fastest local, destroying a wet/muddy rock garden, left by a giant mudslide in the andes.
Alejandro Paz - zona de piedras Casta - YouTube
Alejandro Paz - zona de piedras Casta - YouTube
how to destroy rock gardens
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Whoa.
it would be interesting to see a walk through video, looks sick!
BOOOOOM.
that is all
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At 0:14 he could have dropped to infinity if he had just stayed a little right.
That is crazier than Ron Paul...Wow.
holy ****, he was flying!
That is frightenly fast to be going with that exposure and rockiness.
How does he sit down with ba....
wait..
Scary.
wait..
Scary.
Con cajones de piedra!
My jaw dropped.....
I know it is better to hit gardens at speed but that was rediculous.
I know it is better to hit gardens at speed but that was rediculous.
Sh!t that was fast
Who brought over all those east coast rocks?
He was riding with the Force....
Hella fast.....
Hella fast.....
cajon = small box or crate
cojones = b@lls
honestly, that looked like certain sections of Bromont... with exposure and speed added to the mix. very impressive riding.
cool, after posting the video on RM in morning, it seems its everywhere now! my friend (the rider) got the video forwarded to him, from some dude who found it posted by pinkbike on fb.....
Well it is very impressive, both location and risk factor.
im glad we can all be in absolute agreeance that dude just murdered that trail. Dear god, that was nutty.
Yeah, this. My guess is probably $ issues
Most WC trails are very different beasts to normal tracks. Not to mention that the WC guys are insanely fast if you see them live.
Though looking at Britain I'd say a good, strong race scene gets you the best results.
my jaw literally dropped, major props!!!!!
Holy damn!
The fact that he destroyed that garden at that speed is awesome....the fact that he destroyed it with a 9 mile vertical drop to his right makes me want to dub him the NEW rock jesus...
cool. thanks for sharing! that made my night!
If u can ride like that you will do well on any track.
Its not like the world cup tracks are that much different except for champery.
I rode with a guy from Equador once in Todtnau, the guy killed it, lost his chain and killed again.
Chainless.
Having been all over central and south America i think its all about exposure and money.
The scene is definitly rising over there and the big boys are beginning to notice if u look at the sponsoring.
Matter of time before they get one of these guys on a factory bike...
Ya, actually they are wayyyy different. All of them. Also, to be fair, the chest cam shaking about makes it look a little bit faster than it really is, but still sick.
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Depends on where u usually ride maybe? I think we have plenty of tracks in Europe that would look well on the WC circuit, some obviously allready do...
And ive heard plenty complaints on some of the older and more recent world cup tracks not being up to par...
Ive never actually raced a world cup track but ive ridden a couple and raced plenty IXS and Maxxis cup tracks.
Not saying Alejandro here would destroy the field on his first race, but someone that can handle a bike like that will probably be able to handle a wc track.
Just my 0.02
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And ive heard plenty complaints on some of the older and more recent world cup tracks not being up to par...
Ive never actually raced a world cup track but ive ridden a couple and raced plenty IXS and Maxxis cup tracks.
Not saying Alejandro here would destroy the field on his first race, but someone that can handle a bike like that will probably be able to handle a wc track.
Just my 0.02
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However, if you have owned your own Gopro with a chesty, you can kind of put in perspective. That was fast.
I see it when I compare local and wc times at local results they are much closer. Hell I remember some locals comming very close to Peaty and the top guys when we hosted euro champs (long time ago). Not really did as well on WC tracks. That's where my assumption comes from
Also I wouldn't be as fast to assume that a fast guy from any country will do amazing on the WC circut. Every year there are some riders with great hype behind them that don't live up to the hype.
Also classical wc tracks are way different to most IXS tracks. Leogang is the only common venue and it's 50% a wc track, 50% bikepark. I've heard bad wildbad is nice though.
You say that locals come really close to the pros during races but don't do that well in other venues or WC tracks. Maybe it's because the pros are more able to adapt to new conditions?
You know they are almost two weeks in another venue with different tracks, different dirt and different weather. I think it's just the expirience and the ability to adapt to different conditions that makes a worldcup rider fast on every track.
On the other hand a local racer knows a few tracks really well but hasn't to adapt to new conditions that often.
But you're right, worldcup tracks are a bit different than riding a bikepark.
Not really talking about the bikepark tracks, im more a fan of a track like Rittershausen for example if were talking Germany. Should be some stuff on youtube but I think they dont race it anymore these days.
Also Blenheim NZ comes to mind, i was a lot more impressed by that then for example Willingen...
Not saying bikepark tracks suck, indeed bad wildbad is pretty sweet or some of the tracks in Lac Blanc France or the French Swiss Alps...
Maybe Im way off on the WC thing though, im sure theres some people on the monkey that could shed some personal lights on it.
Also Blenheim NZ comes to mind, i was a lot more impressed by that then for example Willingen...
Not saying bikepark tracks suck, indeed bad wildbad is pretty sweet or some of the tracks in Lac Blanc France or the French Swiss Alps...
Maybe Im way off on the WC thing though, im sure theres some people on the monkey that could shed some personal lights on it.
I know loads of very very talented riders that just never shine at races. And likewise I know a (very) few riders that come off as having inferior skill but manage to pull together great runs consistently at races. I imagine it takes a lot more than being able to go fast to get results. South america also doesn't have the mentors and veterans other countries do. But it only means that it's needing a first generation of WC riders to test the water and bring home the progression.
it apparently has gone viral. its on reddit and a few other non-mtb pages...
the video had around 500 views (yesterday, when i posted it on RM, mostly people from the peruvian dh scene), and today it has around 15000 and counting...
the video had around 500 views (yesterday, when i posted it on RM, mostly people from the peruvian dh scene), and today it has around 15000 and counting...