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conroy and hoog (yeti owners) pretty much said DH is awesome but isn't in their plans https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/Yeti-Cycles-Owners-Chris-Conroy-and-S…

This Specialized classic has gone through several generations and has been the companion to many historic tails about epic rides of yesteryear. In 2018, the Stumpjumper once again received many updates. Among them, it inherited the previous Demo’s spaceship-like sidearm main triangle design, got a bit longer than before, is now stiffer and lighter, has a geometry adjustment, and the little details are more dialed than ever. For the women’s models, a female-specific Specialized Rx suspension tune comes standard front and rear. It’s safe to say this is a big update compared to Stumpjumpers of the past. The bike was...

Overheard this from a friend, I do not support or condone his analogy: [i]There are some, not all, that feel as if MTBing is/was a private club...access to that exclusive club has been money, trails, time and most of all; some fitness and a mindset to dig in to your depths of psych to test your mind and body to get to the top of the mountain. In that last point, there is ego, narcissism, addiction, etc....(again, for some, not all) and with the assist bikes, you have removed the last point I mentioned and the members of the exclusive...

Ha- exactly... try to even find it on the UCI website or even understand what you are looking at if you did: https://www.uci.org/mountain-bike/rankings

i like the idea of teams competition pulling from men & women (as is the current rule)... if there were more value in the team standings every team would have a woman on it...

A problem is that in bike parts most of the value is not in the part itself but in the infrastructure to deliver this part to the customer. As a result, it's most of the time outrageously cheaper to buy something new than to fix the old. Companies don't see value in providing affordable replacement, reparable parts and they price them out of reach of the customer. There is also lots of overhead to deal with such an inventory It's not a competitive advantage the media would elaborate, not a marketing point... (there are some exceptions about product claiming to...

I take care of the marketing for a sport brand in France which is active in the Mountain sports and Bike sports. We are not a racing brand but even for what we are looking for, finding a girl that has a decent level, and that is engaged in the sport is very very difficult. I can find 20 French guys just scrolling on IG with decent level, taking time to build and feeding their IG accounts and none of these would get much more than co-factory deals or at best a small gear budget. In the Mountain Sports it...