2009 Collegiate Nations 4x?

Gunner · Oct 8, 2009

woo follow the leader. :rolleyes:

kidwoo · Oct 8, 2009

There are actually a shltload of places to pass on that trail.

Happens all the time.

CountryBoy · Oct 8, 2009

It may take throwing some elbows, but you can deffinately pass on livewire.

gemini2k · Oct 8, 2009

wow, using livewire as a 4x course, that might actually make it fun.

. Never thought of that, but good idea N*. Bravo

Edit: I'd wager there will be some SERIOUS carnage on that.

caseyo · Oct 8, 2009

More like good idea Eddie McDonald. He's the president of the Nevada cycling team and he's putting this thing all together. Northstar is just the venue, not the promoter. This event will be super sick.

Beast · Oct 8, 2009

Heck yeah. Deider Barrick for the win!

Mulestar · Oct 8, 2009

Looks interesting. DH looks legit though so that should be exciting. Got my plane ticket.

William42 · Oct 8, 2009

What DH trail are they running? Hopefully not dogboner, I'm hoping to ride that trail that weekend!

3D. · Oct 8, 2009

nice eddie, way to put in the effort. tell some one to bring a couple dorm mattresses or something for the outside rocks on the Marla turn...

kidwoo · Oct 8, 2009

what the hell's a marla turn?

yesimaddicted · Oct 8, 2009

this is mountain biking you know.

3D. · Oct 9, 2009

Marla Streb, second turn in the video, earlier this summer... very bad crash in large boulder pile... very, very bad :shocked:

motomike · Oct 9, 2009

William42 said:
What DH trail are they running? Hopefully not dogboner, I'm hoping to ride that trail that weekend!

www.2009mtbnationals.com

It says that we are racing on Karpiel, Sticks and Stones, and Dogbone...

Jester · Oct 9, 2009

Looks dumb

William42 · Oct 9, 2009

motomike said:
www.2009mtbnationals.com

It says that we are racing on Karpiel, Sticks and Stones, and Dogbone...

sick, thanks man. leaves the sections that I want to ride open.

Although karpiel to speed control to the bottom of dogbone would have made for some fuggin rad racing.

monkeyboy424 · Oct 9, 2009

Ahh yes, the internet.

THanks for the suggestions, but I am pretty sure courses are on lock now. haha.

anyhoo,

4x on the wire is gonna be radical. in the last 3 days, plenty of new, passable features have been added to livewire. I have to give it up to the small trail crew at Northstar, they have made HUGE strides to make this portion of trail more raceable for 4x.

DH is gonna be fun! We wanted to run the gnar all the way down dogbone, but got the kai-bosh from USA cycling. So i mapped this trail out, and actually, lower stiks (formerly known as bailout) was re-opened with this race in mind. this will take out the epic, olympic length sprint that phodogg provides.

GET STOKED!

WEATHER LOOKS RAD!

IF YOUR FOLLOWING THE LEADER IN 4X, GET PISSED AND PASS HIM!

boo yow.

Eddie McDonald
Nevada Cycling

monkeyboy424 · Oct 9, 2009

3D. said:
nice eddie, way to put in the effort. tell some one to bring a couple dorm mattresses or something for the outside rocks on the Marla turn...

Hey, who is this?

gemini2k · Oct 9, 2009

Wow, this will actually be a legit race. Carnage on 4x, carnage on the DH. Can't wait to hear people (east coasters?) bitching about the lack of hero dirt and presence of rocks on the DH. Should be epic win for the internet crowd like me.

caseyo · Oct 9, 2009

Weather forecast says rain tues night and wed, then clearing up. So conditions will be the goodest ever. Lots of work went into this event, so save your bitching until it's all said and done.

Trilliamiano · Oct 9, 2009

No bitchin about some raw DH from this East Coaster! Go App state!

gemini2k · Oct 9, 2009

Trilliamiano said:
No bitchin about some raw DH from this East Coaster! Go App state!

That's what they all say...

If anyone of you fellow collegiates wants to ride some really raw stuff while you're out here, you've got an open invite to come hit up some lift access riding in Socal if you feel like making the long drive south.

Mulestar · Oct 9, 2009

gemini2k said:
Wow, this will actually be a legit race. Carnage on 4x, carnage on the DH. Can't wait to hear people (east coasters?) bitching about the lack of hero dirt and presence of rocks on the DH. Should be epic win for the internet crowd like me.

Can't wait to get roosty boosty in some moon dust. Bring on the rocks too I heard they actually have traction on them out there.

