Hollywood Gainey

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JankyEric Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

2/5/2026 9:57am

Chiming in to say that I've been a huge fan of Race Cascadia since I did my first enduro at capitol forest in 2015. I was a high schooler and riding a $500 hard tail. My brake pads wore out, my chain broke, it was ridiculously muddy and I got last place. I was hooked. I also got to race 2022 EWS rounds in Scotland, Austria/Slovenia, Italy and Whistler. I also did the Tasmania rounds of the first season of "EDR" and saw some of the changes that the Warner Brothers merger/takeover created. I also backpacked between most of these...

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Le_fabulero Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/30/2026 10:52am

Did enduro die? I think the reality is it just got hyped up way more than anyone epxected when over a couple of years lots of injured / tired / semi competiitve / older DH riders jumped on board. That naturally dragged lots of sponsors into the sport, more manufacturers saw the sport was buzzing etc etc. Granted yes the Moir, Hill, Rude, Barel days were sick and blew the sport up but those guys would eventually leave as the sport was their exit strategy. Young kids love DH, i always did even when i did not have a DH...

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Hollywood Gainey Added a reply to Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/25/2026 9:20am

I’m glad Joe chimed in. I see where you’re coming from, and I want to see the youths options grow as well. The cost of an entry fee is not the true expense of racing. It’s the travel, food, lodging, etc. It is nice to see lowered prices for the shorter coursed beginner classes. That makes sense to me. I...

Bad News Bear Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/24/2026 7:42pm

I'm one of the youth coaches out there with the wscl and many of our kids also race in the CDC as and Northwest cup. My comments to your question Cam, mix up the format a little. When you did that super long run at Tiger a while back that was awesome. Some people hated it, and some people loved it, but everybody was talking about it! Do more of that but maybe let's throw a race in there with more shorter stages too. Just look for opportunities where you could add some diversity in the course. I also agree...

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bclements Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/24/2026 12:36pm

I guess my point is that WSCL doesn’t need to be a purely XC oriented league. It’s not even in their mission statement “Mission | Promote youth development, diversity, and stewardship through cycling to positively impact the future.” XC just happens to be the easiest form of racing to organize for 750 kids. This leads me to my next point is that the youth involvement in WSCL dwarfs that of the CDC. And I don’t think that’s due to the majority of kids preferring XC over Enduro. I think it’s due to the fact that David has built an awesome...

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Hollywood Gainey Added a reply to Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/24/2026 8:31am

In regards to the WSCL comments I think the first step is not seeing overlap of race weekends. It seems to me Cam and David are aware of this and working together ot some extent to keep overlap of events happening. Some teams such as Tahoma and Mount Si already have riders within their teams that race the CDC. They...

owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/24/2026 8:21am

Seriously though: clean up your race tape.

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Race Cascadia Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 10:50pm

And maybe staying exactly where we are is what needs to happen, I think what I find intriguing is if there is not a functional World Cup aspect of Enduro for Grass Roots to model off of, then do we need to stay this course? At least at the CDC we've had a stead drum beat of "Bigger, harder, faster, longer" in regards to stages and courses, and I wonder how much of that was driven by Pro's with EWS/EDR aspirations, and regular Joe's who are trying to give them selves an experience as close to the World Cup as...

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meridebikespretty Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:52pm

I kind of agree. I looked at Sport times on trails that were also ridden by experts and found that a large portion of the fast times in Sport were very competitive with Expert, and that there were pretty distinct groups within Sport, slower and faster, rather than a bell shaped curve you might expect is Sport consisted of a continuous leveling. I bumped myself up a notch because like others have said, the endurance part of the challenge is what I’m in for. I’m mid- to upper-pack in Sport, but the time on trail is less than what I...

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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:51pm

Hey Cam, when you ask "where should it go?" I wonder if it needs to go anywhere? It seems like the format you're hosting is popular and working great. Yeah, I get that Saturday race days are tricky for a lot of people, but if the Cascadia Dirt Cup is selling out on most race weekends... it seems like you've found an audience who that format is working for. When I was racing, I always loved Saturday race days at the CDC because it meant I wasn't getting home at midnight on a Sunday night if I had work on...

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Hollywood Gainey Added a reply to Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:39pm

I think your vibe is spot on except for E-bikes, Enduro and DH. The reality is Chris Ball had to sell after the multiple doping issues, if he didn’t bring UCI he couldn’t afford to have clean racing. I also believe Enduro never sold enduro bikes. DH racing has always sold Enduro bikes, well before e-bikes happened. There is a...

RiderMikeCheck1 Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:30pm

This is a great idea (to connect with WSCL), but combining with XC race weekends will likely not work out: 1. Requires many/most parents to get a hotel ($) 2. Most coaches/parents won't want their kids blowing up their legs by climbing in an Enduro race the day before. Since the XC results matter for the WSCL. 3. Will be the haves and have-nots. The kids whos parents bring their enduro bike as well vs. kids on hardtails. Not every family can haul 8 bikes to a race (parents often bring their bikes + 2 kids in the WSCL). Love...

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doktor_jawn Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:27pm

Practice day on Saturday. Race on Sunday. Having the races on Saturday means you have to take off work at least all of Friday unless you know the course. So if you want to make it more accessible, or encourage people to travel to new places, not having to take days off work is a great place to start.

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Hollywood Gainey Added a reply to Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 1:26pm

Great in theory, but it does take a huge, and I mean huge time and money commitment from organizers. A ton of time hunting a location, public or private that can manage having multiple trails built. The time finding and working with land management is probably beyond what many realize. Then building these multiple new trails. Have you looked into...

Hollywood Gainey Added a reply to Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?

1/23/2026 8:44am

I think it’s time for this conversation, even though I don’t like it. Expert courses need to be shortened at grass root level. We need to bump riders up same as in BMX and DH based on wins or top finishes. There are too many “sport” riders choosing the category based on “expert is too much climbing for me.” Create...

StudBeefpile Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Bielsko-Biala, Poland

5/16/2025 8:26pm

My racing hot take for the hour: I dont like doubling up Enduro and DH on the same weekend. Too much content to watch. If they want to use the same venu do them on back to back weekends. Then we get more racing spread out throughout the year and multi discipline athletes can race both. In other news, cold seems like a weird reason for a belt to break. Especially since its not that cold out and most other applications those things are used for are operating in much worse temp ranges.

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Malky79 Liked a reply to forum topic Is the UCI TV Coverage Hate Unwarrented

5/23/2024 5:54am

Reasons why Red Bull was better: 1) It was free and easy to view. 2) Because it was free more people watched it. 3) We saw more racing. Whilst the addition of Junior Finals coverage is a positive, the reduction to a 10 woman/30 man finals means we are now paying less race runs than ever before. 4) Red Bull's graphics were better. The virtual straight graphic was useful. The wiggly line graphic is pointless. 5) Some of the WBD camera position/type choices are terrible. The overhead drone shots at Ft William were like watching Google Maps. 6) Current coverage...

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