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No, but color me curious.

I absolutely cannot fathom working in this space. JFC.

Nik Nestoroff, $5k for a win at a local (as in tiny) Snow Valley DH race last weekend (as mentioned by @Jason_Schroeder in our latest bikes: unaffiliated)

Wyn on World Cup Prize Money (or lack thereof).

I miss external cable routing so much. Remember swapping rear brakes at a race in five minutes or less? Thank you, Norco. Hopefully others will follow.

Dak's in Schladming in a cabin halfway up a mountain. He said the wifi is nonexistent, but the host is working to get it resolved. We planned to chat this morning, now trying for Saturday or Monday morning. Also working around the 9 hr time difference and Dak training/testing before Leogang. Ohhh the trials and tribulations of the B Practice Podcast. Sorry for the delays, peeps!

This week's pod is live! Just a classic unscripted, unaffiliated podcast journey where we discussed various hot takes from the Loudenvielle DH World Cup, risk vs. reward in DH racing, the Hot Laps event in Washington, how to hit berms better, why Enduro World Cups are dying a slow death and why that doesn’t actually matter for the sport of enduro, and a bunch of other MTB-related nonsense. Enjoy!

New cable XT and Deore drivetrains for Shimano on the new Orbea Oiz. Looks like they use the new clutch style like on the new DI2 derailleurs...

@Jason_Schroeder B Practice Podcast when?

Maybe 2027 race talk?

counterpoint - $600 is easily the cost of an ER visit for many people 🤷‍♂️

This isn't impossible as, in French, we WB choose Florian Letondeur as co-commentator on side of Eurosport one. Flo is the guy behind Fast As French YouTube and Instagram channels. Flo is doing an amazing job bringing is knowledge and insights of the sport to a sport generalist TV broadcaster. It take some time, as before that the commentary was like two random commentators knowing absolutely nothing about our sport (apart of their incomplete stats sheets) trying to adapt MotoGP/Formula 1 commentary on something they absolutely didn't understand ( Do you think this dude is on wet or intermediate tires...

I know I’m probably in the minority around here in saying I look up to Marc, and I’d be happy to defend that view in the right setting. This isn’t that setting. I don’t think he’s god’s gift, and I don’t think you have to like everything someone says or does to respect what they’ve built or how they think. No two ways about it, Marc is undeniably an important entrepreneur and venture capitalist, and a16z is one of the most influential firms in the world. They are doing to venture capital what Blackstone or Apollo did to private equity...

One can dream. Can we start a petition or something?

" each new product launch is 1.25% better than the last generation that was also pretty damn good" FTFY. Sucks, but most stuff is good now, so we get small revisions.