I heard it was a trebuchet. It was throwing large rocks at the riders in the wide open areas.I'm starting a rumour that there will be a guillotine on the pro track.
I heard you get -1 second for every small vermin you kill in your race run.I heard the pro course has squirrels that attack you on the quicksand and boulder sections.
Agreed! Spent most of the weekend discovering that I have a rare power to make it rain just by climbing onto the chairlift, up until race time when it was dry and fast!
There were two courses - one for pros, one for everyone else.Why are the amateur times so fast compared to the pros? Did the course conditions change?
IMO, both tracks (Alpha & World Cup) are equally as challenging but the World Cup course is a faster course. Both are TONS of fun. I didn't attend Chile Challenge this year, but I have ridden both courses in years past. The courses merge at the Deck to step down. AF is always FUN!!Watching the helmet cam vid on Littermag. It looks like the pros pretty much got the course from last year.
Since the best stuff was on that course. What did Cat1-3 get to ride? And why has the PRO course suddenly become to "gnarly" for the AM's?
Or was the amateur course just as fun?
I missed AF this year(first time since 05). I'm hoping that future plans aren't to dumb down the course for the CAT's.
it seemed the consensus from most of the pros i heard jabbering was that the "pro" course was a lot less fun than the cat 1-3 track.Watching the helmet cam vid on Littermag. It looks like the pros pretty much got the course from last year.
Since the best stuff was on that course. What did Cat1-3 get to ride? And why has the PRO course suddenly become to "gnarly" for the AM's?
Here are a few my wife took through the weekend. (She was the one with the arm in a green cast above her head most of the weekend)anyone find pics yet?
I did that last year in practice, breaking my bashguard and saddle.You tried pedaling in the slight left didn't you? I can't tell you how many crashes I have seen over the past few years from people trying to get one last pedal stroke. There is a small rock or stump that catches peoples pedals every time they pedal there. You need to pump that section or take a serious risk of going over the gap sideways.
Uhh, you could have ridden the rest of the mountain from 8-5PM.But 21 1/2 hrs to kill after practice?Dosen't seem like they tried very hard for the racers,maybe I'm missing something.
yea, so glad I didn't pull a mike! (jk mike) glad I made it through un-injuried even tho I crashed off the road gap jump at full speed lol. made some changes to my bike and clipped my left pedal as I was making the slight left off the "lip" (btw wtf is up with that lip? non-existent and getting smaller every year) and got pitched over the bars into the air
but saved it and landed on the far left towards the trees got squirrly as spit and flipped off to the right down the hillside back first...
grabbed the hillside and caught myself and started stepping down the hill.. my god what a close call that was lol :biggrin:
sorry i was watching for men oster_oops: LOL oh ya and you can whip? can I have your autograph? oh one last thing, I wanted to ride off into the sunset SUPREME DH TRAIL OMFG IS EPIC after the race but we had to hry so we could drive 15 hours all night to get home blah... if only some people could have got tuesday off jeez..Whatever dude, fractured hand...no biggie. That tree had it out for me...next time I'm putting a mattress around that stupid tree!
And ya, that's why I never take a pedal stroke towards the lip. I got all my pedals in right after the drop and then coasted as soon as I hit the trees, then just get in some sweet pre-load action, throw a whip, look down for some chicks, then spot my landing and ride off into the sunset