Brake Burner Super D Race NZ 2008

2008 "Brake Burner" Super D event at Coronet Peak skifield, near Queenstown, New Zealand.

6 hour Endurance Mountain Bike Race...
Ski chair lift up, Single track down. 2008 winner: Geoff Small

(Footage shot by Ben Ruffell... http://www.ruff.co.nz/ )

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• mountain
• bike
• brake
• burner
• brakeburner
• coronet
• peak
• queenstown
• new
• zealand

[Savage7046]

So, what is super d. It looks like dowhill.

[davegeenz]

@Savage7046 Yep it is a downhill mountain bike race, but the difference is the riders go continuously around the course for 6 hours... single track down and then taking a ski chair lift back up to the top again. Riders have a bracelet on their ankle that counts how many laps they've done. Some do the 6 hours solo, others do it in teams as a sort of relay event.

[davegeenz]

Yep Sam Blenkinsop's in there

[BMXfreak478811]

what were they doing at 3:11 to 3:16??

[davegeenz]

Changing over a timing device. You can either do the full race solo, or do it in teams relay-style. The electronic ankle band registers laps/times each time a rider passes the 'start' line.

[davegeenz]

Sorry the '09 Brake Burner was just a few weeks ago (early Feb), just out of Queenstown, NZ. Unfortunately we didn't make it to this year's event.

[teamineson]

Wow some people need to learn how to jump there bikes!

[Varaxis]

Damn, that guy was killing it on a hardtail. LOL

[YourGamingTeam]

Do girls have balls?

[240sxdrft]

was that andrew shandro at the end?

[TheNakerz5]

00:49 you can hear him say 'fuck' just as he lands xD

[pilotmonkey]

What would be better for this, the base level giant Trance or base level Giant reign?

[pilotmonkey]

@Varaxis I can't tell who is on 1, bikes going so fast. 

[pilotmonkey]

would scare the heck out of me getting passed.