**Manimal Prologue: I have been asking him, for about three weeks now, to type out his thoughts on the Fontana Icycle Night Dh Race from Feb 2nd. He FINALLY got around to it tonight and put down a FEW words 
He typed the whole thing himself and i just copy/pasted from word into RM. i'll follow up on what he missed about the trip after his words. **
) he only had one crash on his first run and that was because i didn't warn him in time to slow down before an almost 180 degree, off camber turn that has a tree in the middle. he pile drived the tree and said, "i'm ok" as his helmet was bouncing off of the tree 
he took a nasty spill on his race run right after the finish line when he couldn't stop in time. went OTB down a little ledge and smacked into another tree. he gave that , "this really hurts" type of scream that only parents know and he babied his wrist for a few hours. aaron, (downhill66) wasn't racing and took him back the cabin to tend to his wrist
anyway, i had a decent race as well, i think i got 16th out of 36, not too bad considering in only had one full speed practice run because every other run i was following noah
we all had a blast at the afterparty and noah had no problem making friends while i attempted to finish a half cup of beer...but that didn't work out.
so the ICYCLE kept it's reputation and remains one of my favorite races of the year, especially since it was relatively warm and dry this year (last year was watery mud until start time and then the trail literally turned to ice 
)
i only had time to snap a few pics and the vids i tried just didn't turn out due to bad communication on my part. here's what i have as far as pics go:
ready to roll
railing through the last and muddiest switchback on the course
of course we had to pause for a team photo on the way home sunday morning (from L to R: downhill66, lil manimal, manimal, haromtnbiker)
He typed the whole thing himself and i just copy/pasted from word into RM. i'll follow up on what he missed about the trip after his words. ****now, his comment about having to sprint to catch up isn't exagerated. I let him get about a 5 sec headstart during practice and i lost sight of him. when i did catch up to him i thought his brakes were broken because he was so friggin fast. i kept waiting for him to fly off the mountain on the corners but he just pinned them and kept going full speed. we had to stop 2 or three times per run so he could rest his hands...they get awfully tired trying to work a v-brake with a non-vbrake lever. (rear disc mount is in the works and should be ready by the march 8 DH race at clemson
) he only had one crash on his first run and that was because i didn't warn him in time to slow down before an almost 180 degree, off camber turn that has a tree in the middle. he pile drived the tree and said, "i'm ok" as his helmet was bouncing off of the tree he took a nasty spill on his race run right after the finish line when he couldn't stop in time. went OTB down a little ledge and smacked into another tree. he gave that , "this really hurts" type of scream that only parents know and he babied his wrist for a few hours. aaron, (downhill66) wasn't racing and took him back the cabin to tend to his wrist anyway, i had a decent race as well, i think i got 16th out of 36, not too bad considering in only had one full speed practice run because every other run i was following noah
we all had a blast at the afterparty and noah had no problem making friends while i attempted to finish a half cup of beer...but that didn't work out.
so the ICYCLE kept it's reputation and remains one of my favorite races of the year, especially since it was relatively warm and dry this year
(last year was watery mud until start time and then the trail literally turned to ice )i only had time to snap a few pics and the vids i tried just didn't turn out due to bad communication on my part. here's what i have as far as pics go:
ready to roll
railing through the last and muddiest switchback on the course
of course we had to pause for a team photo on the way home sunday morning (from L to R: downhill66, lil manimal, manimal, haromtnbiker)
nice right up if i do say so myself. hate i missed noah's first apperance, but im glad you had a killer time man.
