Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby radiusq on Mon 12/Jul/10 1:34pm

http://dirt.mpora.com/news/jerome-cleme ... anche.html

Fantastic result for Blinky. He must be uber fit right now.
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby banga on Mon 12/Jul/10 1:38pm

radiusq wrote:http://dirt.mpora.com/news/jerome-clementz-wins-2010-megavalanche.html

Fantastic result for Blinky. He must be uber fit right now.


Right now? :D
He got 7th a couple of years back on a DH bike....
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby radiusq on Mon 12/Jul/10 1:50pm

Really? Wow, that's a bigger achievement. Although I've yet to see an altitude map for the Alpe d'Huez track, it sounds like there's considerable climbing to be done.

I'd love to do this race myself one day after seeing it in so many videos over the years.
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby Stun on Mon 12/Jul/10 2:14pm

Jurgen Beneke and Vouliouz back to their old places in the top 10 huh...
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby wuffy on Mon 12/Jul/10 3:03pm

33k long course apparently, saw a write up on PB. That's horizontal distance. No idea what climbs are.
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby banga on Mon 12/Jul/10 3:23pm

radiusq wrote:Really? Wow, that's a bigger achievement. Although I've yet to see an altitude map for the Alpe d'Huez track, it sounds like there's considerable climbing to be done.

I'd love to do this race myself one day after seeing it in so many videos over the years.


Yip, 2007.
Pretty sure there were 4 Kiwis in the top 20, all on DH bikes. Scolzey was first off the Glacier, but punctured. Plenty of climbing
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby radiusq on Mon 12/Jul/10 4:39pm

Nice write-up of amateur participating in the event - http://www.pinkbike.com/news/megavalanc ... -2010.html

Video makes me want to book for 2011.
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Re: Blinky Third At Megavalanche

Postby snr_merv on Mon 12/Jul/10 5:07pm

Having Voullioz on his team must have helped, pretty sick, beat Wildhaber and Absalon who pretty much live to race the Mega, keeping it real with no gloves still as well, even in the snow, haha :cool: Now win another world cup, you're overdue for one :thumbsup:
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