oh man, Rob needs to write a book on his travels in the world cup scene. Insanely good story teller, so damn funny.

ME?? I told YOU last night what I was gonna wear.......... What THE hell dude?

Yeh not a lot of 'steep' in our Adelaide hills, although there much gnarlier runs around than that trail. That trail is a shipload of fun though and actually one of the longer ones around the place! Around 4 minutes for a fairly middle of the road rider like myself.. can't wait to see Troy hit the world cups... such a crushing blow to be sidelined just as he was hitting his mark..

I totally stand corrected dude and will freely admit I was off the mark. And I'll remind myself to actually do some research next time. I figured any brand association would have been through broadcast rights etc... So I get what you're on about now... I did read an interesting article on the dailymail.co.uk site in regards to them going to extremes. It disappointing to find they're doing that. I'd prefer that they'd kept the Olympics an amateur contest and leave all the pros and any corporate dollars out of it.

I'm pretty sure no brands sponsor the Olympics. Given the Olympics amateur sporting contest roots they've always disallowed branding on uniforms etc. They're not being choosy, they just don't allow it across the board. It'll be a nice change instead of having logos galore shoved down our throats. And since when did a brand have anything to do with the world wide fellowship through sport? So the Olypmics in your view, need to embrace corporate sponsorship to be about "the world wide fellowship through sport"? If anything it's the opposite. While Redbull and their corporate counterparts make elite level competition and exposure of sports possible, they aren't at the grass roots of it.

Those bar widths look familiar.. old is new again.

can't hack seeing kids get hurt...... I guess once you have you're own you get a bit precious! Other part however were PURE GOLD!

Lamb of god + Kovarik = The apocalypse!

The atmosphere in that com box is incredible... those guys account for 4/5ths of the intensity at least! Passion behind the mic can make an event, Crankworx was proof that if the guy behind the mic ain't on it, then it can be almost quite boring regardless of how hard the riders are shredding.. these guys are invaluable additions to the broadcasts of downhill. Bring on DH1!

If Freecaster does indeed fail to operate next year, at least we'll have Sven and Gary! Cheers boys for the great photography and detailed account of every round!

You're joking right? Worth every Euro, or AUS dollar as the case is.

I haven't hooted and hollered like that since Hill in VdS.... Awesome. Freecaster simply must be allowed to continue next year. If we all have to chip in then it'll be money well invested in the future of the sport.

First podium of many Troy, First of many... YeeeeeW!