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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?
1/27/2026 5:42am
Hey Cam, when you ask "where should it go?" I wonder if it needs to go anywhere? It seems like the format you're hosting is popular and working great. Yeah, I get that Saturday race days are tricky for a lot of people, but if the Cascadia Dirt Cup is selling out on most race weekends... it seems like you've found an audience who that format is working for. When I was racing, I always loved Saturday race days at the CDC because it meant I wasn't getting home at midnight on a Sunday night if I had work on...
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DoogieHowser Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?
1/27/2026 5:40am
Grassroots doesn't feel grassroots when a race day ends up costing close to $100+. As a parent, it's also hard to justify an 8 hour day to ride 5k feet with all the waiting around between stages. I'm squarely a mid-pack Expert, but taking away the full course from Expert was a bummer. Enduro isn't downhill, managing fatigue throughout the day is part of the game. In other words, a relatively easy day out for a lot of waiting around and money spent doesn't math.
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Hollywood Gainey Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?
1/27/2026 5:39am
I think it’s time for this conversation, even though I don’t like it. Expert courses need to be shortened at grass root level. We need to bump riders up same as in BMX and DH based on wins or top finishes. There are too many “sport” riders choosing the category based on “expert is too much climbing for me.” Create an expert/pro class for those experts that want big climb days (thank you for making a vet-pro class btw,) we needed that even if the turn out is small.) I believe the core group of Sport riders would appreciate a...
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eshew Liked a reply to forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?
1/27/2026 5:38am
If you want to build a base of riders who love Enduro it's clearly time for a miniduro. Limit the races to half the distance or less with half the climbing or less 12.5 miles, 2-2.5k elevation. For a little more action and condensed spectating and celebrating also have a hill climb competition or two mixed in, find a section of trail that is unclimbable, give points to the top 3 riders who make it the farthest, no dabs, no trials hops, no break in pedaling for over 5 seconds.
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Race Cascadia Liked a forum topic Grassroots Enduro... Where Should It Go?
1/27/2026 5:36am
With all the hullabaloo on the internet about the Death of Enduro or the inexorable takeover of E-bikes, one would think that the sport of pedal bikes as we know it is in full rigor, eulogized, and buried, six feet under with a concrete cap stone. If the loss of Hill, Jack, Jessie, and Richie (?) wasn't bad enough, having Eddie step away with his flip flops and trademark trackside charisma must have sealed the deal. Not to mention having so few teams left on the EDR (what does that stand for again?) circuit, it's hard to imagine it continuing...
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1/27/2026 5:21am
Imagine you're a average user that doesn't have a workshop, the tools, the knowledge and the heatshrink to pull apart the fork, change the spring, apply heatshrink to it and put it back together. If the fork is knocking, is too soft or too stiff, you need to go to the shop. How much will it cost you to have the correct spring installed? How much to make it quiet if the shop didn't apply the additional heatshrink on their own? How much does changing pressures on an air fork cost? In the eyes of the average user, is a...
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marsch Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1/27/2026 5:20am
Ballast Bro?
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seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1/23/2026 4:57am
lol it’s true we are all there. Either way it’s a frickin joke when companies claim proportional chainstays and deliver… not proportional chainstays.
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bkent136 Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1/22/2026 11:38am Sizing in 10mm reach increments, spanning 110mm of reach, yet the chainstays only grow 10mm... F/C from 1.74 to 1.98... "perfect fit" Atherton, never change
bkent136 Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1/19/2026 6:03pm Pivot have said previously all prototypes will be carbon. So unless Pivot is coming out with an AL option, I don't see this being a Pivot.
