Freecaster Fail!

Dirtydog11
Dirtydog11 Posts: 1,621
edited April 2011 in The Crudcatcher
Been waiting all week for the first round of the DH, just as its about to go live their site goes down.

So it looks like a free trip to SA for Rob Warner and the rest of the broadcast team

Brilliant! :evil:
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,673
    works for me.
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    Came back up about 5 minutes ago. Tracey Mosely got first place in the Womens DH.

    http://uk.freecaster.tv/mountainbike/10 ... tzburg-rsa
  • mak3m
    mak3m Posts: 1,394
    LMAO
    Gee's fighting back harder than gaddaffi
  • toby_winkler
    toby_winkler Posts: 1,298
    mak3m wrote:
    LMAO
    Gee's fighting back harder than gaddaffi

    I was laughing so hard when he said that :lol:

    But Aaron Gwin :shock: :shock: :shock:
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    that was superb.

    the commentary was as gash as ever (am i the only person who knows what funny is?) but still better than the clowns who know nowt about DH racing on eurosport.

    Gwins time was outstanding, i thought it was some kind of mistake!
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    WOW, awesome race.
    Dirtydog11, quit your bitchin. They're doing it on what is effectively a shoestring budget. Just be glad that they're covering it AT ALL.
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    I enjoyed that.

    I have to say Freecaster do put on pretty good coverage. I had far less issues with signal dropping out than I did for most of the races last year.

    I dont understand why extreme sports channel don't put it on though. Surely it'd draw more viewers than pro-bull riding or 12 year old episodes of "nomads" or whatever poo they had on instead of this.
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,665
    I think it's pretty clear from what they actually show on "xtreme" that they aren't really into extreme sports at all.
  • joshtp
    joshtp Posts: 3,966
    AHH, DAMN! missed it... thought I might get back in time for the end... but alas.



    Cant find a table anywhere... anyone got the top 5/10?
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  • angry_bird
    angry_bird Posts: 3,787
    1. Aaron Gwin
    2. Greg Minnaar
    3. Gee Atherton
    4. Barel
    5. Peaty
    6. Steve Smith
    7. Marc Beaumont
    8. Sam Hill
    9. Nick Beer
    10. Josh Bryceland
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  • VWsurfbum
    VWsurfbum Posts: 7,881
    well watched that, shame you only get to see parts of the runs, I think Cedric Garcia was my man of the match, a 1 handed table top at that speed and then a little whip on the next jump, what a legend! 8)
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  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    Enjoyed the DH (on catch-up... went out riding most of the day), but what's with the 'interviews'.... half the time the mic wasn't on. Sometimes the questions are so bad they are good - like last year when he told Thomas Vanderhamm the new Anthill film was good and asked if he'd seen it yet :roll:

    Didn't see any of the women's race, unfortunately - I'd have liked to cheer Tracy to the win.
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    was gwin the guy riding with a dropper post to get the most out of the pedalling bits?
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    was gwin the guy riding with a dropper post to get the most out of the pedalling bits?

    Everyone in the top 10 was apart from Fabien Barel. I have a feeling he was the guy that could barely stand when he got off his bike.

    I'm surprised they used dropper posts as I thought the seat tube on most DH frames would be way too small to fit a dropper in (and still have enough drop in it to be useful).
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    even those carbon santa cruz bikes?
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  • Richie63
    Richie63 Posts: 2,132
    chedabob wrote:
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    was gwin the guy riding with a dropper post to get the most out of the pedalling bits?

    Everyone in the top 10 was apart from Fabien Barel. I have a feeling he was the guy that could barely stand when he got off his bike.

    I'm surprised they used dropper posts as I thought the seat tube on most DH frames would be way too small to fit a dropper in (and still have enough drop in it to be useful).

    Dropper Posts pah ,These are works teams they'll have some gizmo like those party things that unroll when you blow in them to fit inside thier seat posts :)
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  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    im sure Gwin was running a joplin, i dont remember seeing anyone else with one though.
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    edited April 2011
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    even those carbon santa cruz bikes?

    The v10 would be one that I'd assume wouldn't fit. I suppose though if you don't run it with the saddle all the way down, you'd be alright. I always assumed the dropper went all the way into the frame with the seals just above the seat clamp.

    http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6492710/
    Rockshox Reverb there (dunno who the rider is).

    Edit: Just realised you were asking if the v10s in the race had droppers. I'd assume so because isn't that what Steve Peat and the other syndicate riders have?

    Edit2: Peaty did run a dropper but it was most of the way out of the frame: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6492748/ Is it just me or is that an exceptionally small frame?
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    yeah there were a coupld of v10s in he top ten who werent running dropper posts
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  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    yeah there were a coupld of v10s in he top ten who werent running dropper posts

    My mistake, the pinkbike article says only 1 person on the podium ran without a dropper. Steve Peat had a Reverb (I think). http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/6492748/
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    oh aye! cool

    i wonder if we will see loads of folk buying them now.
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • chedabob
    chedabob Posts: 1,133
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    oh aye! cool

    i wonder if we will see loads of folk buying them now.

    Possibly. I think their use is limited to this course though. No other course has a 40 second section of flat-out pedalling. A lot of teams had to buy droppers when they got here because they didn't anticipate how hard it was going to be.
  • Anonymous
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    chedabob wrote:
    I always assumed the dropper went all the way into the frame with the seals just above the seat clamp.
    They don't. Generally.
  • sheepsteeth
    sheepsteeth Posts: 17,418
    chedabob wrote:
    sheepsteeth wrote:
    oh aye! cool

    i wonder if we will see loads of folk buying them now.

    Possibly. I think their use is limited to this course though. No other course has a 40 second section of flat-out pedalling. A lot of teams had to buy droppers when they got here because they didn't anticipate how hard it was going to be.


    but people love to keep up with the pros, i reckon there will be loads turning up at DH tracks all over the country now.
    Harry von Big Sticks
  • cat_with_no_tail
    cat_with_no_tail Posts: 12,980
    chedabob wrote:
    Is it just me or is that an exceptionally small frame?

    A lot of them do seem to ride short frames.

    I noticed one shot of Gee standing with his Commie, not sure if it was the angle of the shot or if he was also riding a small frame, but it looked like some kid had asked him to hold his bike while he went to get an ice-cream :lol:
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