Top day! It was a great test of all-round bike riding. The Shimano trail brought the pain.
One area that could be improved is the Rego queue, 50mins ... Ain't nobody got time for dat! Everything else was top-notch.
Anyone seen the results anywhere?
Have to agree, really fun day, everyone in our crew except two were first timers and they had a really good day out on the bikes.
I heard a lot of complaining about the rego, we joked about making a Strava segment for the queue. Maybe having a second station or open it earlier would help. But overall with that many riders it wasn't so bad. We just waited, joked around, had coffee, checked out bikes going past etc. I think we lined up at 830 and by the time we did it, geared up and headed to the track it was 10.
I knew a lot of riders were headed for the DH so we though we would do the vitamix trail to show the newbs how the timing worked. The. Ride to the shuttle. line was not too long and when we got to the top we only waited around 15 minutes to start.
Clean run to shake off the nerves. Then down to shuttle and back up to do shimano trail via the DH start. It was Good to have another run up there but my young mate had a stack just before the second pallet jump that left him a little grazed and shook up.
Then we dropped off the DH into shimano trail. It was a real test to keep your line on the switchies as they were pretty much just off camber dust. As we were riding pretty close I had an almost otb after locking my front when the guy in front came to a sudden halt, all good but my seat hit a tree and twisted 90 degrees and down. Rode on for a bit then stopped to fix it. That will teach me for greasing my seat clamps and rails prior to the day to fix a creak. Had a good pedal section near jelly leg, worked on gearing selection a bit in practice which came In handy come racetime.
For the race I was in expert male so we did the reverse order with shimano trail first then cbd. I reckon that May have given our class a little bit of advantage over others as we got to do the neutral ride with relatively fresh legs. The climb up the fire trail was not that bad... Running 1x10 I got up in 32/32 so I was happy with that to warm up before the race run. The only downside was the wait. By the time you were at the start the legs had cooled down and nerves kick back in. Also the constant complaining about the wait from the guys behind me. Would not shut up about how long it was taking... Lame
Anyway, got both race runs done clean so I was pretty stoked with that. Then we had a sneaky trip on an empty shuttle back to the tower rather ride up to the pit area, then had a cruise down the dirt road with some fun skids.
Top notch day and thanks to rockytrail for a great event
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