Video Round Up: Practice Lap POVs from the Glentress XC World Champs 2023 by edspratt

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skimons (Aug 10, 2023 at 5:13)

good to see anneke beerten doing so well after her injury! go anneke! (and go puck, shred 'em

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mi-bike (Aug 10, 2023 at 4:04)

"Guys, we already caught the Germans."

ceecee (Aug 12, 2023 at 12:27)

"Hello!"--inverted smiley-face

big-red (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:07)

Puck's lap is great. Passing on the downs and working through the crowd of riders trying to figure out the tech feature to just roll the hardest line of it like it's nothing.

blazekelly (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:05)

The Junior that Puck follows ripss

big-red (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:14)

Rips chainless XC too. Next tier badassery.

vinay (Aug 11, 2023 at 13:51)

Lauren Molengraaf, worth keeping an eye on indeed. I think she currently holds the European junior CX title, but she appears to have the skills to pick up some mtb titles too.

blazekelly (Aug 11, 2023 at 17:30)

@vinay: Thanks for the name drop, was trying to find her in the juniors results list

vinay (Aug 12, 2023 at 0:35)

@blazekelly: Yeah, I noticed she placed tenth, which is pretty nice.

aTHlQMnh (Aug 10, 2023 at 4:35)

I feel like we should just start timing the transitions in enduro…consolidate the disciplines and effectively double the viewership. Really validate downcountry.

Monkeyass (Aug 10, 2023 at 4:53)

How about UCI trail riding?

ish27 (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:12)

Totally agree. "Enduro" should be the complete rider(like motocross hard enduro). Time uphill/xc segments, time downhill segments. Points system for placement on each segment(1st x # points, 2nd place y # of points etc.) Best "mountain biker" wins.

mashrv1 (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:27)

You do realise that Enduro races used to have timed climbs? It was shit.

chrismac70 (Aug 10, 2023 at 6:50)

@ish27: Its called marathon racing, they had o do some of the EWS downs. The problem is tha you would take and XC bike and smash the climbs and the downhills wouldnt matter as the gaps would not be big enough to offset the climbs

sampo18 (Aug 10, 2023 at 7:37)

@chrismac70: I didn't even know marathon racing was a thing until this week!
It's the perfect race imo!

All I want to see is a cross-discipline tournament, the 20 best riders from DH, Enduro, Marathon, XC all battle it out in 4 races across a week!

chrismac70 (Aug 10, 2023 at 8:02)

@sampo18: think it would be won by the XC or the marathon racers as they would get too much of a gap on the ups

mashrv1 (Aug 10, 2023 at 8:16)

@chrismac70: I don't believe the Marathon went down any EWS trails. It certainly went up the Golfie, but then came down New York - New York. A good trail, but at the easier end of the (Golfie) spectrum

MysticMCyclist (Aug 10, 2023 at 8:38)

@mashrv1: EWS Raced down NYNY and Repeat Bottom like the marathon.

mashrv1 (Aug 10, 2023 at 8:46)

@MysticMCyclist: my mistake, so it did

browner (Aug 10, 2023 at 13:44)

@sampo18: marathon was around before glentress was around. Marathon goes back to the bronze age or something in cheddar gorge

sampo18 (Aug 11, 2023 at 2:51)

@browner: That's a good shout, but surely DH racers would get a good 2/3 minutes on the downhills.
And if it was point-based not time-based you would see it level out?

ish27 (Aug 18, 2023 at 6:04)

@sampo18: Points not based on time but place only. e.g 1st 50 points, 2nd 45 points etc.

ish27 (Aug 18, 2023 at 6:06)

@chrismac70: points for place not time, time gaps mean nothing.

betsie (Aug 10, 2023 at 5:16)

I love this kind of XC.... 99% about the climbs and add in 2 wee features to have something for spectators.
Would love to see more technical climbing and not just a single log across the trail and call it the pro line.
With all the trials up the Golfie (get them climbing up some of the descents, wanna see them technically and physically suffer on stuff that is out of reach for us mortals and not just hand it over to the roadies), Scotland has missed an opportunity here to favour GT!

peteg55 (Aug 10, 2023 at 5:53)

Marathon Worlds looked a great course in that respect, but there was no coverage anywhere it would seem.

Clod86 (Aug 11, 2023 at 4:18)

nice to ear Pieterse makes fun of Germans, sorry Norwegians.

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