thought the track was s**t, sorry but the old nps was much better and easier.
i had a good first run till i cough up with someone who wouldn't pull over so i had to go slow and crashed twice because of it, then it pi**ed it down for second run so i didn't have a chance, still over took 2 people (they pulled over) but was still 10 seconds slower as it was wet.
so, very disappointed with organisation, i should have had a re-run as i was talking to 20+ other riders who said the same and got a crap result because of it. This also happened to another person in my category but he managed to get past them on the fire road.
well there are my thoughts H.
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Have to admit track was OK but not as fun as the others on the hill. Rain made it a bit of a laugh though. Things seem to be getting messed up for the 2nd runs, How many ambulances ?
I dunno, when I rode the lower lines whoever I was following at the time would always pull out a couple of bike lengths on me. The high lines after the tight right hander after the fireroad were also worth doing IMHO. I've always sucked at off-camber stuff too, so I was really pleased just to be doing them, and it gave me a bit of a confidence boost I guess, which can be worth a lot as well!
yeh that tight right hander was a bitch! but worth taking the high lines after. Anyone heard news on the dude in youth who broke his leg?
Was that the guy who nailed himself on the step-down into the field during Saturday's practice, or the reason that the first race runs were red-flagged for half an hour or so? Or the guy who was on the switchbacks being tended to for ages before you came out along the fireroad on Saturday?
And assuming he's not all three of them, how are all of those people?
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yeh that tight right hander was a bitch! but worth taking the high lines after. Anyone heard news on the dude in youth who broke his leg?
Was that the guy who nailed himself on the step-down into the field during Saturday's practice, or the reason that the first race runs were red-flagged for half an hour or so? Or the guy who was on the switchbacks being tended to for ages before you came out along the fireroad on Saturday?
And assuming he's not all three of them, how are all of those people?
I think the guy at the switchbacks was Henry. He bought a Solid off us ages ago, so when he was looking for a lift to get to the race I picked him up. It was his first race back, after a big car crash that left him in a wheel chair with two broken legs towards the back end of last season.
couple of runs in, and clipped his foot one on of the turns, and now has added a trip in a helicopter to his list of experiences. He has a spiral fracture of his tibia. Hopefully no surgery needed, but he's a medical student, so its all good experience for him
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