Sorry, also meant to add that the single track portion of Renni will be open tomorrow and thank you to everyone for your patience, assistance, compliments on the trail and racing in this series.  We hope you're enjoying what we've done and are looking forward to bringing more fun to this trail!

Track runs great!  The kitty litter near the rock drop is deadly, washed out on it today. 

I did sport last year and usually hovered around 10th or so. I'm 208lbs so I think I might try Clydesdale class this time. Is that kosher? 200lbs is the cutoff right? I wasn't sure if there was any unwritten rules or etiquette for the class. 

Looking forward to racing!

Russell N wrote on 01/28/17 at 2:00am:



You're good for Clydesdale, just remember to wear knee high white socks.

Was the new up hill passing line before the rock drop effective?  I hit the lapper pack just before there a couple times but never took it because....I'm blind?  Stubborn?  Stubborn and blind?  It looked soft, steeper and slower every time I went past it thinking "I should have tried that instead of sitting behind these 5 guys."  I guess I'll give it a shot next week if I need to and report back.

A friend in +50 noted it was hard to find places to get out of the way of the single speed guys in the woods.  Wondering if it might be easier to construct a couple spots for folks to move over instead of large passing lanes?

That steeper section is for sure slower and you would have to really really push it to make a pass in that section. It's more of a spot that if someone is looking to give up a spot or let someone pass, they would go to the left. It isn't easy to make a spot to make the course faster without a bunch of real testing, trial and error, that kind of thing.

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Heres the first two laps of the SS race, plus a lap in the middle with Rich, then Rich throwing down megawatts and ripping his chain off his rear cog. I tried to push him along but he couldn't get it back on

Looks like you have to be way faster then whoever you are trying to pass to make that line work.  I had bigger issues between heckle hill and the gravel road.

James you and Richard have a good battle going on the last 2 weeks. Lap times are identical.


Heckle hill was pretty good this week!

AMitchell47 wrote on 01/30/17 at 3:37pm:


I used it twice in Sport 40+. 

If you did your sprint work before the series, you can find the power to pass on that line.

The multiple lines before the rock garden worked well this week.  It seemed like the middle one was the firmest, but I used the outside one a couple times and it was fine.  There were four of us at the front of the beginner +40 group riding together and we were able to get by lappers in that section.  Thanks for the hard work, another fun race day.

Glad it worked out. I was happy in rained Saturday as it helped it bed in. Spent a lot of time compacting it too, but given it was only a day old for race day, I think it worked out well. Was happy for the Junior too as it eliminated a huge bottle neck for them. 

That is probably a wrap wrap for this years work, so don't expect any new features for the final two races. That said, wait until you see what we have in store for 2018...new "pro line" at the drop garden with a real risk reward (no more rolling the rocks but you have to clean a steeper climb to get to it), rebuild a couple of existing berms, create a new and second "flow zone" similar to the right left "S" turn, new second down hill, and a tech climb feature with multiple options to get back to the road (hard and fast, middle, and easy but long).