Bruni/Carpenter/Shaw qualify first....BAM!
http://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/Loic-Bruni-and-Manon-Carpenter-Qualify-Fastest-in-Leogang,769
http://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/Loic-Bruni-and-Manon-Carpenter-Qualify-Fastest-in-Leogang,769
Leogang 2014 WC #4
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Even though I don't normally wear armour myself, I can't understand why riders kick up such a fuss when it is mandated in a particular country. If everyone is wearing it, surely there's not much to be gained or lost? And running cardboard instead - haha.
Yeah there's some pinner armor that's gotta be more comfortable than that stupid bullshlt.
Rawk Jesus!!?! 
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What rims are those and where do I get some?
Gwin has balls. I can't believe he didn't blow up that wheel.
How could he flat 50 feet out of the gate?
How could he flat 50 feet out of the gate?
gloves make no sense!.. Is this an Austrian or euro rule? Why no consistency?.. Like the UCI's ever heard of such a thingAustrian law from what someone was saying
Scary fact: Gwin would have beat 99% of the people on this board, on the rim alone..tire dragging, down that track! Not trying to be A fanboy, but that may have been the most impressive display of skill all day.
Awesome mix up of wins this season!
Awesome mix up of wins this season!
99% is a pretty generous figure.
Talk about excluding himself from the equation haha.
Next time Gwin should race with no tires, less weight plus it seems he doesn't need them
Did you notice how much everyone's wheels (except for the 26ers) were flexing and chattering all over the place?
It looked like 1998 all over again.
Funny you should mention, but I did in fact notice, but thought that perhaps it was just my imagination.
well i guess that was good leg training for gwin.. was waiting for his rim to explode
i thought i saw some flexing.. especially the slow mo rock garden camera shot
bring back "looks flexy" along with root beer color
f*ck monday.. i want to party with all the lads
i thought i saw some flexing.. especially the slow mo rock garden camera shot
bring back "looks flexy" along with root beer color
f*ck monday.. i want to party with all the lads
I thought it was just me noticing that, but I thought it was flexy frames. Was it really a 26" wheel thing? I didn't watch all the race runs, and most of the non V10 runs I saw were on 27.5.
Karma coming around from when spesh sued that wheel builderGwin has balls. I can't believe he didn't blow up that wheel.
How could he flat 50 feet out of the gate?
No skinsuits, plenty of visors.
Would have loved to see where bruni ended up if he hasn't washed out
But lots of wheels looking like they had no place under the fastest riders in the fastest discipline of the sport.
I wasn't even really thinking about it but after about 15-20 riders I just started wondering why everyone's wheels looked like they weren't tracking for shlt.
bring back the Ringle Doublewides
Didn't he end up like 6 seconds back even with washing out?
Forget gym work and road bike training. Upcoming DH racers need to practise crash recovery speed. I'm always amazed how quick they get going again.
And yet - gwin. Wtf?
I decided what had contributed to the wheels that looked bad was some poor suspension tunes. It looked like they could tune for the big jumps, or the roots, or neither.
Very few looked like they had found a good compromise.
Heh......I was just thinking it was camera angles. Lots of shots facing downhill where you could get a pretty sustained view of back wheels.
Camera angles and flexier wheels. I mean it was like literally everyone, except for a handful. Watching the replay this morning I was literally pulling up bike websites (trek, scott, etc) to see what bikes were running what wheels. It was only after about 5 or so that I realized what I was seeing. 26ers were bending around a lot less. I looked up fairclough's bike thinking 'damn' that thing is tracking, fulling thinking they were 27.5s. Nope. And what I'm talking about was definitely wheel deflection and flex. I know what that looks like vs. a choppy suspension setup. You really could see wheels twisting.
Not sure what you mean by gwin.
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Haha! Sweet. I thought he was too but then just looked at the scott website and figured he was running one of those frames. Okay there's an exception.
The gwin comment was just my amazement that his wheel didn't implode.
I'm 99% sure that wheel flex was a constant across most of the 27.5 stuff. And the obvious 26 team - Santa Cruz has the stiffest wheel set, irrespective of size.
Still pretty sure very few had found a good suspension tune for what we saw on tv. Fairly sure Rachel Arherton was asking Carpentor about arm pump after her run, i think that perhaps some riders were getting beaten up and chased a fork tune to suit. This is total speculation, but fits what I saw.
I'm 99% sure that wheel flex was a constant across most of the 27.5 stuff. And the obvious 26 team - Santa Cruz has the stiffest wheel set, irrespective of size.
Still pretty sure very few had found a good suspension tune for what we saw on tv. Fairly sure Rachel Arherton was asking Carpentor about arm pump after her run, i think that perhaps some riders were getting beaten up and chased a fork tune to suit. This is total speculation, but fits what I saw.
As far as I can tell, gwins wheel probably wouldn't have flexed if he had a tire on it, because it was made of indestructibullium. That was hands down my favorite run to watch of the day, which was strange because he ended up over 30 seconds back. The corners were even better then the rock gardens.