Photos and captions by
Fraser BrittonMost people hopped this new rock drop to the backside, especially first run. The bulldog decided to huck it. Houston, come in Houston...
First time in awhile riders have dealt with bone dry corners and loose gravel. It's gonna be a good weekend if this keeps up!
Sabrina Jonnier makes her way down the steep left hander that Windham is famous for. Everyone else shot the massive ruts at the bottom, so I decided to give it a slightly different look.
Comin' in hot. Cedric flat tracks his way through a left hand corner. The old man is pushing hard to move into the top 10 this week.
Yep, we're on the east coast. Rocks and roots and deep woods...
Danny Hart hucks the new rock garden mid course. There's a natural spring in here and it's getting everyone's bright clean kit covered in mud. Bother.
The many natural springs on the mountain are causing massive mud holes in areas. This berm has seen better days, the ruts were so deep they were catching pedals by top 80 practice.
Aaron Gwin. On it.
Emilie Sigenthaler through the lower rock garden while grandma the course marshall looks on.
Adam Brayton likes to huck things, here he finds the rock garden line with the biggest jump he could find.
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GITT SOME, AMERICA!
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Day 1 Wednesday - Track walk and behind the scenes
Day 2 Thursday - Timed training/practice and behind the scenes
Day 3 Friday - 4X quali and DH
Day 4 Saturday - 4X final and DH quali
Day 5 Sunday - DH finals
We have 2 photographers with 2 different styles, sometimes the posts get put together and sometimes they don't, it depends on how they fit. We also try to do a wrap up photo post from DH and the pits sometime Monday or Tuesday.
And then we have guys like Stu Thomson and others that submit good content and we run it...
βThe 2011 edition of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano will get under way in less than two weeks with the first round in Pietermaritzburg (South Africa).
A modification to the programme for the seventh of the 10-round series has been announced: there will not be a 4-cross competition in Windham. Only the cross-country and downhill events will be raced in the American resort β which is hosting a round of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano for the second time β on the 9th and 10th July.
After Pietermaritzburg, the 4-cross specialists will meet up again in Fort William (GBR) and Leogang (AUT) in June, then Mt-Sainte Anne (CAN) in July, before the finals of the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup presented by Shimano which will take place this year in Val di Sole (ITA) in August.β
Windham's reason was that the course was torn down for winter use of the slope (it's a ski area) and the cost of rebuilding it was too high to justify it.