Val di sole - WC finals 2017!!!
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he won't win but his margin of loss will be smaller than previous races.
I'm rootin for blenki.
This is one of the few tracks that's fast enough and rowdy enough that he can't pedal like a meth head at spin class.
Best result of the year because he'll just be forced to ride his bike with gravity as well as everyone knows he can.
danny hart wins the raw vid at the moment
This is one of the few tracks that's fast enough and rowdy enough that he can't pedal like a meth head at spin class.
Best result of the year because he'll just be forced to ride his bike with gravity as well as everyone knows he can.
danny hart wins the raw vid at the moment
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Moir looks like such a giant compared to everyone else. HULK SMASH COURSE!!!!1!!!!!1!11!!!
gwin is basically bubba. he wins or he blows something on his bike up.
my money is on minnaarrrrrrrrr.
my money is on minnaarrrrrrrrr.
You guys are completely underestimating gwinn's ability to just straight up crash, fully devoid of bike failure.
Know your history kids. Come on.
Know your history kids. Come on.
i was trying to be nice.
we could blame satan for his mechanical issues.
we could blame satan for his mechanical issues.
As she hasn't raced DH before she can't be in the top 20 in DH, so no TT for her.
"Two days before the final a training period will be provided plus a timed training session exclusively for men elite ranked in the top 80, women ranked in the top 20 and men juniors ranked in the top 10 of the last world cup standings."
Source: http://www.uci.ch/mm/Document/News/Rulesandregulation/16/72/76/MTBReglementsENG_English.pdf
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looks like she was too busy figuring out how to brake anyway.Count the number of women on the timed training results.
plenty of space
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/cecile-ravanels-quarq-electronic-brake-monitor-val-de-sole-dh-world-cup-2017.html
"tube strapper"
shouldn't need the dang brakes...this is WC DH, dammit!!!
At least Hill is coming back for Worlds to race on a track that suits him almost as well as Pietermaritzburg.
More Raw:
More Raw:
Things my 3 year old daughter said while watching:
"I hear bad bike sounds"
"He did not choose to slow down"
"Why are those boys mean to their bikes?"
This was his master plan all along. Get fitter than the rest of the field in enduro and then smoke everyone in the last 100 yards of Cairns.
(That 100 yards cost Palmer the title in 1996. He had trouble with the last 100 yards of at least two worlds tracks.)
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Interesting to see that Hannah smoked the womens field on her proto Polygon that worked so well in Whistler last week too.
was vergier now on 27,5" or 29"?
Minnaar lost .8s in the final 30 seconds of the trail. I think its a safe bet he'll be figuring out where that was, and fixing it. Gwin's gonna have to lift his game up if he wants to win.
Quarq: "Val di Sol is pretty hard on brakes, so we decided to test our new system on a small woman who doesn't go nearly as fast as the larger men, so that we could get some data from the non extremes of extreme mountain biking"
Quarq: "Val di Sol is pretty hard on brakes, so we decided to test our new system on a small woman who doesn't go nearly as fast as the larger men, so that we could get some data from the non extremes of extreme mountain biking"
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Dakota Norton with a great result on his Sessi....I mean Morpheus 
Seriously though, great results for him, Charlie Harrison and Bruce Klein.
Seriously though, great results for him, Charlie Harrison and Bruce Klein.
From Dirt's article: "Minnaar’s lead has been slimmed down to 23 points"So does this put Gwin in the points lead? UCI site has Brosnan in the lead
That CC tho...
I guess they have spare frames on hand, but when's the last time we saw a bike split in half at a WC? Last I remember was that water gap in NZ world champs.
Must have been a crazy hard impact, wonder if there's vid of this
whose bike be dat?
That CC tho...
I guess they have spare frames on hand, but when's the last time we saw a bike split in half at a WC? Last I remember was that water gap in NZ world champs.
Must have been a crazy hard impact, wonder if there's vid of this
Is that Minnaar's bike?! In the Dirt write up they say something along the lines that he took a hard fall in practice and it's a miracle he even got his quali run in. They say there's footage of it that will come out later. If that's his bike, then I understand why. Holy shit ballz.
That CC tho...
I guess they have spare frames on hand, but when's the last time we saw a bike split in half at a WC? Last I remember was that water gap in NZ world champs.
Must have been a crazy hard impact, wonder if there's vid of this
edited to add quote from Dirt: "Minnaar took a HUGE smash in practice this morning and is probably lucky to still be riding, the footage is coming later but trust us the fact he got so close to Gwin is miraculous."
linky : https://dirtmountainbike.com/racing-events/downhill/aaron-gwin-qualifies-greg-minnaar-troy-brosnan.html#q4wvjzadLwcLYcOE.99
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They should have been warned.... it isn't called the "valley of the sun" for nothing!
This is the last one I remember.
That CC tho...
I guess they have spare frames on hand, but when's the last time we saw a bike split in half at a WC? Last I remember was that water gap in NZ world champs.
Must have been a crazy hard impact, wonder if there's vid of this
Flexy
That CC tho...
I guess they have spare frames on hand, but when's the last time we saw a bike split in half at a WC? Last I remember was that water gap in NZ world champs.
Must have been a crazy hard impact, wonder if there's vid of this