Steve's Whistler Nipple Cam Thread - newest vid 14/10/09, Duff to No Duff
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S.
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Yerp, sorry, got mixed up between the O-sin one and the Schleyer vid. Using a GoPro Hero Wide with the chest mount. New one of Goats Gully up, see post #1.
S.
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Sure are, when they start putting in 15 minute, steep as fuck, wet, rooty tracks with lots of woodwork and 15ft high rock rollers in the VSS
Seriously some of the stuff here I'm kind of surprised they actually let people ride down... it's rideable but only just!
Nerf Herder
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I like how there were stretches where Cesar just gased.
I'm really liking that chest mount ... just gives a great sense of speed and action.
Finally ... I want me some of that Goat
I'm really liking that chest mount ... just gives a great sense of speed and action.
Finally ... I want me some of that Goat
madmanmark82
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Yeah I did. I learned that Formula The Ones are surprisingly strong when you forget that Europeans run their brakes backwards, and that the head angle is slack as hell - he said it was 61 degrees. Other than that, no useful information for you
S.
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haha nah, I just work in a shop in the village. They do have full time trail maintenance crews and bike patrollers/guides though, if you can get one of those jobs you're pretty set!What do you do there? Do you help maintain tracks? Or just ride around and help people, give guidence etc? Sounds like the life to me.
Got some more footage today, will upload tonight, including the World's Most Gnarcore Pro-Only Trail Ever*, D1.
*Disclaimer: may not actually be as gnarcore as I have made it out to be, but it does have a sign saying "pro only" or something at the start.
Nerf Herder
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S. are you riding pretty much at normal pace with the vid gear on ?? or are you holding back a little ?
Man that straight section on original sin was hectic ... was there a guy in red on the side near the end or was that a "3 men and a baby" type of moment.
Man that straight section on original sin was hectic
... was there a guy in red on the side near the end or was that a "3 men and a baby" type of moment.
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Pretty much full pace (well not really pedalling hard or anything, I'm too lazy and unfit for that), except for the Goats Gully vid, cos I don't know the track very well and I rarely ride it.S. are you riding pretty much at normal pace with the vid gear on ?? or are you holding back a little ?
Man that straight section on original sin was hectic
That fast straight part of Original Sin gets pretty scary if you ride it completely brakeless, you start shaking so violently you can't really see properly. There's another bit just after the hike-a-bike where if you hit it brakeless you end up repeatedly airing into really hard G-outs at maybe 50km/h. Not sure where in the video you mean, but yeah there was a guy on the right hand side towards the end, in that slow roller section.
Agreed. Goats Gully looks harder than D1. But then again...I haven't ridden either.
Steve.....MORE PLEASE!
And is that a Sunday you are riding?Some Duff - No Duff? Crapple Hits? In Deep? And how about the full Garbonzo for this year? And sone Freighttrain to Dirt Merchant? A touch of Ninja Cougar and sprinkle it with some Whistler Downhill.
And lastly the Canadian Open course. Is that new for this year?
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Goats Gully is way harder than D1. There's only one difficult part of D1 and that's the hip to step-up, but if you can jump the hip fine you'll make the step up fine too. Goats Gully is easy for about 100m, then just makes you wonder if you're drunk or something, you get bounced and shunted all over the place. Pretty hard going in the wet. And yeah I'm on a Sunday now.Agreed. Goats Gully looks harder than D1. But then again...I haven't ridden either.
Steve.....MORE PLEASE!
Some Duff - No Duff? Crapple Hits? In Deep? And how about the full Garbonzo for this year? And sone Freighttrain to Dirt Merchant? A touch of Ninja Cougar and sprinkle it with some Whistler Downhill.
And lastly the Canadian Open course. Is that new for this year?
Got all of Duffman recorded, same with Crabapple Hits, In Deep, the whole Garbanzo racecourse, piecemeal, with the exception of Monkey Hands because it's closed (though if you want to see the Garby course done properly by someone who isn't a hack, check out http://freecaster.tv/mtb/1009012/crankworx-09-garbanzo-dh-marc-beaumont-helmet-cam). Got most or all of Freight Train on there, same with No Joke, Ninja Cougar has already been uploaded (search the forums), Whistler DH I never ride because the top half is terrible and half of the bottom half is pretty crappy too, the Canadian Open track scares the fuck out of me and is also closed unless you can gap the rope to get onto it (entirely possible I'm told, haven't done it myself) and I've also only done one run of it so no footage yet.
Just gotta edit and upload those vids... takes time, especially when you have very limited bandwidth per month! Also got Ho Chi Minh, Upper Joyride (which I rarely ride and just punted down, might get another shot of that), Samurai Pizza Cat, most of Hornet and the entirety of Ride Don't Slide (which for the record looks pretty crappy on camera because the camera doesn't show the steepness, only the slowness).
So... which one first?