A little footage from Chris Doan, from last weekend’s Water Tower race down in Austin. Radicalness…

Here are some shots of the downhill event. I started at the bottom of the hill, and worked my way to the top as the heats progressed. Thus, this isn’t one race, but clips of quite a few at different points on the course.

I made no real effort to edit this footage a lot. Figured some of the riders might want to see it all. So here it is.

The course itself starts at top of the hill, and is initially very steep. The riders pick up a lot of speed. After that first fast section, the street levels out for about 100 yards, I’d say. The riders have to carry their speed through this part. Then the really steep part, where they were running the Giant Slalom earlier. When you are on the flat part, looking east, it looks like the road just drops off. It sort of does. At that point, the riders pick up massive speed, and whip around the turn at the bottom. The road then curves, goes over a bridge, and it uphill for a bit — a good place to scrub their speed.

From STIBroker – Giant Slalom on Day One:

From Chris Doan — Hybrid Slalom on Day Two:

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Originally uploaded by tesseract33

Still yet another great shot from flickr.com. Awesomeness.

Behold! The radicalitude of Possum Kingdom. Who woulda thunk it. Outlaw race coming up down there. Thanks to Baked Boards for posting this up on the youtubes. Checking out that pavement, and the speeds these guys are getting, I’d say leathers might save you a little skin. Or a lot of skin.