not confirmed, but sounds like gwin first qualifier with 2:11, duncan 2nd with 2:13 and palmer in 8th with 2:18...that's all i've heard so far and don't know for sure.
National Champs at SolVista Bike Park
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RAD footage of Preston getting huck-nasty at the end!! PRO form there hahahaha....
Updates!
Just to fill yous yanks in on all teh other Nat champs WorldWide...
Gee and Tracey are British champs, apparently Peaty was on a stormer and crashed in last corner.
Ben Reid is Irish National Champ
Fabien Barel is French Champ with Pascal 2nd and Pedemenaud 3rd.
Céline Gros 1st in Womens followed by Sabrina and Florian Pugin
Not sure of much else for now, US nats have some deep talent this year, hope it all pans out sick.
Gee and Tracey are British champs, apparently Peaty was on a stormer and crashed in last corner.
Ben Reid is Irish National Champ
Fabien Barel is French Champ with Pascal 2nd and Pedemenaud 3rd.
Céline Gros 1st in Womens followed by Sabrina and Florian Pugin
Not sure of much else for now, US nats have some deep talent this year, hope it all pans out sick.
Fµck, maybe Palmer can pull it off eh?
Nice one Gwin!
Nice one Gwin!
loving the updates...keep em coming
The doubles you are talking about are not the ones I was referring to from 2001. The older ones where HUGE in comparison, no women and many Pro men didn't hit them. The set the girl died on later that the youngster built where just straight too small to be in that high speed section.
Course looks fun, are there big rock gardens or not?
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top 19 men from quali is up on
http://www.dirttales.com/
http://www.dirttales.com/
go for a Cove victory
Go Geritt! reppin' the East Coast.
Canadian Nats just ended.
Hans Lambert just took the men's title and Claire Buchar the ladies. Transcend Orange rider Jamie Biluk was 4th for the men, pretty stoked for him.
Hans Lambert just took the men's title and Claire Buchar the ladies. Transcend Orange rider Jamie Biluk was 4th for the men, pretty stoked for him.
a close one! dh pro men finals - 1. gwin, 2. duncan, 3. jd, 4. cody w., joey schusler and geritt beytagh tied for 5th.
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What did Palmer finish in?
LBJ
LBJ
i think it can be said that no one got seriously hurt on the pro dh jumps...fyi. the one kid that went down hard (rumored to have broken hip) was back the next day hanging out, just sore. pro dh race was so sick!!!
everyone pinned and in women's bulh took the win by less than .10 over pruitt (from what i understand). so close!
everyone pinned and in women's bulh took the win by less than .10 over pruitt (from what i understand). so close!
right on sylvestri... i wonder if it was a solid run?
Nice one Will!!
Thats a pretty solid win for Gwin on that short of a course too.
Thats a pretty solid win for Gwin on that short of a course too.
Any word on how Haderer did?
haderer didn't seem like he was trying at the bottom, so maybe crash or big mistake?
now it's time to go celebrate.
well done melissa!
gwin it to win it!
now it's time to go celebrate.
well done melissa!
gwin it to win it!
kinda funny that gwin took off the leatt for this race
He went a c-hair slower in final than in quali run, so ya. Very impressive for off the couch though.
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Saw him on the chairlift and he said he had a concussion and couldn't remember the course... so perhaps he wasn't really pinning?
Did Van Dine crash or something? Looks like he qualified well.
Neko did not attend the US Champs. His team felt he'd be better served racing the Pro Class at the Gravity East then the 15-16 year old class at Nationals, which is what he would've had to do. Logan got edged out by Richie Rude and finished a solid 2nd. Neko got 2nd to Ben Moody at Attitash.
nice! thats what i guessed for Litter OTB...sweet =)
werent you guys heading out there in like a 100' camper?Neko did not attend the US Champs. His team felt he'd be better served racing the Pro Class at the Gravity East then the 15-16 year old class at Nationals, which is what he would've had to do. Logan got edged out by Richie Rude and finished a solid 2nd. Neko got 2nd to Ben Moody at Attitash.
Awesome race. I hope more tracks are modeled similarly. It shows just how BEHIND the times downhill is when you hear guys crying that jumps are too big. Meanwhile 20" kids bikes are jumping 50' plus in the Olympics. THE OLYMPICS! Not some Evil Knievel side show. DH bikes are much more stable and forgiving. And to those who never leave the ground while riding downhill, saying "that just isn't downhill".....ya aint doin it right.
