Mario Kart Wii Time Trials Options

[Saffy]

Post your time trials from Mario Kart Wii! Include your character and vehicle too if you'd like.

Personally I started doing time trials again and have improved quite a lot over my rankings from a few months ago. I tend to use my Mii and the Mach Bike, though some courses call for certain setups.

Bold times indicate that I beat an expert staff ghost. An asterisk * indicates I am within one second of beating an expert staff ghost.

Luigi Circuit = 1:19.373
Moo Moo Meadows = 1:24.965
Mushroom Gorge = 1:59.020
Toad's Factory = 2:05.274

Mario Circuit = 1:31.151
Coconut Mall = 2:12.530
DK Summit = 2:15.835
Wario's Gold Mine = 2:09.281

Daisy Circuit = 1:41.267
Koopa Cape = 2:41.164
Maple Treeway = 2:37.484
Grumble Volcano = 2:12.915

Dry Dry Ruins = 2:12.154
Moonview Highway = 1:57.850 (probably my favourite course)
Bowser's Castle = 2:48.951
Rainbow Road = 2:52.494

GCN Peach Beach = 1:22.338
DS Yoshi Falls = 1:07.069
SNES Ghost Valley 2 = 0:58.749
N64 Mario Raceway = 1:55.205

N64 Sherbet Island = 2:27.000 (I save my mushrooms in case I hit a penguin)
GBA Shy Guy Beach = 1:31.174 (the trick is to drive almost entirely in the water)
DS Delfino Square = 2:19.080
GCN Waluigi Stadium = 2:11.330

DS Desert Hills = 1:50.835
GBA Bowser Castle 3 = 2:35.679
N64 DK's Jungle Parkway = 2:36.162
GCN Mario Circuit = 1:48.588

SNES Mario Circuit 3 = 1:26.617
DS Peach Gardens = 2:16.639
GCN DK Mountain = 2:36.339
N64 Bowser's Castle = 2:54.919

Post your times! I want to know how I rank with others on the forum.

[Saffy]

Yup, I've noticed you can save a lot of time by greatly reducing your air. You can angle your bike as well by pressing up or down though I'm still not entirely sure if I'm making a significant difference. After the Wiggler part of Maple Treeway with the half-pipe, I just try to make as sharp a turn as possible which ends up costing me a wheelie.

Another case is DK Summit where you're going down the hill through all the bumps and some ramps. I find it better to avoid the ramps altogether and get a lot of tricks on the bumps. You greatly reduce your air time and can get a lot of speed coming out of the hill into the turn. I would love to know how you're beating me though.

As for GBA Shy Guy Beach you really need an off-road bike. A small character helps a lot too. You want to drive almost entirely in the water so as to cut back on a great deal of time and distance traveled. That course took me a long time to do successfully though.