2009 Gravity East Finals at Plattekill Bike Park Race Pics

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nice shots voodoo

Thanks, nice shots and an epic weekend!

props to SoulSkier for sending the road gap the biggest all weekend.
the guy overshot the landing by a good 20', got bucked over the bars and missed every tree that was standing.

IH8Rice said:

props to SoulSkier for sending the road gap the biggest all weekend.
the guy overshot the landing by a good 20', got bucked over the bars and missed every tree that was standing.

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20ft sounds like a lot but its true. I was saved by the hand of God on that one. Got a tiny scrape on my left forearm and a sore shoulder this morning. I was only wearing knee pads, helmet, and a Leatt.
IH8RICE send out a pic of the wooden booter from the same run.

Props to Xprezo Cycles for taking time to help me dial in the Furax. super nice guys and great bikes.

soul-skier said:

IH8RICE send out a pic of the wooden booter from the same run.

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sorry no pics ......just good ol 1080p video


and from where the "lip" on the landing is to where your rear wheel landed was damn near 20'.
from where you landed, you should have been turning into that bank. you were still heading straight.

instead of watching it again and again, he didnt tell me he was gonna hit it, so i didnt get it on video

haha, who decided to bring the tin man up from the house?

what's up Sandwich, we met up top of the mountain. I'm in one of those pics with my bike, waiting at the top. It was an awesome weekend, couldnt have asked for a better first race.

Crashed twice on my race run and didn't come in last

if anyone knows of a kid who totally ate poop and landed on his head at the go-around for the road gap let me know.
i got a video of him smashing himself if he is interested

Some raw video from Saturday.

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Sandwich said:

That's cool dude, how did you place? I came in 8/15....not too pleased. Realized how out of shape I am, but I had a clean run which is good. I probably would have done better on the pro course (less pedaling).

VDH- you have any shots of number 233?

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I ended up 5th of 8 and a-freakin'-men on the fitness thing... boy i was whipped.

I feel a conservative estimate of off-bike time was about 10 sec. between the two crashes, my time was 4.03.56 i think so I'd have been in the low 3.50's which would have put me in 2nd by a large margin, only behind the smokin' fast 3.40something that the 1st place guy ran.

I ran a pretty conservative race (hit some of the go-arounds) because I was so out of it from two days of practice... one crash was a rear washout over a slippery root right by the split of beg/sport and the other i was off my line and blew the berm, fell off the side of the course and had to climb back up I went right back up and did another race-pace run just to prove I could string it all together without crashing, and I did

not bad for my first race ever! i'm stoked to race the whole Platte series next season.

cat3 times were:

3.40 (flannel shirt guy)
3.59 (blue and white jersey)
4.01 (John with a broken thumb)
4.02 (Jake? on the yellow bike)
4.03 (me 2 crashes)
4.11 ?
4.24 ?
?.?? ?

haha dan and i were in the end going slooww and i made brap noises.

The sound of everyone one skimming along in the video is fantastic! I cannot wait until I am giving the green light to ride again!