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Offline Hoony

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Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« on: November 23, 2010, 08:50:30 pm »
what do you call the jump on the other end of Drunks hill at Connondale ( same ridge) going back toward the pits, its a lovely sky jump?
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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #1 on: November 23, 2010, 09:07:46 pm »
I know it's boring but it's called "where you come back over spectators" 
The other side is "where you go over spectators"
Boring names, great jumps ;D
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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2010, 09:41:36 pm »
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At a club day this year a rider launched of that jump, cleared the spectator fence and landed on the walkway to the tunnel :o 
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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #3 on: November 23, 2010, 09:43:44 pm »
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At a club day this year a rider launched of that jump, cleared the spectator fence and landed on the walkway to the tunnel :o 
And paid for it pretty heavily :o

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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #4 on: November 23, 2010, 11:51:11 pm »
I've been calling it "Drunk's Return" - I thought it wasa crap name, but seems better than the alternatives.
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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #5 on: November 24, 2010, 05:43:55 am »
what do you call the jump on the other end of Drunks hill at Connondale ( same ridge) going back toward the pits, its a lovely sky jump?

It's "drunks hill" or "drunks" going and "drunks" coming back,this works when you are sitting in the pits in particular ;D

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Re: Connondale Sky Jump , dose it have a name (not Drunks)
« Reply #6 on: November 24, 2010, 08:50:43 am »
It doesn't take too much throttle to get the "Sky Launch" very wrong.
On my 250 at the VMX Nats in 09 I landed about half way down it outside the course markers-on the inside- pretty vertical on the back wheel. Not really sure how I stayed on because I had that "I'm going to bail" feeling.-- Maybe the "Brown Sky Jump"!