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What a time to be alive. Unbound opulence. Kids, make sure you understand the gradient of the trail you are riding that day too so you can make sag adjustments based on likely weight distribution changes due to gradient variances. Spend 1-2 hours on bike setup/prep. Ride ~4-5 laps of 3-5 minutes each (total ride time 12-25 minutes). Spend 2 hours analyzing data, posting strava, posting grams, posting trailforks, posting youtubes, arguing with netbangers. Sit back, soak in all the WINNING. This is TRULY what peak cycling enjoyment looks like.

i read that as Jesse criticizing the lack of enduro coverage. I definitely didn't see it.

Lake Placid Olympic Region... they last hosted the Olympics almost a half century ago in 1980 (yes, that's 45 years). I think they can let it go now.

If you listen to the latest Downtime podcast, it was Neko who invited Ken and set up the whole thing. I can't help but feel that people are in the habit now of only seeing everything from a purely negative perspective - maybe we could all get a grip and stop whinging 100% of the time...

Hate to keep bringing this up, but Pivot team once again with no riders in finals. That’s a lot of money to keep missing. I get that BK is hurt and would most likely be in them if he was racing, but damn that sucks. Gutted to see Danny Hart not making it, really pulling for that Norco team to do well.

Somebody always does this in Leogang, but it never starts to look like a normal thing to do, eh?

"What is.... the brembo logo on the mount."

What part of i'm at work can't you understand, i only have time to post terrible comments

Is Pinkerton taking a page from the legendary John Kirkcaldie? He goes fast in timed training!

Just want to throw praise Finn Iles way after his brillliant response to Wyns questions regarding the WBD broadcast on the wyntv Leogang track walk Video. I personally think Wyn has too much of a negative take generally regarding World Cup racing these days and it shows in his questions - Finns thoughtful response with suggestions to improve the current package without tearing anyone to shreds was great.

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@sspomer your gonna need a big ole banner on the front page otherwise your gonna be feilding that question 2million more times this year. Good luck, were all counting on you.

I annoyingly just thought of a better meme:

Regarding " And we are losing people perfectly capable of winning the race on race day from participating..." this one is interesting to me. If they are perfectly capable of winning on race day, then they are surely capable of qualifying for one of the 30 spots. A few other people have expressed the same opinion "but we are losing some of the fast guys now..." which seems to imply that the new qualifying format is somehow putting some of the fast guys at a disadvantage? I think there's definitely a generational shift going on, and many of the riders...

No Vital Raw, no WynTV, having withdrawal symptoms.

Losing Vital Raw hits hard, ngl, its just a big part of the DH weekend.

Replays are available.

it's interesting reece brings les gets into it b/c (from the coziness of the internet, having never been to either venue) that track seems really similar to loudenvielle in that it's high speed and mostly "just dirt," no obvious rocky tech sections like vds or msa. i also thought that by race day loudenvielle was an extremely technical ride. it wasn't wheel-eating rocks, but that first steep left hander that caught people out, that left that bode burke hovered through, and all the other razor thin lines meant skill, delicate braking and bike setup was hugely important. i even find...

i mentioned in the loudenvielle thread, but no lawlor raw or pit bits vids fromt Loudenvielle, Lenzerheide, Andorra or Les Gets. we have 6 US national rounds this year that we decided to put budget into instead. our heart is with domestic racing and helping it grow. with 11 WC rounds (including world champs), we had to make budget choices and this year we had to pay 3k euro to WBD so lawlor could film (this was after our budget/race decisions were made, however). they've always let us in, but that finally ended this year. i don't blame them, it's...