Results: Downhill - Sea Otter Classic 2019

 yeah, Matthew Moore, 68, nice to see that.

 @shedsidechuck: Guy was a character! Pretty funny dude during registration. He was riding a really cool cantilever front suspension that reminded me of BMW motorcycles.

 @phorensic: Did you mean Dave Smith on the borrowed Structure Cycleworks carbon linkage freakshow bike? That kid smashed his events on it but is only 62. He even gave the company one of his medals and they are noew Race-Proven hahaha sick. He demoed it in a bunch of events including the DS he won.

 @endlessblockades: Haha, my bad. Wrong person. Bike looked cool because it was so different.

 She's killing it this year. Good for her!!

 Keene making the top 10 at 40 is rad too.

 She was probably manualling and pulling suicides on all the jumps though. Much more of a freerider these days.

 @samjobson: looking at her IG, it's not clear to me that this isn't true. Ha

 Got a bike to promote

 @poah: Yeah, Dan is retired pretty much, but has a full plate with the Bike Company and with Dyfi Bike Park, which also includes the forest which they bought with the park proper, apparently it includes a sawmill which the Athertons now own and operate.

 Extra points if you can pronounce where he lives.

 @djm35: Daffy

 @djm35: Wales

 World Cup DH Races

 Not much, if anything.

She is a biking super hero, and an incredible role model for my daughter. I love watching her succeed.

Norco is so fortunate to have had her as a spokesperson for so long. In that regard, I suppose one could add "undying loyalty" to the long list of positive attributes she brings to the table.

Wishing her nothing but success this entire season.

 @mtnbkrmike: Absolutely, she's amazing, I was being pedantic.

 @CrispyNuggs: For sure. My comments were not in response to yours. In fact, I didn’t even see yours when I posted mine. All good.

 They were probably overbiked. It's a flow trail, not really a DH race - watch a POV run, you'd want a 4x bike for it.

 they had to pedal.

 There are a lot of great bike riders on earth that don’t race World Cup DH. Remember when an enduro racer won a World Cup DH last year?

 @jwrendenver:

They don't win them because they can't.

Maes isn't just an "enduro" racer dude. He was winning JR. World DH races BEFORE he started winning in enduro. He's a young beast that's going to win more DH and a LOT more EWS races. It's pretty common for elite EWS athletes to have a ton of DH in their backgrounds.

The big guys are not training to win Sea Otter. They're not risking anything because it's not what they're getting paid for. They're there to have fun. It's more so they can talk crap to each other.

Sea Otter is a short track with very little tech to it. It's not a World Cup class course. I've seen quite a few people do backflips in the middle of it.

 @onemanarmy: Yep, even the local groms style the jumps for photos not race results. It's something to do amidst the bigger circus going on. A few amateurs got pretty racked up this year including a paralysis, I'm sorry to report. Horrible - hope it's temporary. The enduro racers hit the DH course as Stage 1 Thursday AM, many with no time to practice or knowledge of the course while wearing half-shell helmets. I also heard someone "knocked all their teeth out".

 @endlessblockades: saw them getting loaded up. Tragic. Hope is not as bad as it sounds.

 @onemanarmy: They don't win what? What are you talking about? Relax.

 he only retired from World Cups

 @dobermon: walker is a year older