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I really think the enduro courses need to go back to being big, unassisted days out on the bike and the Finale course looked like a step in the right direction. Making the liaisons super tight really can ruin a race though and turn it from a tough, hard fought day into a miserable and dangerous suffer-fest. Finale has always been a physical race with quite tight liaisons and brutal stages. To put some numbers on it; in 2016 the first climb of day 2 was 1000m vertical from the beach to the nato base and the time given was...

Looks like RockShox quietly released the next version (A2) of the Reverb AXS. Minor changes, lower price (but remote is not included any longer) and 170mm is still the max. https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/models/sp-rvb-axs-a2

Kathy actually left SC the year or two prior to Greg leaving, I believe. At least she had stepped away from managing the Syndicate.

For sure. She’s been in the game for so long, and done so much for so many racers. Definitely thought it was cool regardless of not knowing. Also pretty awesome how I got a downvote for not knowing. Sweet.

I think everyone is missing the point. They are testing liaison periods for e-enduro. There is a always the season before the season and the racers know it. They are guinne pigs, and we should anticipate those more likely to speak out to continue to be vocal and say things with information on mind that most of us do not know. Best way forward: someone needs to call out Cris Ball and ESO and get them on record that actual enduro will be around next season. If not, what's the point. Enduro is sick...it's not a loss just because it...

Maybe… just maybe,,, now stay with me here… she (and the other pros saying the same thing) has a valid point that the liaison times were unrealistically short and us armchair racers should refrain from speculating on her (and other pro athletes who do this for a living) fitness levels and take them at their word that they know what they’re talking about and the liaison times were, indeed, unrealistically short.

You must be really a fan of the sport if you have not heard of a racer who won WC EDR #2 and ended up 5th overall last season. So I think it is fair to assume that she is fully aware of the endurance part in the name and not adverse to training for it.

i'm curious why so much delay but at least the athletes are on the new spicy finally

Cramming too many riders into a 5 stage race is far off from having an epic 2 day race. Nobody is complaining about climbing it’s about the time they expect you to do it in and then race down at maximum.

One can get last place and still have the right to complain if they feel like organizers messed up.

No Enduros on the specialized enduro team. Kevin is also running the SD coil with what looks like a remote lockout.

Biathlon numbers are a bit cheeky, showing viewership numbers from broadcasts not behind a paywall. The past couple years paywall has turned viewership numbers of Winter sports to shit here in Norway, including Biathlon. Split screen commercials during long boring races isnt the problem. Split screen commercials in the heat of the action is our new normal. Paywall increasing viewership? would love to hear any success stories. (All well documented by our media, chose not to send links)

wyntv from race day is epic. daniel parfitt's story...heck yeah!

well, here's loic's POV to help.

You guys should try to get Dak to talk about how he was the only rider without lockout on the podium. I mean, he won't say too much as it will upset Fox, but he's pretty honest, he may something. He definitely lost a couple places Sunday because his suspension sponsor is behind.

Hadn't seen this mentioned anywhere: Marshy wrenching for the Canyon CLLCTV this season...

Miriam sounded half asleep if I'm honest. A-A Ron was great, but yeah sort of miss the zany ways of Cedric I suppose. It was a bit "dull"