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I think a lot of people are taking ESO and the UCI's claims that a 30 rider final and tighter times makes for a better fan experience at face value. I can see where they are coming from with these arguments, because they are basing them on other successful sports, but I don't think they're right. One of the most beautiful and compelling things about downhill racing is that there is no 'formula' for success. You can have the perfect bike, the best preparation, the most dialed team infrastructure, and still get beat by someone who just had the raw...

Do you guys live in the desert? Storing your tires next to the heater or something? Weirdos.

Not sure about your reliability comment.. I've never had a problem in 10+ years using them. What would be nice is some innovation, think they got too comfortable. My next tyres will be conti as I'm well and truly sucked in by the marketing & reviews!

Unfortunately but incredibly I do not like what they are doing with EWS. Shortening the competition - not so long ago they had 6-8 sections each and two days of fighting. True endurance. Locations becoming more and more bike park-like, more and more hard-paved heavily artificial trails. What follows is less natural. I bet access to videos and photos, reports, etc. will be severely limited. And if you want it, pay dearly. I'm not saying it will be bad but there will probably be exorbitant payment for something that will be nothing special. Not to mention this reduction in the...

Man made the coolest international race series there was. Had photographers and pros jumping there to work/ride for free cause it was exciting. then he ruined that series making it “commercial” and ruined interest in covering and watching it. Nobody wants to watch pros race a local enduro race the whole draw was the new locations, epic days, and unreal stage lengths. now he’s ruining dh selling out the same way. he literally states in his podcast the tracks are too long to broadcast a full run which is exactly what he is promising fans by this discovery switch. Literally...

Just made an account to post this but Rob Warner called out Chris Ball on his Instagram story saying that there never was a contract in place, in relation to his recent episode on the downtime podcast. Sorry, not sure how to post photos/screenshots!

Browsing the entries for Ft Bill British in May, Henry Kerr entered as Canyon Pirelli and Greg Williamson on Madison Saracen factory. Also hopefully Mr Hill isn't just there as a placeholder

Any chance of making a separate Palmer fanboy moto stream? We all get how uninfluenced you guys are but I came here for this season's racing rumors and not to hear you live in the past.

I know this is kind of off-topic, but wanted again to share the appreciation for the vital slideshow. You inspired me (a proper millennial with short attention span) to re-think the way I consume content, and provided a level of depth and quality of both images and interviews that I will really miss. Thanks to the whole team for the amazing stuff, Littermag/Vital remains a sanctuary.

Yea, super bummed, my favorite was the track walk slideshow. The practice/qualis/finals slideshows did start to seem a tad repetitive (naturally) but I still enjoyed them. Thanks to the photogs for all the great years of slideshows and interviews, and of course I still love the RAWs, etc.

Pour one out for the slideshows. They will be missed (by at least a couple of us).

Not $20, but for pocket change you can get a piece of dowel. Lie it across your stanchions on the fork arch and line it up with the bar.

Yep - I literally just looked for a block or ignore feature. Can we get one please?

Not really a good fit in my opinion… First sponsor change of the year that seems weird.

I’m sure he is doing everything he can. I really hope so, good vibes to him.

(This guy is a complete idiot tho...)

You got one from me because your post has nothing to do with the topic of this thread... Most of the recent posts have had nothing to with it and it's making it all shit.

so what's the rumor exactly?