Not sure where this is, but it looks like fun!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDom2OvK564
(nicked of singletrack forum, thanks walleater)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDom2OvK564
(nicked of singletrack forum, thanks walleater)
Old skool DH vid clip
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Just picked this up for $10.. Bit later than Kamikaze but never seen it..
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Repack Rider
Senior Retro Guru
kingroon":3gypfarj said:
I was the starter for that race, which was the first downhill run on the Mammoth Mountain course. I was at the top of the mountain so I didn't see that crash. The finish line was on the far side of the parking lot from the end of the dirt road, and as riders crossed from dirt to macadam, they spread a layer of sand across the first few feet of the parking lot.
The rider was clearly going to win. No one had gone anywhere near as fast, but when he hit the slippery layer of dirt on top of asphalt, he lost traction, and when he hit the booth, he actually moved it a foot or so.
The video cuts off just before the shower of blood became visible. I have that video, but I don't watch it very often.
Repack Rider
Senior Retro Guru
stevet1":yiu9sjyw said:
The clue is the first few frames, "BTU Rules."
BTU is the Berkeley Trailers Union, a very loose club of dirt riders. Berkeley is just across San Francisco Bay from Marin County, about a half-hour drive from Fairfax, and in '76 when the Repack races started, these guys started showing up within a month or so to take part. They were just like us, downhill crazies who shredded their own hills, and they became regulars at Repack, but they never put on races of their own. I have no idea how they heard about us so quickly, but the Repack races seem to bring like minded riders out of the woodwork.
The first bike shown is a Lawwill-Knight ProCruiser, which dates it around 1980, but it looks like this has been pieced together from several videos. I can barely make out their team shirt on one of the riders.
