On September 21st, 2008 - Paris Mountain State Park
St. Francis Sports Medicine and Rusty Sprocket Productions teamed up with Cecil Linder and the Upstate SORBA chapter to bring you the first-ever downhill event at Paris Mountain State Park in South Carolina. All profits from this event will go to Upstate SORBA to maintain and improve the trails at Paris Mountain Sate Park. VISIT THE OFFICIAL WEBSITE HERE The race course is pure Downhill and will have times running around the 2 min+ mark. More to come in May with Pro Pay outs and Sponsors. Feel free to visit links below:
Many thanks to our Title Sponsor St. Francis Sports Medicine Barley's Taproom & Pizzeria was the host of the Pre-Race Party for all riders to Register and Check-in and gave all the participants a chance at winning a ton of swag  Thanks to Josh at Barley's for the beer and upstairs for our Pre-Race Party. 
 Promoter's Darrin Tinsley & Cecil Linder handing out Raffle items. Many thanks to all of our sponsors 
 The RedBulll arch at the Staging Area of Shelter 5 & 6 
Waiting on the shuttle and bus ride to the top  Riders loading up the shuttle 
UpstateSORBA chapter president Jay Koehn ran the Bike Shuttle all day, driving nearly 90 miles up the one mile stretch of road to the top  Riders pushing to top Start Area  Paris Mountain Rangers helping out getting riders to the top of the mountain 
Almost there...  The Start  Down Sulphur Springs trail in less than two minutes      
      Over 600 spectators came to the park to watch the day's event  of the 89 riders we had the DH U.S. National Champion Geritt Beytagh and the DH Junior U.S. National Champion Ethan Quell in attendance  1st was Geritt Beytagh (not Pictured) who was injured on his second run  Top Women  
 
   Many Thanks to the Volunteers who made this event such a success. Thanks to all of the wonderful sponsors for making this possible. Most importantly thank you to all of the riders and spectators that came out to make this Paris Mountain State Park's first ever mountain bike event. Heres the poster art for the event
Note the Website for last year's race is no longer active. The new site is www.ParisMountainDownhill.com
thanks again to all of the Sponsors (it's not too late to be added to the list )- Contact us if you'd like to be a sponsor this event
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