Elite Men 1 // Loïc Bruni (FRA) – 3:26.656
2 // Mick Hannah (AUS) – 3:26.995
3 // Aaron Gwin (USA) – 3:28.623
4 // Jack Moir (AUS) – 3:29.257
5 // Troy Brosnan (AUS) – 3:29.649
Elite Women 1 // Miranda Miller (CAN) – 4:10.245
2 // Myriam Nicole (FRA) – 4:10.342
3 // Tracey Hannah (AUS) – 4:12.230
4 // Eleonora Farina (FRA) – 4:15.168
5 // Danielle Beecroft (AUS) – 4:19.361
Junior Men 1 // Matt Walker (GBR) – 3:37.788
2 // Joe Breeden (GBR) – 3:41.244
3 // Max Hartenstern (GER) – 3:41.774
4 // Sylvain Cougoureux (FRA) – 3:42.154
5 // Kaos Seagrave (GBR) – 3:42.758
Junior Women 1 // Melanie Chappaz (FRA) – 4:28.617
2 // Shania Rawson (NZL) – 4:31.318
3 // Flora Lesoin (FRA) – 4:35.552
4 // Beatrice Migliorini (ITA) – 4:38.098
5 // Ellie Smith (AUS) – 4:43.581
Miks power is unreal
IMO the last most significant was Gwins chainless preceded by Harts Champery.
PS i'm still rocking 135mm out back. I guess that makes me "Old Skool" ... or just OLD!!!
you def need it on your side
I know I had to watch it on Spanish tv
But we've been racing at Cairns for 21 years now so the place must be doing something right!
The pedalling section at the end is 15sec out of a 3.30-4.00 race run. Get over it.
What i want to know is why didnt the racers get a kiss from the flower girls?
Huge dollars are needed to pay for everything. Think what 4 minutes of track tape costs, medics, marshalls, commisionaires, advertising, bike park rental, trail crew. Takes two years of hosting events in order to be considered to host a World Cup, then you have to host that at least one of those in order to qualified to apply.
People take racing seriously. Remember Minaar blowing up when the start hut was an inch too low and snagged his visor?
Get involved in racing events on the back end before you talk shit about the venues that do put the immense effort, to apply and qualify, then able to deliver a World Cup event.
Track is gnarly. End sprint is good. Shows who has been getting fit. Not just park rats. Riders pedal on plenty of motorway sections of trail.
PERIOD.
Don't get me wrong. EWS is baller, some wicked riding in it, some rad tracks, the organizers are absolute legends. It is growing rapidly, now you have EWS qualifying events. Just wait, it is going to end up in a similar spot to the UCI. As it expands, the admin and controls are going get more and more expensive. But it is also growing rapidly because the format works better for people.
Si Patton not passionate enough? How is his BDS going? iXS series? Canada has a pretty lame system with Canada Cup. Especially if you live on the other half of the country.
No it's not a huge mountain with thousands of meters in elevation so it is a shorter course. And yes it the dh trail has got a nasty long pedal at the end. And let's be honest the TV coverage isn't the best due to access issues (very steep, dense rainforest with dangerous and poisonous animals and plants)
But it's steep, mostly very fast and has loads of sweet fun sections that weren't shown on the broadcast (look at the gopro footage for reference). And I'm sure all the riders wouldn't be hating the fact that after a long season of the tour grind to finish off in a god damm paradise on earth that is far North Queensland in what essentially is a backpacker party town.
We don't have a World Cup in whistler for a few reasons .
1 shutting down the hill for three days is almost impossible . The UCI has some demands we are not willing to meet
2 financial , whistler is already so busy we don't need a World Cup race
( we want one
I will share a rumour .
Creekside is open and has a a separate lift and hill side that we can shit down and control better . Also the creekside village has ample parking for the pits
This is how was are gonna pitch it to try and get a work cup
As far as teams and finances go for North America rounds of World Cup racing goes .
They just need better planning
Have 3 North American rounds back to back then go have the euro rounds
Kinda simple , but the uci is retarded
Shit for all you british f*ggots that think I have a hard on for America. I couldn't give a shit where they are, there is just no excuse to have a lame track with shitty coverage for THE f*ckING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS.
As for the argument "what about all the pro's falling off". That's because they push on the edge of the limit no matter what track, just because people crash doesn't mean it's a great course.
Perhaps the track is the most amazing dh track in the world but the poor coverage didn't really show it to be. I dunno about the commentators where you watched it but here in the UK, they were useless. I don't think either of them have ever watched a dh race.
Don't know who the Aussie was but the Brit commentator was Nigel Page.
I say bring back Cunnynghame!
Get out of Australia, lol that is a kiwi flag. Live in NZ and born and raised in western Canada just like you appear to be. But good one. Nothing gnarly? You have some laps on it? If not, all you have is some pretty awful television coverage to go on.
The coverage made this track look shite, they definitely should have chosen better angles.
Still, if cairns pays, cairns gets a round. If the USA wants a round, it just has to find a resort willing to pay. It's nothing to do with the geographical location.
