The Dual Slalom finals at the 2012 USA Cycling Collegiate Mountain Bike National Championships in Angel Fire, Sunday (Oct. 21) were raced on a fast, dusty, curvy, tight, bumpy, technical quarter-mile course.
The course for the gravity event was certainly shorter than the endurance race courses, but bikers who reached the podium had to race 10 times in a 2 1/2-hour span.
“I’m from San Diego so this altitude is killing me,†Marian University’s Bryce Hocking said. “I’m exhausted.â€
Hocking kept winning, however  … More