Same links as before, we just replaced the videos.
just click on Peaty, Minaar or Gee.
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004896
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004839
http://freecaster.com/live/1000188_1004889
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004896
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004839
http://freecaster.com/live/1000188_1004889
great recap here - is Sam starting to be superstitions by wearing two different colored gloves? 
Looks like Matti will be missing the worlds next week 
http://www.descent-world.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=95&task=view&id=869
Looks like Matti will be missing the worlds next week http://www.descent-world.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=95&task=view&id=869
Love the picture of the Syndicate team manager - great to see passionated people like that.
Top 5 qualifiers should all wear helmet cams so we can get live coverage of their entire run.
IMO, this helmet footage of Matti is amazing and really shows how rough and fast this track is, better than any other camera or picture I've ever seen.
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004825
IMO, this helmet footage of Matti is amazing and really shows how rough and fast this track is, better than any other camera or picture I've ever seen.
http://freecaster.com/live/1000006_1004825
wow for Matti, nuts!
Thanks for that.great recap here - is Sam starting to be superstitions by wearing two different colored gloves?
http://www.descent-world.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=95&task=view&id=869
Didn't know that Barel had a flat. (and for a giggle.... note he's not wearing a skin suit!)
What's this about dodgy times? Never thought I'd hear that about a world cup? Wouldn't that be horrible. :O
he swapped out helmets too. He had a different helmet for the open and then immediately went back to the rainbow stripes one.great recap here - is Sam starting to be superstitions by wearing two different colored gloves?
http://www.descent-world.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=95&task=view&id=869
I know Ben Reid and Bryn Atkinson did not receive proper times on the course. Apparently they passed riders who pulled out but were not given correct finishing times. Yes, this always happens at events, but you'd expect Fort William to have this all shaken out after what, seven years of hosting the event?
-ska todd
Problem easily solved. Remove the human element.
http://www.amb-it.com/chipx-c-1.html?osCsid=a35b257f65b518216a08fdd7dcb77a5c
up to 3 feet high off the ground and to 45mph. It's a self powered chip, not passive like Champion Chip. Mounts straight to your front fork leg.
It's what they use in the Tour de France so it's deadly accurate. But silly expensive unless you have multiple races like Diablo. Riders can actually buy their own chip. Hook the box to a laptop, the laptop to the internet..and get instant, live results online at www.mylaps.com. It would make an even better training tool than Fastlap too b/c at a ski resort, you could just hook it up, hand the rider their chip and let them do qualifying laps ALL DAY LONG. No wristwatch and no having to write your laps down. Just look online and every lap you did is right there.
If I could afford it, I'd run my races with open practice all day Saturday and everyone would be running qualifying laps the whole time without anybody being at the start or finish to track them. Sunday, seed them by their hot lap from Saturday.
was reading an article in the latest Dirt about just such a race in San Remo. course was open for 2 days with live timing the entire time. every run was timed so you could practice or take a 'hot lap' whenever you wanted. Fastest time posted over the weekend wins. sounds like a really fun way to run an event.
only if you lay out a goat path and call it a DH.Will it calculate and pause for everyone stopping to watch people fall over each other at rock garden/drop off/chute/etc?
-ska todd
Actually...I'd say guys would be more inclined to get up off the ground and out of the way if they knew a few hundred guys were breathing down their necks randomly pulling hot laps all day.
"Oh crap..if I lay here too long, I'm gonna be part of someone's track@"
Well, then the course won't be g-nar enough and people will complain...
Agreed, maybe that will help up the level of competition and training and force people to ride faster in practice. I bet you can somehow set it up to wi-fi or bluetooth connect/email out run times to a cell phone or pda too
mmm...dorkdom...mmm 
-ska todd
Agreed, maybe that will help up the level of competition and training and force people to ride faster in practice. I bet you can somehow set it up to wi-fi or bluetooth connect/email out run times to a cell phone or pda too
mmm...dorkdom...mmm -ska todd
Maybe every European who owns a DH bike doesn't automatically think it makes them a racer, or perhaps that isn't just an American problem. 
I was told you can do that. me making it happen is another thing...Well, then the course won't be g-nar enough and people will complain...
Agreed, maybe that will help up the level of competition and training and force people to ride faster in practice. I bet you can somehow set it up to wi-fi or bluetooth connect/email out run times to a cell phone or pda too
-ska todd
It would be a good way to document how the amateur practice at the US opens sucks. There is more riding in the parking lot than down the course during practice.Will it calculate and pause for everyone stopping to watch people fall over each other at rock garden/drop off/chute/etc?
-ska todd