Video: Troy Brosnan's Practice Run POV from the Australian National DH Championships

Feb 20, 2022
by Ed Spratt  

bigquotesRide on board with the Canyon CLLCTV's Troy Brosnan at the Australian National Champs, Maydena Bike Park... Dry and dusty for the weekend's racing! Canyon Bicycles


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20 Comments
  • 21 1
 You can always tell an Australian track. It looks like its on a different planet or different millennia. I'm waiting for a dinosaur to appear on the side of the track.
  • 2 0
 Yeah, and if you crash you'll be face to face with either a snake or a spider
  • 1 0
 @Dononemaccaboy: It beats kissing a bear or cougar any day...
  • 1 0
 @Dononemaccaboy: haha it’s pretty interesting bashing through the bush cutting a new trail in. Stomping usually disperses the snakes
  • 2 1
 His video was excellent but in general, these POV videos would be better if they overlaid the track steepness somehow onto the display. All these POV videos look like they're going flat because of the perspective.

For example, if they showed a graph like on the following page with the rider's dot following him down the line then we could see if the track is steep or not. I'm not sure of a good way do implement it though. Perhaps the easiest would be if GoPro integrated a altimeter into their camera and had it as a setting. Otherwise it would be quite complicated it merge the track graph with a video.

www.trailforks.com/trails/goat-hill
  • 4 0
 hes like sooo flowy im like that would rattle the teeth outta my head!
  • 2 0
 Troy makes it look easy. Does anybody know how steep this is? It's really hard to tell from the video.
  • 2 0
 Relatively steep. From memory 450m elevation drop overall
  • 2 0
 Anyone know what happened to Troy on the race run? Facebook suggests he did an ankle Frown
  • 2 3
 Is that the World Champs track from a few years ago? If so, looks like they have built some sweet jumps instead of the long sprint to the bottom. The track looks absolutely amazing.
  • 2 0
 If that was the one Mick Hannah got second to Loic Bruni on and Miranda Miller took the women's then no. That was Cairns which is much more tropical I think.
  • 2 0
 Nah it isn't.

This is Maydena, in Tasmania. ( www.maydenabikepark.com )

The World Champs / Cup track was in Cairns, QLD.
  • 1 1
 Awesome track, I didn’t know the West Coast of Tasmania had dust.
  • 3 0
 West coast?
  • 2 0
 Coast?
  • 2 0
 Dust?
  • 2 1
 @mi-bike: girt by sea
  • 4 0
 @dirtyburger: dirt by sea
  • 1 0
 Be snowing up the top in a couple of months, least it did the year I was there in April, serious mud fest then!







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