Fontana National race May 3-6

J..... thanks for the heads up, nice to see rennie out there! talk about a top level racer geez... can't wait for this weekend

 

Thanks for the post Sharky! I'll be there! I love it!

 

5-3 SR practice

Just a few pics from todays 4x and DH practice. Lots of people out...FUN day. You all should try to make it out this weekend!!:wave:

 

Here's a link to more photos from yesterday. Heading out there...Super D and some 4x races are today. Jason (Super D) and the Dirty (4x) will be racing!!

Link: dirthippie/Southridge 5-3 practice - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

 

Dirttorpeedos to the podium

Oh Yeah...that would be the Dirty bringing in fifth today at the 4X race. CONGRATS Chris !! :bang:

 

Some pics from Fontana........

Sarah decides to enter the DH race after being thrown out of the Hells Angels party



Rock garden



XC race gets underway



Big DD from Geoladders discovers he's racing against Satan. I thought I could smell Sulphur on the start line



Dont see many of these....



The woman behind is about to pull off a pretty cool passing manouvere



Uncluttered view of some of the rock garden



Female DH racer Jen



Sarah riding her SS hardtail on the DH course (!)



No holes in the rear this time



View from the street looking up towards the top of the DH course



Entering the rock garden



Ride it side saddle boy!



DH Ross - why arent you riding man?!





I think this is that Kiwi dance that the All Blacks rugby team do - not sure if he was sticking his tongue out as well

 

More rock garden - look I couldnt be bothered riding any further up the trail OK! (Well not after I got thrown off in the morning for riding it on my Stumpy in an XC helmet when practice was underway 8-[ )







Sarah gets another ice cream sundae container

 

how was your first dh race sarah? looks like you took some soil samples :bang:

 

Congratulations JfromLV (Jason Simpson) on 1st place in Expert 35-39!!! :clap::clap::clap::clap:

Here are a couple pictures of Jason from yesterday's practice, and also Joe (Jason's brother).

 

man nobody got any of me and my new bike
hahahaha
oh well i saw some pro's take my pics lol

 

:lol: I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE the downhill format! I have so been missing out! It was nice getting shuttled up to the course ... and I learned so much from just chatting with the DH-ers. It was truly an experience! What I love about mountain biking is how it offers so much diversity in the way of racing ...

My stupid Surely Singulater (what converts my hardtail into a single-speed) decided to fall off on my race run ... interesting having to go through the rock garden without pedaling! Some kids fixed it for me. How sad!

Yeah, I had some falls on my four trial runs. By run three the course felt really great, and I wasn't falling! Practice makes a big difference in DH! But now I'm a bit sore for my XC race tomorrow morning!

Anyone doing the Eilings Park downhill? I'll be there! I've decided to put a cassette on my bike so that I can actually pedal. That'll be nice.

 

hey sarah i saw you tearing i up on your SS HT
thats crazy... i bet once you get a DH squishy your gonna be the one to beat in the womens class...

 

nice pics keith and sharkey... SS HT huh sarah? more confidence that ive got, i need all the travel i can get.

 

JfromLV and Dirty ... congrats! Fun times out there! It's a blast to watch as well as ride. I wish I could see all the STR people.

Yeah, as Sharky said ... I need to enter more raffels! B/c there's no way I can afford a DH bike. But I gotta say - the course felt pretty good on a hardtail (except fo my chain problems). I ran a Blue Groove (2.24) on the back and a Kenda Nev. (2.3) on the front. Oh, and I swapped my regular 40 psi for 30. So it felt better than normal xc riding!

Good luck to those racing tomorrow! I'll be doing xc (8am - omg!), but then I'm watching the dh afterward.

 

i might just take my SS out, PSYCHE! not a chance. maybe the road bike though. congrats to all who raced. simpson, you get a new helmet, looks good. hey sarah, what gear ratio were ya runnin?

 

Here are a some pic's, I'm still working on the rest.

 

thanks for the pic of me chris, it looks good.

 

here are the rest of my pic's with a couple video's of Jason and Curtis. PICS........

 

thanks for those picds ketih, didnt race due to the lack of dough for my new frame and didnt really fell like it. super fun course and havetn watched a DH ever so i thought this would be perfect. hada great time watcin some of those falls.

 

Congratulations to all the participants. You guys rock! Sarah, you crazy girl, way to podium.