Leogang wasn't always known as the 'bike parky' stop of the World Cup tour and when it first debuted in 2010, we were seriously impressed with it. We said, "It's a mixture of steep rooty technical sections, interspersed with pedalling bits. The rooty bits are going to be mental if the predicted rain shows up. There is slick grass, slick roots and gravel with tons of grip. Steep berms, big drops into huge holes and more than a couple of pointy rocks. Leogang is on the schedule for 3 years, it's going to be fun!"
Yes, the middle pedalling section has always been a feature here but on either side of it were steep, burly tech sections through the woods. There were some open sections too but these were either grassy turns down the piste or beaten up trail sections that developed deep holes throughout the weekend. On top of this, rain fell on Saturday and Sunday making the root sections a particularly difficult challenge.
Greg Minnaar took the win from Gee Atherton in the men's race and Sabrina Jonnier led out a French 1-2-3 in the women's. We also got our first taste of how good Gwin could be as he picked up his best ever result in third. Full results are
here.
Check out our write up from course walk
here, or the daily videos below from MTB Cut.
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Nothing like the good old days where you had small wheels, IRC Missiles to help slide on the roots, 80-90mm stem on the DH bike, and specialized was the only 4bar linkage due to patent rights.
No but actually who is that I wanna know lol
"Why are they riding BMX bikes with suspension 10 years ago in downhill? Those wheel are so small (26" wheels). I thought mountain bikes were invented in the 70s."