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Bielsko Biała/Szczyrk WC 2024 Race for the golden pierogi.

SylentK

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just nao tuning into Max. Women's are up.

Whodathunk they'd have 2 gingers doing some color comentary? (Gwin and Josh). The wife was like, what? Are they brothers? Ha
 

jstuhlman

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greg in the booth was interesting. he didn't add much, imo. asa killing it in finals...had to stop watching the livestream with 4 to go, so waiting for the recast to come up on tiz. loic did not look pleased to be dusted by dunne. tough luck for mcnab...from the results, looks like dak stepped off too. amazing save by hatton (i think it was hatton?)
 

norbar

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the spanish commentators are describing what they see. decent, but not as good as Greg and Aaron together on the english broadcast. they speculated Troy lost time to Coulanges in the bottom natural part because he's lighter...
Did they take copious amounts of drugs? Also Troy lost time at the top but also seemed much less comitted in the bottom forrest. Coulanges was flying here.
 

Andeh

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Greg did have a few good points from what I heard (caught the last few riders live) that dumbfuck just talked over, and Gwin then agreed with. Like Loris getting a bit tight after his drift, or Dak's crash coming from crossing the main rut (not just that it was muddy there).
 

slimshady

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Did they take copious amounts of drugs? Also Troy lost time at the top but also seemed much less comitted in the bottom forrest. Coulanges was flying here.
I just watched a little bit of the race since I was at my son's basketball game, and all I have to say is the Spanish commentary made as much sense as a couple of street sweepers describing a curling game.
 
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norbar

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Greg did have a few good points from what I heard (caught the last few riders live) that dumbfuck just talked over, and Gwin then agreed with. Like Loris getting a bit tight after his drift, or Dak's crash coming from crossing the main rut (not just that it was muddy there).
The top part was a bit greasy
 

canadmos

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Greg did have a few good points from what I heard (caught the last few riders live) that dumbfuck just talked over, and Gwin then agreed with. Like Loris getting a bit tight after his drift, or Dak's crash coming from crossing the main rut (not just that it was muddy there).
The best was when Gwin was about to give his input or was talking and buddy there would come out of nowhere and say "he's on ripper, HEY GREG WHAT DO YOU THINK???" FFS let gwin finish.
 

norbar

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The best was when Gwin was about to give his input or was talking and buddy there would come out of nowhere and say "he's on ripper, HEY GREG WHAT DO YOU THINK???" FFS let gwin finish.
Who is that guy? They hired Kate who actually has some media training and instead they have someone who has less focus than an adhd person on cocaine?
 

Gary

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Erm... Coke is actually calming and helps improve focus when you have ADHD.
And our all time favourite DH commentator has ADHD
Fairly sure Ric McLaughlin doesn't. You are on about Ric right?
Who's Kate?
Ooooh... a squirrel
 

toodles

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Myriam and Gwin's commentary for the womens was awesome. They notice so many more details than Ric did.

Great race, top result. Hope to see that track again in the future.
 

toodles

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Highlight for me had to be Angel Suarez's slide into the berm... Some of the camera angles were awesome. (Too bad they sold the rights to Flosports here in Canada, as I'd pay for this product - for a reasonable amount)
I replayed that slide several times. It's insane that he kept his feet up for it
 

trib

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I have to say, as much as I like seeing Brook Macdonald ride, the mondraker team changes on the off season have gone pretty well haven’t they.

Much like the Kolb/Hatton surprise combo of last season, 2024 may be the year of Dunne/Dak.
 

jstuhlman

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it was almost like they told ric to groom greg to take over next year...greg wouldn't say shit but once a run ric would add "right greg" or "what do you think greg" to prompt him. once you notice it, it is painful. gwin's great with the analysis. they just need a "color" guy who gets genuinely stoked now. i recommend @jackalope on fake purple drank. tahnee was good and myriam was better this time.

i'ma watch for free no matter what unless some part of my fee goes to pay the riders; either waty, i'd rather listen to something decent than mute it.
 

Westy

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it was almost like they told ric to groom greg to take over next year...greg wouldn't say shit but once a run ric would add "right greg" or "what do you think greg" to prompt him. once you notice it, it is painful. gwin's great with the analysis. they just need a "color" guy who gets genuinely stoked now. i recommend @jackalope on fake purple drank. tahnee was good and myriam was better this time.

i'ma watch for free no matter what unless some part of my fee goes to pay the riders; either waty, i'd rather listen to something decent than mute it.
Not sure if he was throwing shade but Ric said something to Minnaar along the lines of having Gwinn show him something about the next step in his career. Implying Gwinn was done and Greg will soon be.

Amazed and happy that kid who went head first into a tree got back up.
 

