Bielsko-Biała DH World Cup Course Preview – This Track Is Loose!

Junior Racer Igor Franek sticks the Pinkbike Gopro on his helmet and swerves his way down the dry and loose Szczyrk world cup downhill track in Poland for round 2 of the 2024 series.

Athlete: Igor Franek – @igo_franoo

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oh that was scary welcome to the pink bike preview where we pick a local Junior upand cominging Rider stick a camera on them tell them no pressure cruise down the hill and I’ll commentate over the run this time we’ve got eigor franic H he rides on a prime bicycle made in Poland for a team based in Poland and it’s his first World Cup let’s go to him yo send it let’s go we’re at the top of the track and it’s a nice chill start out the start R you got to get on the gas and I angled the camera a little bit too far down but got on superview so we can actually see what’s going on little bit of style off that first jump over the next one this quite um chill lead in to this world cup it’s nothing too technical at the start you can see the Dust hanging in the air things are dry up there these Corners are actually holding together way better than I thought they would you can see you can flow through and at the moment I mean no one has ridden this track before Oh G up high into that look at that fresh l in there that’s sick and we get a little bit of line choice in there so there an outside burn but not much support with an inside with a little shark fin out nice and steezy it’ll be tricky to see if you can actually carry good speed around that inside as we hit some more fresh lomy stuff big jump and this is all kind of like not too far from the gondola so you can see everyone caning down here and oh come on eagar inside in the grass I’m guessing that’ll be our corners for cash turn there and uh yeah so this guy’s a first year Junior first World Cup and uh he’s just easing into it and oh let’s see that again see yeah you gapped over that stump cuz you don’t want to hit that stump and the ideal landing spot is on the green line there but if you’re Landing after the stum and there’s a corner you’re going to end up breaking in this Zone and when you break it creates a hole and a hole is developing here so eager landed right in that hole so ideally you could jump all the way over the hole or to the side of the hole or you could actually keep the wheels on the ground and then jump off the stump Over the Hole or just go around it and these are the things that Riders I think about as the track is developing so let’s carry on with eager land in that hole mate go for it take the hat that was a good one so yeah true across oh that was scary watch out for the ducks that was scary I hate Ducks man there’s a Highline up there but it looks like that low is working really good carrying some speed tricky off camera turns you can see it’s the tires are really digging in there there’s ruts developing but then those ruts will blow out when it rains man it’s going to be spicy in there off camar multi-line choice in here now I’ve seen some clips of The Boulders in here are just like little baby heads and they’re just rolling about all over the place a really sketchy section an interesting bit to watch big gap oh okay another D so yeah that one he didn’t have quite enough speed but look at this freshness in here looks like most people are going low but there are some higher lines it’ll be interesting to see if an a practice people start getting up there and there’s a higher line next to the pad in there but looks like eager’s going low and in here it’s such nice terrain undulating you can pump the ground you can work it you can Gap over some bits dark Dart in there there’s a gap or it’s like a gap roll or a roll then Gap leading into that jump rail around the turn Super steep into here slap the rck and carry the speed out this is such a fun track all the riders coming off the hill are just saying how good it is but it is getting cut up now we’ve got big step down out of the trees carry the speed across the piece this is one of those sections that you really have to attack when it comes to your race run Cu uh you could just go no brakes all the way through here now this corner is the it’s the Nibbler of the track and eager said he’s taken that inside but he doesn’t think it’s faster cuz it’s quite flat in the way out you saw him having to Pedal there so any extra speed you can carry into this section is definitely going to help but I think it’s going to be mostly down to who can lay down the most horsepower coming into this so they can carry the speed across this flatter section and this is probably the only kind of like mellow bit in the track and it will give rers a little breather before they head into this last kind of like techy section which is super cool over this Crest flat right hand are really hard to carry the speed and there’s lots of roots coming out you can see powdery dust there’s an inside over the stump there there’s another inside you can take to the right of the pad in the tree this is very steep Big G out in the bottom very hard to carry good speed and this is coming into the final section full gas squash it into here and actually watch in this finish it is really sick so that is a run with eager franic thank you so much for doing that dude follow him on Instagram _ franu and uh yeah stay tuned for the race I one J pretty oh my God are you okay yeah