4 Minute Kiwi DH Clip

[Tama]

Howdy - I thought you guys might be interested in seeing some racing from across the ditch. This is a 4 minute clip featuring footage from a round of the DH Nationals held at Long Gully, Wellington, New Zealand.

Video Clip => http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopict-23548.html

The most "spectator friendly" section is called the "Pig Chute" where riders come down a steep and bumpy chute, hit a kicker and boost over a ridge into a blind landing on a berm. This is what happens when things don't go to plan.

Pig Chute Crash => http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopict-19904.html

Cheers
Tama

[Regan]

That track looks INSANE! That chute is Crazy!

[Busty]

Nice.....that looks soooooooooooooo sweet!

[Dozer]

awesome vid, that step up looks unreal!! great job.

[camday]

Very nice. Well done.
Taking words from Ian Thorpe, it's 'Fully Sick'

[demo man]

HOLY CRAP!!!!

that track is FAST!!!! god damn, you guys know how to build, look at how fast some of those berms are! FARK!

nice vid too, pretty good camera work.

thanx for posting, made my maths homework much more interesting!

[RedPill]

That looks like the sweetest track. how high up is it? and how long is the track?

[stacka]

very nice track................fast big jumps and steep scary stuff. i know this might sound dumb, but some of the sections linking everything look a tad pedally? or maybe its be being a tool..........

[cherbro]

For RedPill's questions, the track starts at about 400m above sea. the chute itself must be a good 8m or more down (Tama might be able to confirm this if he checks this thread again). the track is quite short with the pros doing it in just over 2 min. the area where it is has a few decent trails that are worth exploring if you're ever in NZ.

to get the rumour mill going, legend has it that when Steve Romaniuk was over filming the Drop In series a couple of months ago, he took one look at the "Pig Chute" and refused to go down. another one of the crew ripped his leg open after bailing on pulling a tabletop following the step up.

[Tama]

For RedPill's questions, the track starts at about 400m above sea. the chute itself must be a good 8m or more down (Tama might be able to confirm this if he checks this thread again). the track is quite short with the pros doing it in just over 2 min. the area where it is has a few decent trails that are worth exploring if you're ever in NZ.Yar - what he said, John Kirkcaldie (guy on the Turner who aces the step-up) uses it to practise and he does the course in 1:57

to get the rumour mill going, legend has it that when Steve Romaniuk was over filming the Drop In series a couple of months ago, he took one look at the "Pig Chute" and refused to go down. another one of the crew ripped his leg open after bailing on pulling a tabletop following the step up.Kinda true - the first time we took them up there it had been raining and the course was slippery as hell - none of them would ride it. However, we went back when it was fine (again and again and again as they enjoyed it so much) and Steve sprained his hand on entry to the chute and Randy needed 15 stitches in his abdomen after overshooting the step-up.

All of which will be on Drop In on Fuel TV and C4 around the end of this year.

[Mahoney_007]

HOLY SHIT now thats a pretty damn sweet DH track. That section with the chute looks very nasty indeed, but the speed some of those riders came down at totally blew me away. Awesome footage thanks heaps for posting that up well worth the download for the rest of you.

[Mo]

woah, either that video was recorded a faster rate or those kiwis are truely insane, which i think is true.

i haven't seen anything that fast