The Evolution Of Leogang: From Embarrassing Bike Park To Epic Race Track

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  • Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
  • Once dismissed as too much of a bike park, the track at Leogang has evolved over the past 10 years to become a favourite on the race calendar. Henry explains how this transformation happened over the past decade.
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Комментарии • 30

  • @TheROOTminus1
    @TheROOTminus1 4 месяца назад +24

    The peak of Leogang; manicured bike-park had to be Gwin's chainless win in 2015.

  • @willwestondh
    @willwestondh 4 месяца назад +12

    Leogang was actually pretty technical the first few years. It was only when the trees were removed in the mid section that it became more straight forward. I raced the world cup there in 2013 and it was plenty challenging

  • @MisspentSummers
    @MisspentSummers 4 месяца назад +10

    Can't wait to see who comes out on top this weekend!

  • @richardelsdon2027
    @richardelsdon2027 4 месяца назад +18

    That music at the end, is Henry thinking he’s on BBC Newsround 😂

    • @levinsonl
      @levinsonl 4 месяца назад +1

      I think it's sick, more CNN music!!

  • @michaelgoodwin593
    @michaelgoodwin593 4 месяца назад

    Going next week can't wait. Very concerned I picked the wrong time to visit. Seems to be very popular at the moment

  • @brucemacdonald5532
    @brucemacdonald5532 4 месяца назад +3

    Some new off-piste grass or wooded sections that venues tend to add don't really substitute for a proper gnarly DH track. Yeah, it's better, but not quite reinvented. If you go to the same venue often enough, it does become stale.

    • @LaurentiusTriarius
      @LaurentiusTriarius 4 месяца назад

      Hardline should be the reference if you ask me... But yeah I'm not participating 😅

  • @davefellows
    @davefellows 4 месяца назад

    Can't wait. Go Lachlan!

  • @sonnyw__8087
    @sonnyw__8087 4 месяца назад +1

    Leogang is the hardline of the world cups imo, big jumps, gnarly tech it has the lot imo

  • @LaurentiusTriarius
    @LaurentiusTriarius 4 месяца назад

    That's the kind of content that suits Henry well. Don't let him loose tho 😂

  • @petersuchansky6703
    @petersuchansky6703 4 месяца назад +1

    best track is Val di sole

  • @RobbisTV
    @RobbisTV 4 месяца назад

    Natural, steep and rutted? Lol
    Who doesn’t love bumbling down Leogang

  • @NotADuncon
    @NotADuncon 4 месяца назад +5

    I'm not Saying Leo is smooth but sorry a sample size of 1 doesn't contradict anything. Henry. You're supposed to be the tech guy there so plotting trend lines from 1 data point is a bit silly of you

    • @conman1395
      @conman1395 4 месяца назад +3

      Ever since Henry got to pinkbike, it's been obvious someone else was doing the thinking for his scripts at GCN.

    • @NotADuncon
      @NotADuncon 4 месяца назад +1

      @@conman1395 It's just annoying his knee jerk reaction is "every popular opinion online is wrong and therefore the opposite opinion is 100% correct". I get that online commenters often know shit and throw out dumb opinions but being a contrarian is as bad.

    • @Henry-Quinney
      @Henry-Quinney 4 месяца назад

      ⁠​⁠@@NotADuncon to help me understand, could you explain further? Is it concerning the comment referring to wheel size? Thanks

    • @scottmeredith3359
      @scottmeredith3359 4 месяца назад +2

      What’s this single data point? He went over the changes made each year…

    • @Ganiscol
      @Ganiscol 4 месяца назад +3

      What are you talking about? He ran through the changes since 2017 - are you sure you watched the video and understood what is is about?

  • @heathfranklin4296
    @heathfranklin4296 4 месяца назад +3

    Good video thanks. And thanks for not having dark rimmed glasses and weak facial hair that’s a plus in my book you stand out sir. We need to bring back Champery and Shlodming and Norway tracks. I still have the very bike the last year they made the 2014 V10 in 26 inch. 10 inches of travel a true V10 great bike