Junior World's Team Qualifier-Rollcall and Course Pics-Plattekill Mountain
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...there is alot of sandy type grit in the mud and it doesn't cake up......traction will still be really good.....freezing and being soaking wet on the lift is another story though.....
Yeti Fox Shox riders Joey Schusler and Kevin Aiello will be out there.
Platty in the rain = RULES!
except for the fresh cut roots and in thunder/lightning downpours that tend to last for hours...
psh. sissy. In case you don't recall the last time it rained at platty I was seen jumping in puddles.
Platty in the rain is just as good as in no rain.
will collins
This is shaping up to be a real race. I know will is fast but there seems to be a LOT of racers showing up for this one.
i absolutely LOVE your sig!!! That was from Goya, right?
I do recall that day - I was "Mr. Bad Attitude" that race, needed to HTFU!
Seems like Will has a fan club...hopefully he can do it...lot's of fast guys coming for this race...should be fun to watch! oh and to race! course looks sick!
not so much a fan club as a big group of friends and supporters. Not only is he stupid fast, he's also a really cool guy to hang out with.
just make sure he was born a man!!
Looks like Wills out now.just make sure he was born a man!!
well i think i might be giving them a run for there money, i cant wait to race all of them sounds like fun!just make sure he was born a man!!
I know...it was joke...He rode for my team last year and I helped him get his factory ride with Morewood. Will's my boy...and you're right...he's stupid
oster_oops: I mean stupid fast...rode with him on Sunday. Will the Thrill FTW
Platty in the snow is how real men do it. Nothing is as exciting as when your at Platty and your brake seal fails because of the cold... whoo wah.
You are in for a rude lesson in just how steep and tight a course can be coming from down south. At on point you have about 5in of room coming out of a corner to place your front wheel in between a rock just waiting to rip off you derailleur and a tree and of course it is off camber. Some of the shoots on the second half are very hard to walk down they are so steep.well i think i might be giving them a run for there money, i cant wait to race all of them sounds like fun!
Here's a few more pics of the fast stuff. Course will be taped this weekend, then I'll be able to get some riding pics.
bfrich, get richie there !! another spoiler possibility,
pds rx, one of the reasons Plattekill was chosen is because of the similarities to Val De Sole.
NJMX835, sport course will be fun run to just below broken tooth, fast, flow and fun abound.
Cant Climb, correct !! Traction in the rain is crazy good. I do much better in the rain there.
racer661, who are you? You'll have a ball
willc, is too embarrased to post in this thread, even tho he really wants to
bfrich, get richie there !! another spoiler possibility,
pds rx, one of the reasons Plattekill was chosen is because of the similarities to Val De Sole.
NJMX835, sport course will be fun run to just below broken tooth, fast, flow and fun abound.
Cant Climb, correct !! Traction in the rain is crazy good. I do much better in the rain there.
racer661, who are you? You'll have a ball
willc, is too embarrased to post in this thread, even tho he really wants to
I <3 Shale Surfing!!!!
Don't we all?
these kids have no idea what they're in for. Even the toughest stuff I've ridden out here is nothing compared to Platty.wait till the platty virgins do that for the first time
I beg the differ
Best shale surfing section I've had at platty was the 2nd to last race, sport course, in 2006, the shale switchback section that you could lock up your brakes through and keep going.
except those who have ridden at WR
MMM even more competition.
sounds like a blast! I think i might be able to hold my own. comming from the south doesnt mean anything just means i gotta work a lil harder
. its not my first rodieo how is it comparred to lower hair ball at snowshoe?
Doesn't get much rougher than that!
Here's a few more pics of the fast stuff. Course will be taped this weekend, then I'll be able to get some riding pics.
bfrich, get richie there !! another spoiler possibility,
pds rx, one of the reasons Plattekill was chosen is because of the similarities to Val De Sole.
NJMX835, sport course will be fun run to just below broken tooth, fast, flow and fun abound.
Cant Climb, correct !! Traction in the rain is crazy good. I do much better in the rain there.
racer661, who are you? You'll have a ball
my names ethan quehl u prob havent heard of me i come from corss counrty i race the jr x class and im just converting to dh i won the snowshoe series in the am u17 against niko. so hopfully ill be able to bring my game up to ny. sounds like a bad ass course i cant wait to ride it!
haha ya lower hair ball is crazy rocky i loved it. mootomike do i know you it sounds familuar?
Crazy rocky sounds more like Diablo. Plattekill is just Plattekill
planted or loose?
i've ridden plattekill alot, and i've ridden on the west coast alot, and i think they are both totally different types of terrain, but i don't feel that plattekill is as gnarly as everyone hypes it up to be......its not THAT hard.....
ANY trail is HARD when you are racing it and trying to squeeze time out.
As for Plattekilll specifically.....i think it is uniqueness that has historically gotten peoples attention. But in the sport now-a-days it seems harder and harder to find uniqueness, so that feeling isn't what it used to be.
But the loose shale and the amount of shale that creeps into the trails and increases in amount as a race trail beds in is pretty unique. Throw in the red soil into equation too......the North Face side is more typical of general NorthEast terrain. But the triple side (old side) has more of the Reddish soil and the steep parts are at a perfect pitch IMO. The accessible terrain up there is huge....there are incrediblebly steep walls that have never been ridden. The are huge rock spines that don't even have trails yet.
Historically if you count across the face of that mountain i would guess there have been 40-45 trials. Not trail 'sections', i mean top-to-bottom trail. Alot of the trails have over grown in recent years though.....running mostly the 'North Face' side lift has caused alot of people to become unfamiliar with the older trails, hence less ridden and some overgrowth.....
That looks awesome.
both. it's worth the trip to snowshoe just to ride it.
pardon?Tomac_racer said:
VA isnt considered 'down south', but we've got XC trails that will pucker your ass up, not to mention the rough stuff.
and there are some ri-goshdarn-diculous trails in western NC, so ya might want to do a little research next time you rant off.
we know you adore your beloved Platty, but let's be adults here; there are steep trails everywhere. get over it.
Fun run??!!
BOMB-F*CKIN-TASTIC!
I just hope Evan doesn't land on me as I'm passing below Broken Tooth, he's known to land 30' to 40' below it sometimes when throwing a serious backflip.