2024 Racing Talk

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Pro Downhill Series Results from Big Bear - full results - https://artiming.wiclax-results.com/Pro%20Downhill%20Series%203/

What's the big takeaway? The kids (as in 15-16 class) are comin' for your jobs!

Top 10s

Pro Men - Dooley by just .5

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Pro Women - Van Leuven by just .08!

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Cat 1 17-18 Men

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Cat 1 17-18 Women

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Cat 1 15-16 Men - Cash Shaleen would have been THIRD in Pro Men!

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Cat 1 15-16 Women

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I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing that moon dust is it’s own separate skill.

Will they ever allow DH on the upper slopes again? How much more elevation did they used to use for Norba & World Cup?

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mfoga
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8/19/2024 6:28am
bizutch wrote:
I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing...

I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing that moon dust is it’s own separate skill.

Will they ever allow DH on the upper slopes again? How much more elevation did they used to use for Norba & World Cup?

What upper slopes?   This starts just below the top of chair 1, sure top of chair 2 is maybe a hundred feet higher.

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8/19/2024 7:01am Edited Date/Time 8/19/2024 7:01am
sspomer wrote:
Pro Downhill Series Results from Big Bear - full results - https://artiming.wiclax-results.com/Pro%20Downhill%20Series%203/What's the big takeaway? The kids (as in 15-16 class) are comin' for your...

Pro Downhill Series Results from Big Bear - full results - https://artiming.wiclax-results.com/Pro%20Downhill%20Series%203/

What's the big takeaway? The kids (as in 15-16 class) are comin' for your jobs!

Top 10s

Pro Men - Dooley by just .5

Screen Shot 2024-08-18 at 5.34.36 PM

Pro Women - Van Leuven by just .08!

Screen Shot 2024-08-18 at 5.34.48 PM

Cat 1 17-18 Men

Screen Shot 2024-08-18 at 5.35.12 PM

Cat 1 17-18 Women

Screen Shot 2024-08-18 at 5.35.28 PM.png?VersionId=fLG

Cat 1 15-16 Men - Cash Shaleen would have been THIRD in Pro Men!

Screen Shot 2024-08-18 at 5.35.43 PM.png?VersionId=kNACpqlJqQnoLH8bEcD4mT4TxhWrNAD

Cat 1 15-16 Women

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Kai Burleson would have been 7th in Pro as well. What are they feeding these kids?! 

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Today I learned Mike Metzger races DH bikes. that's sick af.

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bizutch wrote:
I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing...

I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing that moon dust is it’s own separate skill.

Will they ever allow DH on the upper slopes again? How much more elevation did they used to use for Norba & World Cup?

mfoga wrote:

What upper slopes?   This starts just below the top of chair 1, sure top of chair 2 is maybe a hundred feet higher.

It's been so long I can't remember. At some point, didn't Forest Service shut the bike park down?  Cut out a big chunk of technical terrain forcing the bike park to close down?  
I thought the way the way they were able to re-open was in a different spot further down the mountain?  What exactly did happen?

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8/19/2024 10:09am
bizutch wrote:
I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing...

I remember so many guys from the southeast would go race Big Bear and just get smoked by the hyper fit silt surfers out west. Racing that moon dust is it’s own separate skill.

Will they ever allow DH on the upper slopes again? How much more elevation did they used to use for Norba & World Cup?

mfoga wrote:

What upper slopes?   This starts just below the top of chair 1, sure top of chair 2 is maybe a hundred feet higher.

bizutch wrote:
It's been so long I can't remember. At some point, didn't Forest Service shut the bike park down?  Cut out a big chunk of technical terrain...

It's been so long I can't remember. At some point, didn't Forest Service shut the bike park down?  Cut out a big chunk of technical terrain forcing the bike park to close down?  
I thought the way the way they were able to re-open was in a different spot further down the mountain?  What exactly did happen?

Yeah all the trails inside the resort were shutdown but have been open for years now. 

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8/19/2024 11:14am
mfoga wrote:

What upper slopes?   This starts just below the top of chair 1, sure top of chair 2 is maybe a hundred feet higher.

bizutch wrote:
It's been so long I can't remember. At some point, didn't Forest Service shut the bike park down?  Cut out a big chunk of technical terrain...

