Colorado High School XC Champ Pics (WARNING: LONG LOADING TIME) !

[Babar]

So this was like in november... so its little late. But I took some picture with my crappy canon digi cam.

Anyways it was nice day alot of school came and raced.
Unfortunately i couldnt race because im not in HS anymore but in college so i have to race collegiate.

The winner of the race was this kid named Brady (Tokyo Joe's) and he rides for Prime Alliance Development team or something...

The race was at Cheyene Mountain High school (we local call em rich ville) in wonderful colorado springs. Mix of asphalt and single track behind the school.

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[Echo]

Damn that's a lot of pics! Cool!

[Babar]

Sorry about the crappy pics plus i couldve shrunk the file size but i got lazy.

[hitek]

LOL at the person walking the singlespeed

[Gyro]

Wow! that's awesome!

some of those bikes are amazing. I'm in high school, and i can't imagine owning a bike like some of those. I would sell it and buy two. :cool:

[T0mo]

Originally posted by hitek
LOL at the person walking the singlespeed

that kids cool. I think he hadn't been riding ss for too long before that race. I think his team(all on ss's) did pretty well out at 24 hours of moab though.

also, 4 pics of torin(the one on the red/wite specialized ht w/ the sid).

[mtnbikerdude87]

Great Pics!!! :thumb:

I wish my school would have mountain biking as a sport or have something to do with mtn biking..... :rolleyes:

[Babar]

Originally posted by T0mo
that kids cool. I think he hadn't been riding ss for too long before that race. I think his team(all on ss's) did pretty well out at 24 hours of moab though.

also, 4 pics of torin(the one on the red/wite specialized ht w/ the sid).

He rode better than most on his SS. I assume he placed in top 10 from watching the race.

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Cool pics, unfortunately this is exactly what is wrong with XC racing EVERYWHERE

Here is the most technical section of the course (from what I can see) and everyone is going around it.

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How sad what is that 4 steps? I actually do not blame the riders, as it is their job to go to point a-b as fast as possible, but who let that line open up to begin with? It would have taken the person setting up the course 3 minutes to build a rock cairn at the top forcing everyone down the steps. Looks like there are even enough rocks at the bottom

[RideND]

Rob you beat me to it... I was gonna say with enough speed they could have gapped that and saved 2 seconds. Yeah I wish my school had a mtn bike team too.

[Babar]

Wrong ?

You shouldve been there... if they gapped the stairs it will shoot them straight to the ditch. Simply there wasnt enough space and it was all covered in gravel so making the sharp uphill corner was sketchy. It was much faster to go around, and look its done on school property so they cannot make changes.

[Tame Ape]

Man, I think I would have just ridden a CX bike on something that smooth! I wish my first XC (and only) race could have been on a course that tech-free, maybe I'd have gone again.

[MTB_Rob_NC]

Originally posted by Babar
Wrong ?

You shouldve been there... if they gapped the stairs it will shoot them straight to the ditch. Simply there wasnt enough space and it was all covered in gravel so making the sharp uphill corner was sketchy. It was much faster to go around, and look its done on school property so they cannot make changes.

Well I cannot argue about gapping the stairs since you can't really see the landing. However the person setting up the race course could of easily stuck a cone/tape and or some rocks cutting off the left hand line and forced everyone DOWN the steps. So you would have had to go down some steps into some loose gravel.... Awwww:devil: Those that couldn't handle it could always get off and run..

I am some what joking. I too am jealous that there was never any organized cycling of any kind while I was in HS and it is awsome that you can have any kind of race at your school.

Either way cool pics.

[Babar]

CX bike wasnt allowed even thou it wouldve been nice race on a CX bike.

[rye]

Nice Photos!!

I was a roadie back in my high school days and did a lot of riding in Co (red zinger, iron horse etc...) I love riding there off or on the road, awesome places to ride and cool people to ride with.

It's also nice to see that cycling is starting to take hold as a school sport. Getting guys (and gals) in the sport this early will only help improve the sport when they are my age and racing.

[slowSSer]

Originally posted by hitek
LOL at the person walking the singlespeed


well, how'd he do? props for being a SSer with gearies. my team did that at hurkey creek for the 24 hour race. did damn good against the gearies until we had issues with lights.

[The Captain]

well...at least one day those guys will grow up and realize that not wearing lycra and big bikes are a lot more fun than riding around in a circle on a smooth track. :devil:

[Babar]

Actully few them race DH also and alot of them (mostly local kids) ride trials which i found surprising.