World Cup Round 1 - Pietermaritzburg - THIS WEEKEND

This year's World Cup gravity series is going to be sick. A lot of young riders coming, a World Champs track that Peaty qualified well on, new teams, new bikes, everyone is fast and fit. It's on!

Watch it live here:

DH, 4X - http://freecaster.tv/mtb/1007122/uci-world-cup-09-pietermaritzburg-dh-4x

XC - http://freecaster.tv/mtb/1007049/uci-world-cup-09-pietermaritzburg-xco

Other good stuff:

Kyle Strait back into racing. Git sum, boy! - http://freecaster.tv/mtb/1007551/kyle-strait-profile-video

 

Thanks for posting this.

Neil got a text from Jill Kitner earlier today, she placed 1st in qualifing for 4X :bang:

I can't wait to see what happens this weekend.

oh and here is a post from her blog with a little *hearsay* on DH qualifing.

 

Rm has a 19 page thread going... with the quali results...

 

I watched that video earlier. that course looks fun. makes you feel better about the friggin wall at fontana :lol:

 

The course preview Walk through, as far as qualifying times ... I'll post 'em here as well for the lazy surfers ...

World Cup 4X - Men's Qualifying Results
1. GRAVES, J (AUS) 1:09.85
2. PROKOP, M (CZE) 1:10:03
3. FISCHBACH, J (GER) 1:10.16

13:44
World Cup 4X - Women's Qualifying Results
1. KINTNER, J (USA) 1:19.02
2. BEERTEN, A (NED) 1:19.43
3. GRIFFITHS, F (GBR) 1:23.69

13:48
World Cup Downhill - Men's Qualifying Results
1. HANNAH, M (AUS) 3:48.78
2. MINNAAR, G (RSA) 3:50.31
3. KOVARIK, C (AUS) 3:53.49
4. PEAT, S (GBR) 3:56.09
5. ATHERTON, G (GBR) 3:55.10

13:50
Steve Peat hits fastest top-speed on course so far with 61.6km/h during Friday's qualifying session!

13:55
World Cup Downhill - Women's Qualifying Results
1. MOSELY, T (GBR) 4:29.39
2. RAGOT, E (FRA) 4:38.44
3. BUCHAAR, C (CAN) 4:42.15
4. GRIFFITHS, F (GBR) 4:44.51
5. PUGIN, F (FRA) 4:45.18

 

I wish the site knew how to convert time. I looked and it said that DH would be this morning I think it was like 7am to 9am. I look at 7:30 and the event was done. WTF? It seems that they were off by two hours.

Now when will they have the replay up?

 

If you missed it...

...bummer. I woke up at 0:dark:30 and caught the top 20. It was fantastic. Cameron Cole held the hot seat for quite a while...not bad for the opener. He was eventually bested by Sam Hill and then it was on.

Eventually, they'll have the top 3 or top 5 runs posted. You can also go to http://www.dirtmag.co.uk for more goodies.

As for the knowing when the watch the damn thing, I think you have to look at the local start time and then do your own conversion. They had a countdown that was wrong and their schedule was also incorrect.

Full results and story here:

http://dirtmag.co.uk/worldcup/category/News/minnaar-and-moseley-blow-them-away/dirt-1234877.html

 

Got up at 4am,,,, watched the whole thing.....major props to FREECASTER.TV.....two US riders in the top 20......Sick!!!!!

 

Ya I was able to catch the 4x finals on saturday morning and the top 20 in DH this morning , guess I should have bought a lottery ticket cause my luck was on this weekend . Great coverage on Freecaster top 5 in DH were flying down that course . So were the 4x guy's on hardtails and 4" of front travel that downhill triple into the finish was sweet :bang:

 

Good coverage by freecaster. My only gripes are the lame pre-recorded coverage at the begining of the runs and not showing Kovarik's crash.

 

Anyone able to see any of the videos on freecaster? I have been trying to watch the DH and 4x ones all day but they wont even let me play them

 

same deal for me :?:

 

They added this note to the site

But the videos are working now.

 

There's a short recap vid on pinkbike

 

Anyone else notice Sam Hills demo is alot different than production pics are on transcendmagazine.com. He has a 1.5 headtube which looks to have internal headset just like his Sunday had (lower stack height) , rear shock is at different angle and mounted directly to frame (lower BB height?) . What ever they did for him I guess he likes it cause he did good on such a pedally course .