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you might go hit Santa's Village which is a pedal up bike park. trails are pretty fun and you can bang out loads of laps

Nico, ACC, Cedric, Pascal, ALL of the Aussies, Greg.....the 90's had F*CK tons of jrs that went on to be senior assassins. Another cool chart would be to see of the Jrs that crush it as Jrs, and where they go as seniors, because, time has shown very few go on to huge elite success. Are they getting "faster" perhaps, is the amount of them more than ever? perhaps. As for Asa, I sure wish people would just let him be himself and do what he's gonna do. So many people with the rap of "just you wait, he's gonna...

Having seen a lot of peculiar data visualizations in mtb media recently, it's refreshing to see someone present a clear question, use a data set that can shed some light on it, and pick one visualization that reasonably well supports the discussion they're trying to have

Shorts topic thread incoming

I’ve caught my pants on things too, the only difference i can think of is the opening of the shorts getting caught over the seat if you’re super tall, otherwise all the same problems can happen.

If you're catching shorts on your brake levers you have bigger problems.

Theoretically one could win all semis and dnf all finals but have no uci ranking, and still win the overall (very unlikely I admit). I can't be understanding that correctly! I really hope I misunderstood.

Yeah maybe regional races will grow because of it but even those are getting more out of reach for the average joe too, my local series (DH southeast) is $165 just for an entry fee. Regarding the points thing, why dont DH just have a pro license like MX does, regional and national races pay a certain amount of points and when you gain a set number of points you earn a pro license. You have this license for life and if you can qualify for a world cup whenever you want.

Fox Factory owns Race Face...so adding shoes to the Race Face clothing kinda makes sense.

Regarding Semi-Finals: It needs to go away and should follow the super cross model of Last Chance Qualifier. Every race it should look something like this (for the men, numbers would be smaller for women): -All races at the world cup have to put in a qualy run, which is their seeding for finals. Top 10 in the overall are protected to the finals. -Top 40 racers via qualifying make it to the finals -There is a Last Chance Qualifier run (instead of semi-finals), that is televised since it's high stakes, for those that didn't make the top 40 and...

$2500 “transmissions” would lead me to believe that price isn’t actually the limiting factor, marketability, aesthetics, and what they think will sell likely has more to do with it. How many people do we see riding around on factory level suspension that don’t actually know how to, or ever bother to check suspension sag. Price can’t be the issue

Can confirm my 210x55 Vivid with Levo mounting hardware weighed in at 674.4 grams. Supr Deluxe Air weighed in at 478 grams for the same length. My 230x65 Super Deluxe Coil with RS coil (500 pound) came in at 1,040 grams

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Lefty had needle beerings for that reason.

Can’t say I’ve seen this bike before, so I’m guessing it’s something new from fezzari? That’s nik nestoroff on the bike. New dh bike? Or long travel bike with a 40?

Needle bearings carry a lot of load for their size (the surface area of the race and rolling element contacting each other is high, thus the pressures are low), but there are hardly any needle bearings out there that come as a cartridge, with seals, they don't carry axial loads (deep groove ball bearings hold up surprisingly well in that regard), etc. For specific applications they can be great. In a shock eyelet I'd give them a pass. DU bushings are way too cheap and modern bearing mounts work too well (I'm on my original bearings in my Super Deluxe...

Absolutely. They're horrendous on MTB. What about moto shocks with those lovely spherical bearing top eyelets being the norm? Want to try that one day for sure on MTB.. Seems some companies have tried just not the big playas!

I disagree- needle bearings only work in clean environments like engineering textbooks. Haha