Is this the HARDEST XCO course EVER? | Crans Montana How The Race Was Won®
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2024
- I've got the clickbait headline and thumbnail, I've got the teaser intro, I've got 11 minutes to talk about How The Race Was Won® at in the UCI World Cup Mountain Bike race at Crans Montana.
As promised in the video, here are some links:
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So, I’ve been rewatching 2013 Amstel Gold HTRWW on YT on repeat the past decade not knowing YOU‘RE STILL DOING IT ELSEWHERE?!!!!
Time to move on to the 2015 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad HTRWW mate. :-)
Coffee mug... definitely a coffee mug. Great to see you back!!
The best in the game is back!👏
Welcome back brotha. Now please stay here.
The GOAT is back!
Thank you for blessing us with content!
THIS
You're still the GOAT for this kind of content. Welcome back and we can't wait for more! Well done sir
I'm glad to see you're back covering XCO! However, I have to disagree about Crans Montana. Difficulty should not equate to danger. I understand your point, but things have changed recently, especially this year. Firstly, there were protests from the teams on the first day because the course's lines and obstacles were designed in a way that made racing unsafe. This undermines the argument that riders can check and pre-ride the course as designed. In reality, they only knew the final course setup the day before. To emphasize the issue, take a look at the number of riders who crashed with serious consequences that might have prematurely ended their season. We must not forget that we are discussing the world's best athletes here. This situation is reminiscent of Jakobsen's crash at the Tour de Pologne. It seems that until someone is seriously injured, it's considered acceptable, even praised for the attention it generates. However, we must not forget that these athletes are risking their well-being for our entertainment, so neither organizers nor spectators should condone it.
I’m all for a “tough” course, but that rock garden with lanes created by having vertical rocks sticking up in between the lanes was absurd! It’s “mountain” biking, not “rock” biking. The Olympic course had a feature where they had to jump off a rock and make it over a gap, which was difficult and required a lot of skill; but it was a natural rock feature and it made sense. The whole rock garden area was just cheesy in addition to being unnecessarily dangerous. Just having a jump off some rocks is enough without having a landing lane made of rocks and a bunch of rocks sticking straight up on either side to potentially land on. “Let’s see how many careers we can end in one race!” 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♀️
Yeah that rock drop (or really just the idiotic jagged rock walls) was an absolute travesty in what was otherwise a really great course IMO.
Just generally I think the broadcasters seem to want the spectacle of big manmade features, despite them rarely impacting the racing in a positive/meaningful way. I understand that it looks good on camera but nothing on a XCO course should really be high consequence. And the course really needs to be locked in and made safe before practice even starts.
Love the longer form video! As a roadie that’s new to all things MTB, I appreciate getting as much detail and insight as I can!
Not sure if this was something on your end or mine, but it took me until about 3:14 for the right audio channel to come in fully. Edit: Buuut then it dropped out again a few seconds later 🤷♂️
Glad to see you back on YT covering XC!
:)) Cosmo coming back for XCO is definitely something I didn't expect. Welcome back
Cosmo! So glad to have you back 🤘
Cool to see you again Cosmo
I know I shouldn't get overly excited about a new HTRWW video, but I'm overly excited about a new HTRWW video.
Great video! Keep them coming please!
F yeah! I'd love a HTRWW Tshirt or two.
Dude, you're a legend! Chris Horner and Lanterne Rouge need to acknowledge your race calling vlogger OG status! Are you still in FoCo?
ya know...cross is coming...keep up the great work!
I wish I watched more xc mtb, thank you cosmo
Great to see you back 🎉
I love your coverage of XC racing. Its great!
I have been watching The Week in Bike on repeat for the past decade or so WAIT YOU HAVE A PODCAST NOW?
Don't understand the comments about this race: it's a MOUNTAIN BIKE race - if you make that argument, then if it rains for the Namur CX World Cup, they shouldn't run it? Yes, technical, steep, rocky descents are terrifying (check out Puck Pietersie's course recons if you want to scare yourself) but these are very, very good riders; plus, I like seeing 3KPH climbs in mud with multiple foot dabs and dismounts: this what makes it different from road and 'cross. Thanks for this, and more, please...
The comments about this race are due to them building big non-rideable manmade hazards (rock walls) at the base of a technical feature that unnecessarily increased the danger to the riders. *AND* they didn't bother to pad those rocks or build in a C-line around them until practice was well under way and people had already crashed there a bunch. And it doesn't seem like they really considered how some of those features would ride in the wet.
Otherwise this was a great course but whoever was in charge of safety seriously dropped the ball on this course.
Welcome back
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HI RYAN
wow, el Cosmo is back!!!!
This is great analysis.
Welcome back!
Yay! You're back! Do the TdF please!
If I get 70,000 EUR in fundraising in the next three days, then yes I will do the Tour.
I don't tend to comment on YT videos, but when I do it's because they are good.
I've missed you on UA-cam for about a decade.
I mean, I haven't been on specicially UA-cam in roughly a decade so…story checks out.
Let’s gooooooo 🎉🎉🎉
We all know who you are, Cosmo😉
And miss the heck out of ya!!
I also think that if the course is burley you can ride a bigger bike, yes you’ll be slower on the climb but its supposed to be a challenge
I am surprised this isn't more of a thing, actually-"Trail-country" bikes are extremely capable and weight (like 2% increase combined bike/rider) is pretty much the only penalty. You need technically need to use the same bike for the XCC and XCO, but what sort of changes you can make to that "same" bike are a huge gray area.
more of this please
whoa this guy finally remembered his YT password
Cosmo is what sports presenting should be.
Welcome back ,,,welcome back,,, welcome back....
The problem is that the other many disciplines need to be their own Olympic events. DH, Enduro; that's where these features belong. Those events are in full face and protection, with one rider at a time, riding the course just one time. But XC is 50+ riders at once, doing some of the same gnar, with no extra protection, lap after lap after lap. It's not a question of if you crash but when. Yes it looks great and it sure makes things interesting, but courses can still be challenging and test technical ability without trips to the hospital . Because there is no Olympic DH or Enduro, they are putting these features in MTB races more and more. When the top riders in the world are crashing multiple times, it's too much. An XC course should be somewhat ride-able by the average competitive rider; not just a select few.. In swimming there is no less than 14 individual Olympic events, and 11 Olympic track cycling events,. So we need more MTB events for these disciplines, and not try to wrap them all into XC.
does this means TDF? 🤞
does this means olympics? 🤞
dos this means worlds? 🤞
life in MONO
Love the content, but the start seems to have some audio issues
Yeah no left side for the intro speech.
@@Ogrecrusher this is what I get for not wearing my headphones because it looks weird. I can clean that up for next time
"making long videos is at least as irritating a I remember." 😆😆😆
Well then , keep it uppppp!
Your cam does have a dead pixel 😊
Yes, in normal conditions its great course. But its not good course if its not working when it rains. In conclusion, its not good course because no one will care what if there was a drought. We saw a wet track that injured a lot of people before the Olympics.
Everything has changed except the tyres. Yes, they’re 29 and wider but they still run very fast rolling, low grip tyres.
@@hasbeenracing can’t imagine wider tires. Even todays tires it’s not that fast like 2-3 years ago
@@GeorgeC.bladesmith they’re generally running 2.4s now but actually ran skinnier ones to cut through the mud.
pushing limits is great, but the course made poor use of natural features. zero flow. rock wall with pads on top was so odd