A mixture of grass, roots, hard pack, loamy off cambers, natural gaps, big compressions, fast flat out sections & the world famous rock garden make the course in Maribor, Slovenia, one of the most exciting UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup venues around.
Hard to picture everything mentioned above? Get on board Gee Atherton's GoPro Course preview as he flies down this historic track.— Red Bull
We've missed you,Gee! I can't even begin to understand how someone is capable of talking and riding at that speed,my commentary would be something like "ooh sh!t! aaahh f##k!! " crawling all the way down.
Yeah it's amazing how he's just casually chatting while hitting features that would kill most of us at his speed (which we couldn't reach anyway). Shows how next level those athletes are. And imagine the speed during a race run!
Yes he did, I rewound that section twice to confirm. The best part is he added "not sure why" after making the observation.
This is clearly a failure of the race organizers, the significance of the dick shaped log will be central to this weekend's race and riders should have been briefed on it.
I don't have a crystal ball or anything, but I'm sure this will not the last we hear from that dick shaped log... more to come.
Might be the most I've laughed during a course preview. Completely caught me off guard. And then the casual "not sure why..." as he continues to rip down the track. Too good.
I absolutely LOVED Claudio and his course previews. That said, I find Gee's previews to be truly amazing with dialogue and analysis as he's absolutely hammering (to me, I know to him he's just cruising) the track.....it's honestly astounding how calmly he flies down that track and give wonderful commentary. Great job Red Bull picking him for this!
1080p for is truly not enough for POV videos. Even if the original video in 1080p is ok, the bitrate on YouTube for 1080p videos is too low for such videos. But I think that 1440p is usually good enough. I usually shoot in 4:3 and clip the frame to 16:9 1440p to get the best part of it. But I think for this particular video 1440p or 4K would not have made such a big difference. The problem was the low light. If the light is so low already the original video becomes blurred a lot - so a higher resolution would not have made much of a difference.
I hope I see Gee man racing for another 10 years, and after that I hope RB picks him for commentating. He just kills it and sends it. Rampage to World Cups.
As far as I know there was never a geoblocking for World Cups. But it has always been there for World Championships. It seems like TV stations are interested into broadcasting the World Championships. So the UCI sells them the rights to broadcast. And thus Red Bull is not allowed to stream it in those countries.
With that sprint in the middle, I think it would be interesting to see some telemetry data which could show that the lower part might be faster if the rider is not already at their aerobic limit when they drop back into the forest.
Many a Wold Cup has been won using such comparisons.
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I can't even begin to understand how someone is capable of talking and riding at that speed,my commentary would be something like "ooh sh!t! aaahh f##k!! " crawling all the way down.
This is clearly a failure of the race organizers, the significance of the dick shaped log will be central to this weekend's race and riders should have been briefed on it.
I don't have a crystal ball or anything, but I'm sure this will not the last we hear from that dick shaped log... more to come.
Would die at 20% of the track probably
Hope there'll be no geo blocking so I actually will be able to tune in
Racing is more tactics than most folks here realize it would seem.