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I mean the testing is good enough to pop graves and rude for a water bottle supplement and maes for medication the ews’s own supplied doctor prescribed.
I doubt there’s much cheating at all at the upper levels. Probably some in your local cat 1 xc race on the other hand.
Doping is always a step ahead, only the dumb dopers get caught
I think those were by accident, that’s why they got caught.
Having resisted the temptation of a sarcastic reply, "course marking" and "anti-doping control" are handled by different people.
This is only true in a certain ecosystem. To not get caught you need significant amounts of money to fund the doping at the edges. Most athletes don’t have it.
doping was widely discussed in EWS circles pre UCI merger. The fact doping in sport is illegal in parts of Europe regardless of whether or not your governing body is a wada signitory, and that’s probably what pushed EWS over the edge.
At the same time, posting in forums claiming specific, named, athletes have doped, without proof, is shitty behaviour.
Mondraker releasing what looks to be a big travel bike or just a single crown Summum tomorrow
Replacing the SuperFoxy?
Any idea if a new Raze is in the pipeline?
Any bike bringing Quagmire into the conversation gets my money. 😅
This but they must be marketed as park bikes. I wonder how the Status 170 DH sold. As far as I’m concerned every rental fleet should be those instead of 200mm travel DH race bikes.
I was thinking the other day about how disappointing the Nomad update was and how that translates to the bike industry still being screwed because serial buyers of bikes and frames (like us here) are just not excited to drop $3,500+ on any of these new frames.
Combine this with the sheer amount of interesting bikes/frames in the back catalog that I’d love to try and are dirt cheap used: High pivot Optic, Range, Dreadnaught/Druid, Enduro, Tyee, Spindrift, Spur V1, SB165, Meta V5, Revel, HD6.
Maybe it’s just the season of life I’m in after buying a new frame every year since 2019
Looks to be a 170mm mullet park bike
Higher spec model
Park bikes shouldn’t have droppers and dinner plates on them
Highland disagrees
Uphill Access | Highland Mountain Bike Park
some would say bikes shouldn’t have motors either but here we are.
evil DH bike?
Madrone with a DH set up is rad!
If they keep the status DH in the lineup it’s gonna sell great given the price of the new demo. They look like great bikes, tons of shops have them for sale for 3k right now. My local shop has one and I want bad.
Sitting on a coffin... Sure lines up with something along the lines of "Undead".
The question is...have they learned from last time???
What happened last time?
They all broke and evil nearly went under.
The last time they built a DH bike?
A number of my plastic Treks and one plastic Norco died this way. The frame "protection" these big brands use is embarrassing.
Be so cool to see an Evil DH bike again.
When Evil first launched with the Revolt in alloy I think they had quite a few warranty frames. They replaced all or nearly all. Not sure if material, fabrication, heat treating or what, but I remember a lot of them breaking. That was like 15 years ago, if not longer.
I think the Undead (the carbon DH bike) were much more reliable. Then they shifted their focus to trail and enduro bikes.
Since then, Sorge and others have ridden their enduro (Wreckoning) bike at Rampage and such without seeing that being an issue. I wouldn't hesitate to buy an Evil today.
I remember a picture floating around of a full size dumpster full of the aluminum frames
My bad, that's the photo.
They look perfectly fine to me??? (The lawn chairs)
Pinch bolts at the head tube???
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