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Creek Side is a 'sub division' in the actual village of Whistler. It's about 4,5km from the actual village. So what he said is that he drove from Creekside to Function (another sub-division located at the entrance of the Whistler area) and that he made his way up the stage through the usual trails. Hardly a penalty IMHO, as it's impossible to shuttle those trails anyway. Teething problems with EWS, but it's all gonna be forgotten in a couple of weeks

As i understand he drove to the bottom of the stage. He had to ride/push the bike to the top of the stage! Interview with Fabien here: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Fabien-Barel-In-The-Penalty-Box-Five-Minut… They should really make the definition of shuttling clear. In my head getting a lift 1.5km on a highway to the bottom of the stage is not shuttling!

so he drove his car from his apartment to the start of the stage? is that what the "creek side" is?

If you park your car on a loop then ride the loop back to your car you end up riding the whole thing... Am I missing something? 5 min seemed harsh...

Whole situation is bs. He did it during a training ses, not race. Pathetic they made something out of it.

It was said below and I agree; if it was stated in the riders' meeting that shuttling, even during practice to the bottom of a stage, is prohibited, that rule supersedes the written rule. You simply cannot give riders an exception to rules defined in the riders' meeting just because they did not attend, even if the new rule(s) is not written down and published. The point of riders' meetings is to verbally relay last minute changes and updates. This is common knowledge, so just attend the meeting. As for the case of other riders doing the same during practice...

http://instagram.com/p/ZlZhIYGZQt/ But still...Peat, Lopes, Minnaar...what a bunch of pussys...talk shit like schoolgirls on web. Lost a lot of respect for them. Helmet rule (for uphill) is stupid anyway. i think Barel got penalised because of helmet and Val 'd Allos thing....

Maybe Peaty and Barel should settle this outside instead of engaging in this denunciation game.. If that's how this is going to go, screw racing, let's just go MTB'ing and have fun.

Lopes is turning into a proper whiney little b*tch. He needs to get his head down and learn to be fast at Enduro rather than playing schoolboy "he said she said" games on Twitter like a 12 year old girl.

Lopes is ultimate Cheaty, whinner. BAck in Trophee des Nations in France, Mass start, He cuts off Remy Absalon 4x style and forces him off course, Remy calmly gets back on course, goes about his business of catching Lopes and beats him. Lopes then complains to organizers saying he went off course and came back illegally. All riders then tell of Lopes's over aggressive moves. Lopes gets DQ'd and isn't invited back as he doesn't have 'spirit of enduro'. Did Lopes race or did he just stalk and Whine from Twitter?

Didn't Cedric recently say Enduro is "downhill before it got all serious"? Welp, so much for that......

Ha, Lopes is such a stirrer 'I heard that Barel said such and such'

7th -12th all finished in the same 1/2 second. Tight racing....

interesting to know that Sam went with shortened chain stays when the internet recently shit itself over the short chain stays on the Demo. Stoke to see him again on the podium!!