Well, they do say variety is the spice of life, and Snowshoe couldn’t offer up a more varied downhill track for the final round of the UCI MTB World Cup 2019.
Featuring some of the biggest jumps and techiest rocks, the downhill race is going to be a real challenge for the athletes who will be tested to their limits in hopes of taming this wild beast. Join Gee-Man Atherton on his final course preview of 2019.
We all expected Northstar to be dry, loose, and rough. Well, it realy delivered on all fronts. The tracks raced were some of the gnarliest we’ve seen this year and the combination of moon dust and boulders meant staying upright was a gamble on every stage. Jesse, Rémi, Andréane, and Peter navigated the jank and put down some incredible runs and impressive results.
Between Rémi’s budding slopestyle career, Jesse’s broken hand grip mods, and ALN’s on-the-fly packing, the team joined Peter Ostroski in America and took on California in style. Now that the dust is settled, check out Episode 5 of The Jank Files