Red Bull Downforce Urban downhill Competition (Swansea)

[grasum]

Just Found out about this last night... I hate it when i miss out on things like this! Who's going?

Copied from Whats on in swansea site:

On Sunday 4th December the Red Bull Downforce extreme urban downhill mountain bike event will take place in Swansea, starting at Nicander Parade in Mayhill involving a dramatic decent into the City Centre.

The course involves gradients comparable with world-class extreme downhill challenges such as the 'Desafino no Morro' at Rio de Janero, in Brazil. Backdrops range from picturesque views over Swansea Bay to the urban scenes that inspired the event including terraces, steps, drops and radical descents such as Clifton Hill, which is amongst the steepest surfaced roads in the United Kingdom.

The route was discovered by Britain's multi World-cup downhill mountain bike medal winner Gee Atherton, who appeared on the BBC's Top Gear racing a Renault Clio down the streets of Lisbon and winning.

32 riders will compete in individual timed descents, the route will be stewarded for safety and the event is free to watch. It all starts at midday and will end at approximately 3.00pm; prize-giving will be at 3.30pm.

http://www.swansea.gov.uk/index.cfm?articleid=3384...

see you there...

Graham

[Stugots]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56kJ99AvfoI

Dan + Gee in Brazil.

OP post up some piccys here cheers.. and how about a pov video too..

[Fetchez la vache]

Anyone go to this?

[anonymous-user]

no, slightly related though, was watching loads of videos from the sommerling in austria last night on youtube. that place looks awesome, love the wooded section that opens out into a big bowl and a 19ft drop...

[Fluffsri]

Any links to youtube for the Swansea event? I forgot to look last night.

[GaryGlitter]

Fluffsri said:

Any links to youtube for the Swansea event? I forgot to look last night.

A page worth of vids on Youtube, mostly 10 seconds phone camera clips though.

Edited by GaryGlitter on Wednesday 14th December 11:09

[P-Jay]

I nearly went along, but I was feeling a little poorly and the weather was crap - final straw was finding out the Athertons were only "on hand" rather than actually racing themselves.