Watching someone like Neko ride is almost hypnotic, the speed and flow of the pro riders is a beautiful thing to behold. Hope Neko and Aaron have an awesome 2022 on the DH circuit.
Those off-camber roots always scare the crap out of me, especially when wet. Good to see they at least warrant a response from riders with actual talent as well
It's amazing how these guys addapt so quickly to a new bike.
Usually, for me to be comfortable and confident when I get a new bike it takes between 5 and 6 years.....
@Bitelio: I've been riding the same bike for 6yrs and am still learning how to get it to make corners faster / jumps higher. I'd love to check-out some of the new bikes, hope the demo trucks get back out someday.
Living somewhere with massive vert and huge areas of access to build trails Im always impressed by how these small bike parks use the amount of land they are given so efficently.
Windrock off road park (4x4's, ATV's, Rock crawlers, etc.) is 72,000 acres. Massive. That said, I am not sure how many total acres are allotted to the bike park, but they do use what they have very efficiently.
I live in a smilar place as you (huge vert & lotsa land) but Windrock is not a small park - that would be Kanuga, Vee Hollar, Beech Mtn, or Sugar Mtn in the same general area. Kanuga and Vee Hollare being small pedal-up parks, but both still feel large and have big features. I'd call Windrock large, not small and it feels wild vs. something overly developed like Bentonville which feels like Disney biking. You could spend 2-3 days alone exploring and getting to know just the lower half of the park, (about 1000 ft vert) which has the majority of trails, and then the upper trailhead (2,400 ft vert) that provides 4 major DH trails for the full vert drop - just riding those 4 in a day will eat you up.
Would take you nearly a week to really get to know the place. The entire park (including moto access areas) is 112 square miles - thats massive, but the bike park is probably 7-10 square miles (guessing) with 16 miles of trail (growing by the month) and from the top, easily competitive if not more fun and gnarly than Snowshoe's total elevation drop and features.
I can see the face of Gwin looking at the New FTW bike hahaha...Do you think he test the new bike?If I would develop a new bike I would love to have some feedback from other fast riders,I think Neko said that in the podcast. Windrock looks like a very fun place to ride. How much time takes for an uplift?
A shot Neko posted showed Gwin setting up. The bike had a cover on the middle section but there seemed to be a high rocker set up. I think Gwin was "testing" another "protoype frame...
Looks like a green trail. Gwin and Mullally need to step it up. They missing pedals across video. I’d like to see stepper trails at Wind Rock not easy lines.
The Frenchie have to fight for it.. I don't think Aaron and Neko just gonna relax on it especially, they bought have a new bike to probe that it's fast. go USA
Good for you Bro!
Would take you nearly a week to really get to know the place. The entire park (including moto access areas) is 112 square miles - thats massive, but the bike park is probably 7-10 square miles (guessing) with 16 miles of trail (growing by the month) and from the top, easily competitive if not more fun and gnarly than Snowshoe's total elevation drop and features.
Windrock looks like a very fun place to ride. How much time takes for an uplift?