the unofficial UCI Mountain Bike World Cup thread

[Headshot]

That non-tech track provided some of the best racing we've ever been treated to. They need to dumb down all the other tracks and add 20 jumps 🙂 Rename it BMXCO ... 

Seriously though, great track and great efforts from the racers who displayed big engines and superb skills and style. Maybe need to call it DCXCO?

[babse]

Yeah Brazil hits the spot and clearly the okes love it... next year 3 races there? lol

 

That kid that won the u23 was a proper character celebrating/styling half way through the final lap already.

[DieselnDust]

Riley Amos…

 you have to listen to his interviews. Proper character. Could make a career out of stand up comedy

[nathrix]

 

[DieselnDust]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C57I6gdM9zY/?igsh=MXRhb2FyMXc2OHdqdw==

for the that course wasn’t technical group

[tinmug]

The actual UCI riders, you know, those physically there, were saying it's sorta technical (and enjoyable to ride). With technicality being a comparison thing I'll put stock in that over someone behind a bright computer screen sipping tea. 🤷‍♂️

 

[Action_Man]

On 4/21/2024 at 8:56 PM, babse said:

Its just a lot of jumps... 

 

Not sure why okes walking their bikes even. 

One has to love the idiotic comments on these threads from keyboard warriors who can’t even write properly, let lone ride their bicycles 🤣

 

So easy to sit behind a keyboard & make grammatically incorrect comments about things that one would be too scared to walk down in real life; let alone try race a bicycle over because it looks far easier on TV than in reality…
 

Always great entertainment value reading some of these comments 🍿 🍿🍿

[Headshot]

Love the commentators who are late to the party, presumably because they're checking their grammar on chatGPT, and miss the point or humor in a comment they select to ridicule. It like make me lol 

[babse]

6 hours ago, Headshot said:

Love the commentators who are late to the party, presumably because they're checking their grammar on chatGPT, and miss the point or humor in a comment they select to ridicule. It like make me lol 

My idiocracy forgot to add italics onto my comment 🙃

[mrcg]

1 hour ago, babse said:

My idiocracy forgot to add italics onto my comment 🙃

The age old problem of the written word: people mostly only read it from their very own perspective and points of view, "forgetting" to take the multitude of meanings, nuances, aspects etc into consideration. Hence the greater challenge with all "social media" - often "unsocial" platforms, where all and sundry can just voice their "opinions" with far too little restraint and care.

Great Saffa saying: "Just be lekka"!

[DieselnDust]

20 hours ago, Action_Man said:

One has to love the idiotic comments on these threads from keyboard warriors who can’t even write properly, let lone ride their bicycles 🤣

 

So easy to sit behind a keyboard & make grammatically incorrect comments about things that one would be too scared to walk down in real life; let alone try race a bicycle over because it looks far easier on TV than in reality…
 

Always great entertainment value reading some of these comments 🍿 🍿🍿

Chill bro, many okes here are just taking the wee wee out of each other 

[justinafrika]

wun might take a Lill chill pill

 

 

Edited April 27 by justinafrika

[nathrix]

 

[nathrix]

 

[Headshot]

The new coverage is a bit weird. The Whoop UCI insta is full of promos for the Jr racing but the Staylive coverage only has the elite advertised. I suspect that the Jr and qualifying may well be live on YouTube, but they are doing their best not to put that out there. 

[Action_Man]

You're right @DieselInDust in retrospect, I interpreted this comment incorrectly, I certainly rush read it at a bad time & should also know better than voicing my opinions on a platform like this 

Edited May 4 by Action_Man