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Heavy rain all night and today for Qualies...

It seems like Bode Burke's shoulder is feeling better, I guess.

as a former graphic/web designer... that split logo making GARAGE/BIKE is actually chef's kiss 😗🤌 ignoring of course how incredibly sick the entire bike is...

Sam on a Commencal just doesn't sit right with me for some reason, someone should have dusted off a sunday from a shed in the alps and given it to him for that video.

raw from today. first crash is insane.

Jackson's POV

Sacha E got a Monster deal

Les Gets World Cup thread started here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2026-les-gets-world-cup-downhill

So back to team rumors... The Downtime Les Gets pre-race podcast had a bit of discussion about teams wanting to sign up and coming juniors, leaving riders towards/at the end of their career with few options. They didn't mention names, but I'm sure we can guess who might be in this bucket. Danny Hart jumps to mind first. Who else?

Kneepads belong on your knees or in your bag, if anyone ever sees me with them around my ankles you have permission to shoot me

I said " we haven't seen a long travel single crown 32" fork yet," and I can see how that might have been unclear. What I meant to communicate was "Gee, that black RSU fork sure doesn't look like a Fox 32 or Neko's crazy loctite Fox 40, which are the only 32" Fox forks we've seen so far. I wonder what RSU fork that is. It sure looks like a Fox, and it could even be a dedicated long travel single crown 32" fork from Fox, which would be newsworthy because 32" bikes and products from the big brands...

I don’t understand the point of the gram counting e-bike specs. Like, you have a motor and all you’re doing is compromising the bike’s capability just to save a little weight.

While I’m no 32er apologist. I’m old enough to remember this exact argument when 29ers came out. I was working at a shop in College when 29ers started to hit the market, people would come in and actually get pissed at us for having 29ers on the floor. Anyone remember anti-29er stickers on people’s cars? I can remember a few different stickers, one said “One less 29’er”. I even remember being at a trail head in Pisgah in college, my buddy unloaded his 29er from the back of my truck and a “local” said “those aren’t welcome here”. No one...

2nd slide...he did the whole thing in English too... ;-)

@SIMONS.LAB really cool offering! Any possibility of developing some dampers compatible with dh forks? Would love to try one in my DH38

First up, thank you to the Vital team for presenting our product here! Since a few questions came up, I wanted to chime in and clarify a bit what we mean by the Tune Adjusters. As @Slavid666 analyzed pretty much spot-on, the High-Speed Tune Adjuster changes the port configuration underneath a non-preloaded tapered shim stack. With each adjuster position, one additional port is closed off, changing the hydraulically loaded area of the stack. The shim stack itself stays exactly the same, but the way it is loaded changes, which therefore changes the slope of the resulting force-velocity curve. That is...