This weeks, it's some classic racing for our throwback. With Shaun Palmer making an appearance at Sea Otter, it seems a great time to relive his epic battle with Nico Vouilloz for the 1996 downhill World Championship in Cairns, Australia. As the commentator says, "expect to see speeds in excess of 55km/h!" Enjoy 17 minutes of a time when men were men, chainrings were large and Aussie commentators tried to desperately to sound enthusiastic about a sport that clearly confused them.
Throwing Water bottles was actually from Downhill Domination for the PS2 I would believe. Below that was hitting people with a branch All legitimate strategies, of course.
Dat nice V-Brakes... Definatly you would not survive a "downhill domination" run in real live. Who does NOT do a quadruple 2000 feet frontflip every day?? That´s just my daily way to work lol
Ah that's right, the water bottle thing was the PS 2 game.......I always wanted to figure out how to hook up a game like that to my mag trainer. I would train way harder in the winter that way.
I put my PS2 and a small TV in front of my mag-trainer for the winter season.
Just pretend you're in the game. It worked for me and it makes working out fun.
Probably never, even though it kills me. Incognito (the developers) split up a long, long time ago. D.D came out riding on the success/hype of early extreme Mountain biking. It'd be hard to sell such a game nowadays when kids just want Modern Borefare style games.
epavichthesavage you are correct . NO FEAR classic . For the time the game was really realistic .hours and hours of fun . Making myself feel old now . MATT HOFFMANS 2 another game ps2 way ahead of its time bloody good games not like the crap you get now . Old fart rant over .ha haaaa old school rule
Rumors say, the world champs are coming back to Cairs in 2016 for the 20 year anniversary. Should be a much better track than Canberra. Hope Mick and Tracy Hannah are still there at their home.
Stromlo is actually a lot better now there are three different options for people to ride the top part. You can hit the track used for worlds, the new rockgarden or the new jump section. Its a pretty good track and its fast in the top and the bottom.
Yeah theres been a lot of work put into the track. I think they need to make a new bottom section that's full of rocks because its a bit weird how they have at most 1km of rocks then its all smooth and pedally down the bottom.
Wow, the sport has come a long way since then. Riders and their bikes are ludicrously faster now but those guys pushed it to the limit just as we do now.
It would be fun to take Gwinn and his bike back in a time machine... People would go ape shit.
The bars would of been maybe about 600mm wide :-) who remembers the kamakazi downhill at big bear? I'd like to see that. 50tooth chain rings! Dh Judys 4inches of travel. Does john tomac still hold the speed record there? About 60mph
I'm 14 so this looks alien to me. It's like looking at cars from the 1920s. I'm still amazed at the fact that they did those courses with those bikes. They really pushed there limits. I hope we still have a while till we reach the peak of dh bike design
That's what I refer to as the 'old days'. Started riding downhill in '98 on cantilever brakes, quickly got v-brakes. We had Bromont and Mont Sainte-Anne already running bike parks and hosting world cups in Quebec. There was much less people doing it.
I originally used to ride in the late 90s when riding still looked like this, then started again 2 years ago... So it was like stepping into the future seeing 7'' single crowns, slopestyle, Sam Hill, hydraulic discs as standard, rob Warner (racer turned tv personality), am bikes etc etc. One thing that hasn't changed is Steve peat!
Big difference between a 100mm shock made in 2013 and one back in 1996 lol. I couldn't even imagine how noisy and clunky these bikes would feel going over roots, rocks, and ruts.
Ill keep my 200mm thanks
i rode and raced bikes in that era , 4inch,s of suspension , v-brakes and 2.25 tires , that,s downhilling when full suspension designs and the sport where in their infancy .
All legitimate strategies, of course.
Definatly you would not survive a "downhill domination" run in real live. Who does NOT do a quadruple 2000 feet frontflip every day?? That´s just my daily way to work lol
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJADF4yH2bY
D.D came out riding on the success/hype of early extreme Mountain biking. It'd be hard to sell such a game nowadays when kids just want Modern Borefare style games.
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Mike´s its a STS DH Carbon
I had one in 1998, amazing bike ¡ ¡ ¡