Avy

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Erm... Coke is actually calming and helps improve focus when you have ADHD.
And our all time favourite DH commentator has ADHD
Fairly sure Ric McLaughlin doesn't. You are on about Ric right?
Who's Kate?
Ooooh... a squirrel
Erm,you Favorite,or “who you would like to win” did it! Fucking Cunt,that is amazing,I am soo Happy for him Gary. Nothing will give him New Life like a Win! I can not understand how you are not saying somfing? Why are you being so quiet? It’s OK Brother,Have a Lash!

What is really cool is I was watching Wyn YT on Track Walk and he found Ronan and I thought of you Gary. I did not know he had a BMX skilz? I said to my self,this Track may be to his liking? I swear to you that my Mind said he is going to win. Then I thought,that is a stretch Avy,but it was in my Gut,so I did not question it..Then the Fucker Win’s! I swear,whenever that Gut feeling comes,and I never know when? I have learnt to listen to it. Good for you and Ronan!

I have only seen bits of the Race,looking for more.

I have 2 thoughts on the track.

1 The Track was different,smooth,like BMX,never seen a Track like that,save for AUS Worlds?

2 Those Poles they had marking the Track. They were Death Poles? Metal? I saw some were not,but most were Metal. I seent 1Rider hit it and got Bucked. Fucking if they went Airborne and came Down on it,it would go right through there Body like a knife? Killing them. I hear no one speaking of this?

Avy
 

toodles

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There was one section where I kept swearing the riders had crossed a pole or ridden over it, but seems like it was an optical illusion or something
 

norbar

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To the people who were watching the live feed. Did Nina crash ? I’m seeing her with an arm cast
 

norbar

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Erm... Coke is actually calming and helps improve focus when you have ADHD.
And our all time favourite DH commentator has ADHD
Fairly sure Ric McLaughlin doesn't. You are on about Ric right?
Who's Kate?
Ooooh... a squirrel
Isn't that Meth/Amphetamine and not coke? Never tried coke though. Didn't know they had analogue wiktorian coke.

It beats paying $$$ to some channel you've never heard of before. How much of that gets passed on to Ronan?
Weirdly in Poland Disco/Warner bought the biggest TV station and they have a really cheap streaming service where you can have english commentary. 2.5$ / month

No, I didn’t go. I was planning on it but have a lot going on getting ready for the EU DH Champs in Champery this summer. I definitely would have said hello if I was!

Stoked for Marine!
Hope we get the race next year. I think everyone liked it. It would be great if we had it regurarly as looking at license plates it was an event for all of the eastern block. Polish hills are the closest mountains for people from the Baltic states and Czechs and Slovaks are just over the border, 20 min drive, so basically you get 3 countries in 1.
EH?
She seemed fine on the hotseat? (other than being upset when her time was beaten)
Maybe partied too hard yesterday?
 

canadmos

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Is it just me or are the silver Maven brake levers ugly as heck? They make some people's bars look like they're bending down.
 

SylentK

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Finally finished watching. Was chasing a little white ball. And spoiled a good walk in the woods. Oh and then there was an mtb ride where I crashed and bailed in front of the kids and it was embarrassing. I'm getting old :D

How good is Ronan? Sooper awesome.

Rock on Marine

I do like Gwin's commentary. Very insightful. He's like the Ricky Carmichael. But better :)

Ric is good. But I still miss Warner. Miriam was good. Minaaaarrr? Not sure. Boring. Say something of value. YOU HAVE ONE JOB TO DO. :D I'd rather listen to Josh, the other ginger.

Wait, so there's 3 gingers?

The cams and footy. Hmm...It's different. Not sure if it's better. But I'll take it. Support the sport. As they say.
 

jstuhlman

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Finally finished watching. Was chasing a little white ball. And spoiled a good walk in the woods. Oh and then there was an mtb ride where I crashed and bailed in front of the kids and it was embarrassing. I'm getting old :D

How good is Ronan? Sooper awesome.

Rock on Marine

I do like Gwin's commentary. Very insightful. He's like the Ricky Carmichael. But better :)

Ric is good. But I still miss Warner. Miriam was good. Minaaaarrr? Not sure. Boring. Say something of value. YOU HAVE ONE JOB TO DO. :D I'd rather listen to Josh, the other ginger.

Wait, so there's 3 gingers?

The cams and footy. Hmm...It's different. Not sure if it's better. But I'll take it. Support the sport. As they say.
i thought the chase drone they used for the opening section did a good job of capturing the insane speeds those guys were hitting
 

Happymtb.fr

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I find the picture quality to be lacking on Disco+. It looks like 720p... is it only me?
On red bull tv it could take half a minute before the quality improved, after that it was fine. Just the drone footages looked bad.
Now on disco+ it feels like a good drone footage at best :( maybe I could understand if I used some pirate links but now I am paying for this shit...