Edited Date/Time
6/11/2026 7:53am
Mud and moisture are the defining elements of the 2026 Leogang World Cup DH and mechanics are doing their best to make sure riders have nothing but lines to think about. Rick Schubert shows us the spikes, rotor covers and more from Austria.
What's going on in #13?
The two rims taped together? A "lazy lace" -- swapping over existing hub & spokes to a new rim.
Is that possibly a radial Hillbilly the spec team gets to ride for a bit before they let us plebes have it? That tire would crush for PNW winters.
Seeing all of these Wetscreams gets me excited!
There’s so much going on with Max’s Cube. What’s the little bolt/retainer around the rear shock’s bottom out bumper? And the Newman hub has an adjustable brake side flange!?
Let’s see a video walkthrough of the new Yeti pits. It feels like a big deal they made this kind of investment.
bolt retainer on the shock could be a telemetry mount
Yeah its a shock potentiometer mount for the data acquisition - a metal ring sits under the spring with a tab for the sensor to bolt to
in a different forum thread, someone mentioned the Yeti pits/truck are just the old YT pits. All they needed to do was add an E and an I.
Yeti’s new pits be like…
Max's adjustable flange-width Newmen hub is wild.
I'm quite certain the newmen hub came about testing spoke angles for 32" ...
No pics of anyone set up with Schwalbe Shredda tyres. Only seeing Magic Mary’s and Dirty Dans. Anyone used them or have any insight why they wouldn’t be running them.
love the photo layout format. so easy. thank you!
year of handguards and rotor covers.
Pit Bits might be my favorite part of the Work Cup coverage. Seeing all the trick custom parts is so cool.
It's gonna suck having to rebuild the wheel chasing creaks.
Yeah thats an interesting one - once tensioned, there is a fair amount of compression pulling the flanges together, but there is still changes in tension during use so it wouldn't be forgiving of running low tension at all
Shredda front and rear are the grippiest tyres on the market for soft dirt. I run them in winter on roots, snow and soft top soil (aka "loam") and absolutely love them. The Shredda rear also makes for a great front tyre when it driers up, it's like a Magic Mary on steroids.
Not sure why they aren't used in the World cup DH circuit but probably because they roll super slow. I did see team AON racing running them in the off season with the center knobs cut down.
Wouldn't that come down to the Shredda being a slow rolling tire? Yes, the Dan is also a very slow rolling tire, but Leogang is sort of infamous for how unforgiving it is to set up a bike or even tires for the dichotomy between the super fast and smooth motorways that reward a fast rolling and stiff-pumping bike, the slippery-as-ice roots and hard-packed clay in the woods and stump section, and then the vicious and relentless braking bumps and holes in the rough sections.
In Wyn's qualifying video linked above, Fabien even said "You can't run a mud tire here, even in these muddy conditions, because of the slow rolling speed on the motorway section." Now, obviously people are running mud tires right now, so not everyone is listening to Fabien's advice, but I wonder how the Shredda stacks up against the Dan in rolling speed. I've heard the Shredda is a real bear to pedal, especially as a rear tire. Whereas I remember that Wyn and Martin Maes were running rear Dan's full-time on their EWS bikes when they were teammates on GT.
I thought they mostly ran cut dans in the rear only and mary in the front but I could be wrong
Yes, only ever as a rear tire. I think I said that in my post, but if I didn't- yes. I don't know if they were cut down or not.
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