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If you think what rumors have done to Daprela is bad wait til you hear what Daprela did to that woman

Hold up… You carry a spare derailleur when you ride?!? Are your trails on Mount Doom or something?

Yeah, I'm probably influenced from Ft Bill being a boring TV watch regardless of full-run or not. On camera the speed an roughness doesn't com through well and it's hard to see what a rider is doing to go faster or slower. The motorway at the end could be cut and I wouldn't miss it, along with the drone shots from 300 ft in the air and cameras trying to look through the Gondola.

I reckon theres been plenty of instances where a rider goes from right at the top to just off that pace with a new/different bike. It really doesn't take much to fall off that absolute maximum pace, it's seriously hard to perform at that level. Think Gwin on specialized. While all bikes are good these days everyone has different preferences and needs to perform at the highest level.

Kinda shocked at the number of comments on PB blaming the UCI. If a pro athlete can't stay on top of their wearabouts filing for drug testing they must be hiding something. Like okay they fail twice in a year and then get their crap together, but to fail three times knowing the consequences is crazy.

I'm not a participant in the system, but it does seem like annoying work to keep it up to date. That said, I agree that someone like Vlad Dascalu should understand the professional consequences of failing to meet all the system's demands and be very proactive about it.

I don't think it's coincidence that Charles Murray is racing the SJ Evo instead of the Enduro. My son is about to make the same call to move from a Capra to a Jeffsy (which he will coil and overfork to beef it a bit). He was with GT previously, and he was going to move from a Force to a Sensor (coiled and overforked) this season before moving to YT. More and more racers seem to be moving away from the biggest and burliest bikes on all but the gnarliest tracks. Even then... there's so much more time to...

The lack of transparency is a real bummer. Leaving space for speculation from fans and potential sponsors is a… slippery SLOPE.

Crankworks and Warner Bros are not non-profit, they generate revenue from the athlete's performance. It's up to both parties to define what is the value. Promoters probably want to pay as little as possible and athletes as much as possible. it might take a bit of pushing on each side to figure out the balance. it's healthy that athletes can get unionized to demonstrate their value.. Crankworks could also decide it's not worth the price and not have slopestyle. I would also argue that Bruni or Minnar extract their value from racing against other racers and if not enough racers...