I might be the last person on earth to hear that Lopes is racing the classic this year, and i'm going to put my money on him. Not sure if he has the knowledge of the trail down but should give weir a run.
who's gonna take downieville?
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Shep better have killed it in the XC today, then he may have a chance at overall, as that skinny Canuk can DH pretty good
Christ, I hope it's not the british. We just had independence day and all. I'd hate to have to go dump a bunch of tea in the yuba river.
Shep better have killed it in the XC today, then he may have a chance at overall, as that skinny Canuk can DH pretty good
Man sheps in it too!!! sick! he is a great dhiller.
Weir & LT 
Ross Schnell for Trek VW took the XC, DH and all mountian with a new course record all n his new Remedy...Mark had a great run together but flatted and blew up his rear wheel. I believe J Moeschler got it done and came in second in the all mountain.
That's impressive considering the reroutes on 3rd divide.
Kind of sucks to dethrone weir via mechanical but the course record bit would keep me happypants.
How did Lopes and Jonesy finish? What other Pros were there?
Who is this Schnell?
Weir's rear wheel totally exploded at the end of 1st divide, just before the finish line - he was looking good just before that though... but then we saw him walking his bike down the road to the finish line about 20 mins later. Didn't stick around for much else as we had to get to Nstar and ride there today.
I think it's too bad Weir went down like that, but it's like playing with fate winning that race so many times.
Some other pros at dville we Beneke (hour 18 I think, lost rear der.), Lopes (looked worked when he finished) Herbold, Vories, Wade Simmons (!?)
Weir's rear wheel totally exploded at the end of 1st divide, just before the finish line - he was looking good just before that though... but then we saw him walking his bike down the road to the finish line about 20 mins later. Didn't stick around for much else as we had to get to Nstar and ride there today.
I think it's too bad Weir went down like that, but it's like playing with fate winning that race so many times.
Some other pros at dville we Beneke (hour 18 I think, lost rear der.), Lopes (looked worked when he finished) Herbold, Vories, Wade Simmons (!?)
The skin suit is definitley to blame for that failure
Bummer for Weir to suffer a mechanical 
New Nomad looks sweet tho..
how did Jurgen Beneke do?
New Nomad looks sweet tho..
how did Jurgen Beneke do?
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Benek finished about 30 mins off the lead... lost his rear derailleur out there somewhere.Bummer for Weir to suffer a mechanical
New Nomad looks sweet tho..
how did Jurgen Beneke do?
They also had a bright cherry red one built up stock with all black parts at the SC expo area, it was really, really sweet. Next to it was a lemon meringue yellow V10 with a white 40 and black parts that also looked insane. SC is stepping it up big time with their newly revised models. With their new powedercoat colors, I felt like I was at Marie Calender's trying to choose which tasty pie to eat. :biggrin:Bummer for Weir to suffer a mechanical
New Nomad looks sweet tho..
how did Jurgen Beneke do?
powdercoating is so yesterday - I want to see some new Ano colors :biggrin:
Powdercoat is nice to look at, ano is nice to own!
werd -
Now I can see everyone rushing out to buy the new king of Downieville. Even offered in rootbeer
how did the Reign X work out for you?
wait, so after all the smack talking neither Weir or Beneke won? Ha ha
Just got a phone call from somone who raced and they told me the top 5 was this:
Ross Schnell
Jason Moeschler
Nathan Riddle
Myles Rockwell!!!!!!
Brian Lopes
Heard Shep was riding great but had flats in both XC and DH.
Not sure on the exact times but I think he said Ross was just under 45 minutes.
Ross Schnell
Jason Moeschler
Nathan Riddle
Myles Rockwell!!!!!!
Brian Lopes
Heard Shep was riding great but had flats in both XC and DH.
Not sure on the exact times but I think he said Ross was just under 45 minutes.
Based on his GPS data, Weir was on pace to run a 42:XX when his wheel blew up. When we weighed in Saturday morning I noticed he was running WTB XC wheels and I was afraid he might be pushing his luck a little. His complete Nomad weighed 28.2 lbs IIRC and had a single 38t front ring and an 11-32 cassette. To get down that trail in 42 minutes you have to go so amazingly fast there's no way an XC wheel could hold up to that reliably. There are just too many rocks. He was running a DHX coil with Ti spring so that could help with preventing both rear flats and blown up wheels...at least hypothetically.
