Fair Cape Hill was found back in 2006...the road is super smooth, not technical at all. But come summer time the hill comes alive. During our summer session we're pretty much hounded by the SE wind, which pumps at gale force. The best thing about this hill is it's situated in the right position to get max tail wind from the SE wind. This proved to be choice during december when all the international riders came to Cape Town for the 2 races. On the first day of practise the wind was pumping...Erik clocked a 103km/h down the FC drop breaking the 100 mark.
Well like I said the road is close to been straight...there is a sweeping right that leads down to another right, which at high speeds, can be very tight. By the time you get to the last right you are flying down. We decided to put some hay bail chicanes on the coarse to make it a bit more interesting. It did just that...I remember thinking we will give the riders their first run by themselves to get into the hill. After that it should be cool for group runs. Damn on the first run I think there were about 5 riders that went down...what the hell was going on.
Richard thought he had it waxed but came short on the first chicane...went down pretty hard and his shoe disappeared into the bush. He searched for his shoe for about an hour before he found it. Local rider Justin Goodman had built himself a brand new luge...looking all bling. He reckoned it was all cool to just bomb the hill without considering the wind factor, and by the time he reached the FC drop he was flying down the hill. He got a fat speed wobble, bailed hard and gave his new luge some war wounds on his first run.
But at the end of the weekend all the riders had the hill down. In the finals it was a show down between Mike Z and Scoot and it was tight!!!
Write up a Race Report with results and tags for some of those photos, and we'd be thrilled to run it on our Front Page to get the word out. My email is my screen name @silverfishlongboarding.com. Use Word and please don't embed photos in the text.
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Fair Cape Downhill challenge Dec 07
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