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Nice informative video. I have a lot of time on the DPX and Foat X2, but not much on the X2. I did notice from the sound of your rear rim pinging in the rock section a tire insert might be a better investment than a new shock. Haha.

As an old school downhiller, I sold my last DH bike 15 years ago and have been riding Freeride, Super Enduro whatever 170mm bikes since, and racing DH on them. Why?? Dropper post! Versatility! I have such a hard time owning such an expensive single use bike. It makes me crazy to stare at the DH bike that I can't use more often. I just got a V10 this year, since my wife and I share bikes. She needed a tool to unlock speed. It is absolutely mind blowing. My first run on it made my EXT equipped Nomad feel...

Too bad, I was hoping it would have some remote lockouts on it

The absence of Twinloc on the Gambler is similarly inexcusable.

Absolutely ridiculous

Will the chain tensioner be available by itself? I've got loads of gears and spacers. Nice looking hub Fellers. I wish that was around in my time. When you said 13 tooth I was ready to slam you for not going down to 9. But then you did. In the older days my friend Jason figured out that a 9 tooth, one piece Odyssey BMX driver would fit on a generic Taiwanese single speed hub that Specialized, Novara and a couple of other companies used. He had that 9 tooth set up with a Ti 18 tooth nano drive front.

Cabirou

Cabirou and Vali will have a great season. Bruni and the rest of the frenchies will dominating

i'm going dean lucas if money is on the line or eddie masters so the internet would melt.

less organization more race wins

Now, back to the rumors - Seagraves: the rumors about them and Canyon are most likely true. Canyon will soon present a revised or a new version of their downhill bike: The Sender. Having a top female rider and one of the young and upcoming free-racers on board is definitely very compelling. - Nico Vink: little bit disappointed that he leaves as Scott just introduced their new Gambler. I can see him joining the YT family (the ultimate brand of the freeriders, but can they afford another top star?), Transition (why not?), Trek (they might have a free spot...

In my opinion, the social (esp IG) influencer personality and content has a shelf life. People are going to catch on to how disingenuous it is, and it’s going to become more and more transparent how ‘advertisey’ it is. When we make a move to work with someone of any stature, be it mega pro to local ripper / good person their social reach is far from a metric we place value on. It might seem ridiculous but we place human contact and interaction value so far beyond any social bs. I find it a shame that so many companies...

(no idea about nina yet, addressing your first comment). i totally agree about racers vs influencers (and stik's comment). i'm SO curious how impactful influencers are if they're not at the pointy end of the influencer results. what's a social person with 10k or 50k insta followers worth? anything? a living wage? some product? what about a youtuber with 10k subscribers? 50k subscribers? just like w/ racing, the big influencers cost big money. how long will a racer-turned-youtuber last? (is that what lew buchanan is doing now?) is grinding out vlogs for product or nickels any different than going into...

ebikes and really bad youtubers stealing DH budget. It's up to you people, stop sharing these crappy videos of people doing nothing inspiring. As for ebikes, nothing we can do to stop the industry coddling to it.

There was a podcast a little while back with an agent on the moto side of things... One interesting comment was how a lot of those deals are in the works anywhere from 8 to 18 months in advance because of all the variables... I wonder how long some of these deals are being worked out before the rest of us catch wind of them.....