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Finals Stats: 13 of the Finalists were in the Vali di Sole top 30 in 2023 17 of the Finalists were in the Val di Sole top 30 in 2024 11 WC winners into Finals 9 of the top 15 are WC winners 8 of the top 10 are WC winners Top 5 are ALL WC winners 13 Countries Represented 6 French (4 WC Winners/Each w/ 2 or more wins) Bruni - 11/Vergier - 6/Daprela -2/Benoit - 2 5 British (2 WC Winners) Walker - 1/Williams - 1 4 Italians (0 Wins) 3 American (0 Wins) 3 Irish (2 WC...

Sam Gale...if you read this. No joke. We lost an incredible human being & a joyous downhiller to a similar injury at the Snowshoe NORBA National. He get an infection from a football sized gape in the back of his thigh/butt from a stump. Took 6 months of reinfection for it to get into his heart & take him from us far too soon. Jack Daub you are missed my friend! ❤️

Without VO2 and measuring the metabolic work any comparison is just bro science vibes.

didn't have a new izzo spec with 36sl and xt di2 on my bingo card for this month

Absolutely horrific. Scott will love it. Can't wait for a new steerer standard to solve the issue of the taper getting in the way of the stem.

I'm just spitballing here, but one of the limiting dimensions that does not help gain wheel size or suspension travel is headtube length. What if for 32" bikes, the head tube was split, in which case it only needs to house a bearing on each end, and the stem attached in between? Scott does so much integration hell already that I'd bet they'd be into this.

Val Di Sole track preview! Would be sick if UCI taped the course as wide as it is right now in some of the tech sections.

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...

Tuhoto has also shown some of the fastest pace out of everybody in the last 2 races - just not been able to put it all in to a single run. It's still only a small percentage of bikes running belt drive so I don't think its fair to say whether they are faster or slower, but they certainly aren't holding anyone back!

well Joe Breeden hadn't had a top 20 result since 2021 and this season so far hasn't been out of the top 20. Tuhoto is looking faster but just needs to keep it between the tape. He has made all the finals except Poland where he was 21st in qualies after not making any last year.

I spent more time than I would like to admit trying to fix my shifting. It would shift fine for some of the cassette but some gears I couldn't get to work right no matter how i adjusted. i even replaced a derailleur hanger. Turns out i routed the cable of my shimano derailleur backwards.

Here's Hans Rey's Thank You GT video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIHRHPU12yI

Speaking of GT, any insight on who Brage is going to end up with? That's going to be a such a good pick up for whoever lands him.

Someone needs to design a Tuned Mass Damper / MultiTool combo. Where the tool takes place of the mass inside :D

should be time stamped to the MTB convo at 2:29:30... i feel like you've all been had by the media. I'm not sure if there was like another post or something. as somebody who ACTUALLY watches moto and ACTUALLY watched the podcast and ACTUALLY paid attention and isn't reacting off of what the internet told me to feel he NEVER says he could jump in and win a cup. he hedges his bets so much he honestly doesn't even say anything along the lines of qualifying. literally the most he says is 'a moto guy could "do it"... basically saying...

+1 for the old graphics

Can we move this to the suspension thread please

Whoa, Ken Roczen in the booth, that's pretty neat. Hopefully he takes a lap down the track after the race. 😂

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...