 99.9% who'll say video does no justice whatsoever to the technical sections of this place. I've personally heard the words 'Snowshoe is gnarly' come out of Berrecloth's mouth. Maybe Snowshoe is no Telonics, but come on dude...After relocating to SoCal (not too far from Long Beach actually) I have to say that the thing that bothers me the most here are the people and their attitudes. Telonics and Jedi are great (although dry and blown out), but in general when compared to the potential and terrain possibilities, riding in SoCal is greatly lacking imo because of self-righteous riders who are too busy being negative keyboard jockeys instead of building and maintaining the trails and welcoming riding communities the local terrain deserves. That's one thing the east coast is very proud of; they lack huge mountains but make up for it with community and attitude. The commentary above is proof: if you don't have anything positive to say, especially about a place you have no clue about, shut your mouth and go ride your damn bike
Our terrain is definitely underutilized, I'll give you that- primarily a regulatory issue, however.
Anyways, this is a bottomless pit, you win, all good...
this guy is not trying to be Claudio...the voice effects are appropriate for this type of track...its bumpy so give the guy a break...if his voice is shakier than claudios
The wooden drop at the top really is not much of a road gap, just a drop. Still have to have some balls though.
But one year, I got to go race there and just felt like riding all day every day, so I hammered out runs on anything I could find for 2 days straight. Wanted to get in a warm up run before my race, so I ducked under the tape and accidentally wound up on Lower Hareball.
Before I could get to the bottom, I just got off and walked the last bit of it, I was so exhausted by that point.
Don't think it's much easier when your body is fresh.
Side note, I tried to do some course preview audio and sounded just like this guy, all high pitched and weird. What's the trick to getting it right?
this was playing in my head while watching that video.
What does being from long beach have to do with it? Besides the few world renowned spots we have locally (e.g. telonics, PGs, skid marks....the list goes on) where pros go to film...I was not just comparing to local tracks.
If this is all you have, great, but it doesn't make it a proper DH race track.
Is this your home course or something? Seem super butthurt
Out of your arse....out your arse. Your breath smells like pooh, cause your arse is talking for youuuuuu.
Are all of the SE Gravity Series courses like this? Feel sorry for anyone trying to get legitimate DH race experience.