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I’d place a 10 dollar bet every dude complaining about the vanzacs poster has visited a porn site this year and watched someone actually be sexually exploited while throwing zero money down. As long as the women are being paid fairly and want to be photographed who’s business is it to call it distasteful.

The rear wheel in the 06 V10 has seen better days

7 seconds difference is huge to attribute to the equipment. If you look at world cup racing as a game of hundreths of a second, improvements in the bike can be the difference in winning a season or a one off event like world champs. I think that video is a testament that the new bikes ARE SO MUCH better.

Has nothing to do with ebikes. Morons are morons no matter what they ride. We have guys who will come out and cut in straight lines with tools.

^^^ebike hater

Assist or no assist, doing 14 stages sounds pretty damn good to me.

I was so happy when I watched Sam get on the podium at the EWSe. He should make this his primary sport. I think he is sensible enough to see all the advantages e bikes offer and will enjoy doing double the amount of stages than the regular race, because after all, it’s all about the downs….

“GTFO”? I live here.

Wow interesting how all the riders liked the same bike! I wish they all liked the transition though 😂

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Sorry man, I'm not trying to dunk on you here, but I'd hate for people to start to try and steepen their bike's HTA to get their fork to work better. Just a few things to point out... 1) You say you've "run into this a few times at our suspension shop" but you also say you "never go to absolutes unless you have true scientific data". Not to get all Jeff Brines and type a dissertation on the scientific method, but you just contradicted yourself to a large degree. After all, you have no data to back up what...

No way this is true for two big reasons. 1) 10mm is not very much 2) It changes the head angle by about 1/2 degree. Many bikes have a 63 and change HTA. The Strive comes stock at 65 (?? I think) Overall, yes, you may notice pushing on the fork in the showroom floor it isn't as "easy to compress" but unless your HTA is under 62 (or likely more) it won't matter on trail. The "force vector" is back and up anyway. My guess is this had to do with improper air spring assembly, or just placebo. Regardless...

Zwift DH races

I think there should be more gnarly tracks like Snowshoe. Every track should test the rider and their equipment just like we saw this week.

it's been 60 for a few years now, hasn't it? rough for a few USDHers in the 60s.

that means that practical guide only applies to road track and cyclocross. as stated in the preceding paragraph: "This document does not replace Articles 1.3.001 to 1.3.034 of the UCI Regulations, but rather complements them and illustrates the technical rules defined therein. The objective of this document is to offer a definitive interpretation in order to facilitate understanding and application of the Regulations by international commissaires, teams and manufacturers." The Technical Regulation itself does not make a differentiation of rule 1.3.006 (re: Commercialization) applying only to certain disciplines, and is interpreted to apply to all cycling disciplines subject to UCI...