It's been so long I can't remember. At some point, didn't Forest Service shut the bike park down?  Cut out a big chunk of technical terrain forcing the bike park to close down?  
I thought the way the way they were able to re-open was in a different spot further down the mountain?  What exactly did happen?

mfoga wrote:

Yeah all the trails inside the resort were shutdown but have been open for years now. 

My bad. Thought when the park re-opened it was only like 300-400 ft elevation.

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dwhere wrote:

Today I learned Mike Metzger races DH bikes. that's sick af.

the other mike metzger races dh bikes.

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8/20/2024 5:23am
dwhere wrote:

Today I learned Mike Metzger races DH bikes. that's sick af.

the other mike metzger races dh bikes.

The original raced back when. 

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8/20/2024 8:27am Edited Date/Time 8/20/2024 8:27am

the other mike metzger races dh bikes.

bizutch wrote:

The original raced back when. 

dwhere wrote:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-wGf1-vOE5/?igsh=MTNnN3oxeGVzamh3cA==

Idk who the other one is. But the godfather of FMX raced this weekend. 

There are 4 Metzger, Mike's with USA Cycling licenses. 

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dwhere wrote:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C-wGf1-vOE5/?igsh=MTNnN3oxeGVzamh3cA==

Idk who the other one is. But the godfather of FMX raced this weekend. 

He is also a riding instructor at Snow Summit and you're bound to run into him on the mountain just about every weekend of the summer. Have a friend I ride with who is close friends with his son Myrie, who's also no slouch on a mountain bike.

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8/20/2024 11:19am

Any info on how we can watch Worlds? I’m assuming it’s not going to be on Max (in the US) and we are going to have to use a VPN like in the past?

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8/20/2024 11:35am

Worlds in the USA is on FloSports.  

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mickey wrote:

Worlds in the USA is on FloSports.  

Got really close to downvoting you for providing the correct information, just because I don't want to accept it. 

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8/20/2024 12:28pm

definitely gonna try and pirate worlds

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Any idea when Worlds Teams are released? It’s next weekend and literally can’t find anything…

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SJC wrote:

Any idea when Worlds Teams are released? It’s next weekend and literally can’t find anything…

according to this, it should have been announced last thursday...

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8/20/2024 3:11pm
SJC wrote:

Any idea when Worlds Teams are released? It’s next weekend and literally can’t find anything…

veefour wrote:

Ah yes: "...on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”

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8/21/2024 2:30am
SJC wrote:

Any idea when Worlds Teams are released? It’s next weekend and literally can’t find anything…

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sspomer wrote:

HECK YES. Thanks!

Does anybody know the rules and requirements to participate to worlds. It's pretty wild that a small country like Belgium has 3 riders but I don't see anybody from  Mexico, Ecuador, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel (and only one rider from China)..etc. These countries have riders, are they not qualified? motivated? funded?
It's also cool that the US has plenty of riders.. the only drama I see is Aaron Gwin not being selected after a 3rd at nationals.

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8/21/2024 5:04am

Gwin has done what 2 races in 2 years?  I would bet he would say he shouldn’t have been picked.

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What part of #6 doesn't he meet?

The irony of the company he raced his 1st Worlds for making a "not for sale" DH bike for 1 guy who then earns the Worlds team slot AG would most certainly occupy based on beating 4 of the 6 slotted racers in back to back events "just easing back into it, not sure how much I wanna push the pace just yet".  

Sports get stupid sometimes. AG1...the Caitlin Clark of DH 2024 🙃

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8/21/2024 8:54am
bizutch wrote:
What part of #6 doesn't he meet?The irony of the company he raced his 1st Worlds for making a "not for sale" DH bike for 1...

What part of #6 doesn't he meet?

The irony of the company he raced his 1st Worlds for making a "not for sale" DH bike for 1 guy who then earns the Worlds team slot AG would most certainly occupy based on beating 4 of the 6 slotted racers in back to back events "just easing back into it, not sure how much I wanna push the pace just yet".  

Sports get stupid sometimes. AG1...the Caitlin Clark of DH 2024 🙃

Had AG raced at all this year before the selections were made?

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