Fluidride Cup DH #3 Recap

Jul 13, 2010 at 0:30
by Mike Estes  
Mikey Sylvestri, Jaime Rees and Adam Ransavage Dominate the Fat Tire Farm/Fluidride Cup #3
The Fat Tire Farm/Fluidride Cup DH is in the books. Here's the results and a quick run down with photos to re-cap the longest, most technical DH track in the Pacific Northwest.

Photos By Carl Warren and Gregg Tubbs, Videos by Andy Tran and Sarah Hopkins.Sunday morning, another beautiful day and the usual start to any race begins with the warming up of the chairlifts at Mt Hood Ski Bowl, known in the winter season as the 'Largest Night Skiing Resort' it hosts a great track that is truly demanding and fun. Once the chairlift staff gets into position and the final tests pass the supervisor's approval it's then the green light to load up is waved loudly. Like rats to cheese, bikers leave the pits and flood into the bike lane to load up for the ritual 'warm-up' run.

The Hurricane Racing staff (myself included) are busily getting everything ready and prepped for a day of racing. The finish line board up, timers ready, clocks synced, banners up, hot seat all ready to go, and Race Chief Petr Kakes hosts a 9:15 'Mandatory Riders' Meeting' and goes over the day's rules. He explains in a strong Czech accent that men and women's Pro class, including the 18 and under Junior Experts will get a one run seeding starting at 10:30. After that all Category 1, 2 and 3 classes will get the one run against the clock. He really wanted everyone to be on time this race and get to the 'Start' in a timely manner, then everything will be a smooth event throughout the day.

Course details. This track is about one mile long, for a pro racer to break 4 mins is really impressive here- The start has an incredible view of Mt Hood, you descent into tough technical steeps, reaching 'Cannonball' you can open it up. Lots of waterbars, rocks and line options galore down to the 'Pro Course' then it's a serious ass whooping of rocks, more rocks and add a bit of steeps. Leaving the rock garden you enter the trees and start banging roots, taking rock drops and more steeps. One last technical log drop and you're basically exiting into wide open, sandy berms and carrying all the speed you can out into the lower bowl. One hard charging, fast peddle to the finish line and its over.

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Now living in Bend OR under Camp Vories, expect Mikey Sylvestri to ooze that Allride Style on a track near you.
Upper Pro Course Photo by Carl Warren

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Mikey Sylvestri clearing the log step down on the lower portion of the track- Photo by Greg Tubbs

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Bike Hubs own Jaime Rees enroute to a win!

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Evils Adam Ransavage on his way to victory!

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Adam Ransavage of Evil takes his first win of the year!

Junior Expert Results:
1st Adam Ransavage (Evil)
2nd Bryan Mullen (Transition/DropNZone)
3rd Kole Wetherell (Project 529/Dakine)


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Loeka's Womens DH Champion Jaime Ree's of the Bike Hub edges out her teammate Chelsy Stevens for top step honors

Pro Womens Results:
1st Jaime Rees (Bike Hub/Loeka)
2nd Chelsy Stevens (Bike Hub)


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Taking the win by 10 second - Mikey Sylvestri takes the $1000 check, $500 from Fat Tire Farm and $500 from Fluidride makes the 2 hours drive home real sweet!

Mens Pro Results
1st Mikey Sylvestri (Specailized/Allride)
2nd Charlie Sponsel (Evil)
3rd Kyle Thomas (Evil)
4th Eric Loney (Project 529)
5th Naish Ulmer (KHS, Spy)


And to show you all the visual of the days race- I proudly present Andy Tran of Syndrome Racing's coverage here:
Views: 6,174    Faves: 124    Comments: 25


Enjoy this video by Sarah Hopkins who does a nice job of showing all classes.
Views: 3,969    Faves: 7    Comments: 7


We wanna thank our beloved and supportive sponsors:
Fat Tire Farm
Fluidride
Maxxis
Pinkbike.com
Rockstar Energy Drink
Dakine
Alpinestars
Evil Bicycles
Brashers Auto Auction
Clif Bar
Hurricane Racing
Arrow Tires
Loeka Womens Cycling Apparel
Big Tree Bicycles
US National Forest Service


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12 Comments
  • 1 0
 i raced cat 2 and that course is crazy hard. I tacoed my front wheel the first day on the log stepdown, then had some technical problems during the race. still a beast course and weekend though. Big Grin
  • 1 0
 btw those vids don't do the course justice. haha
  • 1 0
 Nice work Mike. I feel like I was there. I should have been except I was shooting for $$$$$'s in PC. The big bike is rolling again so lets hit the CAT soon.
  • 1 0
 Yeah Mikey S. congrats on the sweet payday! Go Specialized Allride!
  • 1 0
 nice recap mike! wish i coulda made that race! next one!
  • 1 0
 How did Dan do racing jr x?or did he race cat 1
  • 2 0
 He sat this race out. Injured wrist.
  • 1 0
 Sorry to hear that Hope he gets better soon
  • 1 0
 Awesome write up; loved the video. Easy to see you've been working the whole time you were down with the broken arm. thanks Mike
  • 2 0
 Evil team did work!
  • 1 0
 Sweet videos, sweet writeup, TEAM ROBOT approved. It was a rad weekend!
  • 1 0
 Charlie! Charlie! Charlie! You rule!







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