Total Heckler
04-15-2008, 04:12 PM
I found some pictures of the new top section... people will be getting hurt. It looks like they did a total rebuild of the top section.
30ft double:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/2414043252_e02cdd8bbc.jpg
Another view of the top section:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2413221221_ed14d84529.jpg
Here is a description from SFDirtlab:
Course Description
Top
The start is exactly the same as years past, rolling out of the gate to a bumpy, grassy, sweeping left. It straightens out for a second and then there's the loose right hand sweeper that inevitably takes out so many racers that shot out of the gate with a little too much gusto. After the sweeper, there the same small double from last year, followed by a new double about the same size. You have to suck em up and speed jump them, pumping with all you got to clear the booter you're about to launch. After the two sets of dubs there's a big take off on the left and a little roller on the right. The fast line will be hitting the big takeoff, clearing about a 10 foot gap and then trying to clear the table to landing about 30 feet from the lip...only the best of riders will clear the whole thing. Beginners may opt for the roller on the right and will be met with a bucky little step up right after it, that takes em to the top of the same table. Roll off the backside and pedal up the lip of the next jump, about a 20 foot step down. Both of these jumps are way bigger than the jumps last year and should really seperate the classes. Also, with the new line, you carry alot more momentum into the next couple of features. This year, I think you'll see alot more guys popping off the top of the little step up and gapping over the table into the big left hand berm. Outta the berm, the next table got a better lip and a shortened table with a longer landing. This leads you into the right turn where the log over used to be. The log got burried and now theres a double into a berm there to set you for the mini rock garden section. It should be easy to pop off the first rock and clear the whole thing this year.
Middle
After the rock garden, there's a pedally straightaway section with a reworked table top. This jump use to be petty bucky and too short, now its a little better, longer and not as tall. Pedal out of the that section to a the little uphill single track into the S-berms. This entire section remains unchanged with the S-berms leading you to the log drop and the fast bumpy staight away that merges with the fire road. Nothing has changed from last year until the bottom section. Little fire road climb, to steep rutted section, into left hand berm (still rough at this point), to mini triple jump, to right hand turn and hip jump onto the pavement. blaze off the pavement and into the grassy singletrack sidehill section, rippin down to the bumpy double track.
Bottom
Keep your speed up down double track so you can clear the much cleaned up hip jump and let'r rip into the fun new section below. This little section is all new and super fun; Land the hip, rip through a sick liitle right hand berm, pop over the doubles and slide into the left hand berm. You're just about done at this point, pedal up and around a grassy corner, across the bridge, into the mini left berm, into the mini gully, over rollers and sprint to the finish.
30ft double:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2135/2414043252_e02cdd8bbc.jpg
Another view of the top section:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2413221221_ed14d84529.jpg
Here is a description from SFDirtlab:
Course Description
Top
The start is exactly the same as years past, rolling out of the gate to a bumpy, grassy, sweeping left. It straightens out for a second and then there's the loose right hand sweeper that inevitably takes out so many racers that shot out of the gate with a little too much gusto. After the sweeper, there the same small double from last year, followed by a new double about the same size. You have to suck em up and speed jump them, pumping with all you got to clear the booter you're about to launch. After the two sets of dubs there's a big take off on the left and a little roller on the right. The fast line will be hitting the big takeoff, clearing about a 10 foot gap and then trying to clear the table to landing about 30 feet from the lip...only the best of riders will clear the whole thing. Beginners may opt for the roller on the right and will be met with a bucky little step up right after it, that takes em to the top of the same table. Roll off the backside and pedal up the lip of the next jump, about a 20 foot step down. Both of these jumps are way bigger than the jumps last year and should really seperate the classes. Also, with the new line, you carry alot more momentum into the next couple of features. This year, I think you'll see alot more guys popping off the top of the little step up and gapping over the table into the big left hand berm. Outta the berm, the next table got a better lip and a shortened table with a longer landing. This leads you into the right turn where the log over used to be. The log got burried and now theres a double into a berm there to set you for the mini rock garden section. It should be easy to pop off the first rock and clear the whole thing this year.
Middle
After the rock garden, there's a pedally straightaway section with a reworked table top. This jump use to be petty bucky and too short, now its a little better, longer and not as tall. Pedal out of the that section to a the little uphill single track into the S-berms. This entire section remains unchanged with the S-berms leading you to the log drop and the fast bumpy staight away that merges with the fire road. Nothing has changed from last year until the bottom section. Little fire road climb, to steep rutted section, into left hand berm (still rough at this point), to mini triple jump, to right hand turn and hip jump onto the pavement. blaze off the pavement and into the grassy singletrack sidehill section, rippin down to the bumpy double track.
Bottom
Keep your speed up down double track so you can clear the much cleaned up hip jump and let'r rip into the fun new section below. This little section is all new and super fun; Land the hip, rip through a sick liitle right hand berm, pop over the doubles and slide into the left hand berm. You're just about done at this point, pedal up and around a grassy corner, across the bridge, into the mini left berm, into the mini gully, over rollers and sprint to the finish.