@viatch: Does the fact that loads of riders seem to be whooping and laughing for the majority of that run not answer your question?
I think as a track it may give us one of the best races for a long time - I was a bit unsure at first but ANYONE could win here, rather than the usual suspects, and that is sure to be exciting!?!
Looks ACE!.. 90s tracks need to return to the World Cup... so much more fun and interesting to watch than the manufactured trail centres they use these days.
@andytheaussie: Livigno was dry, had berms and looked more like a modern track than Les Gets? I think I'll wait for the highlights. I lust after this kind of terrain like I lust after Shivers and Hayes Mags. Sure they worked and it was good at the time, but ride built trails and modern gear and that memory fades really quickly. Ugh, I don't work all week to wreck my bike riding in slop.
@ChazzMichaelMichaels: No doubt the weather was completely different. But a lot of off camber, open ski run stuff like Les Gets. Don't get me started on shivers. Never had them, always wanted them...
@ChazzMichaelMichaels: Dude.Most of his track looks to follow pretty similar terrain to the 1996 Mont Cherry WC track which I had the good fortune to ride many times. Believe me it had massive berms it had massive jumps. and it was brutal on bikes. Downhill is brutal on bikes slop or not. Seems pretty dumb buying a DH bike if you're scared to rag the thing to within an inch of it's life no matter what the weather throws at it. @andytheaussie I did have Shivers. They should have come with an engine as you had to learn to rear wheel steer to guide them down anything vaguely rutted.
When the mud apeared i know every seasoned dher started to stear instinctivly using periferal vision. Could still see better than through my goggles on rain days and really added to the effect. Was almost like being there except for my dry undies
Looks amazing. Takes me back to an old SDA race at Strathyre, Scotland in 2000 a think. Knee deep mud and track turned into a river after several days of rain. Race did eventually get called off after the uplift truck slipped into a ditch. Everyone was told back on another truck to get taken back down but that didn't happen. 40 or so riders just like this. What a laugh.
Aww man, im never complaining about riding in the wet again! Well i think the race in going to be interesting, shame about the mud on the camera!! Mega tho!!
Wellcome to Europe,where MTB is a serious sport and you're not treated like a criminal for building a 3m x 2km DH track on a big mountain. Also,it's a bike Park,there are people there to take care of maintenance.
I think as a track it may give us one of the best races for a long time - I was a bit unsure at first but ANYONE could win here, rather than the usual suspects, and that is sure to be exciting!?!
sick mick: "this is amazing"
Barel winning Livigno 2005: youtu.be/fDv43TiVNkw
Livigno was dry, had berms and looked more like a modern track than Les Gets?
I think I'll wait for the highlights. I lust after this kind of terrain like I lust after Shivers and Hayes Mags. Sure they worked and it was good at the time, but ride built trails and modern gear and that memory fades really quickly.
Ugh, I don't work all week to wreck my bike riding in slop.
Don't get me started on shivers. Never had them, always wanted them...
Downhill is brutal on bikes slop or not. Seems pretty dumb buying a DH bike if you're scared to rag the thing to within an inch of it's life no matter what the weather throws at it.
@andytheaussie I did have Shivers. They should have come with an engine as you had to learn to rear wheel steer to guide them down anything vaguely rutted.
Neither did I.
Slopworx!
I sure hope Canada isn't like that this year.
haha that's funny! This poor ski hill has been abused for decades and is known for slop. Here's a link the the 1st DH race in 92, yes, 1992:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTKbo0Zm0Mg