Whiskey Off Road XC Race by Epic Rides / Full Race Coverage of the Whiskey 30 MTB Race
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ต.ค. 2022
- Prescott Arizona was the destination for the Whiskey Off Road XC Race!
Todd from Epic Rides invited Joe (The Calirado Kid) & I out to race and take over the Epic Rides Instagram for added coverage and event footage. What an amazing experience!
The Whiskey 30 was NOT easy by any means.. especially when you start racing everyone around you and you find yourself lost in a sea of XC racers!
I’m typically an Enduro racer through and through, but I’ll never shy away from a friendly competition or challenge and that’s exactly what the Whiskey Off Road was all about!
I’m thankful to have finished such a race and now have a much better understanding and appreciation for XC racing! Really does take so much physical and mental strength.
Hope you all enjoy my video as I had to wear my Full Face helmet for the entirety of this blood boiling race just to bring you this footage! 📺
Thanks for watching everyone! - บันเทิง
Guy in the Jean shorts on a hard tail is my spirit animal!
Hahah, Yess!! We were playing leap frog for a good majority of the race 🤘🏼🐸
@@bike_somm wearing a full face during an XC race is full TH-cam dedication! Nice vid dude
Hard tail no way man to old for that
That's me @ 6:42 in the orange shirt, green hardtail. That was a fun day.
I enjoyed this a lot - great work!
My new mantra when I'm trying to pass someone at a crowded event - "Fast downhiller behind ya!"
Hahah, yea when in doubt “Fast DH Rider Behind” 😅
Thanks & glad you enjoyed the vid!
I’m doing it this year and this helped me study the track also I love how nice you are on the trail. All around awesome!
Great job calling out those passes 🤘.
Yea everyone was actually pretty good about letting people by.. I always move over for faster riders behind me and never try to block people from getting around me.. so I was very (maybe overly) vocal about letting people know that I was going to pass or catch them 👌🏼
Speed demon!!! Looks so sick.
Haha thanks! Yea this was an epic race 🙌🏼
That looked like a super fun race 🤙🏽
Awesome thanks 😎 Stoked you liked it! Was a blast out there even tho it was very testing physically and mentally to finish the race!
That wheelie during the start was so sick!
Thanks 😝 Gotta Wheelie from start to Finish!
The last Wheelie was “magically” long🪄 😜 & I got passed in the last 20 yards before the finish because of it.. lol
Thanks for doing this vid btw. FWIW, the 30-proof is a lot shorter in distance this year. No more riding all those miles in Spence. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Regardless, thanks for coming to our town to race. Hope to see you for the 2023 W.O.R.
Hell yeah jay! Hoping to make it out to the 2023 and do the 50 Proof! Nice job on the 30
Awesome 👏🏼 thanks! Yea they are tough XC races but if you actually train or are more prepared than I was, I’m sure it’ll be more fun then all pain! Haha
I hope to do the 30 some day
great vid! love to watch you speed! how did you end up with such clear sailing? other videos i watched showed hoards of people going so slow, blocking trails, walking bikes. which wave were you in to start?
I forget which wave, but I made sure to pedal hard at the beginning and pass as many people in my wave as possible and then only few ended up catching back up and passing me later after about 3/4 of the race when I started getting tired and fighting off a couple small cramps. Thank goodness for the aid stations! Good fun and hard race for sure!
F-ing loved your race coverage!! I'm doing the Whiskey 25 in a couple of week (2024)- 1st time. Curious, what's a good tire pressure to ride at?? Absolutely gorgeous ride. Thanks and great job.
Thanks a bunch! Stoked it is helping others! Was a wild and fun ride for sure. Depending on what casing tires you are running and brand I’d say no less than 22 front and 24 rear.. also remember that in an xc race like this tire pressures will rise over the course of the race by a couple psi ☝🏼
@@bike_somm Awesome! Thank you!!
Hey dude you did good.
Thank you Jose! This was one tough race to finish after all those wheelies 😅
Awesome video! Inspiring me to look into some races. Any good ones happen around Sonoma?
Thank you, the only one around our home that I know much about is the Skyline Classic XC race .. at least not to anything of this magnitude or volume of riders. The Epic Rides series has a few awesome locations that they do, would be rad to one day see something like this come our way. 🤞🏻
Hey I like the shirt bro
Thanks @mtbnorcal has always had my back 🫶🏼
What bike were you on?
This was a Santa Cruz Tallboy that was a friends who let me borrow his bike since I didn’t have one back in April.
Huge shout out & thank you to Jerott King from Mikesbikes in Walnut Creek Ca. for letting me ride his Tallboy
@@bike_somm Excellent video! Which tires did you have, do you remember? Looks like a Minion DHF or equivalent. I did the 15 (actually 19.4 mi) last year and am doing the 30 (26.5) this year. Will be running a Mezcal rear but debating whether front can be an XC tire or if something more aggressive is needed, especially for those fast downhill parts coming off the peak.
When is this race?
Check out Epicrides.com think this year is around April 26-28th for 2024