Dirtworks 2010 - trail conditions
- Thread starter ukalipt
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BT180
Max Pfaff
A few Nobmobbers just did a DW training ride there - http://nobmob.com/node/14232
spikenet
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definitely no grading done as of last weekend. The first hill is pretty loose, looks like dirtbikes + quads have been fanging around on it, still very ride-able tho
. Track seemed pretty washed out from what I remember of last year.Shepards gully is a hoot (as usual)
ukalipt
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so no puddles. thank god for that!
BigSplashBear
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Puddles you can ride through: DW2007. Somewhere between the 26km and 50km mark there is a section if firetrail that had some fairly deep puddles. This dude tries to pass by going through a puddle. It is wide and the mud looks pretty thick going in.
Passing dude builds up speed and hits the puddle next to me at full noise.
Front wheel sinks in big time and passing dude is launched OTB to land in the same puddle and muddy bottom. His bike is still standing upright in the mud. Passing dude looks back at his bike like a showjump rider that has just been ejected from his horse. Passing dude is also covered in mud and looks like the creature from the Black Lagoon. And a big conga line of riders pass by with helpful comments like "Ya might try riding around the next one.", "So is it cold in?", "Nah mate - the water refill point is a few km away yet."
I laughed pretty much all the way into the 50km mark.
Thanks for the advice on tyres Alchemist - love ya work!
Bear - out
alchemist
Manly Warringah MTB Club
No worries, I'm happy to sandbag anybody.Thanks for the advice on tyres Alchemist - love ya work!
For what it's worth by the looks of things I' either running 35mm Racing Ralphs, 2.1 Racing Ralphs, 2.2 Ritchey Premonitions, 35mm Maxxis Locusts or 2.35" Maxxis Larsons (wire bead) depending on which bike I end up riding... There's a very out side chance of 19mm Conti Supersonics or GP4000s but generally even I am not that silly... Mind you there are some long road section....
tasty.dirt74
Likes Bikes and Dirt
Alchemist, were you the rider with a 'cross bike last year ?
I remember pushing up the first big hill next to a x'er .
Game bastard if it was you !!!(or whoever it was !!!)
I remember pushing up the first big hill next to a x'er .
Game bastard if it was you !!!(or whoever it was !!!)
cha_cha_
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The second time I rode the DirtWorks 100 I had my pressures at 65psi. 4km from the finish the rear tyre blew off the rim and would not remount..... That's the longest 4km I have ever walked.
redhardtail
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track conditions today (and about 3 weeks ago)
did the final recce/training ride today - the rain has settled some of the sand down compared to three weeks ago
My mates and i are predicting alot of accidents this year - parts of the track are really washed out and exposed, lots of areas of baby head rocks, ruts and no obvious lines
Other parts are just sand bunkers taken from a golf course - for some reason quite a few are located at the bottom of descents where you are carry some nice speed, a couple at at the top of descents to upset your wheel before you roll down and a couple of on the climbs itself.
If people aren't crashing due to the washed out course, or the sand traps, they'll be crashing because someone has stopped in the middle of the track to walk/navigate through said exposed area and sand traps.
while the elites may not be affected, times for most others will be slower
did the final recce/training ride today - the rain has settled some of the sand down compared to three weeks ago
My mates and i are predicting alot of accidents this year - parts of the track are really washed out and exposed, lots of areas of baby head rocks, ruts and no obvious lines
Other parts are just sand bunkers taken from a golf course - for some reason quite a few are located at the bottom of descents where you are carry some nice speed, a couple at at the top of descents to upset your wheel before you roll down and a couple of on the climbs itself.
If people aren't crashing due to the washed out course, or the sand traps, they'll be crashing because someone has stopped in the middle of the track to walk/navigate through said exposed area and sand traps.
while the elites may not be affected, times for most others will be slower