Yeah, I agree with you Steve - The jumps did look big but, certainly do-able for the top DH racers in the country.
The fact that they aren't earning big checks for it - is a reflection of what bad promoting and sorry tracks have done to the sport.
Doesn't mean the tracks for the biggest race of the year here in the U.S. should be watered down to continue to hold the sport back.
I would bet the top 10 guys are used to hitting big stuff like that on the regular.
I remember hitting the big 45-50 foot booter at SeaOtter when MTX first popped up on my hardtail. Scary but, I felt like a Pro when I hit that thing for sure!
I like when you can see a little fear in the top boys eyes... then you know they're human... haha
Not that every track needs 50 footers to make them official courses but, I think it stepped the National Championship up to the level it should be.
Colorado has the best series in the country right now so it doesn't surprise me that those boys put on a great race!
I might even have to renew my USA cycling membership if it comes back to Colorado?
The fact that they aren't earning big checks for it - is a reflection of what bad promoting and sorry tracks have done to the sport.
Doesn't mean the tracks for the biggest race of the year here in the U.S. should be watered down to continue to hold the sport back.
I would bet the top 10 guys are used to hitting big stuff like that on the regular.
I remember hitting the big 45-50 foot booter at SeaOtter when MTX first popped up on my hardtail. Scary but, I felt like a Pro when I hit that thing for sure!
I like when you can see a little fear in the top boys eyes... then you know they're human... haha
Not that every track needs 50 footers to make them official courses but, I think it stepped the National Championship up to the level it should be.
Colorado has the best series in the country right now so it doesn't surprise me that those boys put on a great race!
I might even have to renew my USA cycling membership if it comes back to Colorado?
Interesting fact found out this weekend. They had to drug test three random pros from every race. Each test ran $1000 just to have the test processed + the staffing to collect the tests. With some quick math it you come up with about $20,000 spent on drug testing this weekend. Just another reason there was no pro payout in some events(MX).
A lot of them were people who pre registered and were injured prior to race... For some reason they were on the start list despite never picking up their number at registration... Another bunch had minor injuries on site, and afew got it a bit worse
Pretty standard and despite rumors earlier in the week the ambulance was not carting people away left and right
Just got back from an amazing weekend. I am sore. The AM track was pretty gnarly. I think all the carnage folks saw was all the cat 2/3 racers getting broken off (not literally, just normal crashes) doing the pretty advanced stuff (good for them for trying). Lip Skidder, our big jump (did someone say 40ft?) is right next to the big pro jumps and I saw a few dudes all dusty and a bit out of it, at least on the first day. The hip jump in the woods gave folks a hard time too. It had a short and techy approach which required full committal. Then there was the huck to flat. Not my favorite part of the track, but def separated out the men from the boys. A good race track should scare you a little. Makes you feel alive again. After surviving an awesome weekend like this, everything else in life gets the volume turned down...at least for a little bit. 
I think I heard there were around 1400 starts this weekend? I may have taken a few crazy pills so sorry if I'm wrong.
All in all it was totally rad!
I think I heard there were around 1400 starts this weekend? I may have taken a few crazy pills so sorry if I'm wrong.
All in all it was totally rad!
It was actually 1800 race starts is what Darner told me on Saturday. Insanely fun weekend.I think I heard there were around 1400 starts this weekend? I may have taken a few crazy pills so sorry if I'm wrong.
All in all it was totally rad!
I think the total ambulance rides were around 12. It is pretty bad when they have the life flight staged at the venue though. I did not bother counting the number of slings walking around by Sunday.
I heard the race announcer say something about the heli not being for life flight, but I could be wrong. Awesome race all in all, the course was alot of fun despite what the eriders were on about.
I'm stocked to see that you guys are going "big" but are they worth the massive hype everyone is putting on them? Or don't the video's capture the pure size of the jumps? But to me 50 foot isnt too crazy especially since they pretty much in a rhythm section on the Pro mens course, those guys hit stuff that big all day. I've seen our(South African) youth men national champion style 50 footers, I'm not trying to take anything away from your Pros, I'm just argueing that those jumps should be there.