East Coast Open Canada Cup DH - RAW

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bottlerocketneal (Jun 28, 2016 at 16:28)

Tabernac

Trials-FTW (Jun 29, 2016 at 22:11)

Ahhh ya fvckin' beat me!!!

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MaxAlary (Jun 28, 2016 at 16:21)

All a weekend of racing condensed into 10 minutes without any commentary nor music, still better than crankworx DH.

h82crash (Jun 28, 2016 at 17:04)

I find it odd that it's call the East Coast Open as its about the same straight line distance from Blue Mountain to Saint John, NB as it is from Vancouver to the Alberta/Sask. border. I don't think anyone would call the edge of Sask.the west coast but maybe that's just me.

cwatt (Jun 28, 2016 at 17:38)

Calling Ontario 'East Coast' is absolutely ridiculous. It's not East nor is it Coast. PEI/NS/NS/NL/LAB people would be absolutely pissed to read this. Heck, Albertains don't call themselves 'West Coast' (it's prairies), and even people within BC refer to themselves as 'interior'. Open an Atlas will 'ya. @h82crash - nice geo. stat

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h82crash (Jun 28, 2016 at 17:45)

Cheers. It was a pretty technical endeavor figuring that out - I held a small pocket tape measure up to the google maps screen. That stat is accurate to about a 1/16 of an inch.

cwatt (Jun 28, 2016 at 17:51)

@h82crash: Hah! Classic.

vallee (Jun 28, 2016 at 22:33)

@h82crash Ontario is definitely not East Coast, it is Central. However, as the world of MTB revolves on most things West Coast... Really anything past Alberta is East and in translation refers to a smaller demographic that are "less privileged" in terrain. Can confirm, Ontario extract to BC. Nice to see the trail work on Blue though, haven't been there in years.

dawnchairy (Jun 28, 2016 at 22:33)

Call it the south coast. Of Georgian Bay.

gdharries (Jun 29, 2016 at 10:49)

It's an Ontario thing.

Most people who live there, especially those in Southern Ontario (GTA, really) think they are from the East and when you travel outside of Ontario in a westerly direction, you Go Out West. If you drive from your house in Markham a couple hours north to the Muskokas, it's considered Heading Up North.

All in all, it's pretty funny, but that's Ontario's "centre of the universe" mentality for you. And I say this as a person who grew up there, but now lives far, far away.

bluemtnbikepark (Jun 29, 2016 at 11:21)

@cwatt: ** Checks Pinkbike Forums > Canada > Canada - East > "Regional forum for Ontario, Quebec" **

In all seriousness though, you'd have to ask @sirbikealot for the reasoning behind the "East Coast" title since they originally founded the event in 2010 and coined the name. When Blue Mountain took over the running of the event in 2012 it made more sense to keep the name since people were already familiar with it, rather than rebranding it and losing the name recognition.

h82crash (Jun 29, 2016 at 11:34)

@gdharries: I have to disagree. I've been in southern Ontario my whole life and never really met anyone that referred to it as eastern Canada. Sure you say your going out west if you go to BC or Alberta but we also say we're going out east if your going to NB, NS, NL or PEI. Most don't even refer to going to Quebec as 'out east'.
As far as the 'center of the universe' that's really a GTA thing. The rest of us are generally pretty laid back.

gdharries (Jun 29, 2016 at 11:40)

@h82crash: That's why I said "most" people. I've talked to so many people who grew up with and/or maintain that perspective, but it's awesome that you don't. Glad to know that there's others who look at the map of Canada the same way!

cliocatface (Jun 29, 2016 at 17:45)

@gdharries: I would say that's Toronto's centre of the universe thing!

gdharries (Jun 29, 2016 at 19:53)

@cliocatface: Yeah you're right. My bad. I went to university in Thunder Bay and it certainly wasn't as prevalent there.

steve-abell (Jun 28, 2016 at 20:06)

I just was watching the first video and it was awesome ...... then the last rider came smoking into the last open turn and I just started screaming at my computer screen. F*CKING SOOOOOOOOOOO SAVAGE!!!!! BRRRAPPPPPPP

bighit117 (Jun 28, 2016 at 7:02)

Great weekend Racing! Well done @bluemtnbikepark

andy9 (Jun 28, 2016 at 18:00)

PRY LE!!!

gonecoastal (Jun 29, 2016 at 22:13)

Why would a Canada Cup DH and the BC Championships be held on the same weekend?

stranix (Jun 28, 2016 at 10:06)

Sick, had a great time racing!

WannabeMTBer (Jun 28, 2016 at 21:35)

That was awesome riding. I like the "Raw" footage without any annoying commentating and music.

dhlover88 (Jun 30, 2016 at 13:05)

Those raw videos and pure excitement is what makes downhilling such a fucking unreal sport.

fabio420kush (Jun 29, 2016 at 12:08)

what trail was it on? ty

bluemtnbikepark (Jun 29, 2016 at 12:20)

The race was run on Shotglass