Jeremy R · Oct 9, 2009

Mulestar said:
Can't wait to get roosty boosty in some moon dust. Bring on the rocks too I heard they actually have traction on them out there.

Don't mind him Mueller. He is a bystander. A sideline reporter.
The guy sitting in his recliner telling Peyton Manning who to throw to.
Always trying to start east/west drama.......
He has no idea he is talking to kids who cut their teeth on this $hit.... :rolleyes:

gemini2k · Oct 9, 2009

Jeremy R said:
Always trying to start east/west drama.......

Is there anything else worth talking about on the internet? Also, sick pic, where is that?

Jeremy R · Oct 9, 2009

gemini2k said:
Is there anything else worth talking about on the internet? Also, sick pic, where is that?

No, there is not.

Sugar Mtn.

I think it is sick how the collegiate nationals are going from there to Northstar. Two difficult tracks in two totally different ways.

caseyo · Oct 9, 2009

This is the mid part of the DH course. Should be good.

kidwoo · Oct 9, 2009

Heh. Yeah you guys are in for a treat. Sticks and stones is a lot of work.

It's so rad I rode it once this year and I'm there pretty much every weekend.

Actually the top part is pretty fun.

caseyo · Oct 9, 2009

kidwoo said:
Heh. Yeah you guys are in for a treat. Sticks and stones is a lot of work.

It's so rad I rode it once this year and I'm there pretty much every weekend.

Actually the top part is pretty fun.

Thanks for the uninformed attempt at help.

The course is upper Karpiel, middle Dogbone (transferring over at the top of speed control) and lower Sticks (which was called bailout YEARS ago and has been reopened. The course is super sick. So stop whining unless you know what you're talking about.

Salty4X · Oct 9, 2009

that is so dumb

kidwoo · Oct 9, 2009

caseyo said:
Thanks for the uninformed attempt at help.

The course is upper Karpiel, middle Dogbone (transferring over at the top of speed control) and lower Sticks (which was called bailout YEARS ago and has been reopened. The course is super sick. So stop whining unless you know what you're talking about.

STFU bltch! I'm gonna hang you in a tree by your N* logo spandex

I'm not in college so I haven't done the deep necessary research involved in a race I'm not doing. I'm just going by what was posted in this thread.

www.2009mtbnationals.com

It says that we are racing on Karpiel, Sticks and Stones, and Dogbone...

My deepest, sincerest, most genuinely heart felt apologies for potentially sending someone down the wrong course on race day.

caseyo · Oct 9, 2009

Well thanks for your two cents anyway.

kidwoo · Oct 9, 2009

No problem.

Where's the finish for the 4x? In the flats after the last right hand berm?

I want to shoot some of it.

gemini2k · Oct 9, 2009

caseyo said:
Thanks for the uninformed attempt at help.

kidwoo said:
My deepest, sincerest, most genuinely heart felt apologies for potentially sending someone down the wrong course on race day.

Wow, no need to get all butt-hurt boys. Now back to the question at hand, east coast or west coast. I'd tried to not so subtly incite this argument earlier in the thread. Where's the winner gonna be from? Smart money says west....by a LARGE margin.

kidwoo · Oct 9, 2009

gemini2k said:
Wow, no need to get all butt-hurt boys. Now back to the question at hand, east coast or west coast.

I'm from the east coast but have been out here for 10 years. I'm so torn.

monkeyboy424 · Oct 9, 2009

Kevin,

4x will finish at the dragons knuckle, or maybe right after it. really up to the powers that be. sadly, the great wall fo china jump was not incorporated, but whatever. its gonna be the bee's knees.

bring that camera out. make sure you get my mustachio on film.

Trilliamiano · Oct 9, 2009

Is it just me or is it the year of the Mustache in the cycling world? I grew one at the start of the collegiate season and (not saying I started the mustache) by conference champs there were at least 5 bros sportin the stache. Not to mention the mustache Jam at Sunset etc.

bizutch · Oct 9, 2009

gemini2k said:
Is there anything else worth talking about on the internet? Also, sick pic, where is that?

That section seemed like a good idea when we cut that trail...

baxterbike · Oct 9, 2009

I'm the one that made the video....

If you haven't figured it out yet, all go-pro/chest cams have a fish-eye lens.... stuff seems much smaller even 5 feet away. That said, the course is about 8 feet wide, and those berms are well over head high. Plenty of passing opportunity. Its going to be amazing, wish I could race

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