Hi everyone.
I was just wondering why they have the Nissan UCI in Camberra when everone says that Mt. Buller in the new best place.
Or is the World cup always going to be held there?
Ouch!
But props to the CORC for bringing an events of this caliber to Australia. I struggle to see anyone else getting the job done.
The fact that Buller is covered in snow during the world cup may have something to do with it![]()
Well, not quite everyone...
There is more to the UCI choosing a World Cup location than saying that XXXXXX has a good DH track, or whatever. Things like supporting infrastructure, airport proximity, accommodation, venue layout - and a whole host of other things come into play.
It is also the UCI's current policy that a World Champs venue (Canberra in 2009) has to host a World Cup triple round in the preceding year.
And, one other thing - CORC/Canberra was the only place that put their hand up to do it. Complaining that a particular location didn't get a World Cup when they didn't bid for it is like complaining that you didn't win a mountain bike race because you didn't enter it![]()
Hmmmm Buller.....
Imagine Matti Lehikoinen with two broken wrists and he gets...
"Oh don't worry we can have you to a decent hospital in about 2 hours sir. Just hang on here while we drive down this long windy road.... "
Case closed.
Hmmmm Buller.....
Imagine Matti Lehikoinen with two broken wrists and he gets...
"Oh don't worry we can have you to a decent hospital in about 2 hours sir. Just hang on here while we drive down this long windy road.... "
Case closed.
Im sure without the rain the bottom section of the track would have been totally different and we would of herd far less complants but is there any talk of changing the lower section and is this even possible.Ive never been there but Im sure with the crew who built it there's probably nothing wrong with it.
All to true, times would have been 10 to 15 seconds quicker I reckon.
They have been wingin like bitches about Canberra in some uk mag/s
Get over it, it's a good venue and its a funn track and it's a bike race they have peddles for a reason. if you don,t wanna peddle piss off and buy a moto they are cheaper anyway (relatively speaking)
Alternatively, imagine Matti Lehikoinen with no broken wrists because track builders didn't have to put in CONCRETE-TOPPED whoops in order to break up what would otherwise have been yet more pedalling on the already most pedal-heavy track on the WC circuit - in fact a downhill track with uphill pedalling near the bottom - and could instead leave riders on some kind of natural terrain.
However, as said before, Canberra/Stromlo put in a bid, nobody else in Aus did, so no point complaining that the race isn't somewhere else. At the very least, it's a spectator-friendly track (and apparently the XC track is awesome), and since virtually none of us are going to be actually RACING, it doesn't really matter how boring or pedally the track might be to RIDE, and we should instead be grateful that we can go and watch the world's top riders pinning it without booking flights to France/Austria/Italy/Canada/wherever. I went this year and I'd go again next year if I wasn't planning to be OS at the time.
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wtf ?????????????
it's a bike race they have peddles for a reason.
They have things called helicopters now, look into it.
Do you think there's hospitals next door to the European tracks too?
Apart from proximity to an airport, the UCIs only other requirement for Australia to host a round of the world cup / champs. Was how safely, hundreds of rowdy pissed aussie spectators could descend the track after finals. Imagine the carnage if the gradient was as steep as Champery....