Uncut Brendan Fairclough Track Preview - Vallnord DH World Cup 2017

 Im with you mate, how do the manage to hang on for so long??? Im almost crying after a burn down the local!!

 I'm exhausted LOL

 i was thinking the same thing watching that. ouch

 If it rains, shits gonna get wild real quick.

 I have rode Vallnord and it hurts like hell, its an amazing track for punishment, not too steep at top and then goes mental steep in the last 1/3

 Brakes ? ....no thanks

 that is a piece of work out there!

 @mfoga: Brendog sounded absolutely shagged after that run

 @usmbc-co-uk: I got to ride there a few weeks ago and my hands were cooked after 2.5 laps at 1/3 this pace. Can't imagine prepping for a race on this track, let along actually executing a run at race speed.

 You used Fort Bill as an example of a track not scary/steep enough when you could've said Leogang hahahahha

 @ads24000: The Leogang track is 2.6km long with an altitude difference of 520ish meters, Fort William is nowhere near that. There is no 'cross country' section in Leogang, but there is one in Fort William.

This year Leogang, Lourdes, Andorra, Lenzerheide and Val di Sole are 'mountain steep'. How good is the track over there is not for me to judge.

But we need less 'flat tracks' -pardon me saying flat when there are not really- such as Pietermarizburg, Cairns or Fort William.

 @ads24000: Well leogang can be done without a single pedal stroke, and Fort William has a long flat/slightly up hill section lower down.

 @WolfStoneD: That's exactly what I meant

 @Euskafreez: @Euskafreez: Fort Bill is 2.8k and 555 m drop .... duh

 At least fort bill has some rocks and a bit of tech... Having ridden there I can tell you that what it AIN'T is bike park smooth.

 @MysticMCyclist: Your numbers seem correct, though the Leogang's track feels way steeper in real life than Fort Bill.

 Ft william is the only wc level dh track in the uk.... so they need to have the race there...

 "Fort William isn't steep enough to be a World Cup DH stop, only steep tracks should be considered for World Cup stops."

Do you have any idea how idiotic you sound? Tracks have different characteristics and Fort William happens to have an almost 4 minute long gnarly rock garden section. There's a reason its the longest running and most supported stop... aside from that shitty newly cut section in the woods.

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 @scott-townes: Agree to disagree, there is one big reason why they came to Fort Bill in the first place named business. DH was showing some encouraging growing rate back there thanks to Peaty. And to be honest Fort William had a massive advantage over some other place in the UK : a LIFT. Wales has so much more potential. Any track ridden by pros is gnarly even with some tiny little rock, simply because they ride quite fast.

My opinion is plain and simple, if you can't ride the track top to bottom without a single pedal stroke it's not steep enough. Rather the track is natural or not, full of rocks dropped on purpose or not ... I could not care less.

I'm old enough to remember the 'old' Fort William track . The one that was not 'that steep' -still isn't- but back then it was loads of fun and without too much pedal stroke.

 @Euskafreez: You do understand the UCI doesn't have to hold an stop in the UK, right? You people are numb.

 @scott-townes: The UK has contributed so much to DH racing in the past 15 years that they 'deserve' a round every year or one out of two or three years.

 @Euskafreez: hahaha, its funny watching gapers spewing their BS fan fiction. number than a polar swimmer.

 @isolationismdivision: Yes yes, I'm sure you could do much much better (pounding away at a keyboard that is).

 agree - though the problem wasn't the speed it was the jump and landing. It seems weird to have the race finish with riders... carefully navigating a couple of slick grassy turns. The re-route really messed up the finish.

 Maybe Claudio can stop dissing him now

 scary

 @mollow: Not likely...lol. I think Claudio loves ripping on his Scott team mate.

 Have Claudio and Brendan done a course preview together yet? It would be funny here the banter between the two of them down one of the courses.

 @mollow: Nah, Claudio is his manager, he's allowed to rag on him for made up shit.

 @Vudu74: I think they did for the World Champs in Norway a couple of years back.

 @Judla: yes they did www.redbull.com/gb-en/uci-world-champs-downhill-track-preview-with-claudio-caluori

 Claudio needs to borrow Brendan's gimbal setup. That was butter smooth compared to Claudio.

 Marshals blow them in indicate that their is a rider passing. This gives people down track a bit of a warning that someone is coming.

 AHHhhhh......now I get it. You're trying to be sarcastic. Right?

 @isolationismdivision: Then you're a f*cking idiot typing from Lala land.

 @deadmeat25: I just have a sense of humour. You must have hemorrhoids. Most of the tracks aren't challenging enough though, fo' real.