Join Jackson Goldstone as he takes us for the GoPro course preview down the rough and ready Downhill World Cup course in Snowshoe, West Virginia!
It's going to be a white knuckle ride on this slick and physical track in the penultimate round of the 2023 UCI Downhill World Cup season.— UCI Mountain Bike World Series
This track looks sick, love the rocky sections, they look like my local trails, not that much speed, but techy and exciting. And I dig the Snowshoe vibe!
just rode about 70–80% of this track a couple weeks ago and to be fair I didn't know the lines at all (even less than Jackson here) but my brothers in christ carrying ANY speed in that last rock garden is just hilariously hard. super fun to try, though
I remember racing Snowshoe in the mid 2000s and multiple people spraining their ankles trying to walk their bikes through the rock gardens. It’s hard to overstate how gnarly that place is.
Last year, I stood just below the exit of the rock garden for elite practice and race runs. It was interesting to watch both Bruni and Amaury hike back up numerous times to sort it out. During his race run, Amaury made it look like there weren't even rocks there. It was unreal.
It's the youtube compression algorithm adding those artifacts, you can assume the raw video off the GoPro would be higher quality.
You can't put video on Youtube and have it stream at whatever bitrate and resolution you desire, Youtube recompresses all video you upload to its own settings, which is why it usually takes a little while after uploading a video until your clip is available to stream in all different supported resolutions.