2016 Racing Rumours

Primoz wrote:

You're saying that in a thread, where about half of the posts were about which bike Gwin will ride. And that was just about a bike!

Maxipedia wrote:

Pfff... Having Sam switch from the best looking helmet out there, that happens to come from the company that defined the look of the DH helmet...

Pfff... Having Sam switch from the best looking helmet out there, that happens to come from the company that defined the look of the DH helmet for almost two decades, to what is arguably the ugliest helmet on the market will be hard to swallow for some of us and definitely an eye sore. But as the man put it above: business is business and as long the extra money means a benefit for the team, it's no problem.

Maybe some will laugh at this comment, thinking ”Dude, WTF, a helmet is just a helmet!” and right they are. But some products have a deeper cultural impact in our sport than others and people do associate certain athletes (influencers) with certain brands and a shift in that is not always natural. Anybody who followed our sport in the last 25 years, knows how influent TLD helmets have been style-wise. The unreachable Daytona, that you mostly saw in magazine pictures and less in real life. The D2, a benchmark that made every other producer to want to be TLD really bad (and boy did they try!) and can be considered not just a mere product, but an institution of style, almost mandatory to the privateers of the mid 2000's. The D3, the one paving the way towards the new generation of safer helmets, rejected by D2 purists at first, but definitely embraced these days, when its shape is a classic itself.

Before owning a D2, I collected images of it and used its silhouette for stencils. There is no need to tell you about my current collection of helmets, but I do confess this: every time I look at the red 2005 Hardtop and ask myself how do I justify its presence, I remember I got it just because I saw Sam Hill running one live in 2004, in Livigno, just before it made it to production. Those were the days when he was not a Monster athlete yet or at least when helmet branding wasn't so exclusive, so running a metallic red next year's helmet couldn't be an issue.

Nostalgia over.

Greetings from sunny Transylvania!
Mx

mp wrote:

I was joking w/ Maxipedia... because that's what he said folks would say... so I was just making it happen. Really though... falling in love w/...

I was joking w/ Maxipedia... because that's what he said folks would say... so I was just making it happen.

Really though... falling in love w/ Sam Hill's helmet? Get a life

LTrumpore wrote:

You know that's fake, right?

DHave wrote:

Wow, VPP glory?hmmm [img]https://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/forums/2016/03/30/3547/s1200_glory.jpg[/img]

Wow, VPP glory?hmmm

MrPrometheus wrote:

Does Peaty have enough points for this weekend? This site is kind of confusing as far as rankings/rider points. http://www.uci.ch/mountain-bike/ranking/ Should there be a 2017 option...

Does Peaty have enough points for this weekend? This site is kind of confusing as far as rankings/rider points. http://www.uci.ch/mountain-bike/ranking/ Should there be a 2017 option or some points carry over from end of last season?

Ahh I guess not so racing under UK Cycling Federation?

Steve PEAT (Great Britain)
Current rank: 715
Current points: 2

Verbl Kint wrote:

Is the Session Gee is using considerably smaller than the Fury he was on last year?