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Sunday, May 31, 2009
Monday, May 25, 2009
US Open
This past weekend was the 2009 US Open of Mountain Biking at Diablo Freeride Park in New Jersey. Diablo is one of the coolest places to ride a bike at, they have the fastest lift I've ever been on and more trails that I could handle. Its so fast that you are still breathing hard from the last run when you get back to the top! You can easily do 20-30 runs a day no problem. Luckily its also in a good part of Jersey; nice countryside and they even had 30 racks of PBR for 16 bucks!
This year the race was bigger than ever too. They added a really cool new race format that replaced last year's dual slalom. It was a 2 run format race on a slalom-type trail, but it was more of a mini DH flow trail that was perfectly smooth with tons of massive berms and a few jumps. Brendan Fairclough took the win in front of a huge raging drunk crowd. Morewood's Geritt Beytagh held it down for 4th place in front of many heavy hitters. I hope to see more races like this, they ran qualifers to get the pros down to the top 20 before doing the 2 race runs. It made for some quick, exciting racing!
I screwed up pretty badly in my DH qualifying run by just simply not riding hard enough. I missed the cut by less than 1/2 a second in 63rd spot. I was just trying to save my energy as much as possible and wasn't concerned with trying to lay down a blazing fast qualifying time. Next year I'll definitely not do that again! But it was actually nice to be able to rip up the mountain after that without worrying about killing my energy for the race.
The Diablo trail crew has been working really hard putting in some awesome new progressive features on the mountain. I think my favorite was a short trail that split off of upper Dominion that was a massive drop step down into what I could only describe as a boner jump. It was this massive pipe sticking out of the ground at about a 45* angle with planks on it that you just launched off of at full speed. So much fun! I can't wait to get back up there as soon as possible and see what else they have in store for us.
Next up is Wisp in two weeks, then Snowshoe and the first Beech race.
This year the race was bigger than ever too. They added a really cool new race format that replaced last year's dual slalom. It was a 2 run format race on a slalom-type trail, but it was more of a mini DH flow trail that was perfectly smooth with tons of massive berms and a few jumps. Brendan Fairclough took the win in front of a huge raging drunk crowd. Morewood's Geritt Beytagh held it down for 4th place in front of many heavy hitters. I hope to see more races like this, they ran qualifers to get the pros down to the top 20 before doing the 2 race runs. It made for some quick, exciting racing!
I screwed up pretty badly in my DH qualifying run by just simply not riding hard enough. I missed the cut by less than 1/2 a second in 63rd spot. I was just trying to save my energy as much as possible and wasn't concerned with trying to lay down a blazing fast qualifying time. Next year I'll definitely not do that again! But it was actually nice to be able to rip up the mountain after that without worrying about killing my energy for the race.
The Diablo trail crew has been working really hard putting in some awesome new progressive features on the mountain. I think my favorite was a short trail that split off of upper Dominion that was a massive drop step down into what I could only describe as a boner jump. It was this massive pipe sticking out of the ground at about a 45* angle with planks on it that you just launched off of at full speed. So much fun! I can't wait to get back up there as soon as possible and see what else they have in store for us.
Next up is Wisp in two weeks, then Snowshoe and the first Beech race.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Massanutten and more
The season is officially under way with the Massanutten Yee-Haw DH race all wrapped up for 2009. The weather, for the most part, was decent as it didn't rain during practice or the race. It poured rain pretty hard Friday night for about an hour before it stopped, but it didn't really affect the track too much. There were over 200 racers this year and it was awesome to see so many people getting stoked on racing. I think I saw about 75 Sam Hills and about the same amount of Demos out there.
Been riding a ton lately and am getting some good form together for the US Open in less than 2 weeks. I hear there are going to be some turbo pinners there again this year, so I better be on top of my game all weekend or else I might not even qualify!
The trails are getting super green and lush and it hasn't rained in like 2 days, yay!
Been riding a ton lately and am getting some good form together for the US Open in less than 2 weeks. I hear there are going to be some turbo pinners there again this year, so I better be on top of my game all weekend or else I might not even qualify!
The trails are getting super green and lush and it hasn't rained in like 2 days, yay!
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Dirty Bird
The official word is finally out of the bag now about the race that is going down this fall. We've been working hard to get the track finished up before we made the final announcement so that we could provide footage of the track. Its gonna be a lot rougher by fall as we continue to break it in before the race. We've been throwing around the idea of having an open test day on the track with donations being made to help fuel the Pro purse. Its just an idea now, but I hope we can do it to get more people stoked on the race before it actually goes down. Its not the longest track, but I think its gonna be hard to memorize all of the tricky turns in just a day and a half.
Anyways, check the vid.
http://www.vimeo.com/4415654
Anyways, check the vid.
http://www.vimeo.com/4415654
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