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Robstyle Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?
6/26/2025 7:33am
I'm all for karma catching up on those who deserve it. Daves summary is spot on BTW. lemon gets it. " If you're innocent you don't typically pay off the victim and threatened publications with legal consequences if they report on anything."
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AvgMTBEnjoyer Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?
6/26/2025 7:33am
They should cut to commercial during Daprela's run instead of riders like Antoine Rogge that actually deserve the coverage.
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bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?
6/26/2025 7:33am
I’m sure I’m not the only one who breathed a sigh of relief when Troy crossed the line green last week when it seemed like the track was getting harder as the race progressed. And while i understand the perspective of no court ruling daprela is responsible means they can’t really stop him from racing. But basically eso has pretended that there are no fairly substantiated allegations from the beginning. And it seems as his results have improved closer to where they were more and more media groups seem to be willing to give him a spotlight without an asterisk...
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owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?
6/26/2025 7:33am
“Our apologies if this guy raped your daughter, please understand this is a live broadcast.”
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Buckets Up Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill - Val di Sole, Italy
6/23/2025 7:41am I agree. I wouldn’t listen to a single song Sleeper has used on my own, BUT, they’ve all worked great in the edits. Edits are also a demonstration of the production’s team art and vision. Constantly nagging on music choice is a criticism of this and gets old.
Buckets Up Added a reply to The Mountain Bike Crank Length Discussion
6/20/2025 7:07am I read your implication as the fact that you found shorter cranks harder (i.e., more force to pedal) and thus were considering changing your chainring due primarily to that. I was just pointing out that with minimal cadence change, your force output is equivalent across crank sizes. Many people do not know the relationships between cadence, torque, and power. You...
Buckets Up Added a reply to The Mountain Bike Crank Length Discussion
6/19/2025 9:35pm Except for short technical sections where pedaling cadence is really low, length shouldn’t matter appreciably. If you’re are on a fire road or smooth trail, spin a tad faster. Power = torque * angular velocity(cadence) Torque = crank length * pedal force Say you need to maintain 200W for your climb. Say you run 170mm cranks and were putting out...
earleb Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/18/2025 10:31am
As this thread has kinda become a state of the industry thread I thought this might be the right spot. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/06/16/devinci-offers… Devinci looking for more OE manufacturing for other brands. Surprised to see it it say that hyrdoforming comes from Asia, forgings make sense but I thought all the tubing was drawn and formed locally in QC. How about a Chromag aluminum DH frame made in QC? Or Norco having a run of their DH frame made there. Rocky Mountain would do well to take advantage of it.
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Buckets Up Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/18/2025 10:29am There is no more SLX.
Buckets Up Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/18/2025 8:49am Thought: If they mount an empty can there they can shape the number plate to be a fairing while staying within the aerodynamic rules. The number plate has to be shaped that way to accommodate actual equipment?
marzbomber888 Liked a reply to forum topic Have We Been Measuring Sag Wrong? (and how to fix it...)
6/17/2025 10:02pm
Love that the two top guys in the squish world replied here and not on the other wise. Vital superiority
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MJT420 Liked a reply to forum topic Dumb Bike Problems
6/17/2025 4:25pm
Going way back on this one, I was about 11 or 12 riding bikes with a neighbor when my chain breaks. At this age it blew both of our minds, what do you mean a chain breaks. So we grab the chain, put it in the vice in my parents garage and used punches and a hammer to push the pin out on the snapped link and then put the next workable link in place and do half of it in the vice. We took the other end of the chain and wedged a board behind the chainstay/seat stay and...
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ebruner Liked a reply to forum topic Dumb Bike Problems
6/17/2025 4:24pm
Man, the safety glasses thing hits too close to home. I was once (attempting) to rebuild a rev a rockshox reverb in my garage. I was at the part where you set the IFP depth with the stupid tools, and then equalize everything and add air. I was struggling with it and couldn't get the stupid thing to take. I had just burped up mineral oil all over my work bench trying to air it up and was now setting everything up for a second go at the final re-assembly. At any rate, my wife comes out into the garage...
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Buckets Up Added a reply to Dumb Bike Problems
6/17/2025 1:29pm I can empathize! It’s difficult to explain the full physics without photos, but I was trying to remove a thread on cog from Halo single speed driver without the dedicated tool. I ultimately bent and wedged a cone wrench between the cog and a lip on the driver body. I then proceeded to put the whole she-bang (pun intended) in...
AG Pennypacker Liked a reply to forum topic Have We Been Measuring Sag Wrong? (and how to fix it...)
6/15/2025 9:51pm
Hard to take a guy serious that rides Kendas.
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Buckets Up Added a reply to Downhill world cups - how would you do it?
6/15/2025 3:48pm I agree with you also. I don’t think it would be. WBD to do this in the short term, I don’t think they have the vision, but a person could hope! Maybe down the road it’ll get peeled off and placed somewhere for this to happen. To the second point, they must have amazing stats and data internally. I’d hope...
Buckets Up Added a reply to Have We Been Measuring Sag Wrong? (and how to fix it...)
6/15/2025 11:14am Unless you have a bike with a very specific leverage curve designed around a specific sag point (old Santa Cruz?) sag seems almost completely irrelevant. Set up your suspension to your preferences for how it behaves dynamically on the trail not a single static value.
Buckets Up Added a reply to Downhill world cups - how would you do it?
6/15/2025 10:32am WSL broadcasts all their events live on YouTube. Between the Championship Tour and Challenger Tour they run 20+ stops across the globe, some in much harder places to get to (Fiji) than any World Cup. They have awesome production value too. The podium of each Championship Tour stop get $100,000 - $63,000 - $40,000 respectively for both Men’s and Women’s...
Buckets Up Added a reply to Downhill world cups - how would you do it?
6/14/2025 8:35pm And if you put all that content on a single YouTube channel which also broadcast the races live, you’d have a couple million subscribers by the end of the first season.
Buckets Up Added a reply to Downhill world cups - how would you do it?
6/14/2025 4:21pm I’m up to be proven wrong, but I really don’t think anyone who doesn’t have at least minimal connection to bicycles is stumbling upon World Cup DH randomly and get hooked. If WB really believes that, I think it’s a fools errand. The F1 analogy gets thrown around a lot but I believe it’s completely different. Most adults who have...