That was the best slalom race that I have ever witnessed.
Ha, small world, eh? I was a mere 16 year old kid watching in amazement at that slalom race, as it was truly the first real dh and slalom events I had witnessed. I can still see Shaums doing that jump in my mind, me looking up and watching the tires and bottom bracket, and soles of his shoes pass right over me! And watching his bottom bracket break and someone running out to grab it.........classic!
That was one of my Fav nationals when I lived back east. Palm tried a 360, crashed then walked off dragging bike behind.
I was standing on that fence as well! Pretty cool thing to see in person, right at the lift house for the alipine medows slope...Same day i broke my arm and had to have it stiched up, even palm told me it looked gnarly
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It's hard to break a bike when your in a hospital or jacked up.
Yeah, that was back when DH was big. Palmer with the bus with the stereo and trailer. All the "factory teams".
Wasn't that thing just killer?!?! I was walking through the pits late one night on my way back to my sleeping quarters...a black lifted chevy suburban...and one of the GT mechanics started chatting it up with me. He was mud prepping the two dhi's (peaty and ec).....remember, they had "experimental" written on them.....and basically introduced me to Michelin tires by giving me the run down on their soft rubber compound and different ways to cut the tires for the conditions. I was soaking it all in as a completely newbie should, then he just hands over two sets of michelin dh tires (2.2s) to me, both fresh and unused!!! Will never forget that guys gesture, tho I can't remember his name for the life of me.........but his british accent and buzz cut sticks out in my memory.
hahah yeah he was rocking the big gold bus/sequin outfiat at that point, i think i have some old film pics of some of the DS/DH that occured that year...green palm manitou remember that bad boy.
While I didn't get them for free, the Maxxis guys sold me a pair of Mofo DH's at the first year of 7 Springs for a whopping $15.....I thought those things were the sh!t, until I mounted them and realized the rear left no mud clearance and rubbed the chainstay yoke of my c-dale 700 frame when I slightly knocked the rim out of true!!!
ditto. wore through the frame of my Schwinn....hah hah!!!
nearly did the same for me....the bike shop manager (I worked there after school at the time) looked at in pure amazement and just gave me another swingarm off a super v frame they had laying around.
That guy gave me some tires too at MT Snow, in I think '98. They were slightly used though.
Big f'ing deal, they change their "image." So what? The "image" now is improved. What the F does that have to do with the quality of their bikes and the arrogant, condescending attitude of Tony Ellsworth, who still runs things there?
I'm not going to get in a piss match w/ anyone... & don't want to bad mouth anyone or any company on an open forum (although i might have unintentionally in the past)... so i'm not going to elaborate .... but i stand by my comment... YES I"M SURE IT WAS A BUSINESS DECISION.
)Did you have the bike with Manitou 7" TPC fork? I remember there being a guy with one of those on the edge. If I had two VHS players I would copy the videos for you
haha. that's funny. i actually raced eric "the crow" in the round of 16 at that race. i was 16th seed, and caught a rash of sh_t from the guys for falling during my run. all i had to do was follow him down too..i think it was those crow sounds he would make that threw me off!That was the best slalom race that I have ever witnessed.
#32 seed Eric Penson knocked out #1 Palmer and then Palmer broke his helmet over his knee. He advanced all the way and finally got knocked out by Tomac in the quarters. That course made for great racing. And to relate it to this thread, Penson raced for that Ellsworth team when they ran those Zzyxx forks back in the day.
If they were going to ride a foes, I'd think they would be riding the Mono, which the pro riders (well the kiwi ones, the ones faster than the yankees) prefer over the 2-1I'm guessing one of these will look good with an Ellsworth sticker on it:
I making a reference to the old school practice of taking a Foes or Intense and slapping your company's name on it.
Wait...i know that guy grabbbing the crank arm in the vid..the old Mountain Cycle destroyer crew. They were hilarious...pure metal all the way!!!!
You mean the Mono that is no longer in production?? The 2:1 Mono is the only DH bike Brent is producing for 2007.
Hell YEAH! Farmer Brown and the rest of the former ministers of Slayer!!! Mickey...you duh mang.
