Ned Overrand says Colorado is toughest MTBing

[LIBERATOR]

Any MTBers that know the sport & industry, know who Ned Overrand is.

He's 50 years old, and still races, and still wins.

He's in the MTB Hall of Fame, and he lives in Durango, Colorado.

He's MTB'd all over the world, and he says Colorado is the meanest,
toughest trails, and takes the most skills. This and Moab. This is the
second time I've heard someone that has MTB'd over 20 years say this.

And from all the videos I've watched not including Red Bull Rampage,
I've never seen trails so steep & technical as the Colorado trails,
such as Dakota Ridge, Deer Creek Canyon, Mount Falcon (super steep
drops and tight sequence of rock gardens, water logs [3ft drops], and
jumps), Apex, I've never seen trails like this in any videos.

With a very well known MTB Hall of Famer saying it, it cannot be
denied. Colorado is the elite place to MTB.

What is more interesting about Neds article in Mountain Biker Magazine,
is that he said other sports provide the skills necessary in "balance"
that make you capable of ting tough trails. He cited balance as
the main skill to be developed and mastered, and everything should
revolved around it.

At 50 years old, still racing in the national level races and winning
them, his words are solemn truths.

 

[tillio]

LIBERATOR wrote:
> Any MTBers that know the sport & industry, know who Ned Overrand is.
>
Any mountain biker with an IQ above 40 knows his name is Ned OVEREND.

 

[John Nichel]

tillio wrote:
> LIBERATOR wrote:
>> Any MTBers that know the sport & industry, know who Ned Overrand is.
>>
> Any mountain biker with an IQ above 40 knows his name is Ned OVEREND.
>

To bad IQ isn't a requirement for posting on usenet. If it were, more
people would realize that groups outside of a.m-b don't give a rats ass
about this cross-posted ****.

--
"When a man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher's knife
and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross."
-- Harry Callahan

 

[MattB]

John Nichel wrote:
<snip ****>
>
> To bad IQ isn't a requirement for posting on usenet. If it were, more
> people would realize that groups outside of a.m-b don't give a rats ass
> about this cross-posted ****.
>

Actually the same is true for those IN AM-B, FYI.

Matt (I think I'm at least a 41 if not higher!)

 

[[email protected]]

<<Any mountain biker with an IQ above 40 knows his name is Ned OVEREND.
>>

Yeah..he is legendary.

He rode "Revenge Hill" which is at the Revenge of the Siskious, in 37
minutes. This is like a 4 mile climb that is so steep that normal,
sport class riders had to routinely get off and walk parts of it. My
best time was like an hour and 10. I passed, at the time, a
professional female Specialized rider, who was asking people for water
and seemed to think she was entitled to receive it (!). As they have 2
or 3 feed stations on this climb, I thought she should have filled up
there. She was pushing, too.

As for tough climbs, tho, try the Shasta Bally in the
Whiskeytown/Trinity park in N. California, outside of Redding. 8.2 mi,
5000 feet. About 4900 of it is in the last 5 or so. The climb starts
out as a nice middle chainring jaunt for the first 3 or so, then there
is a short, steep downhill, you go across a creek and the real climb
begins. It looks like a fking wall. The summit is 6200 and the lake
looks like a spit stain, it's so far down. Colorado is tougher because
of its altitude and b/c they put trails on nonsensical terrain there
and because there are so many riders on account of the benefits of the
altitude.

But, incidentally, Greg LeMond entered a mountain bike hillclimb event
as a pro once and, IIRC, finished 4th. Even as great as Overend was,
he was no Greg LeMond. One need only recall John Tomac's storied
career as a pro road cyclist. While Overend did some crazy **** as
MTBer in NORBA, even these pitches are no Mont Ventoux.

Trav

 

[LIBERATOR]

[email protected]nyrface wrote:
> <<Any mountain biker with an IQ above 40 knows his name is Ned OVEREND.

Travis, my man, you're a MTB'er?

Cool.

Ever done Colorado?

> Yeah..he is legendary.
>
> He rode "Revenge Hill" which is at the Revenge of the Siskious, in 37
> minutes. This is like a 4 mile climb that is so steep that normal,
> sport class riders had to routinely get off and walk parts of it. My
> best time was like an hour and 10. I passed, at the time, a
> professional female Specialized rider, who was asking people for water
> and seemed to think she was entitled to receive it (!). As they have 2
> or 3 feed stations on this climb, I thought she should have filled up
> there. She was pushing, too.
>
> As for tough climbs, tho, try the Shasta Bally in the
> Whiskeytown/Trinity park in N. California, outside of Redding. 8.2 mi,
> 5000 feet. About 4900 of it is in the last 5 or so. The climb starts
> out as a nice middle chainring jaunt for the first 3 or so, then there
> is a short, steep downhill, you go across a creek and the real climb
> begins. It looks like a fking wall. The summit is 6200 and the lake
> looks like a spit stain, it's so far down. Colorado is tougher because
> of its altitude and b/c they put trails on nonsensical terrain there
> and because there are so many riders on account of the benefits of the
> altitude.
>
> But, incidentally, Greg LeMond entered a mountain bike hillclimb event
> as a pro once and, IIRC, finished 4th. Even as great as Overend was,
> he was no Greg LeMond. One need only recall John Tomac's storied
> career as a pro road cyclist. While Overend did some crazy **** as
> MTBer in NORBA, even these pitches are no Mont Ventoux.
>
> Trav