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Sam Hill said... SRAM didn’t even return an email or phone call when he was try to put a bike together most recently. Seems pretty disrespectful to athletes (and champs) that helped push your products for many years. It’s one thing to not resign a rider. It’s another to just ghost them like they never existed!

I think fore/aft balance of suspension is one of the key thing to set up a bike correctly. You see far too many people setting their bike up based on 'getting bottom out once per ride' rather than chassis dynamic stability. In the simplest terms I set a bikes suspension by riding along and pushing down super hard towards the ground 90% legs/10% hands (or how you ride). The bike should move downwards parallel to the ground. This can be achieved lots lots or little sag, whatever your prefer, but this fore/aft balance is what means the bike behaves correctly...

I'm a big fan of testing, that part was cool. But missing some key points if the goal was to really compare steel to carbon as a frame material. (Sorry if this was covered at some point in the video, but it was too slow so I skipped around). 1) If you want to compare stiffness of different frame designs, that is great. But the frame shape, pivot locations and size, rockers links, etc all play a huge part in the overall stiffness numbers. To really isolate frame materials you would need two identical frame designs, with one made from...

I was wondering where Hrastnik was at in all this, she seemed to have slipped under the radar so far and is the only top 10 racer on the ladies side other than Cami that hasn't had an announcement yet. Also hoping Widmann gets scooped up by someone who needs a couple more points. Going to be honest, I hate it, but the points are making team rumors a bit more fun this year to see how everything fits together as things are announced.

Kinda disheartening to see all kinds of crappy team politics creeping in MTB. It is not a team sport and access to World Cup should be based on individual performance. A simpler system would make more sense and be more fair. Let's have a couple of continent qualifiers open to everybody (and broadcasted as a wc by W anybody in the top 20 got a ticket to race wc. Teams then organize themselves around whoever can race.. We are going to see the value of WC racing dilute itself through the years..

When Momo is between the tape, the only death grip involved is between my butt cheeks and the couch cushion.

Tasmania isn't for sale

Sounds abominable!

In an unusual move José Borges goes from Enduro to Road!

shouldn't vali be in front?

Frotha on Transition Bikes. Seems like a perfect fit!

Oli was riding in Thredbo last week with Frotha. Broke a finger apparently. I did see his girlfriend wheeling away an Orbea ebike....