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downhill247com 4 — Thredbo has the highest lift point above sea level in Australia at 2037m AHD. Photo: Ronnie Grammatica

Thredbo is one of the oldest mountain bike racing destinations in Australia and we thought we would hit you up with some Fun Facts;

1 – Your wheels turn just over 1800 times to cover the whole distance of the track (providing you don’t ET every jump!).

2 – Assuming they hit the jump and cleaned it riders would only need to hit the new jump in the middle of the track 345 times to cover the whole distance of theA�track.

3 – The average rider would burn over 500 calories on race weekend from just riding their bike alone!

4 – Mount Kosciuszko is the highest mountain in AustraliaA�at 2,228m above sea level and is named after a Polish freedom fighter.

5 -A�The airA�pressure in your tyreA�at the top of the track wouldA�read 1 psiA�higher on a guageA�than if you were reading itA�at the beach.

downhill247com presentation_elite_male — The Elite Men’s podium at Thredbo required around 300 runs to determine the final outcome! Photo: Ronnie Grammatica

Another Fun Facts session closed out!

downhill247com pp1 — The first chairlift at Mount Buller opened in 1949.

After a two successive races in a row at Mount Buller we thought we would put up a few photos along with some fun facts!

downhill247com MB12 — The elevation change of International is around 400m over approximately 2000m, to give you a comparison the 2012 World Champs track in Austria was a 484m elevation change over 2615m.

downhill247com pp2 — International is made up of approximately 50 corners (depending on what lines you take and how it is bunted). If you could save just 0.15 seconds on each corner your race time would improve by 7.5 seconds, how much further up the results would that have got you?!

downhill247com pp4 — We estimate (conservatively) that 2300 runs of the track were done over the weekends’ of the two races!

downhill247com pp3 — That meant riders covered 4600kms! That is enough to go from Melbourne to Buller and back again nine times!

downhill247com pp5 — Over the two weekends if you had to wait for the rider in front of you to finish their race run before you could start yours it would have taken just under 24 hours to get everyone downhill the course!

downhill247com pp6 — Some of the stats are probably not good to think about, how many gear changes did you do? How many impacts did your bike record going down the hill? At least downhill bikes are made for it!

downhill247com pp8 — Enough numbers, we hope you have enjoyed our Buller coverage, National number 2 kicks off at Thredbo in a few days, as usual expect coverage from one of Australia’s most famous race tracks.

Until next time Mount Buller!

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