Either way, there is no Question Weir is still the all time king of the Downieville Downhill. Nobody knows the trail better.
well this year he lost the crown...
My goal was to complete the all-mtn in under 3.5 hours total. This was before I knew they added sunrise which supposedly adds about 10-12 minutes on top of last years course. I ended up with a combined time of 3:36:25 (if my math and memory serves me, official results won't be released until tomorrow at the earliest.) I don't know yet where this puts me overall in my class but I think it will be 7th but possibly 6th. But I made my goal and I'm really stoked on that.werd -
Now I can see everyone rushing out to buy the new king of Downieville. Even offered in rootbeer
how did the Reign X work out for you?
The Reign was a little bit overkill for the majority of the course but after getting passed by all the XC pros and experts on the brutal climb I was pumped to blow them off the trail on baby heads. The thing is though, no matter how fast a descender you are, you still have to go a lot slower than you want on lower pauly creek and 3rd and 1st divide because the trail is so narrow and no one wants to let you by. Unless of course you can beat them to the top and stay ahead of traffic which only a handful of guys can do.
I did manage to finish better than all my buddies except Pappy who beat me by 1 minute and about 12 seconds overall I think. But he was racing Pro and I was expert. So overall I'm pretty happy with the results, especially conisdering this was my first ever XC race and I was in the Expert class.
I think next year a roughly 5" bike that is as close to 28 pounds or so would help me shave about 5-10 minutes off my all-mtn combined time.
Was Ross' time this year faster than Mark's last year? I think it was new record. I want to say Mark ran a 46:XX last year but I'm not positive. So I guess you're right. Next year will be gnarlier even, I hear Adam Craig is considering coming out and I'm sure there will be other contenders as well!
I also heard it was a new course record, but I also think some of the re-routing on Butcher makes it faster, so it's hard to compare.
So yeah major props to Schnell for smoking everyone. To me Weir is still The Man up there, but it's in the same way Sam Hill is still the man despite not winning the rainbow stripes this year.
Overall a super fun weekend, as usual.
So yeah major props to Schnell for smoking everyone. To me Weir is still The Man up there, but it's in the same way Sam Hill is still the man despite not winning the rainbow stripes this year.
Overall a super fun weekend, as usual.
that needs to be quoted...
yeah Weir pretty much rules Downieville - I'm sure he would have had a smoking run had he not flatted.
Ross's run must have been pretty bad a$$. I was reading the SRAM press release about D-Ville and he said: "The record course runs feel really good, because Mark Weir had an open course, while I started 43rd and had to pass 9 guys. I ate dust the whole run, but I did it. I am so stoked"
That's intense.
It's really hard to pass people at DV. Especially when people simply refuse to get our of your way.
Damn! That is super impressive.
Oh yeah Ross Schell BTFM for sure... I saw him win the omnium at Collegiate Nats by podiuming in every discipline (DH, XC, Short Track and Dual) at Angel Fire. A year or two later at the Snowmass National the short track routed through part of the slalom track and he was doubling through a rhythm section on his XC bike wearing lycra and a cheesy mustache - it was DOPE!
Was suprised to see Nathan Riddle in 3rd place. He had a cast on for a broken bone in his wrist the day before he left for d-ville, Nice one, Nate!
Nathan had a CTi moto wrist brace on, as did Ariel. All those top level AM guys are such bad ass "mountain bikers".
I got 4th in Sport DH. Woohoo.
Harlan Price in 9th on a 29er hardtail is pretty impressive.
Hardtail+Downieville= Self flagellation.
I met Ross the sunday before the race and had lunch with him, he's a super cool guy. He definitely had his work cut out for him riding in the 40's, it insane that he won. He wasn't even rocking a gravity dropper, just ran his seat up the whole time...savage. He did say he was bummed about Weirs mechanical, he wants to win straight up, no excuses or what if's...sounds like it's gonna be an epic battle next year.
Was that the dude on the Rock Lobster with drop bars? That bike looked really cool, but using it for that race is friggin'