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There are still plenty of purists who just don't want to ride an ebike, but still want an enduro bike. BUT, most 2020 enduro bikes ride just as good as a new one, AND, like mentioned before, a modular park/enduro bike makes more sense. RIP enduro.

I will be SHOCKED if Althea doesn't get a win next year. I think it was whistler where she was like 4+ seconds faster than Vali. She was the fastest woman at several races this year.

Will be funny to see Bernard kerr giving himself a ride until he's 50 trying to get that win

I have no real dog or insight on this whole thing, I just wanted to personally say I absolutely loathe the phrase "No friends on a powder day." Ski with your friends no matter what the conditions are and you'll have more fun. I think it's also pretty telling that the elite racers I've met have all been friendly if not friends with each other.

It’s a business, riders value is on current and possible future performance. Nina has been given everything she could of needed and hasn’t really performed and in my opinion it will be harder as she gets older to challenge the younger generation who have a much greater range of skills and marketability. Just an opinion though. Laurie was in the same boat and see where he went.

I guess a large chunk of the men’s field better be looking for new careers then.

I think from the ucis perspective jrs is a place for young athletes to compete against their age. Including the best of their age group. Personally I agree that age maybe isn’t actually the best way to determine a premier/lites division in downhill. But if anything I’d allow the kids more time to mature by raising that age limit or providing new criteria. Not allow younger riders to race elites. In supercross they have removed teens from the 250 class. I don’t think it’s going to negatively impact anyone’s future and will likely actually be much healthier for those guys...

I loved the cutting sarcasm of the post which clearly went over the heads of many of the down voters you got.

Eliana sure did step up toward the end of the year.

That’s it, Shaft driven bikes. Shafted Purse 2028, I’m calling it now.

No only Marlboro reds and a 30 rack of PBR

Did they have weed?

Well done haha.

Maybe Kevin is retiring so he can sire a baby.

There is still water, just not delivered to the entire course via hose. Dig teams have to carry it to the features from fill stations at the top and bottom. What I think it will do is isolate the large manicured features to a couple per line plus some more raw connectors which will be cool. There is still going to be some enormous stuff with huge landings, but they won’t be immediately preceded or followed by another monumental build.

I know we are mostly gravity oriented here, but the Cannondale Factory (XC) team is shutting down and Maxime Marotte announced that Origine Racing Division will be without Origine come 2027. Origine said that they will continue as a frame sponsor some place else. The Cannondale development leaves a lot of quick people looking for teams next year, although I am sure they must have something arranged already. In other XC topics, I wish people would talk more about what happened to Chiara Teocchi. She is left paralyzed and was fighting for her dear life a some weeks ago. It...

Shop guys pretty regularly see just about any frame on earth broken, and it really doesn't often turn any of us off a brand. The forces bikes see are both pretty dynamic and pretty crazy at times, especially considering how much we expect this premium stuff to weigh. Seeing a broken V-10 doesn't make me want to avoid them, it makes me curious how fuckin' hard the rider was going. The general public does not always understand that stuff does just break. We get people in daily who tell us we couldn't pay them to ride carbon, then we grab...