OK here is the latest goss from Round One of the Fort William World Cup.
Today (Wednesday) has just been for setting up etc and the riders having a walk through of the track. The DH track is basically the same although there is talk that the wooded section that Gravesy crashed in last year could be taken out. This would be a real bummer because it really is a nice little section that helps to break up the top of the course, alhough Jared may disagree with this. This sort of things kind of reflects the mood of the UCI officials who are being pretty anal about things and seem to have forgotten that it is a mountain bike race. The event organisers are pretty at standing up for their work so it should be cool in the end. The 4X is also essentially the same although the first straight has been extended by about 20 metres to let the guys get sorted into the first corner abit more.
The main event for today was the huge Tissot timing semi trailer that travels to just about every major sporting event including GPs etc being plugged into a dodgey circuit, sending 400+ volts though all the gear. In the end only the coffee maker was killed and all the timing gear is still good.
Other news;
- the GT trailer was dragged into the pits by the biggest doge ram in history.
- Got my first "in the flesh" look at the honda. It isn't quite as bad (i.e looks like a tank on two wheels) as some of the photos look. One actually had the front triangle filled in with a sort of fairing with some tech stuff strapped to the top tube. I think this for some sort of data collection.
Sorry no pics, I keep drinking the digi camera savings. Hopefully Silver Wahoo will bring his up and for race photos.
More tomorrow.
Today (Wednesday) has just been for setting up etc and the riders having a walk through of the track. The DH track is basically the same although there is talk that the wooded section that Gravesy crashed in last year could be taken out. This would be a real bummer because it really is a nice little section that helps to break up the top of the course, alhough Jared may disagree with this. This sort of things kind of reflects the mood of the UCI officials who are being pretty anal about things and seem to have forgotten that it is a mountain bike race. The event organisers are pretty at standing up for their work so it should be cool in the end. The 4X is also essentially the same although the first straight has been extended by about 20 metres to let the guys get sorted into the first corner abit more.
The main event for today was the huge Tissot timing semi trailer that travels to just about every major sporting event including GPs etc being plugged into a dodgey circuit, sending 400+ volts though all the gear. In the end only the coffee maker was killed and all the timing gear is still good.
Other news;
- the GT trailer was dragged into the pits by the biggest doge ram in history.
- Got my first "in the flesh" look at the honda. It isn't quite as bad (i.e looks like a tank on two wheels) as some of the photos look. One actually had the front triangle filled in with a sort of fairing with some tech stuff strapped to the top tube. I think this for some sort of data collection.
Sorry no pics, I keep drinking the digi camera savings. Hopefully Silver Wahoo will bring his up and for race photos.
More tomorrow.
