Thread: New Enduro Mountain Bike Race - Aspen/Snowmass

Originally Posted by grskier

We should add a strider bike category

Its almost game time people! Can't wait to see the times thrown down for the MEGA-D.

If you're not here in Snomwass, you better be in jail...and if you're in jail break-out!

Funken tore up valhalla and showed me the choice lines down the uber D course as well. His guiding seriously saved he 20 miles of practice runs. Super fun running into him and his buddy

I got about 90% of valhalla jumps dialed, gawd damn, that is a funkin fantastic trail. Can't wait to ride vapor tomorrow morning.

I'm so pumped you're stoked! Make sure you introduce yourself on tomorrow night... I'll be the dude with the mic.

Nice meeting a few Mags today! Fun time, weird area to announce at, but I had fun watching everyone hammer it out to the finish. Finishes will be in Base Village tomorrow, so that'll make it a little more festive and have more of a chill vibe I think. You can only see the last little bit of trail from there though. Heard all good comments about the race so far... let me know if there is anything we can do better.

What a fun stage. I smashed my CB pedal up on vapor and could only click in on one angle, each time my foot came out, it took me a minute or more of smashing at it to get reclipped, then took a spectacular crash in the woods, but was able to get back on it. Currently 9th, BrettF is sitting 6th, not sure what other mags are here, but let's have a beer tomorrow.

Super fun stage. The mega-d did not disapoint. Tough sleeping last night with bruised ribs from warm up lap crash on vallhala. Note to self, full speed not necessary on upper jumps.

Btw, some fast mofos showed up for this race. Woohoo!

another great day of racing...

The chainless downhill was awesome.

Even better than the chainless was the feast of food and beer afterwards. Dude who won the new reign x bike is a lucky mofo! Nitro and buck are putting on a great event for sure.

Originally Posted by simple

Even better than the chainless was the feast of food and beer afterwards. Dude who won the new reign x bike is a lucky mofo! Nitro and buck are putting on a great event for sure.

They did a great job... I'd be surprised to see this tweaked too much next year. Maybe get a few more competitors... but I liked how quick everything went this weekend. Announcing the downhill was really easy since we could actually see some action.
Great job some Mags making podiums and competing in general!

Good times. Thanks for a great event, Nitro and team. grskier rocked the mic like a pro!

Super fun riding, good racing, some beers, and met up with Crinkle and simple along with Nitro and grskier. Rock on!

Heard wentzy from momentum won the chainless and dh.

Stoked to see him kill it on the two that matter.

Originally Posted by kidwoo

Heard wentzy from momentum won the chainless and dh.

Stoked to see him kill it on the two that matter.

CRUSHED the two DH stages.. have to look on how he did in the Super D...

yeah Wentz was insanely fast, I think he broke 9 minutes in the chainless and was 4:05 in the DH, which is just nuts considering the course was a LEGIT DH course and we were all on all-mtn rigs. Pretty sure someone said the pro winner was on a 29er. 4th place in pro was a young local kid on a 29er hardtail.

Guys, I had a hoot of a time. I don't really ever race, so it was a lot of fun to participate in, all the amateurs were very cool and there was a great supportive vibe among the competitors, which was really fun. I learned a ton and plan on coming back next year.

GRR and Nitro really did their best to keep it fair and listened to any feedback that people had, considering it was their first year, I really can't think of a better format, they nailed it.

Originally Posted by Crinkle

yeah Wentz was insanely fast, I think he broke 9 minutes in the chainless and was 4:05 in the DH, which is just nuts considering the course was a LEGIT DH course and we were all on all-mtn rigs. Pretty sure someone said the pro winner was on a 29er. 4th place in pro was a young local kid on a 29er hardtail.

Guys, I had a hoot of a time. I don't really ever race, so it was a lot of fun to participate in, all the amateurs were very cool and there was a great supportive vibe among the competitors, which was really fun. I learned a ton and plan on coming back next year.

GRR and Nitro really did their best to keep it fair and listened to any feedback that people had, considering it was their first year, I really can't think of a better format, they nailed it.

Winner was Nate Hills, he was on a Slash...fwiw.

VERY mad at myself for not making this one happen. Next year...next year.

(and yeah, Wentz is really really good)

A few pics - http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/featu...8945/sspomer,2

[QUOTE=beast;3690163]A few pics - http://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/featu...8945/sspomer,2[/QUOT

This is a great write-up. Thanks for posting.

Thanks to everyone for showing up. It was an incredible weekend and it felt good to hold and run a fun mtb race with such great competitors. Everyone was so cool and excited and stoked on the courses. Again, thanks to everyone for coming. See you next year for sure! To all the mags that came....thx and it was great to put a face to everyone.

D

beast, i was wondering if that was you in the team geronimo gear. I should have asked.

Beast scorched a 4:22 (me thinks) with a mechanical, broken chain?

Sweet write up and pics.

Originally Posted by Crinkle

beast, i was wondering if that was you in the team geronimo gear. I should have asked.

Beast scorched a 4:22 (me thinks) with a mechanical, broken chain?

Sweet write up and pics.

Teddy Benge, not beast. Hope to make it next year.

Originally Posted by funkendrenchman

Teddy Benge, not beast. Hope to make it next year.

Yep. That was a Benge bro. Pinners!

ah, good, i would have looked like a goof then. Pretty sure he ran the whole course chainless, i think he said his chain broke before the start.

Funken, you would have done well in the race

Piglet got third! Nice job for a 50+er!



Chip your a luck guy!

Write Up here: http://www.mountainflyermagazine.com...ss-enduro.html
Great job everyone and thanks Dave for putting on a well organized and fun event!!!!

Originally Posted by Stealthb4

Write Up here: http://www.mountainflyermagazine.com...ss-enduro.html
Great job everyone and thanks Dave for putting on a well organized and fun event!!!!

Thank you guys! It was awesome. Make sure to thank the Aspen Skiing Company for all of the support. They really are doing a great job embracing Snowmass as a summer destination. Valhala is just the beginning! Thanks to ShockTop for giving away the bike. And of course, my buddy, Steve Rausch. The Uber D course has been a dream of ours for quite some time and to see everyone slaying it was so awesome!

-D

Nitro, I've seen some pictures on facebook of what appears to be valhalla like trail building above vapor trail, whats the scoop?

Turns out it is upper vapor trail. I assume it eliminates the shitty loose road portion that you used to have to ride to get to vapor. Looks FAST.