CONTOUR Pre-race Course Preview from Troy Brosnan at Leogang, Austria IXS Cup

May 25, 2012 at 15:35
by CONTOUR Cameras  

CONTOUR cameras and Troy Brosnan bring you a course preview for the Leogang, Austria IXS Cup track. This is the same track that will be used in September for World Championships.

Current conditions are sunny, warm and fast with a few boggy rutted sections. Very high speed overall. Should make for a fun weekend of racing!

Troy won this race last year.

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94 Comments
  • 101 2
 google translate:

Brosnan: ''ahem''

English: ''Get out the way!''
  • 16 0
 Ya he only clears his throat when some one is ahead of him! Sick looking course too! I want to ride it!
  • 4 1
 funny, i have a friend who does the same thing if someone's blocking his way be it a biker or hiker, LOL!
  • 12 0
 Looks sick! I can't believe that even on the pro level riders don't pay attention and just drop in whenever in front of a faster rider!
  • 12 1
 I would feel like shit if I was that dude who held him up for a while.
  • 2 1
 must be annoying if your at that level, not being able to take the lines you want to in practice, because someone is holding you up. i would be pissed
  • 5 0
 Thank god this didn't happen lol www.pinkbike.com/video/248120
  • 3 0
 I need to work on my throat clear volume.
  • 1 0
 simply showing how much a quicker a top kid is than an average rider, he approaches them like they are standing still. gutted about his injury
  • 17 0
 After watching that, I realize how totally unskilled I am at this sport.......
  • 19 2
 Awesome looking course, Troys a quick little dude!
  • 8 20
flag scott-townes FL (May 25, 2012 at 22:44) (Below Threshold)
 Holy shit, someone alert the pinkbike staff!
  • 1 0
 maybe scott-townes was referring to a different post, LOL!
  • 1 3
 ^ Haha naw, I was being insanely sarcastic... maybe they didn't catch that.
  • 1 1
 no its nearly impossible to tell sarcasm on the interweb
  • 16 0
 I hate how helmet cams flatten out everything. The only way to tell that it is steep is how fast the rider accelerates.
  • 15 2
 I can just see Danny and CG whipping those jumps!
  • 4 32
flag Its-That-Guy (May 26, 2012 at 0:14) (Below Threshold)
 CG yes. Danny no.
  • 33 0
 CG yes. Danny yes
  • 2 1
 i cant wait to see what trick cg will pull off the rock drop at the end Razz
no hander????
  • 11 0
 He makes it look EASY! Nice... I kept ducking when he'd shoot into those tunnels!
  • 7 0
 the slow riders should have had me infront of then. then they would know how slow they are to brosnan.
  • 10 6
 Ive rewrote this post a few times but its more of a personal opinion i dont profess to being a DH racer (anymore) or a pro rider, but.

I feel the WC DH tracks are becoming sterile groomed big boy BMX tracks with more and more gaps and jumps (the bits they feature on the footage most for whips and crowd pleasers) than real "downhill".

My view is that the course should be just a wide taped line across the natural mountain and the riders pick the lines, no rock moving tree trimming health and safety conscious course just natural DOWNHILL!

Im sure its a fine line to balance as they want to attract TV and more money to the sport but at what cost to the sport, im just going on the bad old days of DH on a hardtail with 3" travel Judy's back in the 90's where the course was hardly marked and you just hung on and rattled down! Smile

Get rid of the gravel and camel humps go natural! Smile

Just my thoughts.
  • 1 0
 The problem with that is all the damage that would be done to the land. Good idea in concept.
  • 3 1
 HTNDave i'm with you on that old school dh was real and there where all kinds of hits for whips and as for forest damage thats b.s. i went back to some track's year after year after a grip of rider went on course ,the land took it back ,like it was not even there,bike's are low on the scale of land damage,but that just my year's of the eye on land,since 1976,>,Mount Snow Vermont,Mount saint ant,snow show,park city,tahoe,big bear,washington,mammoth,groom is for bmx,to easy.
  • 4 3
 "land damage" is sooo much bullshit it's not even an argument. Go watch an area were they have cut down the trees and you see what I mean. There are MASSIVE tracks after the machines and the land won't be the same again.

And as far as tracks go I'm with you, I don't like the new kind of tracks that are flat out open space with hardpacked ground and big jumps. I like the technical trails where it's hard to not make mistakes and you have to think and try things to make it work.

