Snowshoe 2021
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Isn't that from 'The Princess Bride'? Nice one, either way!
Very entertaining racing for both men and women! I can always gauge by how many times I make a sound when someone crashes in their race run and the wife can hear me and she's like "Are you okay?!"
Loic and WV. Peanut butter and Jelly?
I didn't see that earlier. Jeez that was a slam.
Is the industry going to come back around to 26” like they did 20mm front axles? Laugh it up now!
Also, can you possibly be a boomer if you were born in the 80s?!
Sure. Elastomer shocks 14" BB and 70 degree head angles too?
You have seen "modern" gravel bikes, or?
Unpopular opinion: while I personally like watching the riding on the course at Snowshoe, I feel it produces too many injuries and random mechanicals. I know, "this is racing" but still, it would be nice to not have an overall decided by luck but actually your ability to ride a bike fast over a multitude of tracks. Having 1/3 of the season on a track that throws in a large element of randomness is bad, even worse if it is the season finale. I would not feel the same way if it would be one race out of 10 or 12, so more races or double headers at all courses?
I saw schwalbe and minions get destroyed on that course....that course required a level of consistency through rocks and skill, if not it was gonna eat whatever gets in the way...riders, wheels, bb etc ...
Cause 1 day of carnage isn't enough....the people have spoken.
imo injuries will happen cos this sport is fucken gnarly and random mechanicals (especially the chain issues, wtf) means the engineers at bike cos still have a lot of work to do.
i get what you mean though. maybe the more random and unexpected nature of the track suits what redbull want to broadcast as a finale.
Because more FREEDOM was needed?
It was not a criticism of this year's events, more like something I wish will be considered when we get back to a normal year.
For me it boils down to both, rider safety and entertainment value. I hate it when I see people getting injured! I hate it when I see a race or series being won by the "last man/woman standing".
IMO it still can be spectacular without people hitting trees all the time. There rightfully was a lot of critcism regarding rider safety at the Les Gets event, but here I haven't heard so much. Let us hope Jesscia Blewitt is fine! The sport is gnarly, but maybe, like in F1, adjustments need to be made to increase safety. Taking speed out by the right course design, thinking of weather changes and maybe have "wet course" chicken lines ready, making protection gear mandatory, or having more events with not all counting towards the overall.
I actually think the big European DH geometry bikes didn't look at place there. Its like they only excel at steep tech and when the course flattens the approach angle significantly they don't balance well or something. Clearly I'm no expert at WC level DH racing but it did seem that the bikes were maybe too slack for that stuff?
*edit* clearly the whole course wasn't flat, but weird seeing the handling issues on the flatter bits
*edit* clearly the whole course wasn't flat, but weird seeing the handling issues on the flatter bits
From the PB comments:
THEBIKEFIX (11 hours ago)
Update on Jess Blewitt after her horrible crash. Jess has a broken femur requiring surgery. She also has a broken collarbone, wrist , cracked rib & two small cracks in her lower back fortunately none of which require surgery. Healing vibes to Jess from all of us in the riding community.
THEBIKEFIX (11 hours ago)
Update on Jess Blewitt after her horrible crash. Jess has a broken femur requiring surgery. She also has a broken collarbone, wrist , cracked rib & two small cracks in her lower back fortunately none of which require surgery. Healing vibes to Jess from all of us in the riding community.
Jesus. That's brutal.
And ended his run with a no hander!
Speaking of which, this last date at Snowshoe was easily the one with the most no handers ever!
Yup, thankfully it only cost him time. The crash that made me shriek was Kerr headbutting that rock, which bothered Kerr about as much as it did the rock.
Should've known Brook, being the stalwart geologist that he is, made sweet love to some ECRs. Glad he didn't break any inner body sticks.
And Kerr's rock kiss was terrifying - shocked his chin guard didn't explode.
And Kerr's rock kiss was terrifying - shocked his chin guard didn't explode.
I paused the live feed a couple of times to have a close look at his chin bar... Didn't see any damage, but it doesn't seem possible that it came away unscathed.
He managed to place his arm between the chin bar and the rock IIRC. I still believed his impact was big enough to warrant a better check at least at the end of his run.
Just watched Cathro's race run POV and apart from the access road flat pedal after the rocks to the last wooded section the whole track looked quite high speed to me and aren't most WC DH bikes settled around a 62-63ish HA these days? and isn't that handsome European guy with the thick eyebrows who came down last still riding 61.5 upfront?
ie. Slack and long being more stable at speed n that, I've no idea why you'd think a shorter less slack bike would help.
Or which bikes are you talking about?
Well I want to try a dh38 now...or retune my avy cart and dial it in...after seeing the suspension work well in that crap makes me want to tinker
Yeah I'm probably tripping. I'd just finished watching the replay and thinking there was an inordinate amount of front wheel traction issues (notably Commencal), but also the Mondrakers looked a bit awkward as well. There was plenty of steep techy bits, just weird seeing quite a few issues on flatter sections. Its probably actually more a riding style and position thing rather than the bikes.
Wild race though, crowd looked into it. Bulldog hyping them up after his spill was awesome to see, as was Sick Mik signing off with class.
Did Reece actually snap bis chain, or did he just drop it?
Seems like Bruno has
Damn.
This is pretty awesome. I wonder what his heartrate was doing at 2:46 when coming pretty much as close you can get to getting sent out the front door? Guy is flying and obviously would have moved up a few spots in the ranking, if that fumble and the drift at the end of the track didn't happen.
I'm all for tracks like these. I don't see any problems with it? The rock gardens are what they are. The track is better than it being a single line funnel from the top to bottom.
I'm all for tracks like these. I don't see any problems with it? The rock gardens are what they are. The track is better than it being a single line funnel from the top to bottom.