Lourdes--18d : 22h : 34m
- Thread starter TrumbullHucker
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Claudio Calorie - were those something other than side remarks while Hart was on course? '...(scoffing) well, he won WChamps in conditions like these...'
What a skirt.
What a skirt.
Gwin got hit with the DQ
Well, he was already in the seventhies. So that doesn't really matter
Fair play!
He blatantly cut the course.
if only the UCI could come up with a consistent rule for such a situation.
No points for you!
The weather going shitty just before the good guys started coming down the track really threw everybody off. Trying to go slow in that slippery slope with suspensions so stiff took a big toll on them.
in all fairness to brannigan, gwin only went semi-brannigan. to go full brannigan you've gotta wreck at least 3 or 4 times. 
No mate
Claudio's comment during Danny's run was to Warner "When you won your world cup? Wasn't it in conditions like this?"
it was a dig at Rob's one and only WC win back in 1996 at Kaprun where Rob qualified badly meaning he went off early just as the rain began riding a still grippy track before all the fastest qualifiers who then had to race in swamp conditions.
He had every opportunity to miraculously levitate back to the point he left the course but we all saw him choose not to.tumbling down next to =/= cutting
Just used a functioning Red Bull TV app, and listened again.
You are correct, Sir.
Here's a still of Danny Hart's back tire on his approach to the last straight.
Almost looks like a roached out tire!!
Soooo...now we wait until June 4, eh? GREAT.
Isn't this just mud sticking in between the knobbies?
That sucked a big bag of dicks.
Point being entirely all the center section is filled. So, sure. It's just mud sticking.
No - it is a real photograph. I happen to track Inksplotch Worms in Lourdes the last week of April. It's yodeling season; glorious.
Happened to have my Inksplotch motion-detect camera still on it's bi-pod.
Huh.
Kidwoo needs real pictures only.
Remember when the top contenders intentionally did poorly in qualifying so they could race before storms and have clean races? Wonder why that stopped being a thing.
When was the last time this happened and did the winner go on to become a regular front runner or was it his only moment in the spotlight? It's been many years since a lack of available qualifying points allowed the regulars to play the "rain game" during qualifying.
This is proof that it's not the bike, the suspension or the fucking wheel size, fucktards. It's the World Cup racers that make the bike fast.
Suck it 29'er fanboi's!
Remember Hart's run? How about Hill's run where others admitted to sandbaging so they would race before the rain? It's probably one of the best race runs in the history of DH.
*Sam Hill Champery 2007
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Well.. at least no 29er on the podium. So...
this gives the other teams time to bring their monstrosities to the table.
that race was indeed a bit of a let down. still, it's racing.
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My memory tells me Gary Houseman back in 2003 at Grouse. But to be clear, Gary was not playing the "rain game", it just happened pretty much like what happened yesterday. He got a clean run and then the bottom dropped out, making it impossible for the usual podium suspects to make a real go at it. Could be wrong, but I believe that was an outlier for Gary and he was never a real threat to compete with the big guns in "normal conditions". And then of course he got suspended for smoking weed and was stripped of his win. Hopefully Fayolle stays/stayed away from Le Bong Shed.
@slimshady and @Flo33 , sorry I didn't get a chance to fire off a pre-race manifesto, but I was busy treating my bike like a rented red headed step mule in the mountains. It seems I have enough time to put something together since the next race is over a (fucking) month away
