The Rollin SlalomCross at Jackalope Festival

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Pierre Gravel
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The Rollin SlalomCross at Jackalope Festival

Post by Pierre Gravel » Wed Jul 23, 2014 5:17 pm

Pascal jean and myself were given the opportunity by Rollin Boardshop to organise a race that would make the best use of a so-so hill on the Jackalope festival site , at the Olympic Stadium in Montréal.
Since the hill we had is not fast enough for a DH race and the surface not good enough for slalom, we agreed that a SlalomCroos would be our best bet to have fun and a good way to mix both types of racers and even attract a few non racers.

We had a pair of 6 foot high start ramps made that were adding a bit more speed and that turned out perfect for the hill.
First down was a dual slalom of about seven 8 to 9' slightly offset cones, with white course on the right and red left, then a sharp left turn into a chicane followed by the first downhill section for speed around 50k.
We the made a 60" wide bottleneck with hay bales followed by the second slalom portion, 8 cones in fast GS style but this time white cours is on the left and starts from the left side of the cone, opposite from first slalom, (that got a few screwed up).
Another chicane was placed after that then a left turn taken in full tuck to a narrow left turn to the finish line.

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Pascal "the Rookie" Jean, left and P-O Desmarais, right

Flash presentation of the race:
http://kebbek.com/slalomcross/slalomcross.html

Facebook event :
https://www.facebook.com/events/1453986 ... 894095545/

Final results :

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1-Louis Ricard
2-Niko Desmarais
3-Pascal Jean
4-Thomas Wilson
5-Patrick Brassard
6-Pierre Gravel
7-P-O Desmarais
8-Charles Ouimet
9-Claude Regnier
10-Louis-Philippe Berry
11-Glen Chapman
12-Alex Parent
13-Hubert Roy
14-Benjamin Jackson-Legros
15-Daniel Parrish
16-Ben Chapman
17-Sébastien Lemelin
18-Frédéric Laberge
19-Zach Lecker
20-Bobby Bagel
21-Fabrice Robert
22-Chris Cousineau
23-Francis Bourgignon
24-Julien gagnon
25-Ban Maier
26-Carlos Lascoux
27-Cassandra Duchesne
28-Maxime Charlebois
29-Michael rahimaly
30-Élie Houde
31-Felix lapierre
32-Vincent Fournier
33-Marcel Dany
34-Nicholas Brachant-Coma

We had a really great day of racing and pretty much everyone was fully stoked on the format, hare are a few photos taken by my daughters :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pierregra ... 767930076/

Thanks to http://www.boutiquerollin.com and http://www.jackalopefest.com
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Re: The Rollin SlalomCross at Jackalope Festival

Post by T Whalen » Thu Jul 24, 2014 2:05 am

Looked like an awesome event and creative fun course.

Great job Pierre and Rookie!

Love the alternative course - reminded me of Farmageddon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQpGZYZB2DY

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Re: The Rollin SlalomCross at Jackalope Festival

Post by Pierre Gravel » Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:36 pm

More photos of the SlalomCross, thanks to Harfang Wheels :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/116990545 ... 962582041/
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