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I've mentioned this worrying trend in depth in a few podcasts over the course of last year. From last year they have hindered the ability of many top 50/60 riders to garner any points in qualifying. Pretty soon very few riders (even much less than now) will be able to rightfully enter a World Cup without being on one of the World Series top teams or federation entries. With the switch to the points now staying with the teams and not the riders this year there will even less power of advantage and bargaining for top riders. (Note if teams...

Anybody catch this sound bite on Tomac's SwapMoto interview? https://youtu.be/ASxyz_etXSw?si=0WWkakQ2Kgi0xb_l&t=864

stoked on this vid where lawlor follows jackson, troy and reece for the weekend in poland b practice will be back too!

this is a race vid, but lots of tech with troy, jackson and reece from poland world cup DH

Race replay from DHSE #4 at Windrock! Shoutout to the Gravity Coop crew for turning these around so fast!

there's a dedicated thread to what you guys are discussing. use the search, find it and talk there.

it's a "jump signal" using the same marker that indicates course barrier lines. jump signals should be red or diff color as to not be confused with course barriers.

There was some #USDH action this weekend too. Here's Vital RAW from Windrock DHSE. Dak, Gwin and Grice present among others.

Thanks for that DC....wasn't aware. 👍 I always find it interesting how absolute the MTB world is when it comes to dampers when at the end of the day there are so many variables with manufacturing and assembly tolerance stack-up. Ultimately 2mm of stroke isn't even tangible on the trail.

I designed that out of Super Deluxe Coil- we measured 'solid' height of bumpers (I think at our test lab max of 5,000 lbf) and designed stroke length around that. So a RS SDLXC 65 stroke should actually get close to 65mm stroke if you smash it hard enough. Remove the bumper and measure the shaft- should be maybe 1-2mm longer than the stroke length. Edit- also agree with Darren about data... I'd probably do the test blind and look at data after ranking everything. Then maybe see if you can make improvements based on data comparison?

A couple of notes on this one. 1. Coil shock strokes are defined with the bottoming bumper removed. So a 65mm stroke shock can only achieve a maximum of 60-62mm due to the solid height of the bumper. 2, On-board data acquisition is not able to explain why one shock is better performing than another as it's only capable of telling you "what" not "why". A good use of the data is defining what suspension velocities you should use for your dyno tests via tools such as histogram data. Darren

Re: Water satchel sanitary issues/remedies. One of the best bladder & bottle tips I ever got was from Dirt Rag (RIP) ages ago. That tip? Denture cleaning tablets. 2-3 depending on the size of bottle/bladder. Works a treat and even adds a slight minty taste to the water, which is better than the plasticy/rubbery taste of some of the aforementioned, IMO at least.

that's freaking awesome! if you didn't watch our levo vid from this week with neko and asa, it's plain to see they all seem to have a great time doing what they do best. how rad is this photo...

Asa on Frameworks for the next 3 years, love to see it