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Got mine!
Good idea. Done
Good call. Done!
Agree on the tools and the personal aspect, that is brutal. Hopefully the tools are insured also and even if so, it will take time to get the $. Hopefully the tool community is helping out and if a GFM is needed in the interim, I am in.
Done. Wish they still had hats, as I need a new lid.
Enve stepped up pretty quick with wheels.
Would like to see Park or Unior tools do the same
Anybody know if the BME DH rounds are gonna be broadcast or have live timing available? They're headed to windrock this weekend.
Updates from Neko's story (lmk if I should stop posting these, don't want to clog the thread if y'all are on top of the latest)
I dont have insta, so I for one, appreciate it.
That bit about Frameworks customers offering their frames got me feeling stuff. Thank you, mountain bike people.
Damn bro, right in the feels.
It is heartwarming to hear about genuine acts of kindness, ordered a couple of shirts. Here is hoping that what was stolen is still recovered and returned to it's rightful owners.
Grabbed a few shirts as well. For any bike company selling clothing, please sell tank tops. There are going to be Vitalmtb tank tops right?
Is it too early to ask "Do you still beat your wife?"
Day late, dollar short, but first post-race B Practice Podcast of the year is live!
As always, Dak had some rad insight into his race run, where he thought others were faster, why he likes his bars so high, and electronic suspension doohickeys. He's also pissed he was only $95k for fantasy last weekend, but I'm sure his value will go up next weekend
Discuss
yeah, I guess conditions during semis threw a few cuverballs to many...and 1st year elites got hammered.
No Enduros on the specialized enduro team. Kevin is also running the SD coil with what looks like a remote lockout.
Some big criticism here. If liaisons really were that shorts it’s very understandable though, rocche gianche is fucking terrifying and the other stages are „flowy“ trails but still Finale trails and some are reeeally long
Stage 4 was cancelled for the Elite riders due to 'a big crash' and although it's not necessarily the case that this crash was related to the criticism from Bex, it's an unfortunate coincidence at best.
Hope the rider concerned is okay and heals up quickly.
Checking the live feed to see what the stage results are is less than ideal. #makeendurogreatagain
Isn’t this what early EWS was tho? I thought riders were complaining that it got too short and easy?
Maby they need to lighten the bikes a bit instead of showing up to an Enduro race with a 'dh bike lol'
For context, Bex finished in 21st place 6:38 minutes back. Imagine being Hattie Harden who trained her ass off all year, competed in multiple XC and DH races and smoked the competition to hear 21st place say the pace “violated human rights” lol, gtfo
One can get last place and still have the right to complain if they feel like organizers messed up.
elite sport is meant to be hard.
I think there can be a line between hard and overdone to a point where riders can’t get down safe because they have no time to recover.
seems like half of the riders i follow on IG have something negative to say about the liaison times, so it’s not like this is a single opinion. At the end of the day the best riders won, doesn’t mean you should disregard all of the rest.
Right. It’s not just Bex. Richie indicated it was tough as well in his post race interview with Sven. This has been an issue before in the past as well, though often it’s a single transfer that people feel is too tight, not every single one.
Cramming too many riders into a 5 stage race is far off from having an epic 2 day race. Nobody is complaining about climbing it’s about the time they expect you to do it in and then race down at maximum.
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