What is Red Bud up to?!

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Edited Date/Time 4/23/2017 10:21am

#twinningtuesday #trackchanges #redbudmx #promotocross

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I don't know...but I like it.

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MX Guy 4/18/2017 4:07pm
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jasonv43 wrote:
Synchronized leaping???
Woah... that'd be pretty crazy
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twizzler 4/18/2017 4:07pm
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I must be old and crabby, but does every national track have to have the same damn jumps? Seems most every track now has an uphill triple that looks the same or damn near the same as the other tracks. Or is this a uphill triple followed by the same downhill triple...
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jj welks 4/18/2017 4:08pm
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Gnarly lookin.., that buggy in the bottom left looks pretty small compared to that jump face
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The one on the left comes at you (downhill)
The one on the right goes away from you, Larocco's Leap. (uphill)
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ga_pike 4/18/2017 4:12pm
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First High Point, now Red Bud. Next Southwick will replace the sand with clay... where will the madness end?!? Thankfully, Unadilla will always be a natural terrain, unprepped, grass based track.
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MX Culture wrote:
The one on the left comes at you (downhill)
The one on the right goes away from you, Larocco's Leap. (uphill)
The left one doesn't look like much of a landing haha
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twizzler wrote:
I must be old and crabby, but does every national track have to have the same damn jumps? Seems most every track now has an uphill...
I must be old and crabby, but does every national track have to have the same damn jumps? Seems most every track now has an uphill triple that looks the same or damn near the same as the other tracks. Or is this a uphill triple followed by the same downhill triple...
I agree with you. What happened to natural terrain?

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ga_pike wrote:
First High Point, now Red Bud. Next Southwick will replace the sand with clay... where will the madness end?!? Thankfully, Unadilla will always be a natural...
First High Point, now Red Bud. Next Southwick will replace the sand with clay... where will the madness end?!? Thankfully, Unadilla will always be a natural terrain, unprepped, grass based track.
Red Bud has had Larocco's Leap for ages man.

I like MX Culture's idea, the new one is made to hit from the other direction and is a step down. That would actually be pretty awesome if so! A huge, blind step down would be so gnarly to hit the first time. The "landing" does seem pretty steep though, who knows!
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MX Culture wrote:
The one on the left comes at you (downhill)
The one on the right goes away from you, Larocco's Leap. (uphill)
jorgechavez wrote:
The left one doesn't look like much of a landing haha
Sure looks like a take off to me...
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That is definitely a takeoff and not a landing....
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Meh. Not at all sure how that's supposed to work. But I agree, starting to see the same uphill triple on every track. I like the big downhill jump at Ironamn.
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Ramrod 4/18/2017 6:09pm
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Are they changing and running the track in the opposite direction?
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Are they having a freestyle event ?

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TMessi111 4/18/2017 6:33pm
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Could they be moving the jump and just left the original jump there until they complete the new one? Then use the old dirt in a new way in the same location?
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I believe the one on the left will stay and the original will be taken down for a new larger grand stand
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731chopper 4/18/2017 6:49pm
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JW269 wrote:
I believe the one on the left will stay and the original will be taken down for a new larger grand stand
This sounds right judging by the photo. Is the long table top still there or was this built on that?
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JW269 4/18/2017 6:55pm
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731chopper wrote:
This sounds right judging by the photo. Is the long table top still there or was this built on that?
the table headed downhill was still there at the open ride a few weeks back. What everything looks like now? Your guess is as good as mine
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Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of leap in the lane where you can see that fresh dirt to downhill, then another 180 back to hit the leap twin. You can see on the far left that the whoops and table after the whoops are still there. I don't think you guys have a clue how much real estate is in that corner or that area. They've used that portion after the leap many times for the pro races in the past. Who knows. I'm riding there Sunday so I'll let you know.
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ga_pike 4/18/2017 7:12pm
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ga_pike wrote:
First High Point, now Red Bud. Next Southwick will replace the sand with clay... where will the madness end?!? Thankfully, Unadilla will always be a natural...
First High Point, now Red Bud. Next Southwick will replace the sand with clay... where will the madness end?!? Thankfully, Unadilla will always be a natural terrain, unprepped, grass based track.
aeffertz wrote:
Red Bud has had Larocco's Leap for ages man. I like MX Culture's idea, the new one is made to hit from the other direction and...
Red Bud has had Larocco's Leap for ages man.

I like MX Culture's idea, the new one is made to hit from the other direction and is a step down. That would actually be pretty awesome if so! A huge, blind step down would be so gnarly to hit the first time. The "landing" does seem pretty steep though, who knows!
Did you feel the breeze as that went over your head?
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kxf250f176 wrote:
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of...
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of leap in the lane where you can see that fresh dirt to downhill, then another 180 back to hit the leap twin. You can see on the far left that the whoops and table after the whoops are still there. I don't think you guys have a clue how much real estate is in that corner or that area. They've used that portion after the leap many times for the pro races in the past. Who knows. I'm riding there Sunday so I'll let you know.
This for sure makes most sense. Take the leap up the right hand side, jump back down through the middle, then jump back up on the left hand side...
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kxf250f176 wrote:
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of...
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of leap in the lane where you can see that fresh dirt to downhill, then another 180 back to hit the leap twin. You can see on the far left that the whoops and table after the whoops are still there. I don't think you guys have a clue how much real estate is in that corner or that area. They've used that portion after the leap many times for the pro races in the past. Who knows. I'm riding there Sunday so I'll let you know.
Exactly. Track did this in 2007 too I think ?
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MX Culture wrote:
The one on the left comes at you (downhill)
The one on the right goes away from you, Larocco's Leap. (uphill)
If that was the case, that's a hugely unforgiving landing, especially for a blind jump.

They both look like take off lips to me.
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kxf250f176 wrote:
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of...
Track is same as always except instead of left after the leap to the finish, you take a 180 left and traverse on left side of leap in the lane where you can see that fresh dirt to downhill, then another 180 back to hit the leap twin. You can see on the far left that the whoops and table after the whoops are still there. I don't think you guys have a clue how much real estate is in that corner or that area. They've used that portion after the leap many times for the pro races in the past. Who knows. I'm riding there Sunday so I'll let you know.
So you're saying... two leaps on the same lap? (please say yes)
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Maybe they've duplicated Larrocco's leap and have both there so they get the shape right. Then they're gonna remove the "original" and put in some other track section? Could be the soil making up the current leap is too much maintenance and the new one's a better clay based jump (looks that way in the photo anyway).

Or maybe this new jump will be the "Parking Lot Jump" and Emig's gonna christen it at the National??

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