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There’s a big gap between “no one can get hurt doing it” and “20% of the people who did it will need months of rehab”. If 20% of the fighters on a boxing card ended up in the hospital requiring surgeries, I don’t think you’d see a lot of them, even if fighters were up for it. If Silva wants...

The problem I have with this argument is that it also justifies e.g. the live streaming of suicides as a media event. Something can be entirely voluntary with the boundaries and rules agreed to by all parties and still be bad. “People want to do it and people want to see them do it” is necessary but not sufficient, at...

I think it’s worth noting that one third of the invited male riders this year crashed out, with close to 20% of the invitees this year sustaining potentially life-altering injuries (Parish, Silva, Johansson).

I mean, the short version of it is that neither the Albert nor the MM have tread patterns which work well on the local terrain and despite going from underinflated to overinflated in 1psi increments I was never able to find a tire pressure which provided the support I wanted without uncontrolled rebounding off rocks. I think your first clue...

What I’ve noticed is that there’s an intersection of people and terrain for which Schwalbe Radials are such a good fit that they’re convinced that all other tires are trash. I’m glad y’all like them, but my time on the Albert Trails was some of the most frustrating, terrifying riding I’ve done. I spent a full week methodically trying to...