[Closed] Would any other form of transport be faster on a DH track?

You would probably take a fair bit of time off the motorway section at the end but elsewhere you would be fighting the same battle of grip etc, that and there probably isn't the run off to take more speed through some of the bit of the track, jump and further and you're not on track any more etc.

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yep, the motorbike just looked awkward up there, not enough room to really let it go

Modern DH courses have evolved to test the bikes to the maximum, they are tight and nadgery, with not much room for error...a dirt bike gets too held up to fully let rip...however put a dirt bike on the old style open DH courses from the early 90s that swept across Alpine meadows or followed dirt roads down the side of mountains in the US and a dirt bike would probably annihilate a DH bike in that situation.

I'd like to see the race in the opposite direction too

I do a fair bit of building and bedding in #enduro trails on my Beta Evo trials bike and I reckon I'd be quicker down it on it than a DH bike, but I'm not a world class rider so I reckon the top boys wouldn't be faster on anything other than their DH rigs

IIRC Knight said the jumps on the motorway were all too small- he'd expected to gain time there but had to slow right down for them. The bits where he seemed slowed down most are gone from the track now, with the new motorway jumps and the puggy line bridge replacing that rock garden.

(that bit with the old rock garden by the puggy line is very cool, Gee just hovering over it, then Knight all sound and fury)

Helicopter would be quite quick

Ace vid, guess there wouldn't be much in it down most tight MTB DH trails. Interesting to see a younger, cockier Gee.

Did Dougie Lampkin (spelling?) not race Steve Peat down fort bill as well?

Even the Gee haters have got to be impressed with how fast his run was?
And in the ice too.

If the engine biker knew the track like Gee does he'd have won. Interesting wee video 🙂

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Fun vid tho!

seat belt law clearly doesn't apply to them 🙄

Zorbing. Innit

glasgowdan - Member
If the engine biker knew the track like Gee does he'd have won. Interesting wee video
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The best rider in the world at riding things blind flat-out, learning an un-technical DH track? I'm sure he was fine

The best rider in the world at riding things blind flat-out

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Gah! Beaten to it by 23 seconds!

Curse you flashheart!!

I always come first!

Oh, no, hold on a minute, that's not right... 😳

I've ridden both my DH bike and MX bike (legally) down some sections of the a national level DH track. The MX bike was a handful to say the least, hard to control and corner and the track was way better suited to going fast on a DH bike. When it gets tight and techy in the trees you need a nimble bike to chuck about, 90kg of angry 2 stroke isn't the tool for the job! As above, tracks have evolved to suit the bikes, as have bikes.

ianfitz - Member

Zorbing.

While I like the idea, don't say it again because the obvious outcome is that we close every bike track in the world and go zorbing

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The best rider in the world at riding things blind flat-out, learning an un-technical DH track? I'm sure he was fine

Essentially the point is if you ride it more often you get faster as you learn. A pretty hard point to negate IMHO and therefore Gee had an advantage. Remove this , or reverse it, and the result would change.

Iirc mbuk had peaty and Warner both take trace an MX bike and trials motorbike down caersws dh track a few years before the Atherton race. And they both won by a few seconds over the m bikes