[Full Trucker]

T-Coop of the Mojo Wheels team was out at Darner's on Sunday doing a little fishing and helping us finish the changes to the Extra Crispy 4X Track. Turns out he had his helmet cam with him, so we had him do a couple runs. Pardon the wind noise and everything, I'll figure out how to put some snazzy music over it one of these days.

http://www.rpmcycling.org/race_journal/extra_crispy_helmet_cam.html

 

[axlvid23]

Look good! Though I do wonder if the inside pedally roller option instead of the big double little double would be faster since there are two flat corners after the doubles?

 

[Full Trucker]

Ah you think you know so much eh?

There's more cornering going into the roller line, and after the pedally rollers are a couple of flat turns as well... we did this for two reasons: one is that line WAS faster by a bike legth or two and we wanted them to be pretty equal, but help promote some passing and such. The second reason is the flat turns are set up to make the merge back into the last turn more parallel so as to avoid collisions and such.

We were thinking, I promise. We'll see how she races! I think it'll be a hoot, but if it doesn't work like we planned we'll fix it for next year. Always trying to improve things, that's what we're all about.

 

[ASX_Andy]

for some reason it made me kind of nauseous haha.

Cool video, wish I could have been there

 

[Full Trucker]

for some reason it made me kind of nauseous haha.

Cool video, wish I could have been there

Yeah, helmet cams kind of do that to me too, but I wanted to get the word out that we made a bunch of changes to the track... the light was pretty flat so it's a little hard to see the features, but hopefully everyone gets stoked on coming out to the race!

 

[Haplipe]

so the line to the right is suppose to be the pro line right?
if not i take this back but if it is the pro-line i think that they should make it a lot bigger so only pros can hit so it hold up the pro line name.

 

[Full Trucker]

so the line to the right is suppose to be the pro line right?

Hey man, don't be a hater!

No it's not supposed to be a "pro line", although it DID start out bigger and got dubbed the "pro line" at first, but now it's not really pro only nor is it so big that only the pros will hit it. In the end it wound up simply a different line in the bottom section - a more jumpy line than the other way around which is more pedally. I figure different riders will be faster or slower on the two lines depending on what their strengths are.

Our intention from the beginning of the re-design was to offer more options for passing, not to create a "pro" anything. We're predicting that there will be opportunity to pass in that section, but hey we won't know until we race it!

 

[sbabuser]

Good work, options and passing are both great ideas.
Have to say I was a little disappointed in the video. I thought things would be much more of a blur at the speed of Coop. He must've been going intentionally slow...

 

[Full Trucker]

Meh, whatya gonna do with completely overcast skies and a helmet cam that plugs in to a digital still camera? We'll see you guys there this weekend!

 

[rky mtn srfr]

Sweet! So it's gonna be sunny and 75 this weekend right?

 

[Haplipe]

Hey man, don't be a hater!

No it's not supposed to be a "pro line", although it DID start out bigger and got dubbed the "pro line" at first, but now it's not really pro only nor is it so big that only the pros will hit it. In the end it wound up simply a different line in the bottom section - a more jumpy line than the other way around which is more pedally. I figure different riders will be faster or slower on the two lines depending on what their strengths are.

oh ok
thats going to make racing this weekend pretty intresting to watch

 

[godzilla]

for some reason it made me kind of nauseous haha.

Watching Coop's riding makes me nauseous too.