Downhill mountain biking

[doodab]

doodab - I bet you felt considerably more smug cycling up the hill past them all pushing hoofing great DH bikes up there

Are you kidding? It's a 1000m+ vertical ascent. I took the cable car the same as everybody else.

Here is a "soft" bit from somewhere lower down in the treeline (had to dig around for this, doesn't seem to be that popular...)

[smatty]

Here you go, fairly sure it's this run: Red Bull Rampage 2013 | Official Site

doodab - I bet you felt considerably more smug cycling up the hill past them all pushing hoofing great DH bikes up there

[northernladuk]

I can't work out if he is humming to himself at the beginning because he is bricking it as much as I am watching or if it's just a walk in the park for him. I suspect it's the former!

Wish there were some spectator vids to get a better perspective on it.

[doodab]

Yep, that's kind of 'what mountains are'; huge rocks.

At the top they also have a lot of small, very sharp, rocks, which will tend to shred ordinary bike tyres rather rapidly. Hence the rather beefier ones ones on downhill bikes.

[Mich the Tester]

If it had been covered in snow and I was on my board it would have been fine, but in the summer it's mostly covered in huge rocks.

Yep, that's kind of 'what mountains are'; huge rocks.

[doodab]

ftfy

If it had been covered in snow and I was on my board it would have been fine, but in the summer it's mostly covered in huge rocks.

[Mich the Tester]

I nearly tried this in Davos, it was only when I got to the top and looked down I shat my pants.

ftfy

[doodab]

I nearly tried this in Davos (well, not the backflips, that's just silly), it was only when I got to the top with my lightweight 4" hardtail and polystyrene hat and I realised everyone else had 8" full sussers with tyres that weighed a kilo a piece and full face hard shell helmets that I thought better of it.

[Mich the Tester]

Dam, that boy has balls of steel

But when it goes wrong he'll have balls of paté.

[smatty]

Looks like it's from the Redbull Rampage, well worth checking some of the vids on that, they are rather awesome

The alps are full of people doing it all summer. So are some of the mountain ranges in the UK, lot goes on at Cwmcarn & Ben Nevis.

[Alias]

Saw a lot of this when we went out to Vancouver...during the summer, the ski runs are full of people doing this...

[OwlHoot]

Good find - That is absolutely berserk

(I want one of those bikes, to commute to clientco.)

[scooterscot]

Dam, that boy has balls of steel