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MPH24 Added a reply to Should Juniors still have a place on World Series Teams?
10/30/2025 6:01pm What if the top 5 juniors from qualifying ran with the Elites? I get this from production standpoint. Holding a separate race is more expensive and, this year, it would have been great seeing the juniors run with the elites.
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bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic Should Juniors still have a place on World Series Teams?
10/30/2025 5:58pm
I think the absence of juniors or a lites class whether age based or entry based is a mistake. These guys are making a huge effort to make the sport more like formula one but formula one has formula 2 and supercross has the 250 class. If most downhill series can pull off 100 pro racers plus a full set of amateur categories these guys should be able to figure it out. Only good thing these guys have brought to the table is broadcasting juniors and now it’s gone. Par for the course with wbd.
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MPH24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/14/2025 6:07am Very happy for Kolb. The Mob riders deserve nice stable teams.
psycln Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/7/2025 5:50pm
Just listened to the 2yr anniversary pod of this post, so many crazy parallels to a PE backed industry I was in at the time you posted: carwash both retail and mfg/services (aka platform) sides are heavily leveraged bc of low interest rates, membership models grew retail millionaires everywhere in the US and a Bain study that said we have room for another 11K full tunnel washes across US alone (as opposed to rollovers or convenience stores)… it was all on fire…(I came in in 2022 to lead people and culture for NCS) our ability to create margins on the...
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MPH24 Added a comment about feature Why Have So Many Bike Brands Closed in the Last Two Years?
10/7/2025 7:40am
The problem is while Jobs was a visionary and had an uncanny ability to dissect consumer problems and develop solutions multiple steps ahead of anyone else, he still analyzed shifts in consumer behavior/needs and responded. The problem with most outdoor brands is that people rolling out playbooks they've had for decades with products that during their time have become largely commoditized and seek differentiation around "what they like" vs. what consumers want in response to products not getting more traction. I am speaking of the industry in general. There are plenty of brands and people who run their business way...
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PisgahGnar Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
10/6/2025 1:03pm
I heard Ric was going to announce the whole thing in French Canadian.
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MPH24 Added a comment about feature Why Have So Many Bike Brands Closed in the Last Two Years?
10/6/2025 12:13pm
The biggest mistakes being made in the outdoor industry now are people making product/brand decisions based on people's personal opinion/preference vs. actual consumer feedback/data. There's an entire generation of brands that have been successful largely due to the growth of the industry where it's very hard to determine whether success was due to a good brand/product decision vs. just luck/right place right time.
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MJT420 Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
10/5/2025 9:00am
Yep, overall titles being decided by qualifying points is lame. Give the riders uci (non series) points for qualifying so the riders are more valuable for team rankings.
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MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
10/4/2025 8:12pm If they are doing a Q1 and Q2 system, which I think works as much as it may be stressful at times, they should drop points in quali. There’s more than enough incentive for a good run and it makes the points focused on the finals which actually matter.
MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 World Cup - Lake Placid, USA
10/3/2025 6:57am 100% thanks for sharing @dantecusolito
PisgahGnar Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 World Cup - Lake Placid, USA
10/3/2025 6:56am
@dantecusolito how can we send you a beer?
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MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 World Cup - Lake Placid, USA
10/2/2025 6:40pm The top looks really hard to put all your lines together at full speed.
dantecusolito Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 World Cup - Lake Placid, USA
10/2/2025 10:45am
Thanks for the props fellas! Reece Wilson just told us that this track is more difficult than any track all year, even Les Gets in the mud because it’s so unpredictable. Rocks coming out all the time, and shadows look like rocks and rocks look like shadows. But the dirt is apparently absolutely mint.
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MPH24 Added a comment about news story RESULTS: Lenzerheide World Cup DH Elite Qualifying
9/19/2025 8:36am
Luca! Hell of a run. Hopefully we see him on the top step tomorrow
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Zuestman Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
8/27/2025 8:31pm
Your UCI MTB WC Suspension sponsor will not be showing up with a 10x20 at two WC in the same continent they are based out of.....
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Zuestman Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
8/27/2025 8:30pm
problem with this is no team vehicle can make it from Whistler to Lake Placid in that time period. ESPECIALLY if DOT regulated.... which the SRAM rigs for example are.
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MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
8/27/2025 8:27pm Yeah. It’s not a ton of vert so wonder if they can really pull it off. With Whistler and everything else going on with Vail, they may very well changing their tune on summer revenue opportunities.
MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
8/26/2025 12:45pm Disappointing to see that Enduro won’t make it to North America. You’d think an Utah and Whistler round would make sense. Did hear a rumor that the Olympic Park in PC was building a DH track off the new lift. Not sure about the terrain there though.
MPH24 Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/18/2025 9:22am A business like YT with minimal differentiation on scaling COGs (it's virtually all vendor negotiation with no owned assets) to reduce expense will trade at 5-7X EBITDA for a capital partner right now. A strategic who is veritcal on the COG side may push this to 6-8 because they have more levers to pull. PE still has a lot of...
MPH24 Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill - La Thuile, Italy
7/7/2025 8:31am The only reasonable reason to stop would be if they crashed the drone in the track and someone needed to go get it.