It is shorter than other tracks in the world, but until you've ridden them and can compare to the track at Cairns, don't let a sprint to the finish or the difficulty of getting more cameras through the jungle fool you, this is a formidable WC DH track.
The fact is that after sector 2, Hill was only 2 and something seconds off Hannah/Bruni, which was considered the rough and technical part of the track. Ironically he lost most time at the 3rd pedally section. There was quite a lot of strong head wind at the start of the race, which eased off mid-race. That might be the reason why he lost time there or might be not - he may have simply burned out and didn't had enough power.
But still - Hill was almost on par with the best guys on the steep and technical part on his Nukeproof. Great run from him.
i guess enves new bead protector strip is not all its cracked up to be
What about all the other runs, was it purely because Pompoms run was so dubious that they noticed?
I wonder if now the whole event will be scrutinised or if the UCI will bury their heads to save face.
Start the rumour mill!
#notsayingitwasaliens
I wonder how many separate timing systems they have? They said they checked the back up, curious whether they have more than one back up. And obviously how often mistakes can occur? When riders can be separated by less than a 10th of a second it does make you wonder...
If there was a world champs on hiding first place would go to wallet second to keys and cell pulls the bronze.
Funk you red bull...funkin cough medicine shit and you coverage stinks like a dump bear ...not impressed
Congrats M&M
The video feed was provided by the local TV network, not Red Bull.
It cost me a grand total of zero dollars.
I couldn't resist...sorry
Now I wonder how many other runs have accuracy errors...and how long it's been going on unnoticed. Remember Rachel Atherton beating all the men in the speed trap? Gee always thought it was a computer error.
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More US WC DH ? YES PLEASE
Anyway TV coverage was terrible I think we can agree that both ? :-)
Now stop discuss and let's go ride our bikes !!!
Cheers dude (Idiot like me)
You know what....I've never been in Cairns, but track (upper part) looks sick !!....bottom looks like xc, that's pity.......
I highly recommend anyone to visit and ride in Cairns because you will be pleasantly surprised, Just don't come in summer.
We get to watch nearly live world champs action from the other side of the world for free......
Just like Nascar. The tracks are super shit, but the racing (and crashes) make it interesting.
I was actually pulling for Mik or Hill - Gwin can get his in some other year.
That said, I can only judge based on what I saw and heard. The coverage showed basically two crux moves and one of them was staying high through an off camber slight right hander to carry speed into the next bit - honestly not the most thrilling even if it was hard to do. Warner is usually good for a dozen or more runs where he spends the entire lap shouting and Claudio has to raise his voice and talk over him. Here, there was maybe a handful of runs like that.
Americans are far more patriotic than every other nation so its quite astounding that there are so few representing... or wanting to.
Anyway the Brits have been at the top for a while now, its time we let someone else have a go
seems there is a mistake in the primary timing. duhhh.. UCI sucks
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#importantstuff
WTF?!?!
Long night and auto-correct.
On the other hand rob and Claudio's commentary is where i want to be.
I've compromised and left the sky box on BBC and watch it on redbull
I do not enjoy it
“Someone said ‘why didn’t you get up faster?’ but I hit my head, so I didn’t realise I was down,” / “I guess there was a bit of disappointment laying in the vines but I didn’t think about it for too long.”
i.e. does anyone know of a free ip bouncing site?
www.pinkbike.com/news/how-to-watch-the-cairns-2017-mtb-world-championships.html#cid1793947
2) 29' are dead HAHAHA ....where's the advantage of bigger wheels ??
3) Sam Hill ......is the real KING
Also, do you really think an 8 year old's judgement based on what she saw on tv is what makes or breaks a course?
There are enough comments about how crap the course is, I have heard peoples opinions that are actually there that it is a lot gnarlier in person than in video, but obviously it is no val di sole, champery etc and probably falls short of leogang etc - a shame really.
I would have loved to see Mick take the win though but at least Loic has saved his season!
Onother flat tyre ?Is FCKFlats doing something iinside that tyres besides occupying space ?
Sorry but have to hammer in sh#t parts till the cows cough..
Ohlins 2
Everyone else 0
Its a shame ,a race have not that suspense when wil a tyre cames out the rim ?
Give us real solutions ,not crap to earn easy money.
True hurts
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Looks like he might have been down by the looks of the dust...
www.pinkbike.com/photo/15148914
"less than a second off"
"unbelievable"
"incredible"
"took a different line there"
"we did not see"
Honestly, such bad commentary. Not really telling me interesting facts on the rider or the ride. Not explaining what somebody did here and there. Only giving information which anybody watching the stream can see for him/herself. And even worse, always trying to hype boring runs. I mean, people are 1.2 secs behind and Rob screams like he's 2 secs leading. And anybody around the lead time gets screamed at as "unbelievable".
"Un-spectacular"
BORING. Let's just agree on having WC DOWNHILLS and World Champs in REAL mountains.
Like the Alps. The Dolomites. The Sierras. The Rockies. Okay I guess Mt. Saint Anne. And yes Fort Will.
Everything else can just go suck it.