randy is an organizer and TotalRadDude on team hodala(remember the carbon raleigh frameset?) who designs courses and announces in this race series. he decided he wanted to build some stairs to see if anyone would ride up them, but as you can see the day was too sloppy for that and it was faster to run them. it was a set of six, so you could just run them if you were a *****, run them two at a time if you were fast, or run them three at a time if you were an animal. i ran them two at a time two or three times, three at a time once, and one at a time the rest because i did two races, and got maybe nine passes at these bastards today.

it was a great feature and one of my favorite parts of the course. Randy made hecka fun of everyone who lost it, and what you can't really see in this video is that you came with a bit of speed into the low section around a 10 degree left hander into the twenty foot zone that was so slippery a lot of people tried to dismount BEFORE the 120 degree right hander at the base of the runup. the course narrowed to the stairs and LOTS of people slipped out dismounting on their heels before the right hander, and even more fell through the turn trying to cut it clean to the stairs. the fastest people took the turn wide and fast and dismounted right before the stairs.
the really tricky part was that the stairs terminate up on the velodrome's hill and you've got about three to four feet of vertical height to add before you're at the flat top section and the radius of a 100 degree left hander that was extremely off camber, how off camber? enough to make a bike fall faster than a rolling human, that's how!

all the traffic (slow bastards that don't know how to remount at speed) would huff it slow up the rest of the hill to the ten feet of flat course, stop and remount, and roll down the hill on the outside. People who knew what they were doing tried to finish out their run in the turn but remount non-driveside right at the lip of the camber. well, that particular pass that dude who rides away from me in the first second of the clip had basically parked at the lip so i tried remounting off camber, got squirrely and lost it. next thing i know my bike is jack and i'm jill.

the video starts after my remount from the stairs through the turn, but already losing it down the off camber section.