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Stoked to see a hard compound 29" DH casing DHR2 in 2.5". 100% that will be my next rear tire purchase for my one-size-fits-most Enduro/trail/XC/DH bike

I can't get over how quickly it went from everyone trying to figure out each feature and the track appearing as this crazy, nearly unrideable thing to everyone just figuring it out and doing full runs. You can literally see the bar get raised in just a few days. Highlight for sure has been all the women ticking off features. This will stand as a massive leap forward for the women's freeride scene and goes to show the level that their riding is at; they just need the chance to get their foot in the door.

Bandeira has to be one and the other ... Ethan Craik? It's either him or he's the new Canyon rider, although Antoine Pierron is a good fit there.

I would not recommend SoCal unless you have friends to guide you around while you're here. I moved here a year ago and every time I ride with friends who are local it's a great ride, whereas every time I go on my own to check things out from Trailforks or verbal recommendations or whatever, I get lost or it sucks. A lot of intersections with no signs and seemingly identical overgrown trails heading every direction. South Mountain in Phoenix is very easy to navigate as an outsider and there are other riding spots nearby like Sedona and Prescott valley...

Right now I'm doing my senior mechanical engineering project on a subject related to this. I'm measuring a tire's effective spring rate and seeing how it changes with tire construction, with the goal of using it as a tuning parameter in addition to internal pressure. Obviously this is for the pointy end of the spear in terms of rider skill; mainly aiming at pro teams to use the info/device during pre-season testing. In the research process I was lucky enough to connect with a WC mechanic and tire weight inconsistency is just the tip of the iceberg. The person I...

"I actually kept up with Sam Hill" should be the headline. That's resume material. Who cares how many practice laps, still counts in my book.

Yeah I had 1000 laps he had 1. 😂

I got to ride with SAM MF HILL

www.vhsmtb.com fixes all. Love it and got it on both my bikes. I'd rather run the VHS than most anything the bike companies come up with, even the snazziest I've seen.

Q Factor? Hoping they went wider than most brands which seem to think we all have narrow hips.

Spomer, I think Joe Barnes already won with this post today..

I did a little googling and no one should be surprised to learn that the late, great Sheldon Brown built just such a test fixture to perform just such a test, applying 25 pounds of lateral force to dozens of different wheels in different lacing patterns and spoke counts, and varying spoke tension to test the affect on lateral stiffness. The whole article is fascinating and worth a read: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/rinard/wheel_index.html He found that, "Wheel stiffness does not vary significantly with spoke tension unless a spoke becomes totally slack." He also tests a bunch of other questions, like "Are front wheels...