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Axess nukeproof racing it’s a done deal Same as Osin to trek Hauser off trek Dak to axess nukeproof Vali to commencial Who will yeti sign? Which elite female Also gamut team need to sign more, probably some good riders!

A response to a post I left on the PB thread... " you are correct. We had an entire organization of employees based in the US that were ready to keep this brand alive. Most of us have been there for 5 plus years and made North America over 50 % of YTs business. Instead Markus choose to screw us over and will try and reopen with all new staff and under his control. We are all at peace with it. We took care of so many customers the best we could. US was constantly bottle necked from YTG. We...

Without knowing what else was happening behind the scenes, if YT USA had the financials to take over, it wouldn't be like starting from scratch. They would already have all the IP, relationships with vendors, and an established brand. There is also a chance that they could keep working with the same designers. In the US market, the transition might not even be noticeable.. Maybe over time, they could expand back into Canada and Europe.. But, I guess we'll never know...

how do you have time for pickleball with 19 bikes? :D

Apologies if this has already been brought up, but Forge + Bond is now a pickleball paddle company. Quite the pivot.

Guessing the warranty rate on pickleball paddles is a lot lower. 😂

Adolf Silva speaks about his injury. We're all wishing him a strong, healthy recovery!

I’ve been reading about the death of the telescopic fork for nearly five decades. Got to put a few miles on a GTS1000. It was cool, but not worth the complexity.

Linkage forks will never work. They look stupid and can’t be made cheap or light. I’ve been drinking come at me haha

ya, strange one if true. PFR should have been rebranded BK Lifestyle Racing a long time ago, as it seems the primary reason Bernard runs that team is to fund his own preferred lifestyle. A guy who's so close to consistent top 10s like Maples needs better I feel.

As I get older, I’ve come to really appreciate “culture” as a larger driving force than we tend to acknowledge. You can grab attention fast with a stunt, but lasting viewership takes time, many decades, for the underlying culture to mature. It has little to do with broadcast length, equipment, or announcers. Those things help add iterative improvement to what exists, but for mountain biking to become truly mainstream, the only real solution is time. Remember, people spend countless hours watching golf, baseball, the Tour de France, and plenty of other sports that can seem “boring” at first glance. The...

Team Rumor: I think Dak's video of him riding a Mondraker with Pinky is exactly the same thing as the Jake Jewett on a Pivot video posted last year around this time. I think (in both cases even though I have no proof of it) there was an obligation to the sponsor that needed to be filled - a certain amount of videos released or something - and this video from Dak is him finishing off an obligation to (or activating a bonus from) Mondraker. Regarding the quote: This "who is actually watching it and who outside of that group...

Man, I can’t see Dak going to Intense for a couple of reasons. 1) they’re broke (or seem to be) 2) when he last rode the bike, it could barely last a full run. Loic commented on this on a French pod, but those Intenses were trash.

Interesting motor and battery placement on this ebike frame

In my opinion it's just a regular Lapierre GLP3 without the plastic cover (probably for better cooling/heat dissipation) ? Vincent Ledieu is working for Michelin, I don't think he is involved in Lapierre bikes development.

If the race is shorted too much you lose the build. WB don't capture the the full rums even when they have time to. The long shots taken from orbit are pointless, you can't see anything which is going on. When the line is 3-4cm wide, what does such an angle show us? Yes it's technically filmed, and you can see a dot moving, but any of the detail which the sport *needs* is lost. It's also hard to think they take it very seriously, when for example Jackson's run in MSA: title on the line, home race, wearing the...