Video: Miranda Miller vs. Claire Buchar - Pinkbike Hot Lap
The Pinkbike Hot Lap is our own fun leaderboard of pros and bike industry friends. Riders put their best foot forward down a trail local to Pinkbike HQ and their time is recorded with a Freelap timing system.
Current World Cup racer vs ex World Cup racer. Who would come out on top? You probably already know by now from watching Claire Buchar's Hot Lap, but let's see where mistakes were made and where gains were had.
The Track
The trail used is called Credit Line. This was chosen as we consider it to be a pretty complete mountain bike trail that tests various riders' skills.
The Results
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Miranda Miller
Claire Buchar
Remi Gauvin
Sam Hill
Yoann Barelli
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Just like Sam lacked fitness, she will lack bike control.
Must have been Sam on his way to EWS victory.
Jolanda Jeff will most definitely NOT suffer from a lack of bike control.
According to moat PB XC experts Jolanda is not dominating because the weight of her dropper post holds her back. XCers don’t need one. They say.
Also just because Nino, Jolanda, Emily Batty, Maja are exemplary bike handlers it doesn't mean that rest of the field follows. It's like calling road racers good bike handlers in general based on unique examples of Nibali, Contador or Sagan. Half of them can't nail a brake spot, line through a corner and their body position is all fkd up.
There was a pic of contador on BMX for some event for kids, that you can see on various cycling sites lately and comment boards were booming with lunatics who thought that he would kill it on the track that has no gaps cuz he is so strong. Heh, no...
If top athletes could adapt so well between disciplines without dramatically changing their training regime it would mean those disciplines are worth sht. The reason I said Jolanda would have a chance against those two girls is that I don't think they are the best "the sport" has to offer while Jolanda is in top 3 in hers and possibly best descender there. We can be quite sure that Rachel, Tahnee or Cecile R would easily chop 15secs of these girls runs.
Word salad 0, real world riding +1.
And perfect.
Interesting watch, neck and neck at 36s for example baring the slight power off the line, then at 44s there is a 2s gap. One right hander and a little mistake from Claire can make such a big difference.
People wonder with racing how time is made and lost on a track, this is such a good example of how it can be made an lost.
I would bet that on 98% of the track Claire was the same speed, but that 2% makes for a 6 seconds on the clock when you include lost exit speed through the whole next section.
That and Pinkbike staff riding it too, not just Adam. ))
yes
and not just because she is fast
but because she giggles and makes it all sound like so much fun when she rides