To me this is a real downhill track that would be fun to race on:
www.pinkbike.com/video/146486
  • 5 0
 aye, all those manmade roots and that...
  • 4 0
 You need to ride these tracks to appreciate how difficult they are, im lucky enough to have ridded val die sole, leogang and fort william and they are not easy at all. I was to scared to ride champery. The fast section of this track is actually a freeride jump track that just links the top and bottom half.
  • 1 4
 by7 your a kid i'm not saying those tracks aree suck they just aree not dh where you need to think the the line are you your out of line and no time,groomey's is you,the bike not need rider to win.
  • 3 0
 You really need to take some english classes mate!
  • 3 0
 haha im not a kid man i just put 7 in my name, you must be stupid to think these tracks are easy. Go ride them then you will see.
  • 1 0
 totally agree with maxeponken. Enough with the bikepark trails and give us a proper DH technical track. That's why I like champery and val di sol!
  • 1 2
 Just from this video, i honestly cant see muhc benefit in running a heavy DH bike for this track, there are maybe 1 or 2 bits wehre it might be useful but I reckon a shorter travel, slack and light freeride bike might be a better option. I'mm probably wrong but it looks (and sounds) it from this video
  • 1 0
 www.pinkbike.com/video/202146 this is a better helmet cam... its not a easy track its pretty steep and gnarly in the woods.
  • 1 0
 That is a MUCH better vid. Always prefer it when there is a rider ahead always gives better perspective!
  • 2 0
 Yeah I was wrong. That video is a lot better at showing the trail!
  • 1 0
 contour are shit haha Razz gopro all the way
  • 6 0
 it amazing how quick he gets through corners
  • 6 0
 Holy sh!t Brosnan what are they feeding you.
  • 3 0
 The kid is the business !
  • 2 0
 Chicken... lots and lots of chicken
  • 2 0
 Nah he'll be in the next weet-bix add I reckon or some sort of kellogs add. One of them will say that he eats their cereal.
  • 3 0
 I have said this before and i will say it again. I rated Troy years ago and said world champ and i will say it again watch out he will be world champ very very soon Smile wicked little rider
  • 1 0
 Gonna be awesome I reckon Troy will have a Podium finish in his first year racing elite. Could be first or third maybe second don't know. But top 3 for sure. Because imagine if he didn't have that slow rider in front of him he could've done it in like half the time (exageration). But I would like to see his thoughts on people that don't move for faster riders.
  • 4 0
 What a course, crazy fast, sign me up ... Nice video, ad to favs !! World Championship coarse can't wait.
  • 4 1
 I should have said track because I can't spell coarse Frown
  • 8 0
 ^Course will do.
  • 6 1
 Course/coarse = homophones
  • 1 0
 lol thanks guys .. ride on
  • 9 2
 Course is biking, coarse is sandpaper. No homo.
  • 4 0
 If the slower riders in front had rear view mirrors: "Warning, Troy Brosnan's are more upset than they appear"
  • 3 2
 I wonder how Troy's gonna do this year, I think it's his first year racing world cup? Not sure. One thing is for sure though, that course looked sweet! I would go to world cups just to race the awesome courses!
  • 1 0
 Not his first year mate!
  • 5 1
 first year not racing juniors is what i think he meant...
  • 1 0
 yeah haha I know he was doing the Pro division in the Australian circuit, so I'm assuming here's going to show up all the pros in the world cup this year. this iXS track is prime too
  • 1 0
 Not for a while, he's just been injured.
  • 2 0
 big fan of the contour cameras, just wish they could get with the program and really start getting their name out and be recognized like gopro..
  • 2 0
 be nice if they could fix the sound issues too.
  • 2 0
 This track looks sweet with all the flowing jumps. Bet money someone scorpions off one of the drops into the first steep woods section! Pumped for the action!
  • 1 0
 1. That kid is fast! The speed in the wood sections is sick!!! 2. The track looks too much like a bikepark trail in my opinion. Should have more technical wood sections in my humble opinion.
  • 1 0
 Do contours have a chest mount option? I always thought that looked better for biking but this helmet cam footage is sweet though.
  • 10 0
 You would destroy your sternum if you crashed with a Contour on your chest.
  • 2 0
 tornateo that made me laugh, @mtm massive, heres a contour camera, contour.com/products/contour-plus . as you can see it would be rather uncomfortable as a chesty.
  • 3 0
 maybe in the armpit? Big Grin
  • 1 0
 that could work
  • 3 1
 Or just by a GoPro
  • 2 0
 dude rails those corners. his exit speed was brilliant to witness on that track.
  • 1 0
 The question running through my mind the whole time was "Other than those jumps, how does he make it look like he's just running on plain downhill pavement? He's so fast!"
  • 2 0
 He chooses such great lines. Dude rips!!!!
  • 2 2
 This dude is much faster than the dudes that did the Ontario course preview.. Also, the pink construction paint throughout the rock gardens is a pretty damn cool thing to do.
  • 2 0
 am in shock had to watch it again great no music love it
  • 1 0
 I think he really wants to win worlds this year. He has been riding this track a lot the last year.
  • 1 0
 Leogang delivers, rough as.. Brosnan makes it look easy... cameras never show how steep it actually is, good vid...
  • 1 0
 Wow this course looks FAST. Nice drops too
  • 1 0
 When you think you're good....
  • 1 0
 This course looks so sweet!
  • 2 0
 course looks so sick!
  • 1 0
 That course looks incredibly blown out and rough, should be a cool race
  • 2 0
 It does look properly unloved. Riders were complaining last year. Hope they do some maintenance before the worlds in september
  • 1 0
 Yeah, he's gonna win!!! And I'm not
  • 1 0
 That was awsome. He makes it look so easy.
  • 1 0
 That was awsome. He makes it look so easy.
  • 1 0
 Damn its like someone hit fast forward till he catches a slow rider...
  • 2 0
 So fast.......
  • 1 0
 Does anyone know if there will be a live broadcast of the race ?
  • 1 0
 I doubt it man, it would be sick but just wait for world champs
  • 1 0
 that demo didnt make a sound
  • 8 8
 sure wish he was wearing a gopro!
  • 1 0
 Amazing! homeboy rips!!!
  • 1 0
 wicked fast
  • 1 0
 that looks bumpy as shit
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