Gravity Pirates dominate Rim Nordic DH race

Quick report. 5 Pirates raced. 5 Pirates stood on the podium!
Over 100 racers. Super loose and dusty course.

I hope every one posts their pics up here and gives a more in dept report of their experience.

If there would have been team points, I'm sure we would have been the #1 team.

yup!!! GP owned!! it was a really fun weekend riding with Tim, IZ, Rowdy, and Kevin. Cant wait to see the pics of the podium and the race. We made Steve proud, I wonder if he shed a tear lol

That's rad! Good job guys going out there and repping GP! I wish I could have been out there today racing with everyone. Everyone should post up their results so they get the props they deserve! I know Isreal got 3rd which is awesome! Time for some GP domination in racing

3rd place in Super D Cat 2, not so much in dh Cat 2 though. I kinda of rode a little too hard today and blew off the course during my race run a few times and 1 crash, so that gave me 19th in Cat 2 dh. I know a photographer or two got some good pics of the first time and maybe the 3rd....when I get them, they will be posted! GP really represented today, it was awesome to see all 5 of us podium and to see Rowdy; A. Riding dh again, B. Take a damn podium!!!!! Glad everybody could make it out! BTW it was cold as a mother fucker last night in my tent!

Sweet! Way to represent guys!

See GP is more than the meaning of rape!

2nd place, cat3, men 40-49.

i too made some mistakes and did not have a clean race run. first place had about 29 seconds on me. so i need to ride my dh bike more than once a month if i want to start winning. i had about 27 seconds on 3rd place behind me.

i am going to do every race of this series and hope to do well overall in the season just by attrition. (though i am not a team rider, i still wore my gp jersey)

it was very very cool to meet everyone and race with them. i'm thinking of going up the night before this next time to just get more reps in.

and this year they had a school bus to haul riders up and two trailers to haul bikes. a nice addition!

Grabbed 1st place in Cat 1, my first one lol, track was more fun then I thought it might have been, I am going to get my Pro card at this series race for sure!! First Pro gravity pirate racer right here!!

nice job man.... nice job for all you guys.....

I was planning on going since its so close but I had some friends come up and we free rode instead. But next race I'll bring my toy hauler and we. An have a legit GP pits.

here is the vid i made with my footage. i know throttlepimp has some good pics.

i'm not on fb, so if anyone put them tthere, can you cross post them here please.

Way to go guys!!

HAHA...you have too much fun making videos Rowdy. Damn it feels good to be a gansta....

haha you missed the clip where you ate shit into that bush on your first run

hahaha, i make the videos so i control what goes in them. =) it's bad enough to show my slow riding. so i have to edit out all the times i ran off course or you can hear my brakes squeeling when i have them applied at a totally unnecessary time.

i just wish kevin would ride with a gopro so we could have caught is exploding dust ball crash. or tim's high speed get-offs. those would make for much better footage than my simple beginner mistakes.

either way, damn it feels good to be a cat 3, 40+, gangster.

Nice rim job guys!

Haha nice vid Rowdy, Gangsta! I have to say this is a really well organized event. Rim Nordic really has their shit together. I'm pretty happy with my 3rd place. Just need to pedal harder in some places as I wasnt even tired when I hit the finish line. I'll post my video footage too, but its just from practice.

Good times, good turnout!!! Thanks to everyone who came out and supported local DH and Super D racing at Rim Nordic!!! Thanks to Jason Cleghorn and Scott McClain for the great photos!

Kim and I had a blast racing Open Women DH. Hope to see more ladies out next race. And Roger held down the Cat 60+ Men's class.

With a horrible start picked up 3rd Place (3:49) or possibly 2nd (3:25) in Cat 2 40-49 as there were some timing issues. The horrible start was all me as I tried to do my infamous jockey jump start. Only to catch my shorts on the seat to the amusement of everybody that was there to witness it. Rowdy thought I smashed my nuts, only my pride got crushed luckily.

First off I finally got a Leatt brace, then proceeded to put that bitch to the test going BIG OTB over shooting the first jump after the start on a practice run. So much did I over shoot it trying get some good pics I bounced the landing solidly off of the second one, sending me landing down the transition on the front wheel at full speed into the runaway truck sand box that was the trail. 2 more pedal strokes and I might have cleared it...

Scratched the fuck out of the CF helmet I just bought off Bizzobby in the tumble. Judging form the scratches on the lid, without the brace my neck would have gotten tweaked with my head going to the side and back pretty good. Maybe not a breaker but there is no sign in my head neck or shoulders of even the slightest tumble.

WEAR YOUR GEAR!

Here's my video.

Rim Nordic Race #1 - More Mountain Bike Videos

nice vid iz! thanks for showing me some better line choices than i made...

love your description of the crash kevin. got any of the group podium pics to share?

them having the bus and trailers was soooo much more nicer than self shuttling. i'll be back for the july 21st race.

edit*** I have a work meeting in vegas that weekend. I won't be at the july 21st race. sad.... gotta keep my license to work though...

Tom Secor wants to lay out the DH courses for the next races. If you wanna help him get the gig, email Rim Nordic and express your support for Tom.

Tom builds the fun courses at Fontana, I bet he'll be able to lay out a sick run at Rim Nordic

And it just gets better.

Turns out I got 2nd after all. Race #549.

http://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2012-2224

Race Results are posted.

Downhill: https://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2012-2224

Super D: https://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2012-2225

XC: https://www.usacycling.org/results/?permit=2012-2227

Just got to wifi, sick video Israel !! I saw some better lines hahaha that I didnt hit