It's another double weekend of World Cup gravity racing with Downhill and Enduro (EDR) heading to Loudenvielle, France. This the second race of the 2025 DH series and third race for EDR.
Current DH entry lists (not actual start lists) show 98 Elite Men, 38 Elite Women, 55 Junior Men and 20 Junior Women. For comparison, there were 103, 32, 74 and 16 riders respectively at the opening round in Poland.
EDR Entry Lists (PDF)
DH Entry Lists (PDF)
Loudenvielle's race book (PDF)
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Games should open Wednesday afternoon after official qualifying start list is posted.
Full event schedule
EDR Track Map
Weather right now is looking grim for the slippery steeps of qualifying and race days (updated Weds afternoon local time)
Looking foward to a week of discussion and shredding! If you see something worthy of posting from the week via YouTube or Instagram, post it here!
Looks like you can signup for a Max account on YouTube and watch the races on YouTube. Sign up and billing is right through YouTube via a click or two. I did not see an ability to sign in with an existing Max account to watch on YouTube, however.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWOtYuZpkA0
Is this new?
That sounds appealing. I don't have cable, have no interest in getting cable, and prefer to access all my content via the internet so it's not locked to one device.
Not really everyone is trying to sell add on to other streaming services. Like how you can sign up though Prime. I would be worried it gets you access to everything didn't someone here figure out the prime version of Max had no races.
I currently have a Max account, and can access it through the app on my smart TV, app on my phone, and internet on my laptop. Only pointing this out as I don't have cable either and going through Max has given me the ability to watch racing on multiple devices. The * is I only think you can watch on so many devices at a time.
I added Max to a DirecTV package for a 2 month free trial that we share with my dad & daughters.
Just got to remember to remove it & sign up through YouTube for the next segnent of 3 person podium racing
Have to log into DirecTV's website (had to do it on a PC, my iPhone hated it) & scroll to their "Promotions" to find it.
Specialized rig getting set up. Thing is impressive
Comments on the build aren't what I expected:
Back to back mudders..
However, mud is better for racing in DH than it is supercross 💩
Here’s my reminder (possibly to myself) that I’m gonna stay off the internet and try to watch the Q2 recap on YouTube as if it’s live.
Thank you for your time.
Tahnee's fresh Orbea Rallon for this weekend. Personally, the orange fork / shock spring are not it with the frame color.
Commenting to follow along! Thanks for the round by round thread updates, Uncle Gordo.
God, I hope they make an Aluminum version of this very very soon!!
The prospect of another mud race is leaving me a bit flat. Mud races are cool, but only mud races gets a bit dull. Hopefully we get some dry races later in the season.
Going to rain but the amounts don’t look too bad. A couple mm’s on race day. Headed over for the La Thuille stop so let’s get the mudders out of the way.
lol... at 34 seconds ( https://youtu.be/vMAaT1rQuE4?t=34 ) he's greasing a bolt covered in loctite
I'd like to submit the sleeper collective Poland 2025 shreddit ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYfK5H-LcT8 ) along with Amaury's runs last year is support of my argument that you should change your mind on this one.
Dude that’s devastating. Holy shit.
Torque wrench, what's that?
I guess they're greasing the part of the bolt that sits against the frame, but the loctite is on the threads...
Best guess is that bolt causes creaks?
Very strange behaviour, doesn't look great 😅
Fox orange forks should only be on bikes that are black. The fork and frame combo looks horrible.
I wonder if the grease the threads because they tear bike down and check all the bolts so often it easier and better then the thread lock. It’s not like that works as well after it’s removed and in a muddy race that could get taken apart daily.
I suppose they could only have bolts with loctite on available.
But I’m not interested in looking further!
Don't get me wrong, mud races are cool. But it seems like we've had a quite a lot (maybe I'm remembering last season wrong) and dry races are cool as well.
I like seeing them go fast AF, and you can go faster in the dry, so faster = moar rad?
This is one of those 'we want a silent bike' Tricks...
I always grease the bolt head, I also use a white teflon grease thats really thick on the bearing faces whether or not it uses a big washer/shield or shielded bolt head - forms a layer around it so no water sneaks past the washer/bolt head
It was something i picked up many years ago When DH racing... you can Smash the bike with a pressure washer and it doesnt move that stuff.
quiet bike are the best, especially silent hubs, we are adults(mostly) so no need to have your hub screaming to show off to your 8 year old mates.
Yeah, mud races are a great watch, but when the whole of last season was wet and muddy (except for world champs), so it'd be nice to see some dry racing. Wonder how the athletes are feeling about it, coming off an entire race season of wet races, and two more straight away.
If Fox sold a signature tahnee decal kit and pink springs I’m sure lots of young rippers would be super into that.
i like loud hubs and i cannot lie...
Have put Onyz hubs in cart more times than I can count. But I've settled on DT 350's with low engagement.
the stream hackers are on it early. this is one of 3 or 4 channels on youtube claiming to broadcast the stream. dodgy URL with "required free account"
https://www.youtube.com/@LIVELoudenvielle-MountainBikeC
Eddie with the Pivot Bus tour
One One because i've won one race 🤣
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