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If a person was going up to watch Jackson alone and left or decided not to attend because he didn’t qualify, I’m not sure that’s a person we want in the community anyway. The bike industry is in the predicament it’s in because it continually tries to appeal to fairest weather participants and fans at the detriment to the truly dedicated. A person could be disappointed Jacko wasn’t racing but if they can’t appreciate the other 30 riders who did qualify and chose not to come watch, good riddance.

The unfair advantage isn't that the line outside the pole is faster, it's that they failed to pull whatever move or line they were trying to do BEFORE that point and ended up unable to keep it on track. What you're suggesting basically equates to a rider being able to skip a tricky section of track just as long as going around a course marker isn't faster. Which would turn the actual course into nothing more than a suggested route of travel. "The idea that minor mistakes or falls completely erase a race run..." - well yeah. If you fail...

So back to the XC World cup in Utah...yeah, wow. Watch it. Spoiler alert: It's awesome. But I'm a bit partial. It's cool to see the top riders on terrain I can actually relate to. Sage brush and pine trees, and that dirt (I can actually smell it, yeah, I'm a nerd, aren't we all?). So familiar! Compared to what they're doing in Euroland. For once I feel like i can relate. Never once have I watched a WC XC race and be like, "yeah, I'd hit that". HA. I'd hit that. Just not 9 laps of it. :D And...

Sorry, Dad.

I find It crazy that this myth still exists. If you check the race times over the last years since 2023 most races for elite men and closer to 3:30 and the Elite Women are closer to 4:00. In 2025 only three of ten races had times sub three minutes for the men and the women had three races over 4:00. If there's any sort of run time target from WB, then it's around 3:30-3:45 it seems and not sub three. https://www.rootsandrain.com/series2028/2025-whoop-uci-world-cup-dh/sch…

I like how Dak seems aware when his conversation starts going slightly negative and then he actively returns to something positive that he did in the race weekend. This is a sign of behind the scenes sports psychology at work.

lol getting downranked for expressing an opinion that the tire wear DOES NOT look like the brake was dragged. 🤨

Got an email this morning about these New Wolftooth hubs. FINALLY someone is making an expensive hub in anodized colors.

Don’t forget super boost

It’s the new TQ120 with dual batteries. Bikes available in January’27

I have around 500 miles on a set of the spec radials on a full powered ebike. I like them more the shredda/ albert combo I was running before. I think the T9 compound is the only thing available thats comparable to maxgrip, schwable ultra soft and conti super soft feel less sticky on smooth rocks and roots. Im more of a 2-2-2 tire tread person so the butcher fits my front tire preferences more than anything that was available in the schwable radials until they released the tacky chan. I can’t say if the radial part of the specialized...

I would bet my whole fleet of bikes on it still being plastic bullshit that will break when a pixie farts 2 miles away. I think the only person more stubborn than the twinloc guy at Scott is the "maguras must be plastic bullshit" guy.

There are like 3 completely idiotic conversations happening at once here.

Quick example and I appreciate everybody’s insight on this as well, but my friend bought a used Norco optic frame a few years ago and somebody had the audacity to red Loctite one of the frame bolts when I did his bearings and I was still able to get it out without breaking the hardware versus I bought a spire frame and when I needed to do the bearings on it I rounded out or broke multiple hardware. Same thing with the Santa Cruz I’ve never broken any hardware taking off anything on a Santa Cruz but I’ve broken a...

As you mentioned, this is old information by many years and product cycles. Yeti does all their engineering work in house from kinematic to ID, FEA and carbon layup along with custom suspension tuning. They do partner with a vendor in Asia for production but all the main work is done in Golden. You can hear a lot of what goes on direct from the main man there in this interview You Think You Understand MTB Suspension? Think Again | Yeti Cycles, Peter 'Stretch' Zawistowski You can also look at their Linkedin page to see exactly who and how many...

Are you serious? This is pushing cancel culture to whole new level if so. You may not like him, but unless he is breaking the rules of forum he has every right to post here just like you and me. If he bothers you so much just use the ignore function.

I now see what people were warning against in regards to @Dougal - SC...

Here’s what I’m trying to get at the Asians in fact are the best manufacturers of anything in the world at the moment so there is no way that I would feel more confident riding a bike made in the USA Canada, or really any other major first world country what I’m getting at is for example Transition sells, a frame at a premium cost without premium features. And I believe part of that is due to trying to be as cheap as possible, and then also completely ignoring stuff. For example, I just know that their engineer does not...

Noted. So as the in-house suspension engineer for your own small suspension tuning company, what expertise and experience are you drawing on to make such a broad, declarative assessment about large scale manufacturing and production and the brands that rely on it? Please spare us your tired feud with DVO. You've already poisoned the well in multiple other forums with that. Anyway, while I'm happy to share my own narrow experience with Taiwan based manufacturing I won't proclaim to be an expert or an authority, just a sample size of one. But I've made it a rule to show myself...