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SlowTV Episode 3: "weekendwarriors"
Leave the office and spend a weekend with your friends at the next local bikepark. That's what weekends are all about!
Location: Bikepark SFL (Tyrol)
Song: Black Magic
Artist: Magic Wands
https://itunes.apple.com/at/album/aloha-moon/id652438046?l=en
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- Date Posted
- Apr 16, 2014 at 10:48Apr 16, 2014
- Category
- All Mountain/Enduro/DH
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Serfaus, Austria
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lukeman3
(Apr 28, 2014 at 21:46)
Ohhhhh that iron horse Sunday.
Damn, I wish I was there right now... guess I'll just take my DH rig up the local XC trails and pretend its as fun...
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Everybody seems to want to come and ride in BC, but can anyone who's been to both BC and some of these Euro parks say if its worth going there for biking from here?
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never been to bc but planing on going there some day. i was in hafjell (the european whistler they say) last year and loved it..so far my favourite. portes du soleil (chatel is my second favourite)...all very cool parks. but i met a guy from wales and he said as good hafjell is, he finds whsitler still a bit better...just more tracks in one park. and just from watching the vids coming from BC parks, the jump and flowtracks are built (or at least it looks) safer with more flow and fun. in hafjell there is one track called rollercoaster. 39 jumps 4-10m..it is like a pumptrack for big bikes and the most amazing thing i have ever ridden, really flowy and full of adrenalin (can imagine that this is like in bc) the guy said: as much fun roller coaster is the a line jumps are bigger but kinda safer. guess it is a little more technical that roller coaster but also built so well. what i can imagine...that the vibe and lifestyle in BC is probably better...it has been a longer bikepark tradition around there also more girls riding, too. more and more bikepark ar popping up in europe though...good thing for standards. the good thing in europe you have so many different parks with different climates. so a few start already in april and the bigger and better ones mostly in june...end of octobre the most parks close again...so the season is a bit longer i guess. good thing as well, where i leave i have loads of different bikeparks from a 1h to 5h car ride away. unfortunately i cant tell if its worth the money, sorry. i think if you take a 3-4 week vacation and make a huge road or plane trip...then it is worth...because you can have so many different styles of parks, people's mentalities and climates, starting from the south like spain, austria, italy, switherland, france..and at the end you go to hafjell (norway) and Are (sweden).
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well...you can definitely have fun in the European bikeparks. But there is _nothing_ comparable to Whistler. Not even close.
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I've not been in Hafjell but I've been in Whistler 2008 (and 2010 with a broken hand). And 2010 in Silverstar. When I started downhill riding 20 years ago there where no jumps and I never learned to jump. Then 2008 - already 33 years old - I came to whistler and I learnt it in under a week. A-Line, Dirt-Merchant it was so much fun. I came back to Austria and it again did not work. 3 Tables in a row: You have to brake for the second and pedal for the third. Almost dirt kicker on freeride trails ... I have to admit that it gets better and better every year. The builder of the bikepark in this video actually told me that they measured the jumps in whistler. And I needed a few runs to get confident with this jumps. Most of the jumps are medium sized, but for instance on the first step down you can easily jump 8 m wide.
We have really great spots here in europe. Lately I do a lot of all mountain/enduro racing and there are so many incredible trails. The problem in central europe is, that everything is "smaller". So it's much more difficult to get all the permissions to build a bikepark or even a new track. Many differen land owners, environmental concern, etc. Also here in Austria many mountains are quite steep at the bottom. So most of the parks in central europe only have a few different tracks (if you do not count every 100 m as new track). The problem then is that they try to build a track for different skill level in one trail which often does not work. In Whistler you have a jump line for every skill level (B-Line, Crank It Up, A-Line, Dirt-Merchant, Freight Train, ...) Or they have only an easy berm and jump line and a hard downhill track. So the advanced rider is bored on the jump line and the beginner cannot try an easier single/downhill trail.
So If you want to have fun in Europe you definitely should make a road trip do the different parks.
And: It's getting better and better here!
We have really great spots here in europe. Lately I do a lot of all mountain/enduro racing and there are so many incredible trails. The problem in central europe is, that everything is "smaller". So it's much more difficult to get all the permissions to build a bikepark or even a new track. Many differen land owners, environmental concern, etc. Also here in Austria many mountains are quite steep at the bottom. So most of the parks in central europe only have a few different tracks (if you do not count every 100 m as new track). The problem then is that they try to build a track for different skill level in one trail which often does not work. In Whistler you have a jump line for every skill level (B-Line, Crank It Up, A-Line, Dirt-Merchant, Freight Train, ...) Or they have only an easy berm and jump line and a hard downhill track. So the advanced rider is bored on the jump line and the beginner cannot try an easier single/downhill trail.
So If you want to have fun in Europe you definitely should make a road trip do the different parks.
And: It's getting better and better here!
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Nice vid man!! I will join you guys with Canadian Dirt in a few weeks, hopefully the weather's good and we can shred the big bikes in the park!