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Favorite DH trails?

5150dhbiker

5150dhbiker

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Ok, so am kind of dying to see videos or photos of your favorite DH trails to ride or train on. Post them up!!


This is my local/favorite trail out here. The video was taken about a month ago after I started riding again. Took about a 7 month break from riding DH (rode a lot of moto and then broke my wrist in a couple places and was out for another 3.5 months). Anyways, enjoy and I want to see your trails...it'll give me ideas of places to travel to!!

 
chup29

chup29

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Sep 9, 2009
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this is one of my favorites that i am allowed to talk about... BTI in ashland, oregon. This run was from when i hit a stump with my hand and fractured my pinkie on the right hand side of the trail near the beginning and pretty much just bitch about it for the rest of the time - still kept a decent pace though - hard not to go fast on bti...

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/138801/
 
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bullcrew

bullcrew

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chup29 said:
this is one of my favorites that i am allowed to talk about... BTI in ashland, oregon. This run was from when i hit a stump with my hand and fractured my pinkie on the right hand side of the trail near the beginning and pretty much just bitch about it for the rest of the time - still kept a decent pace though - hard not to go fast on bti...

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/138801/
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Watching you fidget that front end right left made me laugh my @$$ off. I do that when I havent rode in a while or we stop to long on the trail and I need to get my flow back... Then theres days that it just doesnt come together and I do that the whole way....:D

Nice trail BTW!!!
 
William42

William42

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coldspring is cool, but where are all the east coast rox? looks too tame.

But seriously, I love that trail almost as much as I love tunnel.
 
-BB-

-BB-

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I always suck at embedding these:

<object width='500' height='281'><param name='allowFullScreen' value='true' /><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always' /><param name='movie' value='http://www.pinkbike.com/v/179400/l/' /><embed src='http://www.pinkbike.com/v/179400/l/' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' width='500' height='281' allowFullScreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always'></embed></object><p><a href="http://www.pinkbike.com/video/179400/">PG'S WITH GEE AND DAN ATHERTON</a> on <a href="http://www.pinkbike.com">pinkbike.com</a></p>

DANG!!! How do I do this? Pretty cruddy skills for a Mod, huh? ;)

here is the link:
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/179400/

Not my vid btw..
 
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Uncle Cliffy

Uncle Cliffy

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slyfink said:
I'm more of an Original Sin or Schleyer kinda guy...
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I completely understand. When I first posted, I knew my favorite wasn't exactly most people's definition of downhill...

Not very tech, but super fun if you like to rip turns and skid: Fantastic, to Upper Krank it Up, to skills park, to Lower Whistler DH, to B-line connector, to Lower B line, to Heart of Darkness...

If I want to sh!t my pants on the lower mtn. have it be a wet run on Shleyer/Upper Joyride to Lower Joyride
 
Uncle Cliffy

Uncle Cliffy

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bullcrew said:
Watching you fidget that front end right left made me laugh my @$$ off. I do that when I havent rode in a while or we stop to long on the trail and I need to get my flow back... Then theres days that it just doesnt come together and I do that the whole way....:D

Nice trail BTW!!!
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The interesting backstory to this video is he's on my bike...
 
Sandwich

Sandwich

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GES 2009 @ plattekill. Super steep, that course has been there for like 8 years. It's short, extremely technical, very steep for about 75% of the distance, and mixes a reasonable amount of fast with steep tech.
http://voncooper.webs.com/apps/videos/videos/view/5342680-voncooper-update-ges-finals-2009

Happy hour at highland....

The middle section at whiteface, I think it's #24 or something. it "feels" like a world cup in there. Fast, techincal, not too steep but enough to know you're working.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/96438/whofaved/
 
Sandwich

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which one is da bomb...i feel like i have no idea of the names of any of the trails, and i've been riding there for 10 years...maybe not as much as I'd have liked to though.
 
IH8Rice

IH8Rice

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Sandwich said:
which one is da bomb...i feel like i have no idea of the names of any of the trails, and i've been riding there for 10 years...maybe not as much as I'd have liked to though.
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the top part was in the Pro GRT race, but the steep section was left out.
i never remember the names too. i just know how to get to most of them
 
MinorThreat

MinorThreat

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Uncle Cliffy said:
If I want to sh!t my pants on the lower mtn. have it be a wet run on Shleyer/Upper Joyride to Lower Joyride
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haha! How 'bout a wet day on Crack Addict? :D

For the lower mountain, I like Dirt Merchant to A-Line and Schleyer to Det. Rock City. And, I know, it's tame but a couple warm-ups on Crank It Up never hurt anyone (well . . . unless you're stoopid like me and biff a wall ride):


Steam Shovel at Sun Peaks is fun, as is all 15+ minutes of Alhambra to the Hammer at Silver Mountain, ID. Oh, and the new pro/cat 1 line at Schweitzer.
 
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downhill mike

downhill mike

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Sandwich said:
The middle section at whiteface, I think it's #24 or something. it "feels" like a world cup in there. Fast, techincal, not too steep but enough to know you're working.
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Yes it's trail # 24. Trail 24 starts at the top and is broken into 4 sections. The lower 3 sections are great! I wish I could just ride that section over and over!
 
Harry BarnOwl

Harry BarnOwl

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Moelfre (North Wales) has to be one of my favourite tracks to ride/race, it's flat out from top to bottom and I haven't ever not had fun there.


...but my favourite of all time has to be Fort William, which I'm racing for the first time at the SDA in May :D
 
toodles

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Aug 24, 2004
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I had the pleasure of riding the Mount Seven Psychosis track last July when I was in Canada. That has got to be in my top 5 for sure, although I'm not a fan of the first section or the push section, the rest is ridiculously awesome.


In Whistler, my favourites were Goats Gully up the top and Schleyer on the 2nd part. Samurai Pizza Cat is too short to be called a trail, but is one of my favourite sections. Laugh all you want, but I also had a sick time doing the whole Blue Velvet, Freight Train, Dirt Merchant, ALine run. It ends up being about 50+ doubles, tables, step-ups and drops for the whole run and conveniently ends at a pub :-)


Back here in Oz, Coffs Harbour or Kennilworth are probably my favourite tracks. I'll try to find some GoPro footage of them.
 
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ekimox

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toodles said:
In Whistler, my favourites were Goats Gully up the top and Schleyer on the 2nd part. Samurai Pizza Cat is too short to be called a trail, but is one of my favourite sections. Laugh all you want, but I also had a sick time doing the whole Blue Velvet, Freight Train, Dirt Merchant, ALine run. It ends up being about 50+ doubles, tables, step-ups and drops for the whole run and conveniently ends at a pub :-)QUOTE]

Laugh all YOU want but I'm not joking when I say that B-Line is one of my favorites in the WBP. It's pretty much a brakeless trail top to bottom.
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gemini2k

gemini2k

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Jul 31, 2005
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PeruDownhiller said:
I moved from Colorado to Peru for the mountain biking, freeriding and DH.

Thanks to Marco, Rene Wildehaber, Rob J and GravityBolivia for coming here to film with us this year, here is the footage, check it out !

http://www.zapiks.com/bombing-through-peru-1.html
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Pretty badass, very cool terrain. I like the llama obstacles, ultra technical.

Edit: Off topic, but does anyone know where exactly the track Kovarik is riding in illusionary lines is? Must be some Swiss national track or something. That looks like pretty much the most amazing trail ever.
 
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