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BaJ said:
Tubeless – Have been running it for about 4 years now, utterly brilliant in all my situations (Hans Dampf on Flow EX, Minion DHR on Spank Oozy).

Fort Bill – Great race, Minnaar is just so cool and utterly professional. Watching episodes of This is Peaty and The Syndicate over the years and it's clear he obsesses over the smallest details. He's just the man.

The woods section did indeed look crazy, but part of me also thinks that riders have been whinging for a while about tracks being too easy, I guess there's a fine line somewhere.

I always thank RedBull for the coverage but it felt really sloppy at times this weekend, the woods section was obviously a deciding factor on a given run, yet for many riders they failed to even show it. Then some riders set off before disappearing on track somewhere with no explanation as to what happened.

On a similar note I saw a great video from Ben Cathro earlier, gives a real trackside insight. Interesting couple of quotes from Peaty in the middle about the woods section actually.

Every year I make noises about heading up for the race. Next year ... !

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Loved the wooda, made the weekend the most fun ever.

That was me shouting paedo when Ben was explaining what the rut was doing.

We heckled so much due to how many folk came off in the day 2 section, they'd get back on and come off 50 yards down in the wooded part shown earlier in the video, you could tell by the crowd reactions from a distance.

One of the American boys struggled to pull gia helmet/visor out of the mud.
 
The wood section should stay, riders have been moaning some tracks are too easy and now it's too hard. Minnaar managed it, so did some others. It's obviously doable. Redbull really need to up their coverage on the racing though. Barely seen any of the racing.

I aslo don't think it was lucky, Rob reported that Minnaar was clearing it everytime on practice, if he can do it why can't everyone else?

It puts everyone at the same disadvantage. Just watching people race at the absolute fastest is great, but seeing them overcome difficult sections at those speeds is incredible. It's a challenge, and DH should be challenging not just a speed run.

Anyway, it's hard to judge from here because I know I wouldn't be able to complete the course wood section or not!
 
even minnaar had both feet off at the end of the section on his race run

it probibly would have been difficult before the rain (day before?) but the main reason I didnt like it was that it dead stopped almost everyones runs, and took all of the momentum out of a run
im all for difficult though!
 
Laura trott bike in Halfords is disgustingly good good value

Edit - This comment was in reference to the chap who was looking for a bike for his partner
 
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Been using tubeless sinsce 2009 with stans flow, then arch ex rims, one layer of yellow tape, loads of different tyres, always seated with a track pump, burped a tyre once at stainburn when I was stood still (lol?) and had to use the Weldite tyre repair plug twice but other than that it's been faultless...
 
On the flipside I do a fair bit of riding at Antur Stiniog(an old slate mine) and can put slices in proper DH tyres that tubeless systems can't plug. I can get away with tubeless on the front but otherwise it's a no go.
 
Leogang world cup round this weekend, the same conversation comes up everytime they race there. A lot of mixed reactions from the riders, I think the situation is exacerbated a little by riding one of the roughest tracks of the year only a week ago, one extreme to the other, add to that a little bit of **** taking going on, but either way this shouldnt be.

I've never ridden it so can only go by videos/photos of the track, but this track is not world cup level, looks more like your average red with a few big jumps thrown in... But it is what it is, and i'm still looking forward to watching... eh sorry no, being infuriated by Red Bull coverage:mad:
 
steve45 said:
Leogang world cup round this weekend, the same conversation comes up everytime they race there. A lot of mixed reactions from the riders, I think the situation is exacerbated a little by riding one of the roughest tracks of the year only a week ago, one extreme to the other, add to that a little bit of **** taking going on, but either way this shouldnt be.

I've never ridden it so can only go by videos/photos of the track, but this track is not world cup level, looks more like your average red with a few big jumps thrown in... But it is what it is, and i'm still looking forward to watching... eh sorry no, being infuriated by Red Bull coverage:mad:
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he rode this on a hardtail after having a laugh/joke about it in a pre-race interview saying it was tame etc. still seems strange going from a 5min hardcore track like Fort Bill to a 3 min "park" type course the next week!
 
booyaka said:
he rode this on a hardtail after having a laugh/joke about it in a pre-race interview saying it was tame etc. still seems strange going from a 5min hardcore track like Fort Bill to a 3 min "park" type course the next week!
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Yeah I know, I watched it the other day, it was the WynTV track walk. I would have linked to it but I think thats ban territory with the language on it!:D
 
Some very interesting views expressed!:) All i got to say is A'*******'men!!!! UCI needs to listen! but that will never happen.

If so many riders feel this way, i think they need to get together and form something like they had in F1 with the GPDA where the riders can come together and bring there voices together to be able to approach the UCI.
I definitely feel WC DH has been going in the wrong direction for some time it would be nice to see some positive change.
 
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The problem is people moan when it's too hard, saying Fort Bill was mostly luck etc. It's not, it's skill. Minnaar wasn't lucky, nor were the other rides who successfully managed the woods section.

I'll still enjoy watching, what I can actually see of it, but I'd rather watch riders being pushed through technical, rough, steep DH tracks. Doing the track on a 100mm DJ bike just proves it's not to DH standards.
 
yeah two broken vertebrae, that jump took out quite a few riders yesterday, Lachlan Blair snapped his femur on it too.
I'm sure i heard on the live feed during the females run that they had modified the jump. Combination of soft lip and side winds were the causes from what i've read.


Hahaha Phil is a top bloke!
 
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steve45 said:
yeah two broken vertebrae, that jump took out quite a few riders yesterday, Lachlan Blair snapped his femur on it too.
I'm sure i heard on the live feed during the females run that they had modified the jump. Combination of soft lip and side winds were the causes from what i've read.


Hahaha Phil is a top bloke!
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Supposedly Minnaar complained about the bottom jump before the crashes. But it toke the crashes before it got changed....

Good race though! Some decent coverage compared to Fort Bill.
 
boost/crankset question - my bike has a boost rear wheel and is running a double ring at the front. if i convert to a single ring at the front using my existing crankset will this work or do i need to buy a new single ring boost crankset?
all these standards are so confusing!
 
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