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Don’t hate the tool. Hate the “tool.” Utilized in the proper context, they are loads of fun. It’s unfortunately too easy to act the fool on one.

You'd be surprised. The Surrons around here are decked out in Fox factory, EXT, etc suspension, anodized MTB parts, TRP DHRs, etc. The overlap in customers is significant.

Marc Beaumont has done a remarkable progression, it's night and day.

Frameworks, is the first team of the year to win in both elite categories, impressive for being a little team and big win for Neko and obviously Newkirk, plus Asa on the podium in mens. Not only is the north American streak somehow still going but Newkirk being the first American to take one in 20 some years is also impressive. Who thinks Finn is possibly on a Bruni streak now? Specialized has to be stoked and with Bruni out I'm sure he's getting all the tricks and treasures of being number one rider on the team.

If it’s ever happened it hasn’t been since the mid 2000s. In the years the French men weren’t at the top there has always been at least one woman winning races.

Always with the pertinent questions, you. I look forward to your posts after every event. PS, pretty proud of this screen grab:

Opening Champagne is all about the twist! I should be a World Cup Champagne coach/trainer.

Vali Höll's 10th place finish today was only the 3rd time she's finished 10th or lower as an Elite World Cup rider and the 7th time she's finished below 5th. Last year she finished 14th at MSA due to a flat after leading through the first 3 splits. In 2023 at Les Gets she crashed in the first turn and finished 10th.

FINNNNNNNNN WINNNNNNNNN Stoked for him.

JONTY!!! What a whip/scrub, with the front wheel bonk...unreal shit this!

the best part is when their splits aren't all that similar and still end up on these times. i wish i could make the split screen gopro videos i used to make but gopro copyright struck my YT channel and then started doing them instead lol (but they still don't do it nearly enough, takes 10-15 minutes to do... they oughta do em more)

Pinkerton's obviously on one based on Q1 times, but for me the dark horse USA rider is Dylan Maples. I think he's due for a big result sometime soon.

sorry to keep bringing up how close things were in quali, but... waite and introzzi .001 apart - at 30mph, that's .5" / 1.27cm dak and troy were .003 apart - at 30mph, that's 1.5" / 3.81cm finn and craik were .008 apart. That'd have put Craik off a podium by 4.2" / 10cm

So which North American male rider is going to win this round? . I only kid, but it would insane if somehow the streak kept going, even crazier if Dak or Pinkerton take it as a first timer, which they're both in a good position to try for.

big wheels.

Been following WC DH for 30+ years, this is insane to me. There has always been one rider or even a group that is head and shoulders above the rest on a given weekend. This proves that qualifying for a WC is insanely hard these days. Props to the top 30, but really props to top 50 because one slip in a turn can drop you from 30 to 50. Not sure the correct number for finals for the men and we can argue it all day, but the talent pool is deep and only getting deeper.

slapped this reel together w/ 30 rider names in 2.8 seconds. baffling how tight it was!

Watch it slowly and Troy passes the marshall who looks like he is reaching for his flag. Look farther down the track and you see Jed is still in the process of crashing and hadn’t even gone off the track completely yet. All this on a fast but fairly straightforward section of track that doesn’t see a lot of crashes over the years so probably why you don’t see a Marshall every 100 feet. I’d feel the same way if was Jackson just like I don’t feel Hardline needs to pad every tree especially in a tech section like the...

Absolutely stoked for Dak. He sounded so down recently. Hopefully this will give him that confidence back.