Olympics MTB Course Video

[theredchili]

We will be a laughing stock for this !

Looks a little like a ride around the park

they should have done it in the FoD, Cause the FoD is where its at

 

[amelsom]

its like making ralley cars race around silverstone, with some trees in the corners or some stones on the road...

 

[petitpal]

I think I'd rather it wasn't in the Olympics if this is the best they can do for an XC course. Half of MTB is about where you're riding and not, necssarily, what. The UK has some absolutley stunning places to ride and that is the best they can come up with? It's not only our lifestyle/hobby/sport that's being made a mockery of it's the UK as a whole. Oh well, just as long a half a dozen people can charge up 100m of carefully laid red tarmac in the middle of a massively overpriced stadium, what matter? :roll:

 

[BerthaPog]

its like making ralley cars race around silverstone, with some trees in the corners or some stones on the road...

Sounds like rallycross - one of the most exciting motorised four wheeled forms of racing - Lydden Hill.

 

[petitpal]

its like making ralley cars race around silverstone, with some trees in the corners or some stones on the road...

Sounds like rallycross - one of the most exciting motorised four wheeled forms of racing - Lydden Hill.

Ah but rally cross would race some of the way around silverstone and then across the infield. Sideways. With several hundred breakhorse power (long live 6R4s and RS200s). Vroom! Vroom!

 

[dyna-ti]

Just watched it.
Bollocks :shock: :shock:

 

[bm0p700f]

If it ever opens to the public I certainly won't waste my time going.

 

[magicmistertea]

Some very positive comments from riders and spectators at the test event. Even more pissed off I didn't get tickets

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/t ... test-event

Ive got tickets !!
and im really looking forward to it :!:

TBH i dont understand all the negativity towards it on this site :? .. okay not the best place for it... but we have olympic mountain biking coming to England !!! ... bloody hell can you lot cheer up a bit

 

[bigdawg]

I cant believe there are still people complaining about this course, or rather the location.

Ive ridden it again - my thoughts havent changed, I wouldnt want to have to race on it. Watch some of the videos from the weekend a lot of riders are taking the b-lines when it comes to some ofthe decents, why on earth do you think some of the best xc racers in the world are using the longer b-lines??

And if you saw either of the two broken bikes I saw saturday youll realise how hard this course is.

To-date Ive not heard one complaint from anyone thats ridden the course, from trail centre heroes to the worlds best xc racers. Many have turned up thinking its going to be a walk in the park, not one person whos finished riding it still has that opinion. Its a hard course- hard on the rider and hard on the bike.

At the end of the day its xc race course built to IOC and ICF standards and requirements. It is not a day out trail centre, I just hope there will be something left afterwards for everyone else to enjoy too, Ive been lucky enough now to ride it a couple of times....

 

[cchris2lou]

The course was never going to be in the middle of nowhere . it has to be tv and public friendly .

the cycling teams will be based in Brandshatch I hear , 5 minutes from me so might pop round there instead .